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September 22, 2021
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So I'm banned from Twitter again. They have at least sped up the appeals process. Where it used to take a week for a bot to automatically reject your appeal, it now takes less than 24 hours.
I only really used it to mock the stupid - because that's where they congregate - and it turns out the stupid didn't appreciate it.
Specifically I was banned for suggesting that Comrade Dan Andrews - Premier of Victoria - should resign or be thrown into a volcano, whichever works. And this morning Melbourne got hit by a 5.6 earthquake, so while Twitter might have banned me it appears that someone was listening.
Oh, and despite the earthquake the tradies were on the march again - and Comrade Dan banned the news networks from filming the protest from the air. That's because they want to keep up the propaganda effort that it's a small group of Neo-Nazis, and that lie dies instantly when you see the extent of the protests from above.
(Also dies instantly when you see the large Sikh contingent.)
Update: Here's the latest from Melbourne. Bit harder for me to track it now that I've been banned from Twitter.
Dictator Dan had his stormtroopers firing non-lethal rounds at protestors at the Shrine of Remembrance.
More nice words being written about the Framework laptop, this time from a hardcore Linux user. Only major issues she raises are the fiddly installation of the tiny WiFi module if you buy the DIY model, and the lack of a trackpoint when coming from a long line of Lenovo laptops.
They kept this secret from the companies hit by ransomware attacks because they were planning some kind of operation against the Russian hacker group - exactly what doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere - only REvil disappeared before they could do it.
“There was a conspiracy here. You’ve heard me talk about this for many, many years. The Clinton campaign conspired with really bad agents and bad actors within the FBI and other locations. So, this guy you’ve got lying to the FBI.Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)
The NFL could have a very big problem on their hands. LOLGF'D!
Following a Missouri judge’s decision to deny the NFL’s motion for summary judgment in a 2017 antitrust lawsuit related to the Rams moving from St. Louis to Los Angeles a year earlier, the league, franchise and team owner Stan Kroenke may be looking to settle the case out of court before it goes to trial.
But the cost to settle the suit, which alleges the Rams move St. Louis to L.A. was a breach of contract, fraud, illegal enrichment and interference in business that caused significant public financial loss, could be very, very pricey.
With a pre-trial hearing scheduled for Friday and a trial date set for January 2022, it may make sense for the plaintiffs to settle ahead of the trial, and sports attorney Daniel Wallach told Front Office Sports a $1 billion figure could be a “starting point” for the settlement, warning there may be “major damages” if a St. Louis jury rules against Kroenke and the NFL.
How major?
“The plaintiffs claim the city, county, and state have lost more than $100 million in hotel, property tax, sales tax, and ticket tax revenues since the Rams left town,” according to FOS. “If the judge allows the jury to consider the valuation increase along with the $550 million relocation fee, punitive damages — which multiply damages as a deterrent — could surpass $10 billion.”
Maspeth High School created fake classes, awarded bogus credits, and fixed grades to push students to graduate — “even if the diploma was not worth the paper on which it was printed,” an explosive investigative report charges.
Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned, says the 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, Anastasia Coleman.
“I don’t care if a kid shows up at 7:44 and you dismiss at 7:45 — it’s your job to give that kid credit,” the principal is quoted as telling a teacher.
Abdul-Mutakabbir told the teacher he would give the lagging student a diploma “not worth the paper on which it was printed” and let him “have fun working at Taco Bell,” the report says.
The Biden administration released a statement on Monday condemning the Russian elections that saw Vladimir Putin's regime retain their hold on power.
This after surveillance video emerged showing ballot box stuffing in the Russian election. Multiple videos and photos allegedly showing ballot fraud have made their way out of Russia since Friday, according to the AP.
The State Department issued a statement saying that the "September 17-19 Duma elections in the Russian Federation took place under conditions not conducive to free and fair proceedings."
President Joe Biden, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday for the first time since taking up residence in the White House, did what he does best:
Embarrass his country with a foreign policy speech that was detached from reality, full of straw men and false dichotomies, rambling and incoherent at times and — c’mon, man — punctuated by avuncular exasperation and fake bravado.
The 23-second video below captures the tone of Tuesday’s oration before the global body.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA- We suppose if you can’t balance the federal budget the right way, just illegally seize people’s assets and that will work. That seems to be the case with the FBI, where we are seeing a situation in which a man’s life savings were seized from a safe deposit box business in Beverly Hills, CA.
Joseph Ruiz, an unemployed chef went to court to retrieve some $57,000 seized by the FBI, whereby the judge ordered the agency to tell Ruiz why they were trying to confiscate the money.
Dozens of endangered penguins were killed by bees in a ‘fluke’ incident in South Africa, a wildlife organisation has confirmed.
The swarm of insects repeatedly stung the sea creatures on a beach, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds said on Sunday.
Tests found that the 63 African penguins – a species which features on a prominent ‘red list’ for endangered animals – had no injuries other than the stings, while a number of bees also died.
An Australian man who had been on the run for nearly three decades turned himself in recently, after being rendered homeless by the pandemic and struggling to find work.
On the night of August 1, 1992, 13 months into his three-and-a-half-year sentence for growing marijuana, Darko “Dougie” Desic escaped from the Grafton Correctional Centre in New South Wales, using tools, including a hacksaw blade and bolt cutters. Despite an extensive search, authorities were never able to locate Desic, and he remained a fugitive for the next 29 years. So imagine everyone’s surprise when he just turned up at a police station one day to turn himself in after all this time. As it turns out, it was all because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the lockdown in NSW had left Desic homeless and with no way to support himself.
On this day: 21 Sep 1980
During a North American tour, Bob Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park. After hospital tests he was diagnosed as having cancer. Marley played his last ever concert two nights later at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. via thisdayinmusic.com
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On this day: 21 Sep 1987
American jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius died from injuries sustained in a fight. Pastorius was trying to enter the Midnight Bottle Club in Wilton Manors, Florida, (where he'd been banned), and became involved in a fight with a bouncer, Pastorius fell into a coma and was put on life support. In 2006, Pastorius was voted "The Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived" by readers in Bass Guitar magazine. Was a member of Weather Report and worked with various acts including Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock. via thisdayinmusic.com
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I guess someone didn't read the instruction manual closely. Genius Award Winner.
SEATTLE — A man was hurt when a large firework went off inside his friend’s apartment Friday.
Just before midnight, Seattle fire medics were called to an apartment building on Rainier Avenue South.
The man and his friend had left a firework on the counter too close to a hot stove. When they realized the fuse had been lit, they tried covering it with towels to prevent it from exploding.
Last week, school officials in Putnam County, Tennessee, were told that district employees were not allowed to lead students in prayer. That included not only teachers and staff but also coaches of athletic teams.
According to WZTV-TV in Nashville, Americans United for Separation of Church and State complained about “several instances of prayer and proselytizing at events at Cookeville and Upperman high schools,” both of which are in the Putnam Country School District.
Administrators from the school district contacted the schools’ attorney, who informed them that the law about cases such as this one is clear.
Civil disobedience unlike the Burn, Loot, Murder crowd.
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It's about time I included a Norm clip in the Norm's Restoration Cafe.
Below, the hysterical Adam Carolla/Norm Macdonald breakdown of Kenny Rogers' most horrifying songs. Content warning for war injuries, paralysis, and Biden-like behavior by the Gatlin Boys.
If you want to do a group listen, maybe wait until 8:25 to start the clip, so people are in the thread and done with the other stuff.
Before listening to that, you might want to listen to this X-rated story from Norm. Adam Carolla keeps referencing it during the Kenny Rogers bit.
A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an "alarming" increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.
Childhood obesity has been increasing for decades, but the new work suggests an acceleration last year -- especially in those who already were obese when the pandemic started.
The results signal a "profound increase in weight gain for kids" and are "substantial and alarming," said one of the study's authors, Dr. Alyson Goodman of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It's also a sign of a vicious cycle. The pandemic appears to be worsening the nation's longstanding obesity epidemic, and obesity can put people at risk for more severe illness after coronavirus infection.
You do notice, don't you, that exercise can make people more resilient to covid, but the government and CDC never want to talk about that, because that would require you leave your homes periodically?
The CDC on Thursday released the study, which is the largest yet to look at obesity trends during the pandemic.
It found:
--An estimated 22% of children and teens were obese last August, up from 19% a year earlier.
--Before the pandemic, children who were a healthy weight were gaining an average of 3.4 pounds a year. That rose to 5.4 pounds during the pandemic.
--For kids who were moderately obese, expected weight gain rose from 6.5 pounds a year before the pandemic to 12 pounds after the pandemic began.
--For severely obese kids, expected annual weight gain went from 8.8 pounds to 14.6 pounds.
The rate of obesity increased most dramatically in kids ages 6 to 11, who are more dependent on their parents and may have been more affected when schools suspended in-person classes, the researchers said.
You don't say.
You. Don't. Say.
Oh well, at least we kept the nation's most precious resource -- the teachers -- safe and sitting on their asses at home. Or in Aruba.
The obesity rate is 42%, and I guess the % who are overweight but not obese would add another, what, 20%? So the 78% figure isn't as startling as it first seems, but carrying extra pounds does elevate risks of death from covid. It's a major reason why the relatively young would die from it.
The government really should be advising Americans to get some GAINZZZ. But they won't, because 1, the obese have a lobby and that lobby is leftwing and therefore "counts" in the government's eyes, and 2, because they don't want people going to gyms or to parks or to the beaches.
They want them sitting at home consuming Netflix and ordering bullshit off Amazon.
Only the Sophisticated, Vaccinated Crowds can go outside. Only the Unmasked Elite may go dancing at Obama's birthday bash and pose on the red carpet the Met Gala.
[T]he evidence is overwhelming that obesity is associated, more than any other factor besides age, with poor outcomes in Covid-19 patients. Data from around the world has demonstrated and quantified that truth since the first half of 2020, relatively early in the pandemic. Medical leaders in positions of authority and influence, most significantly Anthony Fauci, publicly recognized this fact as soon as it became clear, which leads to an important question.
Why have those same medical leaders said virtually nothing about obesity in the last 18 months?
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Dr. Fauci is a media fixture these days, lecturing the public about everything from masks and lockdowns to social distancing and vaccine boosters. Early this year, Forbes declared that America's obesity crisis needs its own "Dr. Fauci" to help fight it; one must wonder why the actual Dr. Fauci isn't doing so.
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This failure to address a major preventable factor in Covid mortality is a failure of public health policy and its leaders, and it's a failure that has cost lives.
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The benefits of using the immediacy of the Covid pandemic to address America's obesity problem are clear, but ironically, it almost seems that authority figures, public policies, and social phenomena have actively opposed efforts to stay physically fit.
A policeman chases a runner jogging on an empty beach without a mask.
A New Jersey gym is harassed by the state.
Krispy Kreme offers free donuts by the dozen to healthcare providers. (When I stopped by last year, dubious, I was told I could have up to five dozen donuts free. I did not take home five dozen donuts.)
Citizens by the millions have been obligated by their governments to stay home, watching streaming services or playing video games, ordering processed, calorie-dense delivery junk food. Months upon months of behavioral habits won't disappear soon or without effort; the obesity rates keep rising.
The irony would be almost comical, were the consequences to health and life not so dire.
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One can only speculate why the supposed generals in the war against the coronavirus will barely mention the deadly saboteur of obesity. Perhaps they fear the ire of 'Health at Every Size' proponents or the risk of offending a demographic that currently includes almost three-quarters of America. Maybe fomenting the public's anger at strangers unmasked in the local grocery store, rather than recommending the tough introspection and behavioral changes needed to combat excess weight, individual by individual, is a policy path too low-effort to pass up. Whatever the reason, it's apparent we must ourselves resolve to tackle our collective weight problem.
I have low GAINZZZ this week. I've kept up with my walking/sprinting schedule but am only managing to occasionally attempt the 100 push up challenge.
What about you guys? How are yo' GAINZZZ?
And as usual, do you have BOOKZZZ to recommend or PROJECTZZZ or PLANZZZ to brag about?
Twitter disclosed a binding agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit, under which the social network will pay $809.5 million to resolve claims it provided misleading user-engagement info to investors.
The original lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a Twitter shareholder, alleged Dorsey and others including former CEO Dick Costolo and board member Evan Williams hid facts about Twitter's slowing user growth while they sold their personal stock holdings "for hundreds of millions of dollars in insider profits." The complaint alleged the company was tracking daily active users (DAUs) as the primary indicator of Twitter's user engagement by early 2015 but didn't reveal that to investors at the time (when it was reporting monthly active user figures). According to the lawsuit, Twitter's DAU figures showed that user engagement growth was either flat or declining.
Twitter, in an 8-K filing Monday, noted that the final settlement agreement will not "include or constitute an admission, concession, or finding of any fault, liability, or wrongdoing by the Company or any defendant." The agreement still requires court approval; the consolidated case was being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Of course it won't. But an $809 million settlement is all the admission you need.
In the U.S., the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items rose 5.3% over a 12-month period ending in August 2021, reducing the purchasing power of consumers when it comes to everyday living costs. Food inflation, in particular, has become worrisome. Higher global shipping costs and labor shortages have resulted in massive production delays and shipping bottlenecks.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices on average increased 3.7% since last August. The change tracks two major categories: grocery store prices, which increased 3.0% (with five of the six major grocery stores in the country reporting price hikes), and prices for dining out, which increased 4.7%.
U.S. suppliers are feeling the squeeze. The widespread labor shortfall is affecting the ability of wholesale distributors to operate at normal capacity. Major distributors like Sysco Corp and United Natural Foods Inc. are experiencing production delays and slowdowns for common food items like cheese, spices, and bacon as companies continue to scramble for staff, Bloomberg reported.
Only 49 percent of registered voters think President Joe Biden has enough "mental soundness" to serve as president, a Sunday Fox News poll revealed.
Respondents were asked, "Do you think Joe Biden has the mental soundness to serve effectively as president, or not?"
While 49 percent said yes, 48 percent said no. When respondents were asked weeks before, between September 7-10, 49 percent said yes, and only 45 percent said no, handing Biden three more points of less confidence in his mental soundness on Sunday.
On the question asking if respondents believe "Joe Biden is a strong leader, or not?" only 45 percent said yes, down four points from October of 2020. Fifty-three percent said Biden is not a strong leader, up eight points since October 2020.
The poll also asked, "Do you think the country has become more or less united since Joe Biden took office?" Fifty-four percent of the country is less united, while 37 percent said the country is more united since Biden took office.
Mitch McConnell: The GOP Will Not Vote to Raise the Debt Ceiling
—Ace
He says it should be raised, but it's the obligation of the Democrats to do it themselves.
Mitt Romney, of all people, explains the thinking: If the Democrats are making all spending and taxing decisions without bipartisan give-and-take, why should Republicans have to help Democrats with this vote?
#BREAKING: McConnell again says GOP will not help raise debt ceiling: "America must never default... but whose obligation to do that changes from time to time." pic.twitter.com/jP5WVzFuiH
It's been a violent few days in Melbourne, Australia, where construction workers and other demonstrators are clashing with police as they protest the government's COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
Amid the surging delta variant, officials in Victoria state -- where Melbourne is the largest city -- recently announced a vaccination mandate for construction workers that requires each employee to show proof of at least one dose by Thursday.
Some 13% of the state's active COVID-19 cases are linked to construction sites, according to local media.
Construction workers who are opposed to the new restrictions have made their positions known in protests that have escalated in recent days.
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On Monday, people gathered outside the headquarters of the prominent Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union to protest the mandate, chanting and yelling before attempting to storm the building.
Angry protesters threw bottles and smashed loudspeakers, according to local media reports.
Riot police deployed on the scene allegedly used rubber bullets and pepper spray to disperse crowds, the BBC reported, adding that the headquarters building was damaged and "several people" were arrested in the process.
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"This crowd was heavily infiltrated by neo-Nazis and other right wing extremist groups and it is clear that a minority of those who participated were actual union members," the statement said.
Others have alleged that neo-Nazis and anti-vaccination groups organized on encrypted social media platforms before arriving at the protest in "hi-vis" clothing to look like construction workers.
Are you sure it wasn't the RUSSIAN BOTS behind it?
Bill Shorten -- the former opposition leader and current member of Parliament who serves as shadow minister for the national disability insurance scheme and for government services -- said in a TV interview that some protesters were construction workers while others were "fake tradies."
"There is a network of hard-right, man-baby Nazis," he said, "people who just want to cause trouble. ... They want to complain about the vaccination, and they deserve to get the full force of everything that's coming their way."
They have the same playbook everywhere in the world, don't they?
Haitian migrants who were being transported on a federally contracted private bus away from the border revolted during the ride and overtook control of the commercial vehicle before escaping, according to two law enforcement officials.
"Revolted."
This is the Washington Examiner. Searching for euphemisms for "attacked" and "hijacked."
They "revolted," just as the Mostly Peaceful Protesters liberated Nike shoes from capitalist control.
One source says that they were recaptured. The government is refusing comment.
Update:
Bill Melugin
@BillFOXLA
More details. The bus was headed from Del Rio to Brownsville. The migrants forced their way off the bus and fled. All were caught. Governor Abbott says they committed a crime and he wants them all jailed and prosecuted.
@FoxNews
Meanwhile, the media continues pushing the "whip" lie.
Josh Gerstein
@joshgerstein
NEW: DHS Secretary Mayorkas, in Senate hearing, says investigation launched into video appearing to show use of whips to corral migrants in Del Rio, TX: 'We do not tolerate any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant. Period.'
Chuck Ross
@ChuckRossDC
What whips?
Sex-predator enabler Chris Cuomo seized on the lie, of course.
Lying is all CNN does. It's their ratings driver. It's their business model.
They're allowed to lie and spread misinformation and social media monopolists will help spread their toxic lies.
You, on the other hand, will be banned for speaking the truth or asking inconvenient questions.
Obviously the Biden Occupation pushed the lie, attacking... themselves for the incident.
.@VP Kamala Harris: "What I saw depicted about those individuals on horseback treating human beings the way they were is horrible. I fully support what is happening right now, which is a thorough investigation." https://t.co/2nLemZc38Jpic.twitter.com/8l2TV9RCG2
Jen Psaki says that illegal border-crossers don't have to show vaccination cards because "they don't intend to stay for long," while legal travelers coming to the US do have to show vaccination cards. Apparently British people coming to Florida all plan on staying forever.
But not those illegal aliens. They're just stopping by for 30 or 40 or 60 years.
Biden W.H.: Unlike Europeans, illegal immigrants don’t need to prove vaccination status because they “are not intending to stay here” pic.twitter.com/sgJYVYo54d
@PressSec yesterday on why migrants coming across the border are not required to be vaccinated against COVID, or have a negative test for COVID: "They're not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time."
Bill Melugin
@BillFOXLA
If anyone in the White House actually came down here and spoke to some migrants, they would realize these people have zero intention of leaving the US & every intention of trying to stay permanently. You don't travel that far to spend a day or two in Del Rio & then leave.
That's a fun, short documentary. Watch it if you like Star Wars or movies in general. Or if you like sudden come-from-behind victory stories.
A lot of people don't know this, but in the original script and film, the Death Star was not closing in on Yavin 4 even as the x-wings were sent out to destroy it. They were just attacking it in space. There was no ticking clock. There was no imminent threat to the Rebellion.
They were just attacking the Death Star. In a leisurely way.
Marcia Lucas made up the whole Death-Star-coming-within-range ticking clock . She was able to change the way the ending worked with just a couple of added lines of dialogue and a quickly-put-together graphic of the Death Star coming into range of the planet.
And she thinks the Kathleen Kennedy films are awful.
As HeelvsBabyface points out, this must mean she is a sexist and racist and almost certainly a member of the Alt-Right. She is White Supremacist Adjacent.
Meanwhile, Shang-Chi costar Simu Liu (reviewers say that he shares top billing with two women) is in trouble for "resurfaced" comments, attributed to him, about pedophilia.
In the WorldNews subreddit Liu would respond to a BBC article shared in the subreddit with a user submitted headline that reads, "Germany encourages pedophiles to sign up for confidential treatment, even if they have abused a child, and doctors are hailing it as a success."
Liu submitted a lengthy response stating, "I recently did a show in which I played a pedophile, and did a significant amount of research (clinical studies mind you, not the 'method' stuff) on the disorder and how it’s perceived in the media. In the end the role completely changed the way I look at pedophilia and has made me much more sympathetic to anyone who is born with those urges."
He then noted, "From a biological standpoint it's no different than being gay -- a small mutation in the genome that defines our sexual preferences. Depending on what area of the world you were born and what time, it also may have been a perfectly acceptable thing to act on those urges."
"Now, we all know that taking advantage of minors is wrong. Disgusting and vile, even. But with the exception of Germany we are going about it completely COMPLETELY the wrong way. It's like we having learned anything by studying homosexuality -- we're talking about exploring the same "cures" to pedophilia as we were about homosexuality 20 years ago, a la conversion therapy and whatnot," Liu wrote.
This is a Disney star.
But at least they got rid of that "abhorrent" Gina Carano, huh?
Texas v. Pennsylvania et al. did not deny setting rules for the 2020 election contrary to the Constitution. On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court discounted that. By refusing to interfere as America's ruling oligarchy serves itself, the court archived what remained of the American republic’s system of equal justice. That much is clear.
In 2021, the laws, customs, and habits of the heart that had defined the American republic since the 18th century are things of the past. Americans' movements and interactions are under strictures for which no one ever voted. Government disarticulated society by penalizing ordinary social intercourse and precluding the rise of spontaneous opinion therefrom. Together with corporate America, it smothers minds through the mass and social media with relentless, pervasive, identical, and ever-evolving directives. In that way, these oligarchs have proclaimed themselves the arbiters of truth, entitled and obliged to censor whoever disagrees with them as systemically racist, adepts of conspiracy theories.
Corporations, and the government itself, require employees to attend meetings personally to acknowledge their guilt. They solicit mutual accusations. While violent felons are released from prison, anyone may be fired or otherwise have his life wrecked for questioning government/corporate sentiment.
Today's rulers don’t try to convince. They demand obedience, and they punish.
Russians and East Germans under Communists Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in the 1970s lived under less ruling class pressure than do today's Americans. And their rulers were smart enough not to insult them, their country, or their race.
In 2015, Americans could still believe they lived in a republic, in which life's rules flow from the people through their representatives. In 2021, a class of rulers draws their right to rule from self-declared experts' claims of infallibility that dwarf baroque kings' pretensions.
In that self-referential sense, the United States of America is now a classic oligarchy.
The following explains how this change happened. The clarity that it has brought to our predicament is its only virtue.
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.
Although after the election of 2008 most Republican office holders argued against the Troubled Asset Relief Program, against the subsequent bailouts of the auto industry, against the several "stimulus" bills and further summary expansions of government power to benefit clients of government at the expense of ordinary citizens, the American people had every reason to believe that many Republican politicians were doing so simply by the logic of partisan opposition. After all, Republicans had been happy enough to approve of similar things under Republican administrations. Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind. Moreover, 2009-10 establishment Republicans sought only to modify the government's agenda while showing eagerness to join the Democrats in new grand schemes, if only they were allowed to. Sen. Orrin Hatch continued dreaming of being Ted Kennedy, while Lindsey Graham set aside what is true or false about "global warming" for the sake of getting on the right side of history. No prominent Republican challenged the ruling class's continued claim of superior insight, nor its denigration of the American people as irritable children who must learn their place. The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
Never has there been so little diversity within America's upper crust. Always, in America as elsewhere, some people have been wealthier and more powerful than others. But until our own time America's upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter. The Boston Brahmins, the New York financiers, the land barons of California, Texas, and Florida, the industrialists of Pittsburgh, the Southern aristocracy, and the hardscrabble politicians who made it big in Chicago or Memphis had little contact with one another. Few had much contact with government, and "bureaucrat" was a dirty word for all. So was "social engineering." Nor had the schools and universities that formed yesterday's upper crust imposed a single orthodoxy about the origins of man, about American history, and about how America should be governed. All that has changed.
Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters -- speaking the "in" language -- serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America's ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.
The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of life more different from one another than did the 19th century's Northerners and Southerners -- nearly all of whom, as Lincoln reminded them, "prayed to the same God." By contrast, while most Americans pray to the God "who created and doth sustain us," our ruling class prays to itself as "saviors of the planet" and improvers of humanity. Our classes' clash is over "whose country" America is, over what way of life will prevail, over who is to defer to whom about what. The gravity of such divisions points us, as it did Lincoln, to Mark's Gospel: "if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
Codevilla had just recovered from covid. And then a drunk driver killed him.
Should we riot? I mean, "peacefully protest"?
Isn't that the thing to do now?
And... the Conservative, Inc. Grifters who have shifted their allegiance to the far left are already maligning him. Jim Swift, the Weekly Standard's CGO ( Chief Gay-Ops Officer) who attempted to get Salena Zito fired, reaches into his Bag of Slander to attack the dead before the body is cold:
The United States Constitution is clear. The President is the commander in chief of the armed forces. The framers of the Constitution knew what they were doing...ensuring civilian control of our military, which meant ultimately that the people controlled the military.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
But three generations of a slow and steady degradation of our officers corps, primarily those who are political appointees, has created a situation similar to the civilian Deep StateTM, in which unelected and unaccountable senior officers act in a manner counter to the express wishes of the Commander in Chief.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, E. Casey Wardynski, a former assistant secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs under the Trump administration, accused high-ranking military officials Milley and McConville of making statements that insinuated they were calling the shots.
There is a long and storied tradition among honorable military men; if you disagree with your civilian superiors you have the option to resign. But you do not have the option to disobey, or to subvert civilian control of the military and conduct foreign policy.
But the current chairman of the joint chiefs seems to have done both! And he doesn't even have a long and successful record on which to base his disagreements with civilian authority. It is becoming clear that it is simply arrogance coupled with stupidity.
Milley is a hack. There is no other way to describe him. His military decisions were catastrophically bad, and his leadership may be even worse...pushing an aggressive post-modern lunacy on the military in direct opposition to its clearly understood function. Placing divisive racial theories at the heart of the nation's military is a recipe for disaster. But unlike many of his predecessors, he has no martial spirit, no honor, and is driven by a craven desire for power and control, which has come at the expense of many good men and has resulted in America's defeat in Afghanistan.
For that alone he should resign in disgrace, but his efforts to undermine his superior, the President of The United States, is even more serious, and requires an investigation, court martial, and if found guilty, prison.
Good morning, kids. Tuesday and first up, a clarification. The headline for yesterday's post, "#HaitiHasNoHomeHere" came from the fertile mind of commenter "Joe Biden," not me. Apologies for not giving proper credit with the post.
Now on to the meshugas and dissolution at hand. Well, our borders have been erased and we're being flooded with masses of third world peasants from Central America, Haiti and perhaps most ominously Afghanistan. All of them are unskilled, uneducated, unable to provide for themselves and arguably unwilling to do so since Tio Azucar will take care of them cradle to grave, via the "generosity" of the American taxpaying citizen - all in exchange for being registered as Democrats shortly after or even before being gifted citizenship. And now add to that list of "un's" unvetted and unvaccinated. But first, get a load of this bullshit:
The White House conceded Monday they were not requiring border crossers to show proof of vaccination, even though the government requires proof of a vaccine or a negative coronavirus test for other travelers into the United States.
When reporters asked about the apparent double standard on vaccination requirements, White House press secretary Jen Psaki argued that illegal immigrants and migrants crossing the border were not intending to stay in the United States.
"They're not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time," she said, referring to migrants. "I don't think it's the same thing. It's not the same thing."
Say, what?! Illegal aliens and migrants don't intend on staying in the nation formerly known as the United States "for a lengthy period of time?" RUFKM?! I guess this Rosa-Klebb-meets-Raggedy-Ann-looking stooge thinks the 35 years since Simpson-Mazzoli and the 56 years since Hart-Celler is nothing more than a coffee break for the 33-44 million illegal aliens (11 million in Common Core) already in-country. Meh, that insult is not nearly as disgusting as the fact that the entire room full of stenographers didn't bust a gut laughing in her face. Meh, they're stenographers, not journalists. But wait, there's more!
On Monday, the CDC announced that the thousands of Afghans continuing to be brought to the U.S. by the Biden [junta] for permanent resettlement will be required to be vaccinated against measles though there has not been any indication that they are likewise mandated to take the coronavirus vaccine. . .
. . . The move comes as there have been measles outbreaks at a number of U.S. military bases where the Biden administration is temporarily housing tens of thousands of Afghans. The military bases where Afghans are staying include:
-- Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia
-- Fort Pickett in Virginia
-- Fort Lee in Virginia
-- Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico
-- Fort McCoy in Wisconsin
-- Fort Bliss in Texas
-- Fort Dix in New Jersey
-- Camp Atterbury in Indiana
In addition to measles, CDC officials revealed that some Afghans brought to the U.S. have spurred outbreaks of viruses such as varicella, mumps, tuberculosis, malaria, leishmaniasis, hepatitis A, and [Chinese] coronavirus.
Biden has said he hopes to resettle about 95,000 Afghans across the U.S. over the next 12 months. In a 21-day period from August to September, Biden brought more than 48,000 Afghans to the U.S. for resettlement -- a population more than four times that of Jackson, Wyoming.
The resettlement operation is being bankrolled by not only American taxpayer money funneled through a number of refugee contractors but also multinational corporations and a non-governmental organizations (NGO) backed by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
The one disease that's orders of magnitude more lethal than any other on the planet, which is "not healthy for children and other living things" (to paraphrase a patch on my jeans circa 1971) is "radical" Islam. The word "radical" is a redundancy considering the nature of Islam itself and its 1,500-year history of spreading the hell out of peace all over the planet. And now, these emissaries of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity - DIE - will be spreading all over the country. Oh joy oh bliss.
. . . Tucker Carlson suggested in a Sept. 1 broadcast that Democrats are using refugee resettlement as a means to consolidate voting blocs for future elections.
"You may notice that these communities include an awful lot of swing districts in swing states all over the United States. It's not just Virginia," he said after bringing up the State Department list. "Three of these communities are in Texas, a state the Democratic party has tried to flip for years now."
"Does Pennsylvania need more people? Probably not, Lot of unemployment between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia," he continued. "But Pennsylvania is also a state that Donald Trump won in 2016. Maybe they should go there."
Following America and her Afghan allies' handing over control of Afghanistan to Taliban jihadists, US troops scrambled to get fellow Americans as well as those who helped our military and their families out of the country. Along with them, the US evacuated tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, who have been allowed to resettle in the US. One of the organizations that has been tasked with resettling them is ICNA, a radical Muslim group linked to South Asian terror. With a number of these refugees already having been flagged with potential ties to terrorism, themselves, ICNA's involvement in this can only be seen as a recipe for disaster. . .
. . . It has been reported that a number of the evacuated Afghan refugees were found to have potential links to terrorism. According to NBC News, "Of more than 30,000 evacuees from Afghanistan to the US, about 10,000 needed additional screening. . . and of those about 100 were flagged for possible ties to the Taliban or terror groups." The report states that, even after this, the flagged individuals may be allowed to remain in the US. According to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, some evacuees showed up directly on terror watch lists and were "not allowed to enter the US" -- that is, of course, until they are deemed non-threats.
Given ICNA's documented associations with and promotion of overseas terrorism, specifically with regard to South Asia, the group's assistance in the resettlement of Afghan refugees poses an obvious danger to national security. Can anyone trust that terrorist sympathizers working within ICNA will not facilitate the infiltration of jihadis into America, while providing them with funding and logistical support? Affording ICNA a role in resettling Afghans is as suicidally negligent as housing the refugees on US military bases, which is also taking place.
So, whether it's from south of the border or from Haiti or now from Afghanistan, a large swathe of third world humanity is being shipped in to essentially swamp and subsume not just white Americans, as the Marxist racialists shriek, but American-Americans, all for the sake of maintaining and consolidating power by replacing the population and erasing the last vestiges of collective memory once and for all.
They are free to spread diseases, sloth and poisonous ideologies without vaccinations, masks or filters (messages or viruses) while we are to be muzzled and induced lest we have our lives destroyed or otherwise are forced to live as outcasts in our own homes. If we're lucky. And the so-called elites get to flaunt their hypocrisy with lavish parties, awards ceremonies and other hoopla while demanding respect and tribute.
In a sane world, they'd be on the receiving end of a Ceaucescu necktie. Sadly, there are far too many who'd rather knuckle under and crawl or worse, cheer on the debasement. I'm heartened by the actions of the citizens in Melbourne, Australia but revolted by what happened in California last week and now Canada yesterday.
One step forward, two steps back.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
"Globalists are promoting so-called 'sustainability' programs that will raise beef prices so high that only the super-rich will be able to afford it." The Great Reset of Beef Consumption
"What the work of James Q. Wilson can teach us about the fight over criminal justice today." Contra "Root Causes"
Julie Kelly: "The bureau is an institution with no shame, no remorse, and no accountability. There's no fix for that." The FBI's Incurable Rot
Salena Zito: "The media have moved the conversation off the front pages. But what happened and continues to happen in Afghanistan has left a mark on the American psyche." Americans Have Not Forgotten the Kabul 13
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Michelle Malkin: "And that one is Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco." All It Takes Is 1
"You'd think that a hospital that caters to Hollywood's creatives, like the freewheeling Pink, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, and OJ attorney Johnnie Cochran, and has entire wings bankrolled by entertainment's luminaries, would think a bit more highly of free speech and the idea of freedom of expression, but judging by the looks of the gobsmackingly invasive religious accommodation form, you'd be wrong. It's shocking, really." You'll Have Only One Question When You See This Hospital's Chinese COVID Shot Religious Exemption Form: Is This Thing Legal?
"The 2020 election was the second one in a row to feature a left-wing candidate sparking unwarranted fears about vaccines. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who received 1.1% of the popular vote in 2016, declared that issues relating to 'vaccination schedule' and 'toxic substances like mercury' had not all been 'completely resolved.'" There's Been a Pole Shift on Vaccines From Turbo Liberal Wine Moms to Conservatives
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The fact that the FDA rejected the booster plan despite the statements made by Fauci and Biden is a good sign. Both Fauci and Collins attempted to minimize those booster program pronouncements from Biden and other officials before the FDA's determination. It did not go well on CNN with Jake Tapper, Fox News with Chris Wallace, or ABC with Martha Raddatz." Is the FDA Chinese COVID-19 Booster Shot Fiasco the Beginning of the End of "Faucism?"
"The Biden [junta's] attempt to extend vaccine booster shots to all adults contradicts its pledge to listen to experts at the CDC and FDA. Follow the (Political) Science
"For all the twists and turns of the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps none is stranger than so-called "Long Covid." The Myth of "Long [Chinese] COVID"
"Public officials in Colorado say the state's [Chinese] COVID-19 death toll is inflated due to grouping those who have died from the disease in with those who simply tested positive for it prior to death." Colorado Officials Warn About Skewed Chinese COVID-19 Death Toll
"If intelligence is measured by paying attention to data, their IQ points are probably lower than they think they are." How Smart Are the Vaxxed?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"A new poll released Monday by Dallas Morning News found that the majority of Hispanics in Texas disapprove of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's job in the Oval Office . . . A poll by Reuters and Ipsos released Sept. 16 found that Biden hit the lowest approval rating of his presidency, dipping to 44%." POLL: Biden's Approval Rating Tanks With Texas Hispanics Amid Border Crisis, Migrant Influx
"More than half of likely voters agreed with the following statement: 'I used to dislike Trump's aggressive, confrontational style, but now that I see how weak Biden was in dealing with the Taliban in Afghanistan, I'm thinking maybe Trump wasn't so bad.' A surprising 28 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Biden voters also agreed." 2024: A Trump Landslide in the Making?
"Along with the Republicans' voter registration success, the Florida GOP has controlled the Florida state legislature and governorship for 22 years since 1999. But the lopsided control has not yielded many of the grassroots' priorities, such as limiting abortions, banning private and public vaccine and mask mandates, and passing E-Verify, a federal electronic system to check the immigration status of new workers." (now we know where those Haitans are headed - jjs) "Five Alarm Fire": Democrats Panic as GOP Nearly Erases Voter Registration Advantage in Florida
Conrad Black: "Those responsible for the elevation of this regime still cling to the theory that the dangers of reelecting Donald Trump justified drastic, unconstitutional means to install an alternative." The Bidenization of America
"'As we have been saying for weeks, we anticipate this would be a multi-step, iterative process with multiple bites at the apple,' said a statement from Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us lobby group for West Coast investors. The group has been funding many astroturf groups around the nation to persuade politicians and journalists that additional migration is popular." Amnesty Army Readies Plan B
Lloyd Billingsley: "When Trump derangement syndrome makes you abandon every principle you've ever had." Bill Kristol's Twilight Zone
"They're coming for you next: The local government in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburban community outside of Boston, is attempting to impose new zoning regulations that would essentially ban gun stores." Today's Blacklisted American: Gun Stores in Boston Suburb Banned
ABORTION
"We are looking forward to the opportunity to present our case directly to the Justices this December," Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said in a Monday statement. "The Court has acknowledged that states have the authority to promote legitimate interests, including protecting women's health and defending life; but its abortion precedents have denied the people and their elected leaders the ability to fully do so." Supreme Court Will Hear Direct Challenge To Roe In December
A senior [junta] official said Monday that the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] speech to the world body would focus on "closing the chapter on 20 years of war" and turn to other issues -- including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, trade and what the official described as "vigorous competition with great powers, but not a new Cold War." (also bending over for the Chi-Coms and Jew-baiting Israel - jjs) Biden Arrives in NYC for UN General Assembly Amid France Rift, Afghan Drone Tragedy
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden is fully vaccinated. If we are to believe what he told vaccinated Americans when he announced his authoritarian vaccine mandate, Biden is well protected from [Chinese] COVID-19. He is also well-rested after taking a long weekend at the beach while the world is on fire. Biden's speech falls on the final day of the General Assembly meeting Tuesday. How it will go is anyone's guess." The Laughable Excuse for Why Biden's Activities Will Be Limited at the UN General Assembly
"Investors are worried about financial and economic contagion from the potential collapse of a giant Chinese property developer -- rather than viral contagion from [Chinese] coronavirus." Dow Plummets 614 Points as Fear of China Contagion Takes Hold
"Over the weekend, [Fed Chair Janet] Yellen warned that the government could begin failing to make payments as soon as October without action from Congress. Meanwhile, Republican leadership is forcing Democrats to own the higher debt ceiling alongside their $3.5 trillion social spending bill, which Democrats plan to enact by circumventing the Senate filibuster via budget reconciliation." Democrats Will Vote To Suspend Government Debt Ceiling
Sen. Grassley: "It shouldn't be up to California to tell other states how they should be producing their agricultural products. California is not only being unfair to its own consumers but to producers in other states and is likely violating the U.S. Constitution with Proposition 12." America's Farmers Fight Back Against California's War on Bacon
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Capitalism in space: With the successfully completion of its first manned orbital private space, SpaceX officials announced yesterday that they are expecting to fly about six such commercial manned flights per year." SpaceX Targeting 6 Commercial Manned Flights Per Year
"The glaciers in Mars' glacier country likely represent the edge of the vast ice sheets that appear to generally cover the lowland plains to the north." Glacial Falls on Mars
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Pres. Lincoln was shot and killed by actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while the president was attending a play at Ford's theater on April 14, 1865, five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops. While Lee's surrender essentially ended the Civil War, Booth and his fellow conspirators had hoped the South could still win." Ford's Theatre Nat. Historic Site Asks if U.S. Should Stop Putting Lincoln "On a Pedestal"
"At Sunday's Emmys, the only masks in sight seemed to be fixed on non-famous faces, again projecting a ludicrous class dynamic that lets powerful people opt out of standards they seek to enforce on everyone else." The Chinese COVID Hierarchy is a Power Hierarchy and Everyone Knows It
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
The Southerly Kerfuffle continues: After the weekend protest in Melbourne, the Victorian state government - which recently lost in a pub quiz to a plate of sandwiches - decided to shut down all construction sites and throw the workers out of, well, work.
Instantly creating an army with nothing better to do than protest. Every. Single. Day.
Long, long thread. News outlets, politicians, their own union leaders, and other assorted communists first tried to play down the size of the protest, and then, after the center of Melbourne had been shut down for several hours, decided that they were all Nazis, probably come from overseas just to stir up trouble.
Yes, they booked their flights two weeks ahead and sat around in quarantine all that time because they knew on the 4th that the Victorian state government was going to shut down building sites on the 18th.
Our politicians up here in Sydney can certainly be heavy-handed and I would like nothing better than to never see any of them disgrace my TV screen ever again, but they can't come close to the self-destructive idiocy of the mob running Melbourne.
Case in point: Construction sites will be allowed to operate at 100% capacity in Sydney again, even though we've had more Bat Flu cases recently and fewer protests.
I'm not sure the federal government needs to get involved here, since California already has, and everyone is already failing to live up to those rules.
Anime Girls With Surprising Voices Video of the Day One
I'm not surprised that they can sing well; that's a major factor that comes up in their auditions. (Though some of them can't hit a note with a baseball bat.) The surprise comes with the difference between their speaking voices and their vocal range when singing.
Pina Pengin is with Prism Project, a smaller agency that only launched this year. Genuinely fun and talented and underappreciated.
Anime Girls With Surprising Voices Video of the Day Two
Towa from Hololive Gen 4 (the same generation as Coco) already has a deep speaking voice for a five-foot-nothing Japanese girl, but her vocals are something else.
I'll say it straight out loud. I do not think that Joe Biden "won the election." I don't think it is a question of "widespread fraud." I think the way the system works with the Electoral College, you only need actually to spread fraud in six key cities in six key states. Mark Steyn
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“My mom and dad took me out on the back porch and my dad started talking about how the world isn’t fair. I knew something was wrong,”Eleven-year-old Macie Shenefield
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“They were never great but at least they were edible. This year it’s just strange how everyone gets free lunch and the lunches are trash. Kristi Salzano, mother of two school children
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Sorry, but even if there are good field agents, our intelligence agencies were always a festival of fail that could only be more obvious if it wore a fruit hat and shashayed to samba in the Carnival in Rio.Sarah Hoyt
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass
For years, scientists have been studying how the buildup of toxic molecules in the brain might cause or contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. But much more difficult has been figuring out what sets off the process that makes those molecules begin to accumulate in the first place.
Now, a team of researchers from Curtin University say that “leakage” of a toxic compound called beta-amyloid from the bloodstream might be the root problem, according to a mouse study published last week in the journal PLOS Biology. While it’s not yet clear whether the same process happens in humans, the discovery could give scientists a new way to track or monitor the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and, perhaps, help them develop new treatments to prevent it.
“While we previously knew that the hallmark feature of people living with Alzheimer’s disease was the progressive accumulation of toxic protein deposits within the brain called beta-amyloid, researchers did not know where the amyloid originated from, or why it deposited in the brain,” lead study author and Curtin researcher John Mamo said in a press release.
The list of inside-the-Beltway legal players connected to Democrats in the case against Michael Sussmann, a lawyer indicted by special counsel John Durham, includes not just Mr. Sussmann’s attorneys but the judge as well.
Mr. Sussmann will face a trial judge who appears to have background connections to the FBI‘s original Russia investigation.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper, who is overseeing the case against Mr. Sussmann, is married to attorney Amy Jefress, who represented former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Just The News first reported Monday.
And another thing. Two and a half years of investigating and this is only the 2nd ho-hum indictment brought. Nice job there U.S. Attorney John Durham. Really fine.
In an interview with CNN on Monday morning, a pair of teenagers who recently lost their unvaccinated father to COVID-19 said they blamed his death on misinformation about vaccines, specifically citing reporting from Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson.
Patrick Lane, a 45-year-old Boeing designer and father of two, died from COVID-19 late last month at around the same time the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. Lane was reportedly healthy and had no underlying conditions. Yet even still, shortly after he was diagnosed, his health started quickly deteriorating.
I'm sorry your father passed. However he was a smart man and made his decision.
Pfizer COVID vaccine is safe and effective for children 5 to 11 years old, company says
"We are eager to extend the protection afforded by the vaccine to this younger population," said Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer.
Supermarket shelves will be stripped of pork, beef and poultry, chicken madras will be off the menu in Britain's curry houses and turkey will be missing from Christmas dinner tables across the land.
It is not just meat supplies that will be hit by the CO2 shortage.
Fizzy drinks, cheese and fruit and veg are all at risk of running out, the boss of food giant Iceland warned.
Britain is in the grip of an energy crisis with soaring wholesale gas prices - up 70% since last month - leading to CF Fertilisers stopping production at two plants.
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The ONT Musical Interlude
On this day: 20 Sep 1973
On his way to perform his second concert of the day, US singer, songwriter Jim Croce was killed with five others when his chartered aircraft hit a tree on take off in Louisiana. via thisdayinmusic.com
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On this day: 20 Sep 2020
American musician and singer Tommy DeVito died age 92 after contracting COVID-19. He is best known as a founding member, vocalist, and lead guitarist of the Four Seasons who were one of only two American bands (the other being the Beach Boys) to enjoy substantial chart success before, during, and after the British Invasion. The Four Seasons are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide. via thisdayinmusic.com
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Who knew cash registers needed electricity to open. Not our Genius Award Winner.
A man wearing a face covering and gloves, approached the clerk and began to speak to her around 4:30 a.m.
Shortly after the power went out due to the power outage earlier reported by LES Friday morning.
After the power cut-out the man brandished a knife, and began to demand money from the clerk.
Due to the power being out, the register would not open and the man decided to leave the store without any money.
Recovered Yearbook From 1969 Leads To $1 Million Donation
An alumnus of the Marion Military Institute in Alabama sent a check for $1 million after staff members helped him recover a lost yearbook.
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Goat and rooster spring into action to save their farm-mate, a chicken, from a hawk trying to kill it. Might be a little stressful, but, spoiler, they chase the hawk off.
Here, a rooster breaks up a fight between two rabbits. And then keeps a guard on one to make sure they don't start up again.
More than two dozen Republican governors are demanding a meeting with President Biden to address securing America's borders, saying the illegal immigration surge under the current administration has created an "international humanitarian crisis."
A letter released Monday signed by 26 Republican governors, including Doug Ducey of Arizona, Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Greg Abbott of Texas, asks Biden to schedule a meeting at the White House within the next 15 days so they can have an "open and constructive dialogue regarding border enforcement on behalf of U.S. citizens in our states and all those hoping to become U.S. citizens."
Hundreds of Caribbean migrants trying to reach the U.S. border walked through an immigration checkpoint operated by Mexican authorities. The group is trying to reach the border city of Reynosa before crossing the Rio Grande to Texas.
The incident took place on Saturday morning north of the city of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, approximately 80 miles from Texas. Between 400-500 migrants, primarily from Haiti, were traveling from Veracruz to Reynosa when Mexican authorities turned back their buses. Rather than stop, the migrants walked toward the rural city where they rested and renewed their march the same day.
The group walked north and as they got close to a federal checkpoint, they stopped and held a prayer service with local church leaders. After, the migrants walked past the checkpoint expecting authorities to try to stop them, however, officials stood down.
By the way, local law enforcement gave Fox News' reporter Bill Melugin a ride in their own patrol helicopters to film the border -- evading Biden's tyrannical orders from the FAA to forbid all drone flights.
I still have seen nothing in the propaganda press protesting this obviously-illegal attempt to hide Biden's disasters from public view.
The media is ignoring the crisis -- but they seized an opportunity to push an emotional pro-illegal-immigrant appeal to the masses.
A photo showed a mounted border patrol agent trying to catch a fleeing Haitian migrant. Note that Haiti has no border with Mexico, being an island; they're taking boats to Mexico to then sneak across the non-existent US border.
The media shrieked that the agent was using a "whip" against the border-sneak. In fact, he's just holding the horse's reins.
But the propaganda press saw an opportunity to instill in the minds of the public that illegal aliens are being hunted like escaped slaves, and they pounced and/or seized on it.
Meanwhile, as RedSteeze points out, Jen Psaki has had three and a half days to come up with an answer to Peter Doocey's question from last week -- "Why are illegal aliens not required to show proof of vaccination, when legal travelers are and American citizens are?" -- and this is the best answer the Brain Trust of the Biden Puppet Administration could come up with.
WATCH: Jen Psaki REFUSES to answer why illegal immigrants do not have to be vaccinated to enter the U.S. pic.twitter.com/knZ26eYOOe
Illegal aliens don't intend to "stay long"? Again, as RedSteeze commented, they're just popping over the border for lunch? Or maybe to join London Breed at a nightclub to see Tony Toni Tone, but then they'll be heading right back home?
You Can Ignore Mask Mandates If You're "Having a Good Time" and/or "Feeling the Spirit," San Francisco Mayor London Breed Proclaims
—Ace
Another Sophisticated, Vaccinated Crowd.
San Francisco mayor London Breed was caught partying at a nightclub without a mask -- despite having given the order just that month that masks were required in all businesses, regardless of vaccination status.
Her excuse? Well, she says that they were all vaccinated.
She ignores the fact that her order applied to the vaccinated as well as the unvaccinated, and the totally-well-informed media ignored that fact as well.
She also claims, very strangely, a new exception to her own mask mandate: You can take off your mask if Toni, Tony, Tone are reuiniting.
Breed, however, has addressed criticisms, claiming she did "everything I thought that was appropriate."
Are citizens allowed to do what they think is appropriate, or just the Ruling Class?
"We don't need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing," she said during an interview, contending she was drinking at the time and started dancing because she was "feeling the spirit" and "wasn't thinking about a mask," according to reports.
"No. I'm not going to sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask up, eat and put my mask on,” she stated. "While I'm eating and drinking, I'm gonna keep my mask off."
The video shows her maskless despite not eating or drinking. In fact, she's singing, which is a major breach when people do that in church.
But not for Toni Tony Tone!
Currently, current public health orders state that "almost everyone must wear a mask" in the city.
"You must now wear a mask in indoor public buildings even if you are fully vaccinated," the city's website reads.
She insists that the reunion of Tony Toni Tone is the story here, and not her defying her own mask mandate.
Keep that in mind if a cop or inspector hassles you about wearing a mask. Maybe print out her interview answers on a card to show cops that the law has been repealed by the mayor herself.
After Weeks of the Democrat Media/Deep State Conspiracy Ginning Up Fear About the September 18th Rally, No One Shows Up Except for the Media, the FBI, and Their Informants
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to a security briefing by Manger regarding the Sept. 18 rally. The briefing will be held on Monday at 11:15 a.m. in the Speaker’s Office, a source familiar told CQ Roll Call.
In response to questions about preparations for the Sept. 18 rally, Pelosi told reporters Wednesday that "we intend to have the integrity of the Capitol be intact." She later lamented that the group is coming to Capitol Hill.
"And now these people are coming back to praise the people who were out to kill, out to kill members of Congress," Pelosi said.
Members of the media and law enforcement vastly outnumbered a few hundred rallygoers at a much-hyped event outside the Capitol on Saturday to support those who were arrested on suspicion of participating in nonviolent crimes that were connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
"I'm a little disappointed," said Linde Barrera, a retired public school teacher from New York, who said she came to the rally on a bus with about 20 other people. "I think that more people probably still wanted to come, but they were a little scared, so they canceled."
She held a sign with a message written in glitter glue: "Jan. 6 jailees should sue the swamp."
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"As much as it was discouraged, I'm glad to see some people," said Bernie Hoffman, a resident of nearby Arlington, Virginia. He also attended the Jan. 6 rally, though he said he did not go into the Capitol.
"It could have been me” being arrested on trespassing charges, he said. "What's going on in this place is way beyond outrageous."
I'm conflicted about this result. On the one hand, I support protesting for the restoration of normal human rights to these political prisoners.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the Deep State planned to capture more political prisoners.
People had a fun time afterwards playing Spot the Glowies*:
A lot of people had fun with this grouping of likely undercover agents:
At least one guy seems to have a gun on his right thigh:
Pretty sure back in the day, they taught a far superior carry technique in Spook School, but I could be wrong. Maybe @T_S_P_O_O_K_Y could weigh in? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/IHTYweaHEl
Finally: I have trouble seeing this myself, but people say that the armored troopers here take a gun off this "protester."
But then they give it back after the "protester" shows them a gold federal badge.
Interesting. The man who Capitol Police said was arrested with a gun around 1:30PM today… Our video appears to show USCP removing a wallet from his pocket. You can see what *looks like* a gold law enforcement badge. 9 seconds in. Asking about it now. pic.twitter.com/Z3BrQwCQAz
Update: Via Lizzy and several other commenters, yes, they've admitted the Glowie seen being disarmed by the Armored Federal Troopers was in fact a fed.
ace - the guy who filmed the undercover being disarmed pursued the story -- the guy is a fed:
https://tinyurl.com/n5ezfacu
@FordFischer
BIG UPDATE: The individual arrested at Saturday's rally at the Capitol was a federal agent, and he will not be prosecuted.
U.S. attorney says they're "'not moving forward with charges' but did not provide additional information about the decision."
Australia's police arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney on Saturday at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers were injured in clashes with protesters.
Victoria police said six officers required hospitalisation. Several officers were knocked to the ground and trampled, the police said and television footage showed.
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Most of the restrictions in Victoria, New South Wales and Canberra are to remain until at least 70% of those 16 and older are fully vaccinated, which based on the current pace of inoculations could be in late October or early November.
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"It was extremely disappointing to see another example of a small minority of the community showing a complete disregard for the health and safety of not only police, but each and every other Victorian," Victoria Police said in a statement.
Would that small minority also be a "distinct minority"?
Seth Roegen, a Covid panic-spreader, was panicked enough to be honest: Once again, Hollywood was lying. They claimed the event was held "outdoors" so that they could go maskless and non-socially-distanced, but in fact they're inside a "hermetically-sealed tent" which is structured enough to support three large chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.
Spoiler: if you're in a space that has walls and a ceiling and three chandeliers hanging from it, you're not outside.
This was Obama's con, too: He had his party "outside" in big tents with ceilings and walls.
This is not "outside." This is a con.
And I don't believe this was a surprise to Seth Rogen. I think this was his attempt to cover up for the fact that a covid panic-spreader who is demanding that The Little People be masked is unmasked. This is his excuse -- "I didn't know."
Senate Parliamentarian Rules That Amnesty Cannot Be Added Into Spending Bill Via Reconciliation
—Ace
Reconciliation is the process the Democrats were hoping to use to jam in a mass amnesty for illegals without any Republican votes.
There's a special rule that you can "reconcile" somewhat differing Senate and House bills without having to send each bill individually back to their respective houses for repassage. Wrong: Commenters point out the bills do have to go back to their respective houses for final passage, but there is no filibuster allowed on that vote.
But the differences to be "reconciled" must concern spending and taxation.
The Democrats attempted to slip an amnesty bill through the 50-50 Senate by claiming that the incidental changes in spending which would be caused by amnestying 8 million or more illegals counted as "spending," and so could be jammed into the "infrastructure" bill via reconcilliation.
Democrats can't use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs for their plan to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens, the Senate's parliamentarian said, a crushing blow to what was the party's clearest pathway in years to attaining that long-sought goal.
The decision by Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate’s nonpartisan interpreter of its often enigmatic rules, is a damaging and disheartening setback for President Joe Biden, congressional Democrats and their allies in the pro-immigration and progressive communities. Though they said they'd offer her fresh alternatives, MacDonough's stance badly wounds their hopes of unilaterally enacting -- over Republican opposition -- changes letting several categories of immigrants gain permanent residence and possibly citizenship.
The parliamentarian opinion that emerged Sunday is crucial because it means the immigration provisions could not be included in an immense $3.5 trillion measure that's been shielded from GOP filibusters. Left vulnerable to those bill-killing delays, which require 60 Senate votes to defuse, the immigration language has virtually no chance in the 50-50 Senate.
In a three-page memo to senators obtained by The Associated Press, MacDonough noted that under Senate rules, provisions are not allowed in such bills if their budget effect is "merely incidental" to their overall policy impact.
Citing sweeping changes that Democrats would make in immigrants' lives, MacDonough, a one-time immigration attorney, said the language "is by any standard a broad, new immigration policy."
The rejected provisions would open multiyear doorways to legal permanent residence -- and perhaps citizenship -- for young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, often called "Dreamers." Also included would be immigrants with Temporary Protected Status who've fled countries stricken by natural disasters or extreme violence; essential workers and farm workers.
I still think the Democrats could vote 50 strong -- with Kumala's tie-breaker -- to overrule the Parliamentarian. I also think they could just fire her.
I don't think Manchin would vote with them on that.
Still, they tried to break the rules, again. To end American sovereignty.
A "zero-covid" or "stamp out covid" (whatever you want to call it) policy is stupid and counterproductive.
Any federal, state, or local government that is attempting to implement a "zero-covid" policy is interested in public control, not public health.
Covid-19 will become less lethal over time.
Each succeeding Covid-19 variant will be less lethal than the previous one.
We need more research on what constitutes an effective treatment strategy, not only for the unvaccinated, but for the vaccinated who nevertheless come down with Covid.
"Go home and wait until you're sick enough to come to the hospital" is not an effective treatment strategy.
Outdoor masking is silly and stupid.
Forcing little kids to wear masks all day is silly and stupid.
Forcing little kids to wear masks all day should be declared a criminal act.
Most masking is virtue signaling.
Instead of inadequately tested, rushed-to-market vaccines, the government should be passing out free vitamin D, especially during the winter months.
I would rather have the government force me to take a daily dose of vitamin D than an inadequately tested, rushed-to-market vaccine.
Anthony Fauci should be fired.
Anthony Fauci should be investigated for channeling federal dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to fund their gain-of-function research.
Anthony Fauci should be keelhauled.
Forced vaccination is immoral.
Withholding medical care from unvaccinated persons is insanely immoral.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought out the worst in too many Americans.
Friday Who Dis: Belinda Lee never did rise higher than 'B' movies, although it could be argued that she never really got the chance, having been killed in an automobile accident at the age of 25. She had a minor part in the biblical drama Joseph and His Brethren (1961), which starred Geoffrey Horne, who, a few years previous, was considered for the lead role in the 1959 version of Ben Hur, which eventually was given to Charlton Heston.
Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Bagels With Cream Cheese & Lox:
Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and the autumnal equinox. As usual, there are a number of things popping all at once, each in its own right that under normal circumstances would be major news, so it's difficult to try to zero in on just one thing. That said, the catastrophe at our southern border, which has all but been erased since late last January, will take the lead because of its magnitude on its own and because it impacts a couple of other issues. Most notably, the Afghanistan disaster and the $3.5 trillion dollar nail in the coffin of American society.
So upwards of 15,000 migrants are gathered in, under and around a bridge in Mexico but the wrinkle to this whole thing is that they're Haitian. Now, it's one thing for Guatemalans, Salvadorans and even people from as far south as Patagonia to schlep up to the Rio Grande and demand asylum (more than likely in trucks and buses bought and paid for by a certain Nazi collaborator among others). But Port au Prince is about 2,000 miles to Del Rio. Mostly over water. So, what the hell is going on here?
The surprising answer, which the migrants provided independently in different places and at different times, was universal: on Sunday, September 12, the Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants it had bottled up for months in its southern states up to the American border. This move, which appears to have been done under the cover of Mexico's independence week of celebration known as El Grito, essentially foisted a humanitarian problem onto the Americans in a single week.
A quick background is necessary to understand what the migrants were saying. In short, when it was newly installed in January, the Biden [junta] began to pressure Mexico to maintain and use its National Guard and immigration bureaucracy to slow the flow of expected caravans and of tens of thousands of Haitians and other migrants coming in from all over the world. This was a fairly quiet diplomatic campaign, and it coincided with billions in promised U.S. aid and other benefits such as covid vaccines. It was a different approach from the Trump style of threatening to damage the Mexican economy with tariffs unless the leadership slowed U.S.-bound illegal immigration coming through Guatemala.
In response to Biden's softer approach with gifts, Mexico apparently responded with a lighter version of a Trump-era tactic, which was to require that migrants entering from Guatemala be held in the southern state of Chiapas, in the border city of Tapachula, until they applied for and obtained temporary legal permits. National Guard roadblocks reinforced the policy.
As CIS [Center for Immigration Studies] reported in March from Mexico, many thousands of immigrants willing to invest in bribes and smuggling fees obviously find ways around the National Guard. But many thousands of others chose not to invest in these expensive end-runs and stayed in Tapachula for months hoping for cheaper Mexican papers solution.
Probably by design, the documents were slow to come, taking three, four or five months. A sea of migrants built up behind this bureaucratic dam, tens of thousands of them . . .
. . . The reason, according to the migrants CIS interviewed, the Mexican cartels in this city do not involve themselves in human smuggling as they do in other parts of northern Mexico. Migrants who get to Acuna are free to cross themselves over the river without paying a tax or smuggling fee to ruthless Mexican cartels, with no fear of violent retribution for doing so on their own. . .
. . . Many are now boarding yet more buses inside the camp, these ones provided by DHS to take them to Border Patrol processing stations. Some may be deported. But most likely will spend a day or two until they get temporary resident permits and a date to appear at an American immigration office in the city of their choice. Then under current Biden policies for families and unaccompanied minors, a great many will be released to travel anywhere in America, boarding yet more buses to those cities and towns. . .
. . . CIS could find no public reporting of any official Mexico announcement or confirmation of these immigrant accounts.
But if their accounts prove to be true, Mexico's decision presents a clear diplomatic affront to the Biden [junta], transferring a significant threat management and humanitarian challenge to America, not to mention a potential political problem for the Biden [junta]. . .
. . . In a sign of keen awareness that the Del Rio encampment situation portends political damage in an area where polls show Biden is already very weak, the [junta] has picked a strategy of not speaking about it and working to make sure no one else did either.
The White House had not addressed the camp. Up until Friday, DHS was content to let the city of Del Rio lead a press conference about national immigration policy and what was happening.
The federal government barred reporters from touring the site and rarely made officials available for questions. At one point, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on unmanned aerial vehicles over the bridge area, a measure that seemed aimed at Fox News, which has fielded a drone team to photograph the migrant shantytown.
Although this a very thorough report from the CIS, it doesn't tell us how thousands upon thousands of Haitians, among others from nations that are nowhere near Mexico, let alone our former southern border, got to the Rio Grande in the first place. More than likely it is not just Soros blood money but more than likely your tax dollars at work.
Funny how Haitians can't seem to cross the border they share with the Dominican Republic, but traveling thousands of miles across the Caribbean and then inland to Del Rio is a breeze. True, the DR doesn't offer food stamps, section 8 housing, free healthcare and schools. But you can bet your bottom dollar that the island of Hispaniola is divided by a very effective border fence and the Dominicans guard it closely. While not as dramatic as a night shot from space of the Korean peninsula, Haitian and Dominican society are in many ways like night and day. And the activities of the Clinton Crime Family surely didn't help the situation.
Yet while we're all looking at Del Rio, planeloads of unvetted, unvaccinated and more than likely unreconstructed practitioners of the "Religion of Peace" are winging their way to a city and town near you, eager to partake of baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet. Or, more than likely burqas, joy-buzzer-clipping, infidel hunting and sharia law.
Last week, the Biden [junta] announced that the first group of roughly 36,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. at rapid speed will be resettled across 46 states -- including Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
With more details from the Biden [junta] on the resettlement operation, more Republican governors have come out to support the plan. In August, without having vetting or screening details, 10 Republican governors announced their support for the plan and asked Biden to resettle Afghans in their states.
Those 10 Republican governors include South Carolina's Henry McMaster, Maryland's Larry Hogan, Massachusetts' Charlie Baker, Utah's Spencer Cox, Georgia's Brian Kemp, Arkansas' Asa Hutchinson, Arizona's Doug Ducey, Iowa's Kim Reynolds, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitts, and Vermont's Phil Scott.
The blathering is that all of these refugees have been fully vetted. Considering we bugged out of Afghanistan faster than you can say "I-keeeeel-you," I rate these statements as beyond insulting. But keep voting even more harder-er! And at least we won't have any more mean tweets. On a somewhat positive note, the $3.5 trillion final transmogrification of America into a flaming socialist dung heap has had the brakes put on it by the surprising reservations of Democrats Manchin and Sinema. As with all these bills, they are never about what they are labeled as but what's buried deep in the fine print on page 877 or thereabouts. In there is, you guessed it, amnesty for millions already here and more than likely under that bridge in Del Rio and from every corner of the soon to be Greater Xi Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
"A preliminary ruling from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, obtained by Fox, would bar Democrats from adding immigration provisions to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.
"Democrats did not have firm legislative text nor a total price tag for the bill. So it's hard to see how there is an absolute ruling on this," Pergram said. "But, budget reconciliation bills, which Democrats were using to avoid a filibuster, must be strictly fiscal in nature and can't add to the deficit. It was believed that this push to add immigration to the bill was too policy driven."
"This is a blow to Democrats and progressives who pushed to add immigration provisions to the bill. This will cause problems if Democrats have to slash the total size of the size of the legislation to mollify moderate Democrats," Pergram continued. "It was thought that lopping immigration provisions into the bill could help placate liberals if Democrats have to trim the size of the legislation."
Pergram added that the key part from MacDonough's decision was that including immigration as part of reconciliation "is further evidence that the policy changes of this proposal far outweigh the budgetary impact scored to it and it is not appropriate for inclusion in reconciliation."
Now, from what I understand (and I could be wrong), Veep Throat Harris and/or Cuck Schemer can disregard MacDonough's decision but the propagandists are all reporting this as a major blow if not insurmountable problem. Given the fact that this junta does not care for the rule of law, I will assume that some sort of decree will come down from Kalorama or wherever and amnesty shall be "deemed" to have passed.
And the beat-down goes on.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: "We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes." The Afghanistization of America
"Yes, it's true that Facebook magnifies our cultural failures, but assigning the responsibility to Facebook to fix these cultural problems wrongly empowers the very actors we should be stripping of social power instead." How Our Culture and Our Government Gave Too Much Power to Facebook
"The Taliban wants to control the narrative. So does the White House. They are going to want the U.S. to recognize their terrorist government and in exchange, allow the Americans and some of the Afghan collaborators to leave." For U.S. Residents Hiding in Kabul, Help Is Slow in Coming
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Some New York restaurants openly rebelled against the mandate when Mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) announced it in August. 'Whether you're vaccinated or not, you are welcome,' one Italian pastry shop manager said. 'I just don't think that we're going to be the vaccination police.' Critics, including city lawmakers, have said the mandate will have a disparate negative impact on minority residents, who have low vaccination rates." Most NYC Restaurants Not Enforcing Vaccine Mandate
"Florida is a far-too-visible testament to the fallibility of the federal government's 'experts,' and they haven't suffered enough for refusing to 'follow the science.' And for that, the Biden [junta] has decided that more Floridians must die." Is the Biden Junta Trying to Murder Its Opponents?
"Our medical system is now completely under the thumbs of the government, and the Ayn Rand Institute, named for an inveterate enemy of socialism, is explicitly supporting it." Ayn Rand vs. the Mandate
"Small businesses are already contending with a historic labor shortage and this order will add expensive new barriers to finding and keeping employees, causing significant harm at the worst time possible. The federal government doesn't have the power to require small businesses to carry out its de-facto national vaccine mandate." Small Business Advocacy Group is Suing Biden Over Vaccine Mandate
Anonymous: "I'm one of the few conservative federal employees left. Do I get the jab to keep food on the table for my family, or do I stand up and quit?" Dissenting Federal Employee: Prostitute or Patriot?
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Ted Noel, MD: "Why you are more likely to get infected today than months ago BECAUSE of the vaccine." Let Me 'Splain' It for You
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "BLM rioters, Antifa thugs, and anti-Kavanaugh protesters are off the hook while Trump-supporting, anti-Biden protesters suffer in jail for months, charged with obstruction and other silly crimes." Joe Biden's Political Prisoners
"Dumbing down is something our public schools are good at. Cluttering up everyone's mind is a vital part of the process." K-12: the Clutter is the Message
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The National Legal and Policy Center asked New York state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in a Thursday letter to 'effect the immediate divestiture' of the state pension fund's $73 million holdings in Unilever, arguing that the company has not taken sufficient steps to oppose anti-Semitism and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement." Government Watchdog Calls on New York Pension Fund to Divest From Ben and Jerry's Parent Company
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"California voters chose to remain a one-party state." (well, the choice might have been made for them by Dao-Min Yen - jjs) Recall Fails: What's Next for California?
"California voters like the [Chinese] COVID-19 lockdowns, masking, and vax mandates because they think a benevolent power can save them from the inevitability of death." You Win Some, You Newsom
Lloyd Billingsley: "Here's what happened when California replaced a Democrat governor with Arnold Schwarzenegger." Recalling a Recall
POLITICS
"Biden's poll numbers are tanking on the heels of a controversial vaccine mandate, an inflated economy, a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a drone strike that killed 10 innocent Afghan civilians, including seven children." Poll: 56% of Americans Disapprove of Direction of Country Under Biden
Is it cheating? Or good politics? Most Americans have been sold on the idea that no one party should have the power to draw the lines when the census is published every ten years. Thus was born, the nonpartisan election commission tasked with redrawing congressional district lines 'fairly' and without any one party's 'thumb on the scale.' To no one's surprise, it's not quite working out the way that the reformers envisioned." Redistricting Battles Rage Across the Nation Despite "Nonpartisan" Commissions
"C-SPAN posted video of the event, and sure enough, the crowd reaction sounds like that from a hoard of tens of thousands. . . However, a scan of the stands reveals that the seats are sparsely filled, raising the question of just how so few fans could have generated so much noise." VIDEO: Mysteriously Loud Cheer Erupts from Tiny Crowd After Kamala Harris Coin Toss
The Good News: "Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate's nonpartisan interpreter of its rules, said that the immigration proposal's budget impact was outweighed by the policy impact it would have." Senate Parliamentarian Deals Blow to Dems' Immigration Push
"On Saturday, dozens of residents rallied near the shuttered Del Rio International Bridge holding signs critical of the Biden administration's handling of the humanitarian crisis. Other signs held by the demonstrators expressed support for the Border Patrol and local law enforcement officers dealing with the crisis unfolding at the camp. For several hours the protesters waved flags as passers-by honked car horns in support of the messaging." Haitian Camp Crisis Brings Chaos to Two Small Cities on Texas-Mexico Border
"Unless voters in Minneapolis wish to find their city and homes receiving warnings like the State Department's against [Bro-Fo] Omar's home country, they might want to reconsider whom they entrust with power." Bringing Somalia to Minnesota
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"There's a new migrant crisis at the Texas border with more than 10,000 Haitians living in deteriorating conditions. U.S. Military had to admit its missile strike in Kabul, in response to the killing of 13 soldiers, was an error, and that it killed up to 10 innocent civilians. And then he had the issue with France, so angry about the U.S. sabotaging their submarine deal with Australia that they actually recalled their ambassador." (man, if you've lost this commie stooge . . . - jjs) "F." Chuck Todd Blasts Biden: "He's Got a Pretty Big Credibility Crisis," World Doesn't Know if "Competent"
"Compromise may be essential to success in the political process. But letting the government force workers to take a shot for the Chinese Flu is a compromise too far." Conrad Black, Coronavirus, and . . . the Fat Man
"Last month, documents obtained by the Center for Medical Progress showed that the university sought $3 million in 2015 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to become a 'distribution hub' for preborn baby parts -- procured from abortion facilites in Pittsburgh -- for use in medical research." After Backlash, Pitt Hires Law Firm To Review Experiments On Aborted Fetal Tissue
"La Palma has a population of 85,000. It is one of eight volcanic islands in Spain's Canary Islands archipelago off Africa's western coast. Sunday's volcanic eruption on La Palma was the first on the island since 1971." Volcano Erupts, Lava Flows, on Canary Island of La Palma
I'm no special pleader for Biden, but it's kind of disgusting for Macron to get all huffy considering France is virtually an Islamic republic and the attitude of that nation since the end of World War 2 has been to screw America over every chance it gets. France Recalls Ambassadors in US and Australia Over Submarine Deal
"I wrote this paper on Australian naval strategy in August 2013 -- eight years ago -- but never got around to placing it. It's interesting to see how well my thinking from 2013 held up. I think it clearly anticipates the actual debate that led to Australia's present decision to go for nuclear SSNs." The Australian Nuclear Sub Decision as I Saw It Eight Years Ago
"The jet that crashed was a Navy T-45C Goshawk belonging to the Training Air Wing 2 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, the AP reported. The pilots were reportedly conducting a routine training flight along the Gulf Coast out of Corpus Christi International Airport." Navy Training Jet Crashes In Texas Neighborhood, Both Pilots Injured
"Like most tyrannical leftists policies, these bills were pushed under a feel-good guise of solving the affordable housing shortage and lowering the homeless numbers. . . The bills set a dangerous precedent for state government usurpation of local control. If local municipalities cannot decide for themselves how they want to zone and for what type of housing they want to zone, what's next? Will the state government tell us where we can live or who will live in our homes with our families?" California Bans Single-Family Zoning In Most Neighborhoods Statewide
"When I first settled there in the mid-1950s, it was truly a land of milk and honey. Things have changed." Gone Is the Romance of California
"There isn't much federal land to manage east of the Mississippi River, so Trump moved the bureau's headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado. Naturally, that caused a stink. Headquarters staff didn't want to move from their prestigious postings in Washington to the boonies. There's nothing exciting happening in Grand Junction -- just breathtaking natural beauty." Biden Reverses Another Trump Policy: Bureau of Land Management Headquarters to Return to the Swamp
"Democrats press Biden to reinstate a tax break for the wealthy." Heaping on the SALT
"One thing we know that's going to be in it is a payoff to Joe Biden's big labor allies who see the bill as a potential bailout and an end to the decline of organized labor. It's called 'Protecting the Right to Organize,' also known as the PRO Act. And it's designed to capture millions of unsuspecting workers and put them in unions that don't represent their interests and would take money from their hard-earned paychecks to help elect politicians who would advance policies they don't support." Biden's Big Labor Big Bailout
"Runaway government spending and excessively lax Federal policy have led to soaring prices for all Americans." What's Behind Runaway Inflation?
Deroy Murdock: "More than just a tax on 'evil drug companies,' this measure would blackmail the sector, chop into its bottom line and torpedo research and development. This would mean more ailments and earlier deaths for everyday Americans. In other words, just another day at the office for Democrats." Democrats' Sick Prescription for Killing Off Life-Saving New Medicines
"History will note that on September 19, in the year of our Lord 2021 (not sorry for offending atheist readers), 4 human beings returned home after a nearly routine journey to space. What made the journey more than routine was that none of the four humans were professional astronauts. The flight was privately funded and launched by the public/private space venture, SpaceX." Splashdown! All-Amatuer Space Crew Returns Safely to Earth
"Though the chances of the FAA rejecting SpaceX's permit are practically nil, I fully expect this process to be slow-walked by the FAA under orders of the Biden administration in order to do whatever it can to prevent this orbital flight occurring before SLS's first launch, now expected in early '22." FAA Now Taking Public Comments on Licensing of SpaceX to Launch Starship Superheavy from Boca Chica
"Capitalism in space: India's new Department of Space, dedicated to encouraging the growth of a private commercial and independent Indian space industry, has signed a deal with the private rocket startup, Agnikul Cosmos, to give it access to government space facilities as it develops its own smallsat rocket." India Signs Deal with Private Rocket Startup
"The '1619 Project' is not just bad history, it is a danger to our national life, replacing the idea, goal, and reality of American unity with race-based obsessions." The Project Is Launched
Heather Mac Donald: "A British classical music organization exposes the sordid business behind all racial-preference regimes." Ripping Off the Veil
"Daniel James Brown's new book, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, details how Japanese Americans responded to being forced into internment camps with patriotism and valor." How Japanese Americans Confronted Injustice While Still Loving America
"An outspoken member of the first generation of Leo Strauss's students, moreover, Jaffa would have been as knowledgeable as anyone about the limits of politics; the reality and elusiveness of justice; and statesmen's unending challenge of balancing competing principles, tempering partisan claims, and accommodating complex and changing circumstances." Harry Jaffa's Love-Hate Relationship With Moderation
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Serverless is one more step of wishful thinking beyond cloud. There's no serverless, there's just someone else's servers and you have no control over what happens on them.
People said I was mad to embed SMB in the kernel, but I embedded it all the same. It sank into the swamp. (Phoronix)
It has - surprising no-one - a security vulnerability. Involving .. which is the first thing you check when handling a file path on Unix-like systems.
And the patch to fix that has a buffer overflow bug.
Funny thing, I was checking my desktop system for that AMD chipset driver bug yesterday, and I noticed that it has TPM 2.0, the critical requirement for running Windows 11.
I still can't run Windows 11 because it doesn't support my CPU either.
It will be announced in two days so the chance of accurate leaks right now is high, but there's limited information of dubious provenance, so taking this with a bucket of salt for now.
Disclaimer: Of all the salt mines, in all the deserts, in all the world, she falls into mine.
"The thing right now that’s going on is tyranny," Mustaine added. "This is called tyranny. Look it up when you get home. And tyranny isn't only in government. Tyranny right now is in the schools, and tyranny is in the medical business."Dave Mustaine (H/T Doof)
Quote II
"You don't spend two decades pumping trillions of dollars into a money pit and funding all manner of transparent fantasies one year at a time with no real continuity or long-range planning, then all of a sudden develop the ability as you're running out the door at half past midnight to make prudent decisions to secure your material interests." Unidentified Afghanistan vet and journalist
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“The Met itself has always been such a huge symbolic institution for New Yorkers and growing up in a neighborhood, coming back to it after graduating school, working as a waitress. I remember, especially there was this one year when I was walking to work and the gala was happening.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
It's a shame she wasn't struck by a bus on her walk.
Designer Aurora James called her “Tax the Rich” dress for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “powerful message” — but it’s not one she has taken to heart.
The 37-year-old fashionista who made waves at the Met Gala with Democratic-Socialist AOC last week is a notorious tax deadbeat with unpaid debts dogging her in multiple states, records show.
Most of luxe-living James’ arrears center on Cultural Brokerage Agency, an LLC she formed in 2011 to serve as the parent company of her fashion brand, which today is known as Brother Vellies. It’s a favorite of people like Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Meghan Markle.
The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.
Leftists are arguing that a $15 minimum wage is far too low; instead, many are calling for a $26 minimum wage.
As originally noted by Foundation for Economic Education correspondent Brad Polumbo, online debate about the policy started with an August article from the progressive Center for Economic and Policy Research. Economist Dean Baker argued in the piece that the minimum wage ought to keep pace with overall economic productivity.
People have been advised to be on the lookout after reports of a door-to-door Covid-19 vaccine scam.
Two men are reported to have been knocking on doors in Christchurch’s Addington suburb, claiming to be health officials, according to the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB).
The pair have an eftpos machine, and have been attempting to charge people a fee to book vaccine appointments.
“This is a scam,” a CDHB spokesperson said in a warning to the public.
To find the answer, this writer came to Ciudad Acuna, the city through which the migrants had passed to form the encampment and asked several dozen of them what happened.
The surprising answer, which the migrants provided independently in different places and at different times, was universal: on Sunday, September 12, the Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants it had bottled up for months in its southern states up to the American border. This move, which appears to have been done under the cover of Mexico's independence week of celebration known as El Grito, essentially foisted a humanitarian problem onto the Americans in a single week.
A quick background is necessary to understand what the migrants were saying. In short, when it was newly installed in January, the Biden administration began to pressure Mexico to maintain and use its National Guard and immigration bureaucracy to slow the flow of expected caravans and of tens of thousands of Haitians and other migrants coming in from all over the world. This was a fairly quiet diplomatic campaign, and it coincided with billions in promised U.S. aid and other benefits such as covid vaccines. It was a different approach from the Trump style of threatening to damage the Mexican economy with tariffs unless the leadership slowed U.S.-bound illegal immigration coming through Guatemala.
In response to Biden’s softer approach with gifts, Mexico apparently responded with a lighter version of a Trump-era tactic, which was to require that migrants entering from Guatemala be held in the southern state of Chiapas, in the border city of Tapachula, until they applied for and obtained temporary legal permits. National Guard roadblocks reinforced the policy.
Anti-Lockdown Protesters In Australia "Break Police Line" As Clashes Erupt
Throughout the pandemic, Australia's government has chosen to enact stringent restrictions to combat COVID-19. After the sixth lockdown since the pandemic began, anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne have had enough with draconian virus
If you had your heart set on serving exclusively Dom Perignon at your champagne party this weekend, you might want to consider mixing in some other brands.
As of Friday, Pennsylvania's state-run liquor stores are starting to ration sales of some products. It's a response to what is being described as a supply shortage.
“The cancellation of the Attack class submarine program binding Australia and France since 2016, and the announcement of a new partnership with the United States meant to launch studies on a possible future cooperation on nuclear-powered submarines, constitute unacceptable behavior between allies and partners, whose consequences directly affect the vision we have of our alliances, of our partnerships and of the importance of the Indo-Pacific for Europe,” Le Drian added.
Biden administration officials claim that they gave France ample notice of the new pact between Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, President Joe Biden, and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but it appears that France found out just hours before.
The pact involves the creation of an enhanced trilateral security partnership called “AUKUS” which will allow the U.S. and the U.K. to share highly sensitive nuclear submarine technology with Australia.
This is likely the first time an ambassador to France has ever been recalled from the United States in the history of the alliance between the two countries.
Earlier this year, Russia recalled its ambassador to the U.S. after Biden agreed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “killer” in an interview with ABC News. The U.S. recalled its ambassador to Russia in retaliation, but both officials have since been returned.
As energy prices in Europe go through the roof, factories are beginning to shut down and food is disappearing from the shelves. Welcome to green Britain, offering a foretaste of what life will be like under Net Zero conditions – poorer, colder, hungrier – unless Government changes course.
A gang of machete-wielding robbers livestreamed their failed attempt to escape the police in a high-speed pursuit.
Effiong Nsa and Salah Ibrahim had just robbed a man in Dartford before their getaway driver Shamil Ibrahim drove them away from the scene, leading officers on a chase.
Unbelievable footage now released by Kent Police shows the trio in the car as Ibrahim can be heard saying ‘help us block off the feds’ while recklessly swerving through traffic, running a number of red lights and driving on the wrong side of the road.
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The ONT Musical Interlude
On this day: 19 Sep 2005
Research published by Guinness World Records showed that Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history. The band had scored 61 chart successes, dating from Pictures of Matchstick Men in 1968 to You'll Come Around in 2004. Queen came second with 52 hits, with The Rolling Stones and UB40 with 51 hits each. via thisdayinmusic.com
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Born on this day: 19 Sep 1946
John Coghlan drummer with English rock band Status Quo, (he left in 1982), who had the 1977 UK No.3 single 'Rockin' All Over The World'. Other hits include 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' in 1968, and 'Whatever You Want' in 1979.
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Born on this day: 19 Sep 1943
Cass Elliott, singer, Mamas and the Papas, who scored the 1966 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Monday Monday'. After the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas, Elliot embarked on a solo career and had the 1968 hit 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' from her solo album of the same name. Elliott died from a heart attack on 29th July 1974 while staying at Harry Nilsson's London flat in the UK. via thisdayinmusic.com
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It doesn't look like anything will keep him from napping in the near future. Genius Award Winner.
SEPTEMBER 17--An Indiana man who repeatedly called 911 to inform police operators that he was "tired" will spend the next two months resting up in a county jail, according to court records.
Daniel Schroeder, 61, was arrested Tuesday night at his Evansville home in connection with a quartet of calls placed that evening to the police emergency line.
“The male caller kept calling in stating that he was tired,” according to a police report.
Schroeder’s calls about his weariness came a day after he pleaded guilty to a prior misuse of the 911 system. In the earlier case, he copped to calling police to report that he was upset that a female relative “was not following his rules.”
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!
Welp, with the weather cooperating, guess who headed down to the farm this weekend? Go ahead! Guess! Yup, your 'ol pal Weasel headed to the farm for the weekend. I needed to do some mowing and some other chores, and finally do some shooting! You may recall one of the raffle prizes at the NoVaMoMe in July was a Dream Date with Weasel for a day of shooting at WeaselAcres. Our pal and Gun Thread regular, Thicc Boi won the raffle, and we were able to get together this weekend. The weather was favorable, and I took several guns down with me. The fun will be over by the time you read this, and we will have a full range report next week!
With that, let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
So last week we started a discussion on negligent and accidental discharges. There is an arguably fine difference between the two, with the end result of a gun being discharged when you aren't expecting it to fire. We can debate this until the cows come home, but at the end of the day, suffice it to say this is something to be avoided. How, you ask? Well, treating every gun as being loaded until you have verified it is not is a great start. Let's look at some other causes in this video sent in by our pal CBD.
So what do you think? Anything to add?
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First up, our new pal and delightful 'ette TecumsehTea poked her head in last week and mentioned she was headed to the range, and this week we have her first range report!
First I'd like to thank everyone who encouraged me last week. I’ve been a lurker at AOS for about 6 years but it wasn't 'til Covid hit that I actually worked up the nerve to comment. I don't comment often; I can't keep up with you guys. I wasn't sure about even saying anything about going for training Monday, but I'm glad I did. The kind words meant a lot.
The trainer is a woman, former military. Very no-nonsense. We got right to it, going over how to hold my pistol etc. Turns out everything my hubs told me (from his trainer, but a different range) was wrong. So all the things I'd been practicing I have to unlearn. We did classroom stuff and then she took me to the range. We worked on my stance and grip again, but when it was time to actually shoot I was very hesitant. She asked me if I would like her to shoot first, so she did. I'm glad she did because this is the first time I've ever seen a gun be shot. It's loud. Then I shot the remaining 7 rounds. The noise didn't startle me at all, after that first shot. I was concentrating so hard on stance, grip and pulling the trigger I'm not sure I even heard the gunshots.
The hour was exhausting. I used to be pro gun control, way back in my 20's (62 now), and though I have learned the error of my ways and I am very, very pro 2A and personal protection, it's one thing to be in favor of a thing and something else to DO that thing. Or maybe I just over-think everything.
I was very hesitant to go, fearing I would somehow fail. I didn't know what to expect, of the experience or myself. I'm glad to have this first training behind me. I'm sending a photo of the target. It was at the closest distance, I think 5 yards. I was shooting a S&W EZ 9mm.
Nicely done, TecumsehTea! Very nicely done! Thank you for sending this in and again, welcome to the Gun Thread. I am very happy you came out of the shadows of lurkerdom and joined the conversation. I hope you will continue to share your journey becoming a gun nut with us, because you are off to a great start. Nice shooting!
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Next, our pal The RealMc sends a report on his experiences with a .22LR conversion kit.
Greetings fellow gun threaders. Thought it would be worth sharing my recent conversion kit experience.
In light of the scarcity of ammo and the price of lead seemingly surpassing the value of gold and also a strong desire to keep plinking I decided to try a .223/5.56 conversion kit for a couple of AR platforms me and the missus own, one S&W M&P 15, and one Sig Sauer both chambered per the manufacturers stamp in .223/5.56. Honestly, I was skeptical because well, I trust no one when it comes to these sorts of things, but the price was not something I could pass on based on my own research. I recommend you also do your own.
I purchased 2 CMMG 22LR AR Conversion Kit, Bravo, w/3 Magazines for a lot less than the price shown because, well, I know a guy. The 3 magazines are 25 rounds each and with 3 enough to go squirrel plinking for an hour or three out in our back 30.
I opened the packages and was firing rounds in less than 2 minutes. It took a few seconds to spray the bolt and carrier with some oil because they were packaged dry, other than that, it is so simple you can do the "conversion" in the dark in only a few seconds. That consisted of removing one bolt carrier and swapping in the conversion bolt carrier. I also used the same charging handle. The magazine with these kits fit right into the existing magazine well as the .223/5.56.
I fired to different types of .22 LR. Regular Remington .22LR hollow point rounds and then some CCI Quiet .22LR. The CCI ammo requires that you manually cycle the action because of the lower velocity of the round and in my experience in a rifle they are at least as quiet as a pellet gun. Both rounds are as accurate as any .22LR I have ever fired using the platforms described. I marked and will use the same bolt in the same rifle and while one could, I personally prefer not to swap them out between rifles unless necessary.
Seems like a great way to save on ammo! Anyone else considering a conversion kit? Thank you, The RealMc!
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Next up we hear from our pal Sua Sponte on .22LR and 9mm tests with recommendations.
This is a continuation of the SAR9 I purchased a few months back. It was a turn in I purchased for about $245, came with two 17 round magazines and three sets of backstraps, they've been retailing in and around $330 NIB. I had been looking for a decent pistol to carry while working on the property, but didn't want anything too exorbitant as I expected it to get knocked around while I worked. So far I've put about 500 round through it and haven't had one issue, running several types of ammo to include HP and steel. The only ammo that gave me issues was the Federal Syntec. The nose coating kept hanging up on the ramp. Other than that, it's ran everything I put in it. IN the hand it's very reminiscent of an H&K VP9, most likely that where the design came from. The angle of the grip and the palm swell gives a really good solid contact with the entire hand. The heavy recoil spring makes follow up shots pretty smooth, but the heavy trigger pull takes a little getting used to. I put my pull gauge on it and it averages about 7lbs, a bit much for a striker fired. A couple of companies offer upgrade kits to reduce the trigger pull and will more than likely take that route. It's got a nice long slide that makes acquiring the target smooth and the sights are up-gradable also, another item on the list. I like the blade safety on the trigger, which also has an indicator that the pistol is charged, but not a big fan of the manual safety, which is ambidextrous. The only upgrade I've done at this point is a magazine extender I bought through Galloway Precision which now gives me a 20 +1 capability. It also comes with a picatinny rail for the addition of a light or laser. For my holster (OWB), the only place I could find one was through Aliengear. Good solid retention with no worries as I'm moving around on equipment and such. Breakdown for cleaning will be very familiar to those with Glocks. One thing I have done is ensure that the feed ramp is highly polished. I ran a smoothing stone over it to remove any burrs and then several applications of Flitz. Bottom line, for the price, this has been a pretty good firearm.
The second item is a Kel-Tec CP33 22LR my son picked up and we are in the process of tweaking it a bit. What could be more fun than 33 per magazine? So far we've added a Tandemkross Game Changer Comp, safety thumb ledge, forward thumb ledge, and slapped on a $40 Tru-Glo red dot, which has held up pretty good and provides smooth and quick follow up shots. It has fiber optic sights and served fairly well, but, opted for the red dot for quicker follow ups. We'll be following up shortly with a Galloway Precision short stroke trigger. Overall it's a great little range gun, but man, magazine reloading is a time and finger killer, need to find a mag loader for this one.
Great report as usual, Sua Sponte! Thanks!
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Next up we have a question from our pal Mostly Peaceful Grognard
I'm ignorant of the best way to go about selling off old, less-loved firearms so I can buy new, hopefully more-lovable ones.
I did manage to flog one to another moron last year (hooray moron meetups!). However, I've got a few more I'm looking to sell and not sure that "meet a fellow AoS moron somewhere in the Ohio wilderness" is always the optimum way to go about this. I've considered just putting them up on gunbroker.com, or trying my friendly LGS, but thought I'd turn to the moron horde for suggestions for what to do with these.
Great question! How are the rest of you parting with guns when the time comes?
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Next up, our pal NA NA has been to the range with a 1911 and sends this range report.
This is a .45 ACP Colt M1991A1 w/ 230 grain full metal jacket taking rapid aimed shots at 15 yards. The basic GI style sights (front blade, rear notch, no dots) are difficult to pick up on an indoor range, especially with black on black contrast between the sights and the target. This is the first firearm I bought back in 1994. It cost me $375, which was a decent amount back then. The parkerized finish recalled the late WWII Colt M1911A1 production pistols. I bought this mainly because I'd carried a M1911A1 for Desert Storm in 1991 and my National Guard unit still had .45s and hadn't received the new M9s yet. Of course, that changed only a couple of months after I bought this.
Continuing our series on the basics, here are a couple of videos from the "She Equips Herself" girl; the first on common gun terminology, and the second on what to expect to going to the range alone for the first time. I completely understand how overwhelming a first range trip can be, but knowing what to expect in advance can help the process go smoothly. Just look how well TecumsehTea did!
Some common gun terms explained.
What to expect at the range.
Also, last week our pal and delightful 'ette Helena Handbasket recommended a couple of great resources for finding an NRA instructor and for the NRA's Women On Target Program. The latter is designed for ladies new to shooting and consistently receives great reviews from those who have attended one of the classes. I'd also like to add a couple; first The Cornered Cat which is a website for ladies on the subject of self-defense, and The High Road which is a very well run general firearms forum and a great place to find answers to questions. I learned a lot from this website over the years!
This week's gun funny comes to us courtesy of our pal and all 'round wonderful human being Fungus Boy
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Visit any half-way decent supermarket and you will see a huge number of ice cream brands, running from the least expensive half-gallons of mostly air, to the super-premium pints that can be ridiculously expensive. And while I think the really inexpensive ice creams are so-so, the relationship between price and quality is not perfect. I have had some pretty good store brands and regional brands, and some of the most expensive pints have been disappointing.
I recently became fixated on the flying saucers of my youth, and we even chatted about them in a recent Food Thread. We used to go to the Carvel in town (Tom Carvel lived in town!) on hot summer nights and eat tons of those flying saucers and huge cake cones of the custardy soft-serve that they specialized in.
Fast forward a few years and I saw in a sort-of local market that they have flying saucers in vanilla, chocolate AND vanilla-chocolate swirl! How cool is that! And because I am a traditionalist I served them for Rosh Hashanah dinner, and they were well received. Apparently I am not the only person to enjoy revisiting the foods of my youth.
But the best part was a few days later when one of the brats asked for a container of the plain ice cream, and I picked up a quart of their chocolate ice cream (custard maybe?). Damn. It was great. I will usually eat a small scoop of whatever is served and enjoy it, but this stuff was creamy and dense and wonderfully chocolaty and just fine eating.
And I have no idea why. So Horde...or at least the ice cream making contingent...enlighten me!
At the risk of beating a very dead and smelly horse, I have been getting more and more exercised by the main premise of the planet/climate/environment hysterics, that we must make do with less to save Gaia. Less of everything!
I reject that. With careful management of our agricultural infrastructure we can improve the quality and quantity of the food we grow, and that means more animal protein for the poor, not less for everyone. It is disingenuous in the extreme for the planet alarmists to force their clearly false axiom on an unsuspecting audience. They lie to get what they want, which is a socialist paradise (for certain definitions of paradise) on earth, and it is incumbent upon us, the normies, to push back on every assumption they try to force into the public consciousnesses.
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It's official: Misanthropic Humanitarian is trolling me.
Yeah...I have no idea what that Azafrán is, and the recipe is in all other respects pretty straightforward. But one of the comments mentions that the ingredients were "only $28." So Azafrán costs about $22 for enough for that recipe? No thanks.
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A few days ago my wife mentioned that she had always enjoyed the arancini I used to pick up at a local Italian deli, where I also got some pretty good (but not Vito's of Hoboken quality) sandwiches. I was a little taken aback. What...you like someone else's cooking?
I am confident that this photo will elicit only two reactions. The first one will be similar to my own, which was, "Hey! I'd eat that!" And the second of course is, "Gross!"
I recently bought some French bleu cheese at Costco. I had no intention or need for bleu cheese, but could not resist the free sample. It was so good I turned around and bought it.
So looking for uses, I invented (maybe too strong a word, perhaps perfected would be better) what I now think is the ultimate simple breakfast sandwich side dish.
Two slices of fresh sourdough bread, toasted lightly, Boar's Head Honey Mustard with Pale Ale on one slice, bleu cheese slathered on the other slice, and thick sliced bacon, straight from the skillet drained, folded to fit.
An addictive sammich if ever there was one. I am thinking about adding tomato slices, but so far have not tried that upgrade.
-- Hrothgar
He assures me that the sourdough was freshly baked and homemade! Good for him. And no maple syrup, which is another bonus.
I am fascinated by combinations of ingredients that at first glance seem to be discordant, but when actually tried taste pretty damned good!
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There is very little wrong with a fried chicken sandwich, especially when it is dressed with something a little spicy and it is on a good bun. Not too much other stuff though...I dislike when places overload the sandwich with too much tomato or lettuce or pickles and it drowns out the glory of fried chicken. But if the chicken is dry just toss it in the garbage. That is truly awful eating.
Oh...thigh meat is the secret of a perfect fried chicken...um...anything.
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Uh oh...commenter "Blake" is in the kitchen! Apparently his wife has a death wish and has allowed him one more opportunity to cook something edible before she takes away his knives and replaces them with safety scissors.
So...what is he making? It's an interesting collection of ingredients. Guess correctly and you don't have to eat it!
Hopefully Blake will be around to judge the contest.
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Avocados sans thumbprints, beef short ribs that have meat on them (not the stupid little sliver of bone they sneak into the packages), carrots that don't taste like stalky chalk, spare bottles of Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 Year Old Bourbon, an herb garden that actually produces herbs (but no basil!), well-marbled NY strip steaks and elk backstrap to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
And don't think that you are off the hook with maple syrup and French Toast: I'm watching you...all of you! And I am watching you perverts who shake Manhattans and keeping a list for the Burning Times.
Since her vote to impeach Trump and her appointment by Speaker Pelosi to the January 6 Committee, she has, to my knowledge, made no publicized visits to the state, save to attend the funeral of former senator Mike Enzi a couple of months ago. Word has it that she does fly occasionally into Jackson (which is to Wyoming what the Hamptons are to upstate New York), where she spends her time with friends, benefactors and perhaps a Republican politician or two while sedulously avoiding the rest of the state, 70 percent of which voted for Donald Trump last November.
In brief, Liz Cheney is not Wyoming and never has been, even when it elected her to the House in 2016 owing chiefly to her party affiliation and incumbency.
Ford’s Theatre, where President Lincoln was murdered, and now operated by the National Park Service, sends out a woke tweet inviting Americans to question Lincoln’s legacy."What do you think might be a more useful, more complex, or more realistic way to think about or memorialize the 16th president?" [Buck]
Norm Macdonald talking about his upcoming puppet act Not as funny as I'd hoped. Premise 10, execution 7. In fairness, it seems like he just made this up off-the-cuff and then was surprised when he was later asked about it, so he just made up some more stuff off-the-cuff.
PlutoTV currently has seasons 2 and 3 of Norm Macdonald Live on demand, as well as his great Netflix special, "Me Doing Standup." Just search for norm macdonald.
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