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October 01, 2022

The Weekend Hobby Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Good afternoon Morons and welcome to The Weekend Hobby Thread. No, that isn't me painting a wonderful canvas. That skill level is beyond my capapbility.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 1

—K.T.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's enjoy the world of animals and leave the world of politics outside today.

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There are a lot of stories and videos right now about pet and livestock rescues related to the hurricane. Anybody have any inside information?

For those of us not in danger but in uncomfortable weather, perhaps we should do more for the comfort of our pets.

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Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, October 1

—K.T.

Happy Fall, everyone! Here's hoping that your weather is not destroying your home, yard or garden. Let us know if you are having difficulties from the hurricane.

Adventures

Once again, my friend recently got together with a bunch of girlfriends from middle school (Yes, they still liked each other.) for a fall gathering in an interesting location. This time in Midway, Utah, where there are nearby hot springs and also an alpine loop road into the Wasatch mountains. It is near Heber City. She was able to take some photos.

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Thread before the Gardening Thread, October 1

—K.T.

Hurricanes and Energy

Hope everyone made it through the hurricane okay. What a HUGE storm. And it's not over yet. Please check in if you are in the storm's path and you have the means to communicate with us.

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My niece's husband evacuated his wife and baby and several vehicles before a relatively recent hurricane a little further up the east coast from Florida. Not as big as this one. Before returning home, he bought chain saws and tools to share with friends and a generator. He and a buddy took a truck and small trailer, tools, generator and fuel to a hard hit area to help with recovery.

Could he have done this with an electric vehicle, or did he need another source of energy in addition to electricity?

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Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

French toast, maple syrup, real butter.................Now we need coffee................

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Dark, bitter, like my soul.............Speaking of souls below the fold.............

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:
5/28 – FortWorthMike requests prayers for his grandniece, Chloe, and her family, to find a kidney to transplant. Chloe is a toddler who has been on this prayer list before, and it has helped her. She was born with bad kidneys and had them removed soon after birth. She’s had multiple health issues, and is now getting daily dialysis at home. Her mother’s kidneys aren’t a match, and her father’s are a match, but are too large for her little body. Thanks for your prayers!
7/23 Update – Little Chloe is having a lot of bladder infections, as the medical team works to stretch her bladder (in preparation for receiving a kidney). There have been so many infections that her bladder may need to be removed. Please keep praying for a kidney match, for her health, and for her worried family.
9/10 Update – Chloe goes on the list for a kidney on 9/16. She has started preschool, which she loves. She is getting together with new friends and getting physical and speech therapy. She is as smart as a whip, but with the tubes, etc. her speech is delayed. Thank you to the Lord and the horde, from a long I mean long time lurker and occasional commenter.

8/13 – Several people requested prayers for Donald Trump and his family.
9/8 Update – also prayers for the 50+ MAGA supporters who were raided by the FBI.

8/15 – Cosda asks for prayers for her sister, whose regularly scheduled colonoscopy revealed a problem. The sister will be having her ascending colon removed next week. It seems to be early in the cancer stage and contained. Prayers are appreciated by the family.
9/10 Update – The lab results showed that the entirety of the cancer was removed from the colon, but 2 out of 50 lymph node tested showed signs of cancer, so chemo is next. Everybody is optimistic.

8/19 – mngiggle requested for prayers for his brother-in-law, who is in the ICU for pneumonia and possibly sepsis.
9/18 Update – The brother-in-law was released from the ICU and has been home for the a couple of weeks, and has been getting stronger again. Thank you all for your prayers!

8/29 – Bete asks for prayers, as he has a pre-interview screening call.
9/10 Update – Bete had received a job offer.

9/5 – SP asks for prayers for Lilibeth, who has begun her delayed immunotherapy for bladder cancer, but since shortages exist, she is receiving only one third of the prescribed dosage. Meanwhile, she has been diagnosed with recurring cervical cancer.

9/6 – Jewells45 had bad news and needs prayers. Her CT scan indicated several nodes on her lungs, too many to count. It is very probable that she has lung cancer. Her husband is devastated, and she is scared to death.
9/20 Update – The PET scan results were not good. The doctor wants to do a bronchoscopy on one of the lymph nodes to see if it is cancerous.
9/26 Update – It is cancer, non-small cell carcinoma. The doctor said it can be managed, not cured. She will see an oncologist as soon as possible. She sends her thanks for the prayers, and asks that you please keep praying for her.

9/10 – Greyman27 requests prayers for his lumbar fusion surgery on 9/15, his third surgery in 19 years to fix low back/nerve issues. He is hopeful that this turns out to be the permanent fix his surgeon believe it will be.

9/15 – SanFranpsycho asked for prayers for an immediate and speedy recovery for his cousin Phyllis, who was seriously injured in a fall this week at her assisted living center. She is almost 90 and lost her front teeth and broke her nose.

9/15 – Tonypete asks for healing prayers for Mike, the husband of a good friend. Mike fell and suffered a devastating brain injury. He is currently hospitalized and his prognosis is not good.

9/16 – Pillage Idiot requests prayers for his father. Dad has been battling severe heart disease and two different cancers for the last several years. He was recently infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacteria that put him in the ICU with multiple organs failing. The doctor said to gather the family, since this would probably be his last day. But after 3 days, his kidneys started to function, and his blood work is improving! Please help see if we can push him back to the top of the hill!

9/17 – SanFranpsycho asks for prayers for complete and immediate healing of his friend Paul, who learned he has a malignant tumor on his pancreas. Paul has been his closest friend for his entire life – since the first day of kindergarten over 50 years ago.

9/21 – A member of the Horde asked for prayers for NLUrker, who said that everything in his life is going badly.

9/21 - Fenelon Spoke asks for prayers for a church friend named Bob, who is having trouble with swollen fingers and pain. The doctors are having trouble finding the cause, and his next step is to see a neurologist. He is having difficulty with the pain and also with being inactive, so prayers for a solution and healing would be appreciated.

9/22 – DDS asked for prayers for long-time commenter Farmer, as he recently received a cancer diagnosis.

9/24 – Sua Sponte asked for prayers. His friend’s sister-in-law was murdered recently (domestic violence) and the rest of the family needs prayer. A fundraiser is available at https://www.gofundme.com/f/terry-chermak-funeral-and-domestic-abuse-fund. Sua Sponte sends his thanks for those people out there who pray.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

Romans 8:26-27
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

Just a friendly reminder about the rules..........

1) Opine and/or bloviate to your heart's content.
2) Be nice to one another.
3) No running or jogging with sharp objects.
4) Enjoy the ~~last Saturday of September~~ first Saturday of October.

Close it up

Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:00 AM Comments

EMT 10/01/22

—krakatoa

30 shopping days until Halloween.

Posted by krakatoa at 07:01 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 1 October 2022

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

Google Stadia's shutdown shocked developers too. (The Verge)
"I woke up getting ready for my workday, and I see on our Discord private chat for the company that one of my employees sent a message saying 'is this true?,' with a link," Rebecca Ann Heineman, CEO of Olde Skuul, said in an interview with The Verge. "I follow the link and it's like 'oh, okay.'" Olde Skuul had planned to launch Luxor Evolved on Stadia Pro on November 1st and was even planning to meet with Google on Friday to discuss the release plan. That obviously isn't happening now.
I feel bad for small developers who are looking for every avenue available to get games out there without going the gacha / loot box route or worse, NFTs, but if you didn't see this coming a mile away you have no business being in the industry.
Google Stadia never mattered and it never had a chance. (The Verge)

That's more like it. Game streaming had its golden opportunity during the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague when everyone was at home and both consoles and graphics cards were all but impossible to buy, and it went nowhere. Now that that situation is over it's only going to get worse.

Google shut down its own game studio in February last year, which should have given everyone ample warning to take the money and run.

Tech News

Intel's Arc graphics cards are in the hands of reviewers. (Tom's Hardware)

Earlier reviews of the low-end Arc A380 were not particularly favourable, but Intel has had a couple of months to fix driver bugs, plus these cards are four times as fast. That, coupled with Nvidia's stratospheric pricing push, might make for a more receptive audience this time around. We'll know within two weeks, but for now, the cards themselves at least appear to be well made.
Ryzen 7000 CPUs - 7700X and up - from Microcenter come with a free 32GB DDR5 memory kit. (Tom's Hardware)

While stocks last.

Meanwhile the hosting provider that runs my big server has Ryzen 7000 servers in stock already. They're not especially cheap, but they range from 25% to 200% faster than the existing server.

Though it looks like Ryzen 7000 doesn't support ECC RAM. DDR5 RAM has on-die ECC by default so they're still viable for non-critical tasks, but it removes one of the advantages AMD had over Intel.

The other advantage AMD has is Intel's Efficiency cores, which just plain suck for servers - once you run out of Performance cores, additional thread will run at half speed.
Update: I was wrong. Ryzen 7000 does - unofficially - support ECC, just the same as earlier desktop Ryzen chips. (Serve the Home)

Gigabyte already has a server motherboard out for Ryzen 7000, with built-in remote management and dual 10Gb Ethernet ports. It's not a high-end board, with two PCIe slots, one M.2, and four SATA ports, but with ECC support and a suitable disk controller card would make for a good storage server solution.
Steampipe is a library that turns cloud APIs back into SQL queries. (Steampipe)

A lot of cloud APIs.

Weird but extremely useful if you just want to know, for example, how many of your Amazon Lambda functions are running on outdated versions of Python.
If you're running Microsoft Exchange, unplug it right now. (Krebs on Security)

Sure, it won't work if you do that, but nobody will be able to send you emails complaining about it not working so what does it matter?

Disclaimer: Can't file a complaint if we run out of complaint forms.

Close it up

Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM Comments

In Heaven There Is No O-N-T, So We Read It Here For Free

—WeirdDave

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Clean Lines Cafe

—Ace

by Radoslaw Pujan

Old dog is exhausted just watching young dog run around like a lunatic.

Catnip warlord.

Purr-kour.

Cat-ortion.

Little "tough guy" dog runs his mouth when he's restrained and far away from the big dog he's trying to intimidate, and then gets very quiet when he's unrestrained and close to the big dog.

'Sup, shawty?

Since you're giving those out...

Just five more minutes...

I made you something, do you like it?

I halp!

Which button do you think will do the most damage?

Otter juggles.

Another baby elephant shows you who's boss.

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Quick Hits

—Ace

Only after public pressure is the murderer Shannon Brandt, who stalked, ran down, and murdered a teenager named Cayler Ellingson for being a member of a "Republican extremist group" which is 1, not illegal and 2, not even true, charged with murder.

And for some reason, conservatives have the crazy idea that government officials, including Republican officials, feel that violence against them is excusable and just the way things are.

A Glenfield man has now been charged with murder after allegedly running over another person at a street dance in McHenry on September 18.
41-year-old Shannon Brandt was initially charged with vehicular homicide in the incident.

The left has so normalized their constant political violence that police, judges, and GOP officials, including GOP DAs, just accept leftist violence as the normal, natural order of things.

NO. We do not accept it that any longer.

Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine

Now I'm hearing the FBI is leaking private health information about whistleblowers to the New York Times to try to discredit them. This amounts to unlawful reprisal against a whistleblower which the DOJ Inspector General should investigate.

A court has accepted the FBI's usual bullshit as to why it shouldn't have to disclose its thousands of FOIA'd documents about Seth Rich -- "will expose sources and methods," etc. (They have this bullshit as a macro) -- but the court at least did order his computer to be released, in two weeks.

By the way, the FBI originally lied and claimed it had no documents at all responsive to the FOIA request. Whoops! Whoopsie!

Tipped by commenter Grant Swinger, if that is his real name, a very interesting claim from LawDog, which sounds Learnéd though I don't know if it is, that the Russian pipeline explosion is almost certainly just a case of the Russians failing to do proper maintenance, plus a build-up of methane hydate crystals.

He says there's a process to extract water from natural gas when you inject it into the pipe, but then, you don't get it all out, and this gas has just been sitting in the pipe for months and months, so whatever was left in the gas had all sorts of time to get up to mischief. Like forming methane hydrate crystals.

LawDog doesn't explicitly say so in the article, but he implies that methane hydrate does not need free oxygen to explode. Someone in the comments says there's oxygen "in the lattice of ice" around the crystals.

He notes "issues" with the pipe:

They officially shut it down in July of 2020 for maintenance, and had cornbread hell getting it back on-line, and "issues" with maintaining flow throughout the next year; shut it down again in July of 2021, with bigger "issues" -- we say "issues" because the Russians won't explain what these issues were -- and even more problems, including unexplained, major disruptions in gas flow in Dec21/Jan22; Feb 22; and April 22.

In my experience when anything involving energy-industry hydrocarbons explodes ... well, sabotage isn't the first thing that comes to mind. And honestly, when it comes to a pipeline running natural gas under Russian (non)maintenance, an explosion means that it's Tuesday. Or Friday. Or another day of the week ending in "y".

He also points out the suspicious -- or non-suspicious -- timing of the explosions:

Yes, 17 hours apart. No military is going to arrange for two pipes in the same general area to be destroyed 17 hours apart. Not without some Spec Ops guy having a fit of apoplexy. One pipe goes up in a busy shipping lane, in a busy sea, and everyone takes notice. Then you wait 17 hours to do the second -- with 17 hours for people to show up and catch you running dirty? Nah, not buying it.

I don't know if he's right because I don't understand the science he's talking about and I can't say that anything he's saying is true or not.

But I would say that his explanation explains one thing: The dog that didn't bark, as Sherlock Holmes said.

Why isn't Russia blaming this on Ukraine and calling for an emergency UN Security Council meeting? Why aren't they screaming about it?

Why are they being uncharacteristically chill about it?

It would make sense that they would be a bit muted about it -- if they knew the pipe exploded during an attempt to depressurize the pipes (as LawDog speculates) and they do not want to invite further inquiry which would only wind up embarrassing them.

Still, I have no idea if any of this is even plausible. Interesting, though.

#SixSeasonsAndaMovie became a motto for the ratings-challenged Community TV show. Abed vowed that the short-lived TV show The Cape (was that it?) would be on for "six seasons and a movie" when Jeff said it would be cancelled in three weeks, and the show's crew, cast, and fans adopted this as their own goal.

They got canceled by NBC after five seasons, but then Yahoo "Screen," their short-lived attempt at an online TV service (remember that?) picked them up for a sixth season.

And now, they will finally fulfill the destiny of #SixSeasonsandaMovie as Peacock announces a Community movie.

I mean, an online streaming movie, which isn't fully a movie, but I guess it's what we call a movie now.

Unfortunately, Donald Glover, who played Troy and left in the middle of season 5, won't be coming back.

Oh what a surprise -- the Fauci's combined wealth increased by $5 million just during the two years of the pandemic.

He's a civil "servant." Must be nice!

Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife's net worth grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of US residents struggled financially, according to a government spending watchdog group.
The combined wealth of the 81-year-old retiring director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his bioethicist wife, Christine Grady, soared from $7.5 million in 2019 to $12.6 million at the end of 2021, according to a report from the non-profit OpenTheBooks.

"Despite becoming a figure of controversy, the system has rewarded Dr. Fauci handsomely," the group's CEO, Adam Andrzejewski, told Fox News Digital. "While Dr. Fauci has been a government bureaucrat for more than 55 years, his household net worth skyrocketed during the pandemic."

The couple's wealth boost was due in part to major salary increases, cash awards and royalties, according to the report.

Fauci has consistently refused to disclose his royalties, which are paid to him by Big Pharma, and has lied to Congress about the information about these royalties already being available to the public. It's not. It remains a secret kept under lock and key, and he won't turn the key.

Europe's only surviving Queen, Margrethe of Denmark, was "inspired" by Queen Elizabeth to get rid of some her own goldbricking Harrys and Meghans and boot them out of the royal family.

Europe's only reigning Queen was inspired to revoke their titles by other royals - including her late cousin Queen Elizabeth II - and claimed it was to allow the four children of her younger son, Prince Joachim: Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena, to live more normal lives. It follows similar moves by other royal families in Europe, including the Windsors, to slim down their monarchies, the Danish palace said later.
But her decision has 'upset' her second son Joachim and his four children. His eldest sons Nikolai and Felix - from his first marriage - have been branded 'playboy princes' because they are professional models who failed to complete their two-year military education after both concluded it was 'not right for them'. Prince Joachim insists his mother only gave him five days' notice. His first wife Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, said last night she is 'in shock' and revealed: 'The children feel ostracised'.

Jacob Heinel Jensen, royal correspondent for national tabloid BT who has been at the heart of the story in Denmark, told MailOnline that the Danish Royal Family is in 'crisis' -- and is now in the midst its own Megxit.

He said: 'The situation we have in Denmark today is what the UK had two years ago. Yesterday we had a Prince Joachim going rogue on TV saying how upset he was, how his children are suffering. The parallels between him and Harry are there for all to see'.

'This slimming down is something we have seen all over Europe. The days of gigantic royal families with prince after prince and princess after princess, all paid for by the taxpayer, are over', he added.

It's so fun to hear the lamentations of the entitled.

Meanwhile, the Royal Twats may delay their Netflix series to edit out some of the nasty things they said about (checks notes) Harry's father and (checks notes) Harry's brother.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly want to edit their docuseries with Netflix and delay its release 'until next year' after the Queen's death, multiple sources have told Page Six.

[S]ources claimed the couple now want to make edits to the series, which would possibly delay its release until later in 2023, as they look to 'downplay much of what they have said about King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla, and the Prince and Princess of Wales'.

One Hollywood industry source said: 'A lot of conversations are happening. I hear that Harry and Meghan want the series to be held until next year, they want to stall.

'I wonder if the show could even be dead in the water at this point, do Harry and Meghan just want to shelve this thing?,' they added.

Netflix signed a $100 million deal with these useless layabouts, back when Netflix thought they were making money and were signing deals with everyone. They were specifically paying for dirt and gossip, not soft-focus crap.

I wonder if Netflix will go the David Zaslav route and start looking for a way to "Batgirl" these two.

At The Dispatch, here's the picture of Lizzo that ran to advertise Allahpundit's godawful piece about Lizzo.

Except, you know, it's not Lizzo.

It's just... some other black woman.

I guess they all look alike to the lily-white smug Urban Progressive Karens at the Dispatch.

FaceBook fact-checkers, y'all:

Wonder if French will write a Sunday Sermon about white conservatives are bad because they don't view black women as individuals.. or nah https://t.co/o3x1fEBIPw pic.twitter.com/6osPKTwdcb
— HollyCabot (@HollyCabot) September 30, 2022

Oh, and if you want to read something absolutely wretched, I mean really cringey, really embarrassingly awful, you just try reading AllahPundit's "writing" at The Dispatch. He's decided that what his real metier will be is blogging about blogging and writing about writing. It's so self-indulgent and up-his-own-asshole and cutesy and twee it's literally disgusting. Vomitevole, as Ms. Meloni would say. He really thinks we want an Inside Look into The Mind of the Artist Formerly Known As AllahPundit.

He's not doing AllahPundit blog posts any longer -- he's giving you The Making Of Allah Pundit Blog Posts. He's giving you the Criterion Collection bonus features of his blog posts, right in the blog posts themselves.

As my second week as a staff writer at The Dispatch comes to a close, I need to confess. I'm ... not really a writer.
Some of you will have already noticed.

Jonah Goldberg is a writer. Kevin Williamson is a writer. I'm a blogger. Bloggers have different talents than writers.

We value writers for their prose and their insight. We value bloggers for their speed, their efficiency at curating news, and their ability to formulate strong political opinions--"takes," we might more aptly call them--about literally anything that might turn up on the Drudge Report or in the average news junkie's Twitter timeline.

Like Liam Neeson in Taken, I have a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you, if you happen to be someone who esteems careful well-informed analysis over dashed-off screeds about whatever the outrage du jour might be.

Can a blogger successfully transition into a writer? The Dispatch evidently thinks so. I guess we'll find out!

Yeah good luck with that, Champ. We're all eager to see where your New Journey takes you.

I swear to God, there's something wrong with him. It's like he's brain-damaged.

Speaking of people who are terrible at their jobs, chase away audiences, and ultimately get fired, Trevor Noah says that he himself has decided to leave The Daily Show and it was totally his idea and everything.

It's just that after seven years of not being funny on TV, he's ready to not be funny in his first love, stand-up comedy.

Noah said he was eager to get back on the road, doing standup and seeing the world. He said it was "another part of my life I want to keep exploring."

This is an obvious lie. Every stand-up, every single one, attempts to get on TV, not because they want to be an actor (they usually don't want to be an actor) and not because they don't like stand-up (they usually like stand-up itself) but because they absolutely hate the road.

No one wants to be on the road. Trevor Noah does not want to be on the road.

As for "seeing the world," pretty sure you can do that with a high paying job. A lot of rich people manage it. He also claimed he wanted to "continue learning languages."

Oh, right. So that's why you have to return to the road. To "learn languages."

Maybe he'll take a page from AllahPundit and do Stand-Up About Being a Stand-Up. Really tell the world what's going on in the crazy little bean called Trevor Noah's Brain.

Young girls totally aren't pursuing unneeded surgical modifications based on what they see on TikTok and Insta:

This beauty trend could really fox you up.
At least that's what Hannah Edwards, a woman who underwent the TikTok viral #FoxEyeLift procedure and experienced so much pain that she wanted to "die," claims.

"It was honestly the worst pain I've ever felt," Edwards, a 25-year-old nutrition student from Sydney, Australia, told NeedToKnow.Online. "The pain was so bad that I wanted to die, I didn't think I could handle being in so much pain."

In early January, Edwards scheduled a consultation for the fox eye-lift with a clinic, hoping its staffers would help her achieve the face of her dreams.

The controversial cosmetic enhancement is a nonsurgical treatment meant to transform rounded, hooded or droopy eyes into sleek, feline-like ovals.

During the procedure, biodegradable sutures are used to pull the skin near the outer corner of the eye back towards the temple. In the US, the embellishment costs around $2,050.

They say it's "nonsurgical" but then, they suturing your eyebrows up higher on your face. We're kind of playing close-to-the-line with the definition of "nonsurgical."

I wonder what other this-will-change-my-life-completely surgical alterations young girls are being convinced to try via viral contagion?

Rev. James Harden is the CEO of a pro-life pregnancy center that was firebombed by radical leftists. He tells Tucker that he gave the FBI security footage of the act, they took it, have made no arrests, and refuse to give it back because it could "inspire right-wing terrorism." pic.twitter.com/kf6P6cXyf0
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 30, 2022

Twenty-Fifth Amendment Insurance Policy:

Kamala Harris reacts to seeing the DMZ: "It's so close!"

"It's 50 meters away, ma'am." pic.twitter.com/d20qwb5XhR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 29, 2022

Kamala Harris at the DMZ: "Have you seen the photographs from the Webb telescope?" pic.twitter.com/gTZNvn7K3S
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 29, 2022

To RAWK your way into the weekend, enjoy this Ame Bibabi level talent. You can skip to 2:50 to hear the actual " " " music, " " " or watch it all the way through to first enjoy the " " " dramatic " " " " " " acting " " " beforehand.

Vice says that this is the future of rap. But then, Vice.com also says that it's time for straight guys to start putting things up their butts:

Everyone loves orgasms, right? If we didn't, we wouldn't go to ridiculous lengths to achieve them like pirating porn alone or going through the exhausting process of romancing a special someone just so we can have one in the company of another human.
Well, what if I told all of you straight guys out there that there is a secret orgasm that you don't even know about, and it's much better than relieving yourself into a wad of Kleenex while your computer burns your bare thighs? This is an orgasm so good that it will make your whole body shake, every inch of your skin tingle, and your voice erupt with spontaneous screams like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. There's only one catch: To achieve this orgasm, you have to put things up your butt.

Sounds pretty convincing!

But on the other hand, they're in bad financial shape and are trying to sell themselves off one piece at a time, like a streetwhore with prosthetic limbs.

Vice Media has hired financial advisors to seek a sale, either for the entire company or for parts of the business, according to sources.
The company would prefer to sell itself in one piece but may decide to sell off business units if it can't find an appealing deal, the sources said.

That was from May so I guess they haven't found an appealing deal yet.

So now I just don't know what to think!!!

brb looking for an old tv remote to stick up my butt

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 06:33 PM Comments

James Bond Producers: We're Going to Continue "Evolving" Bond "Just As Men Are Evolving," Showing More Emotional Growth and Offering "Meatier" Roles to Female Characters
Plus: Woke Hollywood Discovers a "New Movement"

—Ace

Awesome. I know that's what every man is looking for in James Bond.

We love the New Soy-Filled Bond we've been getting.

Variety writes that Broccoli confirmed to them that the "humanizing of the once-womanizing spy and the ensuring of more fulfilling, meatier roles for the female stars of the franchise" done during her and her brother's handling of the franchise will "continue in the next films".
"It's an evolution," asserted Broccoli, who in addition to serving as a James Bond producer is also the current director of the UK chapter of Time's Up. "Bond is evolving just as men are evolving. I don't know who's evolving at a faster pace."

Speaking of Woke Hollywood: OK, Groomers.

I mean, it has been historically understood to be a children's fantasy, but sure, let's make it for adult homosexuals:

A new Wizard of Oz remake is currently in the works by director Kenya Barris, who says that the new movie will feature plenty of LGBTQ representation. Barris also stated that the original movie was a reflection of what was going on in the world at the time, which was the Dust Bowl and The Great Depression, and now the current world events of LGBTQ representation will be one of the defining factors of his remake.
According to Barris, "Now we're going to turn a mirror on where we're at right now and take disparate characters from the LGBTQ community, from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities, and tell a story that reflects the world." This is certainly a different take on the Wizard of Oz, but one that many people are going to find quite exciting.

Actually, it's not as big of a deal that this is the "Gay Wizard of Oz" as you might think. As all these properties come out of copyright, there are going to be off-brand productions, like the Winnie the Pooh horror movie Blood and Honey.

Once these things go out of copyright, anyone can make any version they like. They usually just can't use the proper name of the property, which is usually trademarked, because trademark, unlike copyright, can last in perpetuity. (The Winnie the Pooh movie will probably be sued into dropping the "Winnie the Pooh" part of the title, though they can still say it in the movie. They just can't identify the product by the trademarked name.)

There's a competing Oz remake which will be more faithful to the original, but without the music. That version will be able to use elements that were created specifically for the movie -- such as the ruby slippers; in the novel, they were silver, I think -- because it's being made by Warner Bros., which made and owns the original.

One of the reasons I was annoyed at the Gay Oz was that there are like 15 Oz novels and anyone with a brain in their head would be attempting to lay the groundwork for a long string of family-oriented, book-faithful (mostly) Oz-centered films. I imagine that that will be the goal of the "real" Oz project.

So, there will be two different Oz movies for two completely different Americas.

Does anyone get the feeling that we are splitting into two countries?

What a smooth transition that was. Because WDWPro -- that stands for "Walt Disney World Professional," someone who says he's a Disney World insider with insider information -- says he spoke to a toy industry expert who told him the toy industry is now splitting between conservative and liberal. Or woke vs. non-woke.

Toys are major ancillary money-makers for Hollywood.

And now that Top Gun: Maverick acquainted Hollywood with the crazy idea that masculine heroes and masculine virtues like patriotism, stoicism, courage and toughness could make money, the toy industry is splitting between the Woke and Post-Woke sectors.

A toy insider with major connections is reaching out to That Park Place again with impressive details. According to this individual, whom we have verified as being an expert within the industry, the toy market in North America is beginning to split into politically-based markets. The rise of "conservative entertainment" is how it is being termed with executives inside the industry, many of whom are bewildered by this "new thing." And what fits into this "conservative entertainment" segment of the toy industry? It may surprise you.

Actually it probably won't. But it will be fun to read anyway.

So here are the "new criteria" defining the "new movement" of this "new type" of entertainment.

It's so new you guys, you won't believe how new it is.

Here are some criteria that various studios and merchandising partners are working with in regards to what corporations believe is a new movement. And, according to the source, that's being driven in large part due to movies like Top Gun: Maverick having phenomenal returns that broke through the ceiling of what analysts believed was possible.
* Patriotic

* Military and law enforcement positively portrayed

* Mostly if not all heterosexual, [redacted to protect site from algorithm damage]

* No spotlight on alphabet issues

It's so new you guys. What an innovation it is, to have a two hour movie which doesn't focus on Alphabet Issues.

I don't know what the redacted part is. Probably something like, "with actors who are the actual sex they're portraying, that is, no trans actors playing opposite gender."

* Marriage/family unit seen as positive institution; kids love and admire their parents, parents sacrificing for each other and their kids

It's like science fiction you guys. I think this might be the plan for a new Star Trek-style toy line you guys.

* Communities seen as unifying, institutions shown as positives
* Multiple white males in cast, can be majority ; in leadership roles

Oh My God you guy the newness here, it's Future Shocking me.

* Feminine good looking women, masculine men
* Hero archetype is intact

* Fire arms not seen as inherently bad, can be shown as a means of protection

This may read like a parody, and maybe WDW Pro is getting punked, but WDW Pro is a legitimate journalist/blogger/muckraker. He himself would not spoof his audience.

In essence, this looks very similar to how the market dealt with entertainment and the United States at the end of the Cold War, during the eighties and early nineties.

Why yes it is -- it sounds very much like The Before Times.

He writes that as one side of the toy market splits to market to "new movement," The Before Times market, the other side of the market will be liberated to chase the "old movement," the woke/alphabet people/feminist market that much harder.

Essentially, the market is doing what the market always does: it's searching for money. The problem in our current culture is that American is splitting into two distinct cultural groups... and there's no good way to unify those in media and merchandise. As a result, companies are going to begin separating their offerings into distinctly conservative and distinctly liberal properties. Sure, there will still be the Mickey Mouse brands that try to appeal to both sides, but as the source says, even Star Wars has been damaged by the bifurcation of the market.

Via Thinking Critical.

This is a toy guy, not a movie or TV guy, but he is part of the same schlock production chain that churns out this crap. He might not be in the center of The Media Blob, but he is part of one of its major Tendrils.

His source has previously provided information on how badly Marvel and Star Wars merchandise is doing in the marketplace -- something that is confirmed by a lot of people -- and that the situation is so bad that Disney is looking past its own brands, which are no longer top-of-line, to find the next "big thing." They're even looking to acquire, maybe, the Next Big Thing out of Japan. Like, the next Transformers.

Or a Manga property. Incredibly, Disney is now looking past Marvel to look for a manga property as its next cash cow. That's how well Phase 4 (or as Gary from Nerdrotic calls it, Stage IV) is doing.

Posted by Ace at 05:15 PM Comments

Hurricane Ian Re-Energizes Over Ocean and Slams Into South Carolina Coast

—Ace

It just made landfall again in South Carolina, now as a category 1 hurricane.

AccuWeather meteorologists warned that despite being rated lower on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale than when it slammed into Florida with deadly consequence, Ian will still pack a punch and unleash life-threatening impacts as it pushes inland into Friday night.
"Ian's structure is similar to that of a powerful nor'easter, with most of the storm's rain and wind focused to the north and west of the center," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski said. "But, make no mistake, Ian will hit with the force of a hurricane in the Carolinas, especially along the upper half of the South Carolina coast."

It might not be as disastrous but it won't be any kind of fun for South Carolinians. Note they're predicting "extreme" storm damage between Charleston and Myrtle Beach, with 10-15 foot storm surges:

Keep yourselves dry and safe!

The storm's track will take it onto land, into West Virginia, which, at least, should finally kill it, because, well, the only thing I know about hurricanes is that they strengthen over water and weaken over land.

Posted by Ace at 04:23 PM Comments

First Trans Army Officer Indicted For Attempting to Give Confidential Medical Records of Fellow Soldiers to Russians

—Ace

Another historic "first," but one the media does not seem very interested in trumpeting.

Also, his wife was indicted. Who is a university professor.

At Johns Hopkins. The university that pioneered transgender surgery. And sex-changes for children.

The perfect progressive couple. I bet they have like fifteen of those "In This House" yard signs, Signaling their every Virtue.

The Army's first openly transgender officer was indicted Thursday on charges of trying to provide American soldiers' medical information to the Russian government.
A federal grand jury in Baltimore indicted Jamie Lee Henry and his wife, Anna Gabrielian, on charges of conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. According to prosecutors, the couple met last month with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian diplomat and offered medical information from Fort Bragg, the home of the military's elite Delta Force.

Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told the undercover agent during an Aug. 17 meeting that "she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail," according to the indictment. Gabrielian gave the undercover agent medical information on a spouse of someone who works in the Office of Naval Intelligence, and "highlighted" a medical issue that "Russia could exploit."

Henry, a doctor at Fort Bragg, gave the undercover agent information on five patients at the military facility, according to the indictment, first reported by the Baltimore Banner.

Henry has been praised as a pioneer of the transgender movement after coming out as transgender in an interview with BuzzFeed News in 2015. Henry claimed to be the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender, and the first to legally change their name while in service.

Betcha he won't be celebrated as the historic "First" traitor he is now. Although maybe the media will start referring to him as "another white male Russian traitor."

I wrote that as snark, but it turns out the snark was in fact... 100% accurate. Both the DOJ and the media are refusing to report that this man's trans identity, or his "historic" status as the first trans army officer.

In fact, both the politically-correct DOJ and some of the trans-ally media are referring to him exclusively by he/him pronouns and calling him a man and the "husband" to the wife.

And they're calling him only by his last name, Henry. Which is, coincidentally enough, a male first name. His assumed female name is "Jamie Lee." Apparently they're refusing to honor this Trans Hero's chosen female name.

Chad Felix Greene
@chadfelixg

The 1st openly transgender officer commits treason and the DOJ and media misgender her and none of the major news orgs seem interested in reporting any of it.

Chad Felix Greene @chadfelixg
I notice there are very few articles about the 1st Trans Officer giving info to Russia and its been over an hour...

Odd.
The article refers to Henry, who is claimed to be the first openly transgender officer, as 'he' and 'husband.' They never mention the trans identity at all.https://t.co/3cxRKxsE2L
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) September 29, 2022

Will Reuters be deplatformed by Twitter for misgendering Jamie Lee? Is it only the legacy media which is permitted to misgender trans people, at their own whim?

Why is that? Do Twitter's "misgendering"/"hate speech" policies apply to everyone or just to its conservative enemies?

So CNBC noticed too.https://t.co/8OZXqgOLGp pic.twitter.com/wrbcHjsRKY
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) September 29, 2022

Will Twitter and YouTube deplatform the Department of Justice? If not, why not?

Do leftists have immunity to the Tech Monopolists' so-called rules? If they do, then they are in violation of the "good faith" requirement of s.230 immunity.

Newsweek also using male pronouns.

Army Major Was Willing to Give Russia Info Until U.S. Declared War: DOJ https://t.co/HO5IciaA7G
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) September 29, 2022

Again, why isn't Newsweek now being deplatformed? LibsofTikTok was just given a one week suspension for "misgendering" someone, which Twitter claimed was "hate speech;" why is Newsweek not given this exact same penalty?

Chad Felix Greene @chadfelixg
It matters if the government and media are attempting to protect the LGBT community from scrutiny by disguising the gender identity of a government person charged with wrongdoing.

Strangely the DOJ is using male pronouns and 'husband' to describe Henry, despite her officially changing her name and gender on military documents in 2015.

Any idea why?https://t.co/3tOYHjBXEa https://t.co/nNe0BHmbjw pic.twitter.com/Zm2U3xOzDq
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) September 29, 2022

Now this is what you call "trans-erasure."

Why are Twitter's leftwing allies allowed to engage in trans-erasure for their own political purposes?

Is this the new rule? You're the sex you claim you are until you commit a heinous crime, and then the government and media pretend you're not trans in order to protect the trans community?

If that's the case, why do they insist on pretending the obvious male pedophiles of antifa are "women"?

Sorry liberals.
You don't get to celebrate Jamie Lee Henry as an icon of LGBTQ equality when she comes out as the 1st openly trans officer and then call her 'Mr. Henry' when she commits treason. pic.twitter.com/lI1jQvvpdN
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) September 29, 2022

Update: The reporter at Reuters has now sexplained that "Henry" decided to "misgender" himself in court, suddenly becoming a "he/him" again when he was accused of being a Russian spy.

Does this mean Henry will be deplatformed? Do you get to turn your Deeply-Felt Gender Identity on and off like a desk-lamp?

If I decide to call this pyrsyn "her" as he was calling himself five days ago, will I get deplaformed? Or banned by PayPal?

Are we all required to keep careful track of what pronouns transsexuals are using today in order to keep from being deplatformed?

Looking to the future, I can see this man attempting an insanity defense, which would leave the left in a difficult position -- would they support the insanity defense to let this "hero" off without criminal liability? But in doing so, wouldn't that be... raising the question of whether mental illness makes other such heroes not necessarily great security risks?

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 03:25 PM Comments

Massachusetts National Guardsman Aggressively Pursues, Stops, and Boards Bus, Demanding to Inspect It To Make Sure Ron DeSantis Isn't Smuggling Any More Illegal Aliens Into His Progressive, Welcoming, Sanctuary State

—Ace

Despite Massachusetts literally being a sanctuary state (and look how hard this "fact" check from the local PBS station strains to not admit that, but pesky facts force it to partly concede it*), an off-duty Massachusetts National Guard member followed a bus around, in an "aggressive" pursuit, and then pulled it over, on the suspicion it was carrying "migrants" to his state.

Which would have been allowed. And he would have had no legal authority to stop it.

But he did anyway. Because the liberals of Massachusetts hate fucking brown people and will break the law to keep them out. They just want to be credited as "loving minorities." At a comfortable distance.

But it turns out the bus wasn't carrying Dirty Migrants. It was carrying American senior citizen travelers.

An off-duty MA National Guard member tailed a Florida tour bus thinking it was carrying migrants.
He later confronted the driver and 37 senior citizens onboard, the Cape Cod Times reported.

The incident comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis sent 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

An off-duty Massachusetts Army National Guard member tailed a Florida tour bus and confronted its senior citizen passengers, mistaking them for more migrants being sent to the state from Florida, the Cape Cod Times reported Tuesday.

The incident comes on the heels of a political stunt by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chartering two planes to send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The state's governor Charlie Baker said the migrants have since been moved to a military base shelter in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The off-duty service member pursued the tour bus for at least 10 miles to their hotel in East Falmouth, later confronting the bus driver, Michael Vaughn, and 37 senior citizens aboard.

"He thought there were immigrants on the bus," Vaughn, the owner of Tallahassee-based transportation company Mikes Limousine, told the Cape Cod Times. "He was totally wrong."

Vaughn told the local news outlet that the service member "was literally five feet off my bumper" as he tailed the vehicle, even when he tried slowing down and changing lanes.

That is obviously extremely dangerous.

Seems like he was threatening the bus to either turn back, or he'd execute a PIT maneuver and crash them out.

This Liberal Hero took video of himself trailing the bus.

"Look at this," he is heard saying in the video, per the Cape Cod Times.
"Tallahassee, Florida. A busload. Look at this. I'm following it all the way to the end. DeSantis bringing the border to your place."

"I saw it coming over the bridge, I'm going to follow it," he continued. "I was supposed to turn it off and go home, but here we go."

...

Video viewed by the Cape Cod Times showed Hoffman attempting to board the bus to see the passengers on board.

"I have every right as a U.S citizen to see what's going on," the service member is heard saying. "You know what I'm talking about."

Vaughn told the outlet he told the service member that the bus was carrying "old senior citizens. You're going to give them a heart attack."

The service member replied: "If it's 80-year-old people, I will walk away. Do you not see what's gone on on Martha's Vineyard?"

Ah yes -- the 44 Hour Siege of Martha's Vineyard. La Conquista, they call it there.

The man is being disciplined. Supposedly. Because, as we see with the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and NSA, you're always harshly punished when you break the law in a way that pleases The Regime.

Here's how Yahoo frames this story. Note that it's a Massachusetts fruitcake attempting to keep the Brown People Out, despite the state being, supposedly, a sanctuary state and Loving Brown People. (From a comfortable distance, you understand.)

But who's the Real Racist here?

You know who.

* Actually the fully concede it, but they contrive a way to give it a "partly false" rating. The definition of a "sanctuary jurisdiction" is one that does not cooperate with ICE as far as removals of criminals they have arrested who are illegals. A non-sanctuary jurisdiction will, when ICE asks them "Do you have these illegal aliens in your custody, and can you hold them if you do, so we can pick them up?"

That's an ICE detainer or a federal detainer. And then ICE will come pick them up from a jail or prison to deport them. (Or arrange to prosecute them, if it wants them for prosecutable crimes in addition to illegal presence in the country.)

Sanctuary jurisdiction refuse to honor ICE detainers.

Massachusetts does not cooperate with ICE and does not honor its detainer requests. Therefore, it's a sanctuary jurisdiction.

This "fact" check notes that but then says there is no specific law stating that Massachusetts is a sanctuary state. Well, you lying c***suckers, there usually isn't a law -- it's a policy choice made by an executive. It's usually not a law of any kind.

They note that some states have made it explicitly a law, like Oregon. Well, fine -- others haven't, like Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that police and prisons don't have to cooperate with ICE. That is a law of the courts.

Massachusetts is a sanctuary state, period.

Posted by Ace at 02:20 PM Comments

Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Making California a "Sanctuary" For Children From Out-of-State Seeking Transgender Surgery without Parental Consent; Bill Bars Any Legal Action to Stop Children By Out-of-State Courts

—Ace

This guy thinks he's going to be president? Where? On Saturn?

On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a piece of legislation that will designate the state as a sanctuary for children and teens seeking medicalized gender transitions.
Newsom's signature on the bill, SB 107, comes nearly a month after the California legislature passed State Senator Scott Wiener's bill, which was introduced in 2021.

Oh that pervert and pedophile again.

The bill allows families or individual minors who traveled to the state for the purpose of these medical procedures to be safe from out-of-state authorities acting on subpoenas, warrants, and child custody issues if the minor was brought into the state for procedures like surgical gender reassignments or the prescribing of cross-sex hormones.
The bill would also "prohibit law enforcement agencies from making, or intentionally participating in, the arrest of an individual pursuant to an out-of-state arrest warrant based on another state's law against receiving or allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care."

...

In addition, the bill that the state will not honor or enforce "A law of another state that authorizes a state agency to remove a child from their parent or guardian based on the parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming health care" if a case is pending in California courts.

This is essentially declaring war against the rest of the United States.

There's no way that this is constitutional -- California just told the Full Faith and Credit clause to go f*** itself. Or go cut off its own penis.

States are required by the Constitution to give "full faith and credit" to "the Public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State."

Essentially California is now in a state of -- what's that word the leftwing loves so much? -- Insurrection against the United States of America.

Meanwhile, the media has changed its story on whether or not transgender clinics perform surgeries on children.

OUT: Clinics never perform transgender surgeries on children and you should be deplatformed immediately for propagating this Russian Disinformation!

IN: Of course clinics perform transgender surgeries on children and G** bless them for the Miracles of Science (TM) their loving scalpels carve into kids!!!

Just one short month ago the Washington Post was calling Libs of TikTok a liar for writing that the Boston Children's Hospital provided its dubious "services" to children, and campaigning to get her banned from Twitter.

But now that it has been proven again and again that it is the rule that children as young as 13 -- or younger -- are offered chemical castration drugs or even masectomies, the media has shifted gears: God bless these beautiful clinics for the amazing work they do chopping the breasts and penises off our children.

Jarrett Stepman:

The legacy media has changed its mind. We are now informed that life-changing transgender surgeries on minors are real, and that they're spectacular.

Just a month ago, when the Twitter account "LibsofTikTok" revealed videos and audio from Boston Children's Hospital talking about various transgender surgeries (such as hysterectomies) and "treatments," legacy media pumped out a wave of "fact checks" insisting that this was all conspiracy theory.

To suggest that Boston Children's Hospital would do what it was advocating in public videos and private audio was hateful, dangerous, right-wing conspiracy theory, you see.

Well, now we are informed by The New York Times that "top surgeries" are being performed on girls in hospitals all over the country.

Oh. The ink barely had dried on the old narrative, and now we've slid on down the slippery slope to the new one.

In an extensive piece written by Azeen Ghorayshi and published Monday, The New York Times reported on how transgender "top surgeries" for minors have become a growing phenomenon. When reporters say top surgeries, they often mean mastectomy -- the total removal of female breast tissue -- though The Times' article never uses this word.

Will the Washington Post force Taylor Lorenz to issue a correction?

Nah, right?

From a CBS article promoting breast amputations for children as healthy:

More at Twitchy:

Jesse Singal
@jessesingal

Quick morality update: Marketing medical procedures directly to children too young to understand their ramifications is [clapping hands emoji] good [clapping hands emoji] now [clapping hands emoji]

My God. If you don't know the Youth Slang, "yeet" means to eject, to throw away violently. Launching someone from a trebuchet would be yeeting them, for example.

"YeetTheTeet."

She makes a double radical masectomy sound so cute!!!

And the use of the youth-slang Twitter word "yeet" indicates she's advertising to children.

Read his thread. He points out that one of these butchers brags of a zero-percent regret rate -- but, conveniently, is no longer in touch with 30% of her patients, and doesn't seem too stressed about following up with them to see how they're enjoying their maimings.

The "doctor" claiming to be unaware of a single case of regret is apparently unaware that one of her former patients is very noisy and energetic anti-transition campaigner who talks a lot about regretting transitioning.

Either "Doctor" Gallagher is lying about not knowing about cases of regret, or is intentionally avoiding discovering these cases.

Meanwhile, CBS touts a "study" claiming that "top surgery" -- their euphemism for radical double masectomy, itself a medical way of obscuring the brutal truth of chopping off healthy breasts -- is just great for young people.

The quality of life of young transmasculine people dramatically improves after receiving top surgery -- a mastectomy procedure that removes breast tissue -- according to a study by Northwestern Medicine.
The study, published in peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, is the first to show that top surgery is "associated with significant improvement in chest dysphoria, gender congruence, and body image in transmasculine and nonbinary teens and young adults," Northwestern Medicine said in a press release.

Oh? Chopping off your breasts improves chest dysphoria? Oh, that's terrific!

But what is chest dysphoria?

Chest dysphoria is "the discomfort and distress from unwanted breast development."

So... people who have "discomfort and distress from unwanted breast development" -- in other words, people who want their breasts cut off -- will feel relief when you cut their breasts off.

So if I have "finger dysphoria," the feeling that my fingers are weird alien worms causing me harm, and I feel relief when I have them all surgically removed, we'd all agree that the amputation of a person's fingers is a very effective and healthy procedure for sufferers of finger dysphoria, right? And that this is the proper medical treatment, yes-yes?

This is a medical tautology, isn't it? They don't address the underlying mental condition causing the "chest dysphoria." They're not curing that.

No, they're not addressing the underlying mental illness, just the superficial symptom of the mental illness which they've learned from TikTok and Instagram is to blame their problems on their breasts. They blame their breasts for their problems, and so have "discomfort and distress about the development of unwanted breast development," so, yes, stands to reason, when you cut off their breasts, it will "solve" that one "problem."

But that's... that's not really the problem that needs to be solved, is it?

According to the people making $20,000 a breast lopping, it is, but what would disinterested people not cowed by the Trans Extremist Lobby say?

The study compared two groups of patients ranging in ages from 14 to 24: one group of 36 patients received top surgery, and a control group of 34 patients received gender-affirming care, but did not get top surgery. Three months after surgery, the patients who had the procedure experienced significantly less chest dysphoria than they had prior to surgery, while patients in the control group experienced around the same levels of chest dysphoria as they had at the start of their care.

Yes, the people with an irrational fear of their own tits experienced less irrational fear of their own tits after you chopped their tits off.

Now, what do you do when someone comes in with alien hand syndrome? Want to chop that off, too?

...
Prior studies have also shown that chest dysphoria is a pervasive issue for trans and gender non-conforming youth. In a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2021, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center "observed consensus that chest dysphoria is a major source of distress and can be functionally disabling to transmasculine youth."

Well at least the literature goes all the way back to 2021. We'd like to think we were basing our decisions to surgically alter our children on firm, well-tested science before we put them under the knife and irrevocably sexually mutilated them.

So, I mean, if this well-tested science goes all the way back to when gas was just $5.35 per gallon, I'm sold.

Posted by Ace at 01:05 PM Comments

Zelenzky, in a Hot War With Russia, Asks for Accelerated Entry Into NATO;
Also Says He Will Not Negotiate With Russia Until Putin Has Been Regime-Changed

—Ace

Zeke Miller
@ZekeJMiller

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy says his nation is submitting an 'accelerated' application to join the NATO military alliance.

Jack Posobiec XLV
@JackPosobiec

Zelensky has announced Kyiv will hold no negotiations with Russia while Putin is President and that he is applying for full NATO membership today for Ukraine

Michael Tracey
@mtracey

On "Face the Nation" today Zelensky said about Putin's nuclear threat: "I don't think he's bluffing." He then repeated his call for the US to designate Russia a "state sponsor of terrorism" even if this will "make diplomatic negotiations impossible." Does anyone see an issue here

Is this the next step? Is this how the neocon/neoliberal foreign policy establishment makes the War of Vengeance Against Russia for Hacking the 2016 Election, which they promised would never happen, happen?

Will the neocon WWIII cheering section of Conservative, Inc. and NeverTrump, which still believes, along with their leftwing allies, that Russia "hacked our election," and that Donald Trump is a "Russian Agent," applaud?

P.S.: They're also bitter opponents of QAnon for believing the wrong crazy conspiracy theories, the ones not embraced by their leftwing Democrat Twitter palz!

Think of all the extraordinary blogging opportunities they'll get out of a nuclear war with Russia. They can write so many paeans to their manly sitting-on-their-asses virtues and courage before nuclear fires turn out all the lights.

Oh well, I guess we have go to full solemn war against Russia now, seeing as they Subverted the 2016 Election with FaceBook Ads, and just last week, Blew Up Their Own Nord Stream pipelines. (wink.)

Posted by Ace at 12:00 PM Comments

THE MORNING RANT: Get Woke Go Broke – Unilever Edition

—Buck Throckmorton

Another woke CEO has run his company into the ground and is being ushered out of his job. This time it’s Unilever’s Alan Jope.

He is a far-left activist who seeks to rid the world of the energy that fuels its prosperity, but you still have to wonder if his catastrophic mismanagement of Unilever might have caused him to go super-woke. Perhaps he thought loony eco-leftism might provide a protective shield against his inevitable ouster for the damage he caused the company.

If you aren’t familiar with Unilever, you are certainly familiar with its stable of brands, which include Hellman’s, Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Dollar Shave Club, Suave, and many other familiar products.

Jope became CEO of Unilever in January 2019. It didn’t take long for him to start trying to impose enviro-communism on the capitalist enterprise he ran, and to also impose it on all other businesses. Advocating for mandatory, externally imposed ESG (“Environmental Social Governance”) is not the hallmark of a man who believes in free enterprise.

Unsurprisingly, there was pushback by people who believe in freedom and free markets.

Also unsurprisingly, with Unilever struggling under Jope’s mismanagement, he sought to buy some market share and gain additional revenue with an acquisition, specifically by acquiring the consumer healthcare division of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) whose products include Tums, Advil, and Excedrin. The final offer was £50 billion (roughly $68 billion at the time.)

GSK ultimately declined the offer. When the deal officially died in January 2022, Unilever’s stock quickly lost about 20% of its value. With the company in crisis, it was also announced that 1,500 employees were being let go.

Activist investor Nelson Peltz saw a great opportunity, not only with the battered stock, but also with Unilever shareholders desperate for relief from the damage Jope was doing to the company with his ESG agenda. So Peltz started buying shares, and by May 2022 he had worked himself onto the Board of Directors.

Jope responded to Peltz and the angry shareholders by doubling down on the ESG agenda that was destroying Unilever.

Just last week, before the news broke that Jope’s tenure was coming to an end, he appeared with Bill Clinton at whatever the Clinton Global Initiative is, and Jope remained defiantly adamant that he would continue to impose the eco-communist agenda on Unilever despite the “anti-sustainability” and “anti-woke” backlash.

Unilever's Alan Jope says company 'will not back down' on sustainability agenda: [Fox News – 9/21/2022]

Unilever CEO Alan Jope reaffirmed the consumer goods giant's sustainability agenda Tuesday, saying it "will not back down" despite "anti-sustainability" and "anti-woke" backlash.
The chief executive, speaking during a Tuesday panel at the 2022 Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, called "anti-sustainability" and "anti-woke" backlash "incredibly dangerous for the world." He also argued that saying "we have a climate emergency" has started becoming unpopular.

"The first thing that Unilever will do is we will not back down on this agenda despite these populist accusations," he said.

He may have finally gone too far by at one point acknowledging that he’ll continue to prioritize ESG activism over his fiduciary duty to shareholders.

The hammer finally dropped this week. Unilever could not wait any longer to put a stop to the damage Jope was doing. Although he’ll retain his title for another year while the Board searches for someone to rescue the company from the damage he has done, Jope’s days of actively destroying Unilever in obedience to Klaus Schwab and Greta Thunberg are over.

Unilever CEO Set to Leave After GSK Debacle, Arrival of Activist Investor [US News – 9/26/2022]

Unilever said CEO Alan Jope would retire at the end of 2023, announcing the move less than a year after a bungled attempt to buy GSK's consumer healthcare business, and two months after activist investor Nelson Peltz joined the board.
The British consumer products maker said its board would start a formal search for a successor to Jope, a Unilever veteran who took up his role at the start of 2019,

The [GSK] move was met with disapproval from shareholders, some of whom also criticised Unilever for prioritising sustainability over core growth.

Unilever's shares rose almost 4% in early trading, hitting their highest since August last year.

Let’s look at how Unilever stock has done under Jope’s awful stewardship. It was trading at approximately $53 per share when he took over in January 2019, rising to $63 per share just a few months later in August. It’s now trading at around $43 per share, a 19% reduction in value from when he took over, and a 32% drop from its peak. By contrast, even with the current bear market, the S&P 500 is up about 40% from January 2019.

$100,000 invested in Unilever stock in January 2019 is now worth about $81,000.

$100,000 invested in the S&P 500 in January 2019 is now worth about $140,000.

Get woke, go broke.

*****

Songs of the Season

This is the first weekend of October, which means Oktoberfests will be popping up everywhere!

I love them. The food, music, and good cheer combined with mild autumn weather just put a smile on everyone’s faces. The Oktoberfest of my upbringing was Wurstfest in New Braunfels, Texas. It was full of family fun all day, but college kids from all over Texas would also party there at night. I recall Myron Floren of Lawrence Welk fame playing his accordion at Wurstfest into the 1990s, and the college kids loved him, knowing that he was going to play the Aggie War Hymn and The Eyes of Texas every show.

Are you going to an Oktoberfest? If so, you’ll probably hear this song.

“In Heaven There Is No Beer”

And of course, the sister song that is also frequently performed.

Its nice to see these young hipsters having some fun with the music of their great-grandparents. Maybe there’s an emerging genre of “alt-polka.”

“No Beer Today”

Have a great weekend.

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

Close it up

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Agency Job
Banksy

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The Morning Report — 9/30/22

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. The weekend is here and as Hurricane Ian moves away from Florida, the trail of devastation is incredible. Again, it seems somewhat miraculous that I have not come across reports of deaths, so let's hope that that continues or at the very least it's kept to a minimum. That of course stands in sharp contrast to Leftists who are baying for the blood of people whom they consider worse than cancer and equally sick, for political advantage in that they can somehow use the destruction to hurt the prospects of a nemesis. The storm now seems headed for South Carolina, so everyone in its path please prepare and/or get the hell out of the area. Once again, prayers for everyone affected by this disaster and for a speedy and full recovery of the appropriately named Sunshine State, since these days, it's one of the few beacons of hope in a land where darkness has cast a pall since November of 2020.

And yet, with abject scum like Pee-Air Defecto, who the hell needs Leftists?

Utah Senator Mike Lee is up for re-election this year. His opponent is Evan McMullin, whose campaign ads, touting his experience as a CIA operative, are currently popping up in my feed at an impressive and alarming rate. According to the Deseret News, which published the results of a poll last week, the race is tight. The poll by the Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics showed Lee with a very slight edge over McMullin, with Utahans favoring the incumbent 36% to 34%. Not much breathing room for Lee, there. . .

. . . It was no surprise to me to learn that Utah’s answer to Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney (Can we just call him “Liz” Romney?), refused to give Lee his endorsement ahead of the midterms.

The Deseret News said that a campaign spokesman stated that the support included endorsements, donations, or expressions of support. The same article quoted Romney as saying, “I don’t think endorsements make any difference in a race to speak of. People in the race are my friends. I usually try and avoid situations where they’ve been friends. I may endorse and I may not, but I really haven’t given it any thought at this point.”

Romney, of course, voted to impeach Donald Trump when no viable reason existed. He also allegedly told Joe Biden that he had to run as far back as 2018. Remember that this is the same Biden who railed that Romney would put black people “back in chains” during Romney’s failed presidential run. And does anyone else remember the Romney/Obama debates? Do you remember the first one where Romney came out great guns, won hands down, and then proceeded to tank the following debates like the 1919 Chicago White Sox? Romney has also written that America is in a state of denial and that:

[Alleged] President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable. Congress is particularly disappointing: Our elected officials put a finger in the wind more frequently than they show backbone against it. Too often, Washington demonstrates the maxim that for evil to thrive only requires good men to do nothing.

Romney is criticizing elected officials who put a finger in the wind? Really? Really? I’ll wait for the laughter to die down.

And of course, there was the trial run for Obamacare that Romney put forward while he was governor of Massachusetts. . .

. . . After being a governor, running Bain Capital, and the Olympic gains under his belt, Romney wanted to add “Senator” to his resume and money to his pocket. And that is why he is so willing to slip on something sexy and slide into bed with the very people who were calling for his head just a few short elections ago.

To be upset about this is pointless. Rather, to be completely not surprised by it, unlike the pitifully transparent feigned Claude Rains-level "shock!" and bafflement from his colleagues in the GOP, saddens me to the core. Like their feigned disbelief, it's proof positive that the illusion of a two-party system is just that. Romney is a greedy, egomaniacal whore. Forget the private sector, such as it is or was. A seat in government guarantees you a payday that even Hyman Roth and Johnny Ola couldn't conceive of. The former famously quipped in The Godfather Part 2, "We're bigger than US Steel."

Maybe so, Hy, old boy. But you ain't bigger than "US STEAL." Romney, McCain, McConnell along with Pelosi, Schumer, Durbin, and all the rest of the old yocks on that side of the aisle (which is a meaningless distinction) are all part of the same scam that overturned our government decades ago and turned it into the very thing the founders abhorred; a charnel house that grinds our bones for their enrichment. Period. Donald Trump saw this, or more accurately, saw that the system was broken and miraculously ran and won with the aim of stopping it and reversing course. What I've come to realize, which I assume (and hope) perhaps he finally has, was that the system wasn't broken at all. It was running exactly as those in control of it intended. I think that explains his biggest Achilles heel in his staffing choices, and a kind of Pollyanna-ish view that others around him were behind his agenda. We know how that turned out.

What he did do was expose probably the greatest grift in history to millions of people who didn't see it or, worse, refused to see it. Nearly two years into this nightmare alternate universe, and we are reaping the whirlwind of ideologically driven scams and schemes that not only are impoverishing us on a daily basis but are putting us on the path towards total economic collapse. That is not hyperbole. This item caught my eye and it is quite telling:

Host Jackie DeAngelis asked, [relevant remarks begin around 1:35] “Obviously, supplies are going to be needed in Florida. This is the kind of thing that we keep the SPR for, emergencies within the country that are as a result of a natural disaster. If the situation worsens in Georgia, in the Carolinas, and all of a sudden, we find ourselves needing more supplies than anticipated when the administration and the [alleged] President [have] allocated those supplies, essentially, to just bring the price of gas down as a result of high inflation, your thoughts on where we stand, as a country, going into this.”
Carter responded, “Well, that’s a great point. And that’s what the reserves are for, for emergency situations, not to bring down the price of gas so that you can bring down inflation, which is what the Biden [junta] has used it for. Now, we find ourselves in a situation where perhaps we are going to need it.”

It's not that the Junta wanted to bring down the price of gas to ease our pain; they did it to mask the pain they have intentionally inflected on us by pursuing this mad delusion of fighting a non-existent threat of "anthropogenic climate change" by destroying the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. And like a hurricane that hits a red state bastion, if it does cause suffering for your enemies, it's a bonus.

The easiest thing in the world for these maniacs to have done to maintain power was to leave the Trump economic miracle, driven primarily by unfettered, unhindered energy exploration of the reserves we have right here that are now easily accessible due to fracking and other technologies, in place. Of course, that would have alienated their insane base. Interesting parallel in how the GOP-e doesn't give a shit about us but would rather kiss the ass of the Chamber of Commerce. But, again, the allure of billions in graft safe in the knowledge that no one is going to go after you because you own the criminal justice system makes it the perfect crime, or not even a crime. So long as you "never take sides against the family" (another Godfather reference).

Of course, while money is mostly the storied "root cause" of this corruption, the ideological factor is now a key player in all this. And the glittering jewel of abject stupidity in this is our very own Alexandria "Titty Caca" Ocasio-Cortez. First, the shot:

Planned Parenthood Dr. Bhavik Kumar claimed in response to a question from Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) that “men can have pregnancies, especially trans men.”
“Somebody with a uterus may have the capability of becoming pregnant, whether they’re a woman or a man,” Kumar claimed. “That doesn’t make a difference.”

“OK, we’re done,” Clyde replied . . .

[Titty Caca's reaction]. . . “The same folks who … told us that [Chinese] COVID’s just a flu, that climate change isn’t real, that January 6 was nothing but a tourist visit … are now trying to tell us that transgender people are not real.”

And here's the chaser, from the estimable Robert Spencer:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Workers of the World Unite) on Thursday tweeted a video of herself explaining why abortion is a “class issue and class struggle,” thereby demonstrating an even more open Marxism than this avowed socialist has shown up to now. In the process, AOC demonstrated the catastrophic illogic and counterfactual nature of Marxist thinking, and showed why, underneath her ditzy exterior, she is truly dangerous for the prospects of the United States remaining a free society.

Along with the video, AOC tweeted: “Abortion rights are a class struggle too. When the powerful force people to give birth against their will, they trap millions into cycles of economic setback and desperation. Especially in a country without guaranteed healthcare. And desperate workers are far easier to exploit.” In the video herself, she expanded on this, saying:

Y’know, I think it’s important to state that, um, that abortion is an economic issue. Forcing poor and working class people, uh, to give birth, um, against their will, against their consent, um, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child is a profound economic issue, and it’s certainly a way to keep, um, a workforce, uh, basically conscripted, uh, to large-scale employers and to employers to be p-, you know, to work more against their will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy, and so the idea that, um, abortion and access to abortion is somehow not a profound and central economic and class issue and class struggle, um, is certainly something that I think a person who has never had to contend, uh, with the ability to carry a child, um, you know, it belies that perspective.

. . . As one might expect from a Marxist, AOC’s analysis has a chilling subtext: her argument is essentially that the world would be much better off if there were far fewer people in it. It’s only greedy capitalists who want there to be more human beings, so that they can keep their rapacious capitalist machine going. In a society that is fully cognizant of the “class struggle,” by contrast, excess human beings are brutally murdered in the womb so that others are not “forced” to work more than they wish to. . .

. . . This is the same kind of thinking that has led in Communist regimes to the establishment of the gulags, Stalin’s forced famine in Ukraine, and similar atrocities. The gulags were established by those who believed that the human beings who were inconvenient because of their dissident political views could and should be worked to death and murdered on a large scale for the betterment of society. Stalin’s Ukraine famine was based on the assumption that those whom the state had designated as its enemies had forfeited the right to live, and could lawfully be killed by any means possible. Now AOC is saying that unborn children must likewise be sacrificed to the cause of establishing the Workers’ Paradise.

More Melonis. Less melon-heads with sagging melons. Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"In short, the many who mockingly liken Schwab to Emperor Palpatine or Dr. Evil are actually not being excessively hyperbolic – there’s ample validity to those comparisons."
The Grand Conspirator: Klaus Schwab
“I understand we need to give people more opportunities,” Goldfarb, a trained nephrologist, told The Post. “But there are some things you can’t sacrifice. This focus on diversity means we’re going to take someone with a certain skin color because we think they’re OK, that they can do the work. But we’re not going to look for the best and the brightest. We’re going to look for people who are just OK to make sure we have the right mixture of ethnic groups in our medical schools.” (not even that "they're OK" - jjs)
UPenn Doctor: "Anti-Racist" Policies Are Wrecking American Medicine
"Every agency — from the Department of Justice to Defense to Agriculture — is attempting to mobilize voters."
What Is the Biden Junta Hiding on Federal Voter Mobilization?

Posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:45 AM Comments

Daily Tech News 30 September 2022

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

Minor correction to the story on Intel's A770 graphics card: It starts at $329, but that model has 8GB of RAM. The 16GB model is $349, which is a great price for a 16GB card if the card (and the drivers) are otherwise good. We'll see once the reviews come in.
Google is shutting down its game-streaming service Stadia. Expectedly. (Tom's Hardware)

Everyone predicted its imminent death within days of its launch, because game streaming services suck, and Stadia both sucked and blowed because you had to pay for the service and then pay for the games as well.

Posted by Pixy Misa at 05:51 AM Comments

Just The ONT, Ma'am

—WeirdDave

Good evening Morons. I hope all of our Florida peeps have weathered the storm and are safe. My mom is in Lakeland. I haven't heard from her since yesterday, but I'm not too worried. She lives in a block house, she was well prepared, and Lakeland is inland. Why don't we open the ONT with a hurricane tip:

Tonight's Argument

The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

I think the list suffers a bit from some recency bias, but I'm sure that many of you will have your own opinions. Say, here's an idea. Why don't you share them in the comments?

To Boldly Go

35 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. pic.twitter.com/M5cmgCn4Y6
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 30, 2022

In 1987 I was just geeked to have a new Star Trek show, but as time has passed I realized that TNG is not my favorite iteration of Trek. The original ST was conceived as “Wagon Train to the stars”, it was about, to coin a phrase, truth, justice and the American way, and how those values could stand up when tested in the crucible of space exploration. TNG was the UN in space. Then DS9 came along and blew all of them away. Still, happy anniversary TNG.

Cop Stuff

For some reason, a lot of cop stuff landed on my content list this week. I'll lump it all together here. First of all, this tragedy.

15-year-old at center of Amber Alert killed in shootout between deputies, suspect on 15 Freeway

The suspect was her father, who had kidnapped her. He got in a shootout with police, and she broke cover and was killed. Here's my absolutely and completely non-expert opinion, based entirely on the reports of the incident in the media: Tragedy. If police are engaged in an active firefight with the occupant of a vehicle, and someone dressed in tactical gear breaks from that vehicle and charges towards them, it is reasonable to assume that they are under attack and to engage that target. The fact that it was the little girl and not an attacker makes this a tragedy. Very sad. Regrettable. But unavoidable at times due to the fact that we're all fallible human beings.

The bigger problem we have is the nature of policing in this country. Traditionally, the role in society that police filled was to protect and serve. Yes, their job involved enforcement duties, but they were expected to be as fair as possible, to demonstrate judgment and restraint (kid w/ a six pack "Go home kid, don't let me catch you again") and, most of all, to run to the sound of gunfire. In short, they were expected to be paladins, and were accorded respect and honor commensurate with those expectations (I'm talking generally here, I know there have always been bad cops).

Now, however, cops are enforcers and bureaucrats. Their job is to punish non-orthodoxy, to meet quotas and most of all to keep people cowed to make sure that OBEY. (Again, generally speaking, and mostly about the role they are expected to fill in society. There's lots of good cops out there). So you get police forces full of Tommy Tacticals who get their little pee-pees hard by being a bully with a badge, Debbie Diversity-Hires who don't know the difference between a taser and a pistol and Carl Cowards who stand in a hallway for an hour washing their hands while some lunatic shoots a couple of dozen school children.

This is a seismic shift, and one that's really hard for a lot of older, reflexively back-the-blue types to get their head around. I know, I'm one of them. It's also a much less pleasant society to live in.

Here's an after action report on a shooting in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Police OIS - 6700 South Madison St (8/28/22).

The video is 8 minutes long, but it does a really good job of walking through the incident. I want to bring your attention to the part that starts at 5:06, body cam footage from Officer Munn who took the suspect down. That is one cool and collected cop.

Pulls up to scene.
Puts down coffee.
Opens door.
Remembers to grab his keys.
Walks to the rear of his car.
Gets out his rifle, charges it. Braces himself against the side of the car.
Fires one shot, hitting the suspect at 183 yards.
Flicks the safety back on.
Fin

Betcha he saw action in the sandbox.

Finally, there's this cop, who truly embodies the mantra “protect and serve”.

Please reach out, my DMs are ALWAYS open to talk. ?#SuicidePrevention #22ADay pic.twitter.com/vKqB68hPTe
— 5-Point-5-Six ?￰ﾟﾇﾲ (@AkaMrJenkins) September 23, 2022

Dusty in here.

Criminal Follies

I'm from Chicago, Bro

A man casually carrying a shotgun and claiming to be from Chicago walked into a Florida convenience store during an attempted robbery but walked out when a clerk displayed his own weapon, authorities said. Rakim Stephen Tate, 32, made a bad decision that “became a worse decision” when he walked into a convenience store on Sept. 9 with a visible shotgun to his side, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. He is charged with openly carrying a prohibited weapon and attempted robbery with a firearm. Tate walked around the store for a few seconds before a clerk out of view from a camera in the store is heard talking to him, according to security footage. The clerk apparently noticed Tate arming himself before he entered the store and went into a back room to arm himself with his personal weapon, authorities said.

Video of the incident at the link.

Finally, this guy made a whole bunch of poor decisions. He was wanted for home invasion and bank robbery. Cops were following him, and moved to apprehend him outside a mini-mart.

pic.twitter.com/8E2DwzRc7L
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) September 30, 2022

"Hmm, I've got a dog latched onto my ass and two officers with carbines pointed at me about 3 feet away. I know! I'll pull out my trusty Taurus!" The video notes that he had “one round in the chamber”. When I'm on the lam I always keep at least 3 rounds in the chamber at all times.

Rant Of The Week

She's really mad. pic.twitter.com/M5CMtsmY3Y
— D. Scott @eclipsethis2003 (@eclipsethis2003) September 26, 2022

Watch to the end.

News For The Nightwalkers

Is 6 Hours Of Sleep Really Enough? Science Has A Very Clear Answer

So make sure you go to bed when Pixy comes up. (J/K Pixy)

Lying To Women

And not the good kind of lying that gets you laid (I'm kidding ladies, I'M KIDDING! Stop throwing stuff!).

Women have been led astray on egg-freezing, bombshell study finds

Many American women who do want kids are delaying it, and opting to freeze their eggs—a seemingly magical solution that means they can make a decision about parenthood on their own terms.
But this strategy may not be as failsafe as expected. Groundbreaking research, the first of its kind in the U.S. finds that for the majority of women, egg-freezing sadly won’t result in a child being born.

Only around one in three of those who choose to freeze their eggs will wind up having a child after going through the entire process, the study finds—and that success rate drops drastically for older women.

On one hand, I feel sorry for women who were told this was an easy way to “have it all” and now are facing child-free futures that they didn't want. On the other it's hard not to think “Oh well. You made your choice. Too bad the results weren't quite what you were promised”

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by self-defense:

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Spooktacular Eerie Halloween-in-September Cafe

—Ace

A lot of scaaaary links tonight.

Attack of the Ducks.

Oh no! She's in the clutches of a scaaaary ghoooooul!

Good reflexes.

Sound on: Weresquirrel. Chipsquatch!

Special Duncanthrax link.

This cat's getting ready for Halloween.

Spooooky ghooooooost...

Intruders at the windows.

The children of the night... what sweet music they make...

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Quick Hits
Updated: Joe Biden Wanders Off Again

—Ace

The great, great video by Matt Orfalea demonstrating that the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) alleged a thousand times that the 2016 election was stolen, with "vote tallies" literally altered by Russia, and the election "hacked" by Putin?

Brilliant video. Blew up The Regime's lies about the "election denialism" of 2020 being somehow "unprecedented."

So what did The Regime's Monopoly Tech censors do?

The demonetized his channel his work appears on -- Matt Taibbi's -- to make sure they could not actually benefit from their labors, thus making sure they will not embarrass The Regime in the future.

Or, if they do, they will do so as paupers.

Today we're releasing a video Matt Orfalea has been working on, showing years of audio and video clips, tweets, and headlines in which Democratic Party politicians and media figures describe Donald Trump's presidency as illegitimate. Before it was even published on this site, Matt received the above notice.
I'd like to thank YouTube for making our point. The material in this video does not promote the idea that any election was stolen or illegitimate. On the contrary, it shows a great mass of comments from Democratic partisans and pundits who themselves make that claim, about the 2016 election. Those comments were not censored or suppressed when made the first time around, by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karine Jean-Pierre, Adam Schiff, Rob Reiner, Tom Arnold, and Chris Hayes, among many others.

Nor did any platform step in to issue warnings when my former boss, Keith Olbermann, promised with regard to Trump's ascension to the White House, "It will not be a peaceful transfer of power."

However, the decision to assemble these materials in one place, inviting audiences to consider their meaning, apparently crosses a line. Now we know: you can deny election results on a platform like YouTube as much as you want, you can even promise disruption, but drawing attention to such behavior angers the algorithm. It's hard to imagine a better demonstration of the double-standard in content moderation.

Remember, they just banned a 2019 Giorgia Meloni speech -- and only reinstated it when they were caught.

If you see a National Review writer or editor online, ask them how they're enjoying Google's money -- they get Google's money to write useless pap, while Google uses its power to strangle National Review's competitors, like Taibbi/Orfalea, who are doing genuinely useful work that benefits us.

Pretty nice little deal Google and Conservative, Inc. have going!

Speaking of Conservative, Inc.:

Twelve.

Aren't you reassured that twelve GOP senators object to the FBI executing assault-rifle raids on a Christian preacher's family for the crime of daring to shove an abusive abortion maniac away from his young son?

The fish rots from the head.

M&M has introduced a purple "spokescandy" character to promote inclusivity or self-love something.

"We're really excited about Purple because she's designed to represent acceptance and inclusivity," Jessica Adelman, vice president for corporate affairs and head of global communications at Mars Wrigley, told Marketing Dive. "We want her to be known for her earnest self-expression, keen self-awareness, authenticity and competence."

Don't want to eat the Inclusive/Self-Love candy? Well you don't have to; it won't be part of the actual candy. It will just annoy you in commercials.

Although Clownfish TV pointed out that purple M&Ms have usually made appearances at Easter time. So, for Easter, Mars will sell you some Gay and Trans candy for your kids.

I will be doing my own rebranding of M&Ms, as "Little Diabetes Pills."

Ginni Thomas answered all of the J6 committee's stupid and intimidating questions -- which seek to penalize political thoughts the Regime disagrees with -- today.

"Regarding the 2020 election, I did not speak with him at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities. And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event. I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way," Thomas said at the beginning of her testimony earlier today.

...

On Thursday morning, the conservative activist who routinely approaches lawmakers as part of her work, made clear in her voluntary sit-down with the House panel that she and her husband refrain from detailed discussions involving their work.

"I can guarantee that my husband has never spoken with me about pending cases at the Court," Thomas told the committee in her opening statement under oath. "It's an iron clad rule in our home."

"Additionally, [Justice Thomas] is uninterested in politics, and I generally do not discuss with him my day-to-day work in politics, the topics I am working on, who I am calling, emailing, texting, or meeting," Thomas said in her testimony obtained by The Federalist.

Their drive to disqualify/impeach a black man from the Supreme Court is as relentless as a white charger whipped by a Ku Klux Klan nightrider.

Meanwhile, this CNN nobody thinks that she also has the power and authority to demand Ms. Thomas answer her stupid, undignified questions:

And you are....? https://t.co/c6aWoofIMP
— REDACTED Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) September 29, 2022

She is a member of The Regime, of course, but a minor member, without the power of coercion. In addition, people should emulate the media itself when it comes to hostile questions: The media literally never answers questions about their bias or mistakes. They deflect, insult the questioner, or simply remain silent. If that is the media's own policy, then mere amateurs in the media game would be fools not to imitate the practice of the "experts," no?

Emmanuel Macron will have his hands full:

The new Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, telling the world what she really thinks of French President Macron.

The next EU meeting will be interesting.

🔈

pic.twitter.com/GKbcxjvu6s
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) September 28, 2022

Do Biden next, Ms. Meloni!

Matt Viser @mviser

Pres. Biden raised threats to global democracy last night -- pointing to Italy.

"You just saw what's happened in Italy in that election. You're seeing what's happening around the world. The reason I bother to say that is you can't be sanguine about what's happening here either"

That's Aviators Joe talking about the woman who is most likely going to be the PM of a NATO ally by the middle of next month.

What a fantastic norms-restoring diplomat you've given us, NeverTrump!

Now, I don't expect Ms. Meloni to return fire. I think she was talking about Macron a while ago, when she was not yet invested with power. Now that she has it, she'll probably be more judicious. So I don't think that she will act with the same level of reckless disregard for norms that Biden does, going through his "second childhood" and all.

Though, who knows, she might allude to the fact that she forgives him, because she had a grand-nonno whose mind started to slip at the end too, so...

The View introduced a giant nightmare-inducing puppet named "Lil Amal", calling it a "powerful symbol for human rights." pic.twitter.com/l3iI3L4YwY
— J.W. Gibbons (@JoelWGibbonsV) September 29, 2022

With the puppet looming over the cast, Whoopi angers it by not having a cookie to feed it. Joy tries to appease it with a Tic Tac pic.twitter.com/heXEXwd6fC
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 29, 2022

A friend points out that even more nightmarish than the puppet -- which is designed to propagandize for illegal aliens; L'il Amal is a refugee -- the whole audience is wearing masks.

Still.

To be fair, if anyone needs people around them to be masked it's the morbidly obese geriatrics of The View, such as Whoopie Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin.

Update:

Where you going, Joe?pic.twitter.com/Lmo7UdYmdL
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 29, 2022

We're going to have to have 25th Amendment proceeding. This is no longer tenable.

Thanks to andycanuck.

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 06:30 PM Comments

The "President" Attempted a Seance With a Ghost on Live Televison.
The Propaganda Press Refused To Air Any Coverage of It Whatsoever, Or To Even Mention It.

—Ace

Despite the furore (I'm also learning British) over Biden's "Where's Jackie?" minutes of cringey dementia, and the persistent questioning by their own "reporters," none of the leftwing propaganda networks covered it at all.

Joseph Wulfson, Fox:

NewsBusters analyst Kevin Tober noticed that none of the three evening broadcasts, ABC's "World News Tonight," "CBS Evening News" nor "NBC Nightly News," made any mention of Biden's remarks.
"All three evening newscasts ignored the latest gaffe from our apparently senile President," Tober wrote. "The terrible combination of Joe Biden's almost daily gaffes and Karine Jean-Pierre's stunning inability to put together a coherent sentence makes it obvious why the leftist news networks have no interest in covering the administration's never-ending list of incompetence and failures."

ABC News and NBC News did manage to cover the story on their websites after failing to mention it on their evening newscasts. The controversy, however, was later mentioned on ABC's "The View" Thursday after the three networks went all-in on Hurricane Ian during the morning news programs. The liberal "View" hosts were largely defensive of Biden throughout the discussion.

CNN and MSNBC went completely wall-to-wall with Hurricane Ian coverage, leaving no room to address the president's gaffe on the air. The word "Jackie" was not uttered once on CNN or MSNBC from the time of Biden's gaffe through 12 p.m. ET on Thursday, according to a search of transcripts via Grabien Media.

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" managed to make time to cover the latest legal drama with former President Trump on Thursday but not for Biden's comments.

CNN covered the story online with an analysis piece headlined, "Joe Biden's latest gaffe plays right into Republicans' hands."

Oh, online. Bet it got top placement, too. Nope! It's not even on the home page. You have to actively search for the headline to find it.

On The View, Whoopie Goldberg raged at the media for daring to question Biden's mental state. Another stupid yenta (I don't know who these people are, I'm not AllahPundit) claimed Biden was just having a "brain fart" or "mommy brain" or just having some other kind of "moment."

What kind of moment?

You mean... a senior moment, don't you?

Joy Behar claimed the right has "weaponized" these "gaffes," and is outraged that the right is calling him "senile."

Senile! Can you imagine that?! Just because an old man who has to be told "Salute the Marine" through his earpiece, and then repeats out loud "Salute the Marine," and then asks where a dead woman is and mumbles "I thought she would show up," people are saying he might be senile.

Why I never!

Joy Behar tried to rope Trump in and Sara Haines calls Biden's latest senile moment just a "brain fart" or "mommy brain."
Joy claims the White House press room yesterday was filled with "right-wing" outlets that "weaponized his gaffes" pic.twitter.com/8r4hrlQgQy
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 29, 2022

Sonny Hostin, who belongs to a party which has literally been praying, out loud, to a God they openly don't believe in and simultaneously despise, for "old people" to just "die off" so that they can execute their CRT/Trans Socialism scheme without older voters blocking them, says she's offended that the Obviously Senile and Demented aren't afforded enough respect in America, like they are in Scandinavia or other countries she's vaguely heard of.

Sunny Hostin finds "agism" against Biden and America is the problem.
"I think what it really shows is this country is so ageist. This country has a problem with age," she sneered. "You go to other countries and our elders are revered ... I hate that about this country!" pic.twitter.com/UHJUadUqVD
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 29, 2022

Thanks to redridinghood.

This is better spin:

Biden doesn't have dementia. He's always just been stupid and now he's getting better at it.

Posted by: gnats local 678

Intrepid Democrat Underground AOS Liaison quotes the DUmmies offering up this spin on Biden's behalf:

He called the family when she died Biden personally called the Congresswoman's family right after she died to offer his condolences. He had heard about it. In fact, her family is going to the White House tomorrow to witness the signing of the bill she co-sponsored.

This makes it much worse, not better. I've been saying he issued a statement about her death, but I never in a million years imagined that President Snoozy Van Winkle had a thing to do with that. But if he was on the phone with her family, then he definitely was involved with that, and definitely knew she was dead. And discussed her death.

And yet... he still forgot about it, completely.

Because she was... "top of mind." LOL.

It's just a stutter. Stop pouncing.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Ah right. The mythical "stutter." I remember that 2019-2020 spin.

Good times, good times.

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 05:33 PM Comments

You're Not Going to Believe This, But Someone Failed to Position Kamala Harris for Success at the Korean DMZ

—Ace

Thanks to AnonysaurusWrecks.

Posted by Ace at 05:01 PM Comments

Fox News: Final Revision of Second Quarter GDP Is Negative 0.6%, "Cementing Start of Recession"

—Ace

The Dow fell another 458 points. We'll be under 29,000 next week. And then Katie Bar the Door.

The estimate for the next quarter has continued to fall and is now down to 0.2%, and that's an optimistic 0.2%.

But the previous quarter, the spring quarter, is now finally fixed at having contracted 0.6%. And, as Fox Business says, this cements the start of the recession that Biden's henchmen say they're just not quite ready to declare yet. They need more data, you see.

The U.S. economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter in the three months ended June, according to the final estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, meeting the criteria for a so-called technical recession as raging inflation and higher interest rates weighed on spending.
The updated report, released Thursday, showed that gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, shrank by 0.6% on an annualized basis in the second quarter. That is below the initially reported 0.9% decline and unchanged from the second reading of a 0.6% decline.

Economic output already fell over the first three months of the year, with GDP tumbling 1.6%, the worst performance since the spring of 2020, when the economy was still deep in the throes of the COVID-19 induced recession.

...

With back-to-back declines in growth, the economy meets the technical criteria for a recession, which requires a "significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months." Still, the NBER -- the semi-official arbiter -- weighs multiple factors when calling a recession and typically takes up to a year before announcing the decision.

Only "semi-official." Nothing stops the media from recognizing the obvious and saying that this fits the age-old "technical" definition of a recession, except for partisan allegiance to a lying Democrat "president." Rigging the news like they rigged an election.

I'm glad Fox finally stopped the charade, for its part.

Meanwhile, Biden has now wiped out nine trillion dollars in American wealth, because his economy is so strong. Call it "the Putin Boost" or whatever.

Americans' holdings of corporate equities and mutual fund shares fell to $33 trillion at the end of the second quarter, down from $42 trillion at the start of the year.
With major market indexes falling further since July, experts say losses from financial markets could total $9.5 trillion to $10 trillion.

Economists say the drops could add pressure to Americans' balance sheets and possibly hurting spending.

No shit really economists? Wow thank you for your sage prognostication. Say, Professor Fuckface, what do you advise re: my shoving your pointy head into the boys room toilet?

Weird how you guys are constantly predicting that the economy will grow under Democrat presidents and then when we lose NINE FUCKING TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS your new prediction is, "We expect this might put a crimp in your spending plans. Whoopsie. M'bad."

Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, said the losses could reduce real GDP growth by nearly 0.2 percentage points over the coming year.

But you're still predicting positive growth, right? Like 0.1%? Anything positive so you can continue to pretend the president you rigged the election for hasn't driven us into a recession, right?

You fucking leftwing imbeciles.

"Listen to us, trust us, obey us! We're smart!" -- the people who get everything wrong literally all the time.

Meanwhile, the White House is in, get this, disarray, and has a "major shake-up" for its economic team "top of mind."

According to Axios, White House officials (notice they say White House officials, not Biden) are considering a "broad reorganization of President Biden's economic team." This is part of a shake-up being done by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who has former administration officials Jeff Zients and Natalie Quillian making up lists of people for Cabinet and senior administrative positions.

Among the people who the report is pointing to as likely to get the boot are Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council.

The decision is not final and is expected to hinge on the outcome of the midterm elections, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. Yellen's successor will need to be confirmed by the Senate, posing a challenge if the Republican Party takes control of the upper chamber. [....]
Deese, speaking at the Economic Club of D.C. on Tuesday, said he had "no plans to leave" the Biden administration.

"I've got my head down, and I'm certainly fully, fully absorbed in the work we're doing," Deese added.

Treasury spokeswoman Lily Adams said Yellen has no plans to leave.

The White House did not respond to a comment request.

A statement from Anita Dunn is intriguing, "While we are prudently planning for potential transitions post-midterm, neither Secretary Yellen or Brian Deese are part of those plans."

So not part of our plans because they're out? Or not part of our plans because they're not out? That comment is typical Biden confusion, it could be read two ways.

They're shaking up the economic team because the economy is so damn strong. That's when football teams declare rebuilding years, you know -- when they're strong enough to win the Super Bowl. That's when they fire the coaches and trade the quarterback.

Everyone knows that.

Janet, where are you? Where's Janet?

Posted by Ace at 04:03 PM Comments

"Russia Hacked Our Election"
Fact Check: Mostly Symbolic

—Ace

This is amazing.

It falls to the left-leaning Matt Orfala to produce this, because the GOP Establishment is actually pushing the "Insurrection" narrative themselves.

Posted by Ace at 03:00 PM Comments

Biden Now Blames the Hurricane and Mom and Pop Gas Stations for the High Gas Prices His Strategy of Deliberate Scarcity and Suppression of Oil Production Is Causing

—Ace

Confiscate the kulaks' farms and kill them, and then blame the dead traitors for the poor yields.

It's been part of the authoritarians' playbook since the 1930s.

Actually, it's been part of the authoritarians' playbook since the Reign of Terror. The French dictators demanded that bakers sell bread below the cost required to buy the wheat to bake the bread, and then imprisoned the bakers as saboteurs when they refused to make bread at a loss.

And now here comes the man NeverTrump swore to us was an "honorable" "moderate" "centrist" who would "restore our norms" and "save our Republic" to tell mom and pop gas stations to sell fuel at a loss, so that he can avoid the political heat of his policy of state-mandated scarcity:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned oil and gas companies against increasing prices for consumers as Hurricane Ian neared landfall along Florida's southwest coast.
"Do not, let me repeat, do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people," Biden said at the start of a conference on hunger in America.

Biden said that the hurricane "provides no excuse for price increases at the pump" and if it happens, he will ask federal officials to determine "whether price gauging is going on."

"America is watching. The industry should do the right thing," Biden added.

There are few signs that average gas prices have jumped significantly in Florida as the hurricane began to approach. AAA put the statewide average at just under $3.40 a gallon, six-tenths of a cent higher than a week ago.

A 99-day run of falling pump prices nationally ended recently, and the 14-week decline was the longest streak since 2015. The nationwide average price had risen past $5 a gallon -- and $6 in California -- in June as the economic recovery and an increase in travel boosted demand for gasoline and Russia's war in Ukraine caused a spike in oil prices.

Gasoline prices mostly reflect trends in global oil prices, and crude -- both the U.S. benchmark and the international Brent -- has been slumping since mid-June on growing fears of a global recession that would reduce demand for energy.

Many energy analysts believe prices are more likely to rise than fall in the next few months. But changes in sentiment about the economy, Russia's war against Ukraine, and even hurricane season -- always a threat to disrupt refineries along the Gulf Coast -- make predictions uncertain.

What does the Judas Priest David French say about this "honorable" "moderate" "restorer of norms" now?

Posted by Ace at 02:08 PM Comments

Top of Mind: The Leftwing Propaganda Media Actually Asks Karine Jean-Pierre What Was Going on In the Demented "President's" Mind When He Called Out "Where's Jackie?," Searching For a Dead Woman's Ghost

—Ace

I covered this yesterday, but missed the most embarrassing part of any Biden scandal -- the simpleton Karine Jean-Pierre's hapless attempts to talk the Administration out of it.

Don't lie, Karine! You're bad at it! Your stupid peabrain can barely keep track of simple reality! It has no chance of contriving a consistent false "alternate facts" reality!

In case you missed it, Biden asked "Where's Jackie? Jackie, where are you?"

Congresswoman Jackie Walorski died eight weeks ago in a car accident. Biden issued a press release mourning her loss and ordered flags lowered to half mast.

Furthermore, a video tribute to her noting her untimely death played at this very event before Biden spoke.

Biden: “Jackie? Where’s Jackie?”

Rep. Jackie Walorski passed away in a car accident in August pic.twitter.com/fj2EEWOvbn
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 28, 2022

Several "journalists" -- I might actually have to remove those quote marks, or reduce them to single-quote 'pop marks' -- actually bothered to ask about Biden's turn as a Ghost Whisperer.

You have to watch this. It actually becomes contentious. The lapdog press actually points out that Biden's little "mental lapses" are becoming more frequent, and continue demanding to know what is going on. And they do not accept this idiot's answer -- which consists only babbling the same memorized, stupid answer, that she was on "top of [his] mind" and this for some reason caused him to call out for her and search the room for her, and this is perfectly normal and "routine" -- and keep demanding she offer a real answer.

"That's not an unusual situation" to think a dead woman is physically present in a room. Well, no -- not at her funeral.

Note that Karine Jean-Pierre keeps giving the same "top of mind, it's all very normal" answer and then picking a friendly journalist to ask a question to get her out of this. But then a couple of reporters later, another gets back to the same question again.

CHAOS in the Briefing Room as KJP tries to escape Walorski Q's w/help from lapdop USA Today reporter...Other reporter: "These moments of confusion are happening w/increasing frequency."

EWTN's Owen Jensen: "Why don't you just apologize? Sounds like you're making excuses." pic.twitter.com/EUizBLTnwW
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 28, 2022

.@PhilipWegmann: "Does [Biden] believe that, in his reference to the late Rep. Walorski...he handled that reference appropriately or is this something that he would like to get back?"

KJP: "Get--what? Like, to get back--what?"

Wegmann: "I mean, he said, 'where is Jackie?'" pic.twitter.com/EmpcHvEOl4
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 28, 2022

James Rosen said, "I have John Lennon top of mind just about every day but I'm not looking around for him anywhere." LOL. But he's with conservative-leaning Newsmax so no credit to the awful propaganda media.

Even though a bunch of reporters asked about the "president" and his clearly dying brain, and his stupid brainlet Diversity Hire simpleton also had no response except to keep babbling the same non-answer -- I bet you this didn't lead on any leftwing news network, did it?

Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich
No explanation about why Biden didn't just ask for her, but searched for her in the crowd a month after issuing an official White House statement honoring her death.

September 28, 2022

It was "top of mind," Katie. What part of that meaningless phrase, babbled incessantly by an idiot who is treating it like a life preserver saving her from drowning in a sea of her own stupid, isn't getting through to you?

Now, while these reporters asked about it at the White House press briefing, thousands of local papers were not even informed that this happened in the pool report about the actual event.

The pool reporter is a rotating position. He or she writes up a press conference for the use of all media outlets who could not be present -- local media, for example.

The pool reporter is therefore an important position -- and if the pool reporter is a rabid socialist determined to protect a leftwing demented president from embarrassment and chooses to intentionally omit the most newsworthy part of an event, than many local newspapers and TV stations may not know about it.

Hard leftwing lunatic Alex Nazarayan chose to deliberately omit the "Where's Jackie?" part of the event from his pool report.

Why?

The White House print pool reporter today is @alexnazaryan. This incident does not appear in the White House pool reports for this event. Why is that, Alex? https://t.co/UQgSLuMflC
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) September 28, 2022

Here's a representative tweet from Alex Nazarayan's feed: He didn't like the implication from a Jeopardy question, and Alexandria Donkey-Chomper's quote in that question, that gulags were part of socialism.

He rushed to defend socialism's honor. Real socialism has never been tried!

He claims there that he's not saying this to defend socialism. Oh, no. He just wants to be accurate.

But not accurate in his pool report about Biden showing his horrifically-frightening dementia.

But after the event, Alex had more corrections he wanted to make. When Greg Price pointed out that a tribute to Jackie Walorski was played at the event, which of course mentioned her untimely death, Alex Nazarayan was Johnny-On-the-Spot with details, claiming he could "confirm" that Biden was not, repeat not, "on site" when that video tribute was being played:

But what can Alex possibly mean by that? He wasn't physically with the "President," so he doesn't know where Biden was and when he arrived "on site." He doesn't know if, for example, Biden was backstage behind the curtains while the video tribute was being played, and could hear the presentation discussing her death.

When he says "I can confirm he was not on site," does he mean that the very honest, very fact-based Karine Jean-Pierre told him Biden wasn't 'on site' during the presentation, and he believes her, because she is full of Revolutionary Virtue?

That is what this little Communist C*** means, isn't it?

And say, Alex, since you're want to be so, so accurate about these details--

Can you explain, again, why this entire episode was not "on site" in your pool report?

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 01:03 PM Comments

Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;
DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"

—Ace

50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier

The spectacular part of the storm is abating. Now comes the grinding, miserable part of it.

There will be days of flooding, and it may take a long time for the water to drain away.

A commenter said that there are a lot of channels in flat Florida for floodwater to find its way the sea. But this article suggests it will take a while.

Much attention has focused on Hurricane Ian's storm surge flooding coastal areas of Florida, setting records in coastal areas like Fort Myers and Naples.
But the National Hurricane Center warned in an advisory Wednesday that "widespread, life-threatening catastrophic flash and urban flooding, with major to record flooding along rivers, is expected to continue across central Florida" -- damage that will last after the storm moves away.

...

The panhandle and Tampa Bay area's surface waterways are sloped, but Central Florida is flatter. Add to that the ground is already saturated at this point in the rainy season.

Threat level: Even when the rain ends, that doesn't mean the flooding will, Grimsley said.

What we're watching: Smaller, urban streams tend to "react and flood very quickly," but larger rivers take longer to build up and flood -- and then are equally slow to recede.

"The hurricane moves on here in the next day or two, hopefully," Grimsely said. But "flooding could continue for a week or more."

Gov. Ron DeSantis gives an update on Hurricane Ian: “The amount of water that’s been rising … is basically a 500-year flood event.”

pic.twitter.com/SFkSgpoEPV
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 29, 2022

Ron DeSantis talked about the storm and the clean-up effort that is being prepared, including 42,000 linemen ready to go in and repair phone and power lines, which he called "the biggest logistical effort in the history of the state."

He said this is "clearly" the most massive flood damage the state has ever sustained.

He thanked leaders in 26 states for sending support and materiel to help.

Florida seems as prepared as possible for this storm, though we can expect the vicious left to claim otherwise.

The sheriff of Lee County claims that there are fatalities "in the hundreds" and that this has been "confirmed." But in another statement, he says these fatalities are "likely."

Hoping he's wrong, but Lee County, Fla. Sheriff Carmine Marceno says it's "confirmed" there are "fatalities in the hundreds" #HurricaneIan pic.twitter.com/WtJCfWPwb4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 29, 2022

DeSantis says those deaths are not confirmed, and that what is being referred to are 911 calls about people in danger, but not necessarily in grave danger nor necessarily dead. He says there have only been two confirmed deaths and even those are not confirmed to be caused by the storm, though they're assumed to be.

Insane LIVE footage of storm surge near Ft. Myers, FL #IanHurricane #StaySafeFlorida 🙏 pic.twitter.com/RCbeQkz4v5
— Cristian PM (@TheCristianPM) September 29, 2022

We were in the eye wall of Cat. 4 #Hurricane #Ian for over 5 hours and the back side was the worst.
I haven't experienced anything close to this in over 30 years @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/wfEqcuEBAm
— Mike Seidel (@mikeseidel) September 29, 2022

Woah. Also in Naples - a downed power line explodes.

Sam Martinez took this video near Tin City. This is why it’s so dangerous to be out during a storm like this. #HurricaneIanupdate pic.twitter.com/oNKhGR2g0I
— Kyla Galer (@kylagaler) September 28, 2022

Got this from a friend in #Naples - just so sad. ⁦@ActionNewsJax⁩ #Ian pic.twitter.com/HtC0CtG228
— Jason Brewer (@JBrewerBoston25) September 28, 2022

Prayers for the Florida contingent of the Horde.

Meanwhile, the left is routing for deaths.

The View thinks that hurricane Ian is a direct result of Governor Desantis' stance on climate change.

"And now his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes." pic.twitter.com/PN5bkWtVkY
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 28, 2022

Tucker on Democrats politicizing Hurricane Ian: "Can you imagine lecturing people who are cowering in their houses trying not to get killed? How can I help the Democratic party in the middle of a humanitarian disaster? Most people don't think that way." pic.twitter.com/TmRUmf9rlF
— American Firebrand (@FirebrandPAC) September 29, 2022

The Blue Tick seal of quality:

Florida Man knows how to answer these repulsive leftwing nightghouls:

WATCH: Man in Florida holding anti-Biden flag as Hurricane Ian approaches pic.twitter.com/kw6dxIlqDQ
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 28, 2022

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 12:02 PM Comments

The Weekend Hobby Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 1

—K.T.

Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, October 1

—K.T.

Thread before the Gardening Thread, October 1

—K.T.

Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

EMT 10/01/22

—krakatoa

Daily Tech News 1 October 2022

—Pixy Misa

In Heaven There Is No O-N-T, So We Read It Here For Free

—WeirdDave

Clean Lines Cafe

—Ace

Quick Hits

—Ace

James Bond Producers: We're Going to Continue "Evolving" Bond "Just As Men Are Evolving," Showing More Emotional Growth and Offering "Meatier" Roles to Female CharactersPlus: Woke Hollywood Discovers a "New Movement"

—Ace

Hurricane Ian Re-Energizes Over Ocean and Slams Into South Carolina Coast

—Ace

First Trans Army Officer Indicted For Attempting to Give Confidential Medical Records of Fellow Soldiers to Russians

—Ace

Massachusetts National Guardsman Aggressively Pursues, Stops, and Boards Bus, Demanding to Inspect It To Make Sure Ron DeSantis Isn't Smuggling Any More Illegal Aliens Into His Progressive, Welcoming, Sanctuary State

—Ace

Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Making California a "Sanctuary" For Children From Out-of-State Seeking Transgender Surgery without Parental Consent; Bill Bars Any Legal Action to Stop Children By Out-of-State Courts

—Ace

Zelenzky, in a Hot War With Russia, Asks for Accelerated Entry Into NATO;Also Says He Will Not Negotiate With Russia Until Putin Has Been Regime-Changed

—Ace

THE MORNING RANT: Get Woke Go Broke – Unilever Edition

—Buck Throckmorton

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 9/30/22

—J.J. Sefton

Daily Tech News 30 September 2022

—Pixy Misa

Just The ONT, Ma'am

—WeirdDave

Spooktacular Eerie Halloween-in-September Cafe

—Ace

Quick HitsUpdated: Joe Biden Wanders Off Again

—Ace

The "President" Attempted a Seance With a Ghost on Live Televison.The Propaganda Press Refused To Air Any Coverage of It Whatsoever, Or To Even Mention It.

—Ace

You're Not Going to Believe This, But Someone Failed to Position Kamala Harris for Success at the Korean DMZ

—Ace

Fox News: Final Revision of Second Quarter GDP Is Negative 0.6%, "Cementing Start of Recession"

—Ace

"Russia Hacked Our Election"Fact Check: Mostly Symbolic

—Ace

Biden Now Blames the Hurricane and Mom and Pop Gas Stations for the High Gas Prices His Strategy of Deliberate Scarcity and Suppression of Oil Production Is Causing

—Ace

Top of Mind: The Leftwing Propaganda Media Actually Asks Karine Jean-Pierre What Was Going on In the Demented "President's" Mind When He Called Out "Where's Jackie?," Searching For a Dead Woman's Ghost

—Ace

Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"

—Ace

James Bond Producers: We're Going to Continue "Evolving" Bond "Just As Men Are Evolving," Showing More Emotional Growth and Offering "Meatier" Roles to Female Characters
Plus: Woke Hollywood Discovers a "New Movement"

Zelenzky, in a Hot War With Russia, Asks for Accelerated Entry Into NATO;
Also Says He Will Not Negotiate With Russia Until Putin Has Been Regime-Changed

Quick Hits
Updated: Joe Biden Wanders Off Again

The "President" Attempted a Seance With a Ghost on Live Televison.
The Propaganda Press Refused To Air Any Coverage of It Whatsoever, Or To Even Mention It.

"Russia Hacked Our Election"
Fact Check: Mostly Symbolic

Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;
DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"