Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022 Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022 OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
Desktop and laptop CPU sales for the quarter fell off a cliff, not because AMD lost market share particularly (Intel's results in that sector were also dreadful) but because nobody is buying.
But the gaming sector held up well (both the Xbox and PlayStation run AMD chips), server CPUs saw record sales, and AMD's embedded division, boosted by the acquisition of FPGA designer Xilinx, saw profits grow by 3783% and no there isn't supposed to be a decimal point in there.
Overall profit for the quarter was tiny - apparently due to expenses relating to that same acquisition - but much healthier when looking at the full year.
And AMD's server CPU division made as much gross profit in the quarter as Intel's.
Ranging from 25% for CEO Pat Gelsinger through 10-15% for management down to 5% for engineers and administrative staff.
Which is the right way to scale things and possibly less damaging for a company like Intel than layoffs - chip designers are much harder to replace than programmers - but still has to hurt.
Genetic engineering company Colossal plans to de-extinct the two aforementioned beasties and mammoths as well. Which it can't do, so it's going to fake it.
There aren't many animals that are good subjects for de-extinction, though the quagga might be, since it was a subspecies of the surviving plains zebra rather than an entirely distinct species, so the genes remain in the broader population. There's been a selective breeding program underway since the 80s to recreate the quagga as a distinct gene pool.
That won't work for any of these, unless you take a very broad view of hairy elephants.
History Doesn't Repeat But Sometimes the Ink Bleeds Through Video of the Day
This is the same guy as yesterday, but reacting to a different source, one that is rather topical given the complete fucking insanity that goes on in the crypto markets.
The South Sea Company was formed to take on the British government's debt, but its share value ballooned out to ten times that before the bubble popped, equivalent to a single US company today having a market cap of $315 trillion - about eight times the combined value of all American companies across all stock exchanges.
Disclaimer: Or 0.0003% of the mineral value of the asteroid 16 Psyche.
"I've never wanted to be a mother, so I've always sort of had this running list inside my head of reasons I didn't want to have a baby or kids in general. Abigail – known as z00mie
Quote II
“I realize that this may be hard for some to forgive but I ask that you look at my 9+ years of public service and not just this one terrible decision." Upper Darby Mayor Barbarann Keffer
Quote III
Yes. And I’m an athlete. And you’re asking me about things that maybe somebody says are in my control. But I don’t believe that. So I don’t know what you want me to answer. And if it’s a provocative question, then, you know, you can spin the story however you want. Victoria Azarenka
In no less a liberal rag than Newsweek, Kevin Bass (MS MD/PHD Student, Medical School) has penned a quite surprising (and 'brave') op-ed saying that "it's time for the scientific community to admit we were wrong about COVID and it cost lives..."
[ZH: emphasis ours]
As a medical student and researcher, I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19.
I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise. I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters.
I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives.
I can see now that the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young. All of these were scientific mistakes at the time, not in hindsight. Amazingly, some of these obfuscations continue to the present day.
Jerry Garcia is one of the most iconic pot smokers in California history. Born in San Francisco, Garcia led the Grateful Dead for 30 years as the city became an international beacon of counterculture, and he did it all while casually and openly smoking weed. His pot pipe is considered an artifact of California cannabis history.
But even the iconic Jerry Garcia name couldn’t survive California’s turbulent legal pot market.
NBA superstar Stephen Curry, who publicly endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020, is opposing a "low-income" housing development near his $30 million mansion, according to a local news report.
"We hesitate to add to the 'not in our backyard' (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting. Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home," Steph and his wife, Ayesha Curry, wrote in a letter to officials in Atherton.
It was an attempt by Steph Curry, who was the fifth highest-paid athlete in the world last year, according to Forbes, to prevent undesirables from crowding the area around his home in Atherton, California.
High School Students DoorDash Lunch to School, Get Sent to Admin’s Office in Viral TikTok
If Fast Times at Ridgemont High was filmed today, a scene very much like the one captured in this viral TikTok would probably appear in the movie.
And while these girls probably didn't have to do as much pre-planning as Jeff Spicoli did in order to get that pizza pie delivered to his classroom, they still seem to have angered school admins as much as their movie counterparts.
BLACKOUT bill: Minnesota lawmakers pass legislation banning use of coal, oil and gas for state’s electricity grid
(Natural News) The Minnesota House of Representatives on Thursday, Jan. 26, passed a Democrat-sponsored bill banning the use of coal, oil and gas for the state’s electricity grid. The legislation is going to require the state’s electricity grid to be 100 percent carbon-free in 17 years.
This coincided with President Joe Biden banning mining in the Iron Range, a Democrat-dominated working-class area in northeastern Minnesota. Republicans argued that the unrealistic timeline could endanger the lives of the citizens of the state if it fails while causing their electricity prices to soar.
GOP lawmakers were unsuccessful in proposing several amendments to the bill, including lifting the state’s moratorium on new nuclear power plants, allowing for the use of carbon sequestration technologies and delaying the standard to consider its impact on child and slave labor in the green energy supply chain.
I'm hope I'm around in 17 years to laugh uncontrollably at them and say, I told you so.
***
The new diversity quota formula? Watch Paul Joseph Watson........
A pensioner keyed his new neighbour’s £60,000 car after getting into a row with him over a resident’s association.
Keith Ardley, 75, told Marius Crisan, 40, to ‘pipe down’ just weeks after he moved into the block of flats in Bournemouth, as he tried to set up a group with locals.
The row between Mr Ardley and Mr Crisan then escalated, as the retired council IT worker, 75, decided to damage his neighbour’s expensive car in January last year.
Mr Ardley – who has lived in the flats for 40 years with his wife Elizabeth, was caught on CCTV using a key to make three lines damaging Mr Crisan’s new car.
***
The ONT Musical Interlude & Cue Stick Emporium
On this day: 31 Jan 2017
English singer, bassist, and songwriter John Wetton died in his sleep at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK from colon cancer. He rose to fame with bands Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, and Wishbone Ash. After his period with King Crimson, Wetton formed UK, and later he was the frontman and principal songwriter of the supergroup Asia. Their biggest hit 'Heat of the Moment', reached No. 4 in the US in 1982. via thisdayinmusic.com
&&&
Born on this day: 31 Jan 1956
John Lydon, (Johnny Rotten,) singer with the Sex Pistols who had the 1977 UK No.2 single 'God Save The Queen' and 1977 UK No.1 album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols'. Formed Public Image Ltd who scored the 1983 UK No.5 single 'This Is Not A Love Song'. via thisdayinmusic.com
Bathtub burglar: Man breaks into home, takes fully-clothed bath
SEATTLE (KOMO) — A 27-year-old man was arrested Friday night after breaking into a Madrona home, filling up the bathtub and taking a bath with his clothes on.
***
‘Thousands of Men Have Come Home Because of Him’ - Johnie Webb has spent nearly half a century spearheading the search for those missing in action from America’s wars. Now, he’s finally getting his own homecoming. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
DENVER — If you are a close relative of a soldier, or a sailor, or a Marine, or a pilot who is still missing in action, there’s a good chance you’ve sat across a table from a tall, mustachioed man with a light Texas drawl looking for answers.
At the first such meeting, he would more than likely have soberly recounted the circumstances of your loved one’s disappearance in battle. He would have cautioned you about the numerous obstacles to locating your relative’s remains — the passage of time, the perilous terrain, the lack of records, uncooperative foreign governments, or an apartment block now standing where the battle or plane crash happened. But he would also have assured you that every possible lead was being pursued to try to solve the cold case of your missing father or brother or uncle.
***
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Family.
Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. Legal representation provided by the law firm of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, S.C. The ONT proudly made in the USA.
The father of marshmallow Peeps has died. His family has announced that, ironically, his body will be placed into a microwave oven, "just to see what'll happen."
Update on Angela Belcamino: Dave Reaboi says she's real, and that she's a "wannabe egirl." She is doing this trolling thing as a new strategy to get clicks and become famous. He says he got into an argument with her a year ago. So she may be a troll, but she seems to be on-the-level about what team she's trolling for.
I guess she wasn't getting any internet heat based on her looks or desirability, so now she's doing this schtick to get attention. It's not always Get Woke Go Broke -- sometimes it's more that someone is going broke, so they go woke in a last-chance bid for notoriety.
When you look up the word "twat" in the dictionary, you see a bright shiny blank area, because the photograph of her caught too much light reflected off that enormous 100,000 person capacity MegaDome she calls a forehead.
I once saw Bigfoot drive over twenty cars in Angela Belcamino's forehead.
Illegal aliens being put up in ritzy New York hotels were asked to leave. They city wanted to move them from their temporary quarters to a "migrant relief center."
A group of illegal migrants who entered into the U.S. through the southern border, are refusing to leave their free NYC hotel rooms for a migrant shelter in Brooklyn, New York, sleeping in the street to protest. The migrants were initially placed at the Watson Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, but their schedule for relocation to a new migrant relief center, the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, caused uproar late Sunday night.
"It's outrageous. I think it's more to do with the fact there's going to be all-male [centers]," host Brian Kilmeade said. "They're trying to break it up."
Kilmeade alluded to previous reports that migrants were having sex in hallways of the Row, one of New York City's best-known hotels and drinking alcohol in the lobby. Trash bags full of untouched sandwiches provided for the migrants were discovered there after the migrants used unsafe cooking means to make their own food in their hotel rooms.
Oh I forgot about that: Earlier these Noble Visitors to Our Shores complained about the free food their ungrateful asses were being given at our expense.
"So they want to stop at the fraternity house, and they don't want to go to the Brooklyn [cruise port] for free, where they eat for free," Kilmeade added.
"So I cannot believe the audacity of somebody who would come to our country illegally, take a free bus ride to the number one city in the country, and then decide that they're going to pick and choose the free accommodations that they're getting."
Co-host Rachel Campos Duffy recalled speaking with homeless people in New York months ago when the city had used Randall's Island -- a large island in Hell Gate home to several sports fields and a psychiatric institution -- as a migrant holding center.
The homeless would have quickly taken the migrants' place at the Randall's Island center rather than typical homeless shelters, Campos-Duffy recounted.
placeholder
"We are not putting Americans first. This is absolutely insane. And by the way... yeah, everything looks bad next to a really nice midtown hotel. I'd like to stay there, too," she remarked.
Claiming the Squatters Rights that Americans just won't do.
Rich liberal and basketball player Steph Curry believes in affordable housing for the poor -- unless you try to build it in his field of view. Then, he frets about "privacy and safety concerns."
What happened: Democratic activist and NBA star Stephen Curry wants to block construction of a multifamily housing unit near his $30 million estate in the San Francisco suburbs. Curry and his wife Ayesha expressed "major concerns in terms of both privacy and safety" regarding the proposed development of up to 16 townhouses on a site currently occupied by a single-family home in Atherton, Calif., where an acre of land costs $8 million.
"We hesitate to add to the 'not in our backyard' (literally) rhetoric, but we wanted to send a note before today's meeting," the celebrity couple wrote in a Jan. 18 letter to the town government. "Safety and privacy for us and our kids continues to be our top priority and one of the biggest reasons we chose Atherton as home." According to Almanac News, the Currys also said they were "pleased" to learn that the proposed development "would not contribute to very-low or low-income housing quotas required by the state."
That article then recounts other rich liberals who complain when the public works projects they so virtuously support are scheduled for construction in their zip codes.
Some especially troublesome news out of this week's Nielsen numbers is that Licht's primary programming move, "CNN This Morning," also suffered the lowest week since its launch just three months ago. It averaged just 331,000 viewers while "Fox & Friends" had nearly 1 million and "Morning Joe" drew 760,000.
Licht hand-picked CNN's Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins to host the rebooted morning show. But so far that trio is failing to grow its audience. An individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap exclusively last week that EP Eric Hall was being reassigned to "CNN Tonight," hosted by Laura Coates, signaling that Licht is aware that the show needs to perform better.
Insiders also told TheWrap that even hosts Lemon, Harlow and Collins "seem to be growing frustrated" over the direction.
"The show can't decide strategically what exactly it is, so it's trying to be everything which can create whiplash for a viewer when segments seem off-brand in tonality," one insider said. "The audience for morning news on network TV is different than the cable news audience and since we're not gaining new viewers we definitely need to retain our legacy ones"
(HBO and CNN are owned by the same corporate parent, Discovery Warners or whatever it is.)
The network said the new programming change will begin on Feb. 3 and air during "CNN Tonight."
Semafor previously reported, based on sources familiar with the matter, that network executives were considering a comedy to host a non-traditional program that could air in the 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot. Maher was one of the many faces reportedly being considered, along with Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah and Arsenio Hall.
did you guys hear about the Houck trial - he was on with a few of the local talk show hosts today
anyway the govt offered him a plea deal - basically slap on the wrist if he pleads guilty - he said his WIFE (love her!) told him if he took that plea he may as well find a new place to live lol
he said while it would never have done the plea tho b/c he needed to set legal precedent to help the other people still being victimized by Biden's goon squad. (not in those words of course)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
The government just wants plea deals to retroactively justify their unjust prosecutions.
The escort got up into his face and insulted his son. The below video has no sound, but you can see it's the escort who initiated the confrontation:
BREAKING: Hannity just aired the footage of the incident between Mark Houck and the Planned Parenthood escort, who clearly walks down the road to where Houck and his son are praying and counseling to threaten them.
The surveillance video, which was shown on Sean Hannity's Monday evening broadcast, revealed several important things. For instance, we see that Houck was not at the entrance of the abortion facility and appears to be more than 100 feet away, which is one of the stipulations of the FACE Act. Further, it is clear that the "escort" walked all the way down the sidewalk by himself in order to threaten Houck's son. The pro-abortion activist was not escorting anyone.
Given that, there appears to have been no justification for the DOJ to pursue charges under the FACE Act against Houck. Remember, the question here wasn't whether Houck shoved the man. That's a matter that was dealt with at the local level as it should have been, and no one goes to prison for 11 years for pushing someone. The question was whether Houck violated the FACE Act with his actions, providing the hook for the DOJ to bring federal charges.
I don't believe he did, and at best, the situation was ambiguous enough that the DOJ never should have gotten involved. They did so for purely political reasons, attempting to discourage pro-life activists via the full weight and power of the US government from non-violently protesting and praying outside abortion facilities. It shows just how compromised the DOJ is.
Claiming she's "not suggesting that," Whoopi suggests white people need to be beaten by police before reforms will happen. "Do you we need to see white people also get beat before anybody will do anything? ... Don't write us and tell me what a racist I am." pic.twitter.com/dTJ72C6dTv
Even the libertarian arguments don't really wash here. If this were a man dressed as a man telling children to lick him where he pees, he'd have been arrested.
But these pedos have found a loophole. Just become a "drag queen" and you can abuse kids and be praised for it. https://t.co/699UhKPfPp
He and his paid liars keep claiming that Biden is making disclosures voluntarily.
But when the FBI is going through your stuff, most would say that you're not acting entirely according to your own whims.
Joe Biden's illegal possession of classified documents is the presidential scandal that just won't go away. Despite the White House's best efforts to cover up what happened, news continues to leak out drip by drip, and the latest revelation is a bombshell.
According to CBS News, the FBI conducted a previously undisclosed search of the Penn Biden Center back in November. That would be the office where Biden's classified documents problem started. No one at the White House or the DOJ bothered to mention that until this leak.
Bonchie continues, first quoting from the CBS report:
The FBI searched the Penn Biden Center offices in mid-November, according to two sources familiar with the investigation, after lawyers for President Biden had found about 10 documents marked classified there on Nov. 2. The material originated from Mr. Biden’s time as vice president.
It is not clear whether FBI personnel found any additional classified or presidential material during the mid-November sweep.
This marks at least the second time the White House has purposely misled the public about the severity of the situation. Press Secretary Karin Jean-Pierre told the press corps on January 12th that the searches of Biden's properties had been completed. Just two days later, five more documents were revealed to have been found. Eventually, the FBI would search Biden's Delaware home, finding even more documents while the administration once again bragged about its supposed cooperation and transparency.
And this continues to underscore the question that has not yet even been answered with a lie by Biden's team: Why did Biden have lawyers searching his offices for classified documents in the first place?
When you're packing up an office, you hire movers to do the job, not lawyers.
Who the hell hires lawyers to pack and move boxes?!?
You would only spend $300 per hour per "mover," of course, you know you might come across something incriminating and want a lawyer to "find" it to help insulate you from prosecution.
So why did Biden know to have lawyers pack up his papers?
No one has adequately explained why Biden's attorneys were parsing through the PBC files when they found the material. David Harsanyi wonders whether the National Archives or Department of Justice prompted the opening of the files in the first place.
David Harsanyi
@davidharsanyi
So, Biden's lawyers didn't just accidentally trip over some classified documents when innocently packing boxes for a move. Some agency or law enforcement probably asked for missing document. And only then did Biden's people begin "cooperating."
This story is being leaked in small doses to mitigate the political damage. But the fact is that Biden probably knew he was possession of many classified documents, some for a decade or more, even when he dinging Trump and even as his admin was ordering a raid.
It's going to be interesting to find out what the feds were looking for. If we ever find out.
It's kind of amazing, but unsurprising, that there can be FBI searches of the president's offices and the media knows nothing about them.
ppl point out that story says search took place after find -- but the point is that it highly unlikely lawyers would handle routine move if they're not looking for something sensitive. And it is unlikely that the FBI would conduct search over small innocent document find.
From the Jeff Bezos Corporate Newsletter, aka Felicia Somnez's Rocket Pad to Retail:
Hunter Biden's allies have held initial discussions about creating a legal-defense fund to pay for a growing team of attorneys that is helping him confront both a years-long federal tax investigation and a host of new congressional inquiries, according to people familiar with the matter.
The effort has been triggered by Hunter Biden's struggles to pay his mounting legal bills amid increasingly stretched resources and his pursuit of a new, aggressive legal strategy, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Set phone up so I can spy on you showering.' Hunter Biden threatened to withhold cash-strapped assistant's pay if she didn't FaceTime him naked, texts show - as it's revealed she's the FOURTH employee with whom he had a sexual relationship
Texts obtained by DailyMail.com show First Son asked assistant for video sex
'The rule has to be no talk of anything but sex and we must be naked,' he wrote
Biden filmed their sex sessions and saved the images on his laptop hard drive
Hunter Biden threatened one of his cash-strapped young female staffers with withholding her pay if she didn't FaceTime him for sex.
Shocking texts between the President's son, 52, and his young assistant, who was 29 at the time, show Hunter asking for video sex sessions and sending her cash via Apple Pay after she pleaded that she was struggling to make rent.
The woman, who DailyMail.com has chosen not to identify, worked as an assistant at Hunter's law firm, Owasco, in 2018 and 2019. She is the fourth employee he is known to have had a sexual relationship with.
He also hired his daughter's basketball coach, reportedly former stripper Lunden Roberts, but ended her employment and stopped responding to her messages after she told him she was pregnant with his child. Roberts eventually had to sue him for child support.
Just an absolute family of scumbags.
Messages and emails involving his now 33-year-old assistant first appear on Hunter's laptop in June 2018, when he flew her from Los Angeles to Washington DC.
Hunter filmed and photographed her having sex with him around that time and saved the images on his laptop.
The part-time model and fitness instructor was given important administrative tasks at his company, such as receiving Burisma board documents for Hunter to sign.
In January 2019, she emailed Hunter's secretary asking why she had not received her December paycheck of $837.06 and why her company health insurance was not active.
Two months later he sent her $500 by Apple Pay and complained he had 'really no money' due to 'alimony tuitions and other s**t like girls insurance etc'.
He told her: 'youre as beautiful to me inside as you so obviously are on the outside. Miss you very much and feel horrible for having treated you so poorly.'
In 2019, Hunter texted his young assistant: 'I will [m]ake up for back pay. You have to make up for back work. By FTiming me and/or going to our next-club party.' The texts show he made several Apple Pay payments to her
He invited her to New Hampshire but she told him: 'I can't afford the plane ticket and I barely can even make my rent this month.'
Days later he texted her saying he would pay her but that she had to video chat with him.
'I will [m]ake up for back pay. You have to make up for back work. By FTiming me and/or going to our next-club party,' Hunter wrote to his young employee.
'When can you face time? If we FT the rule has to be no talk of anything but sex and we must be naked and we have to do whatever the other person asks within reason.'
She's some kind of wannabe feminist influencer who is also under the delusion that she is "beautiful" and "hot," words she uses every three tweets to describe liberal women like herself.
Walking the busy streets of a red state as a liberal woman is empowering and liberating. Conservatives can’t stop staring at you. pic.twitter.com/lkD8ckBfJx
Even setting the Villainous Mutant Mastermind fivehead to one side -- if she didn't get the power of telekinesis with that voluminous dome, she should contact God's Complaint Department -- she's a Pizza Hut Express 3.
Not a Pizza Hut 3, mind you -- I mean a Pizza Hut Express 3, one of those hole-in-the-wall places next to the bus station bathrooms staffed by fired DMV employees where you can only get an individual-sized pizza for like 11 bucks.
But she just keeps posting video of herself and telling her h8ters to drool.
Fact: liberal women walk with such swag and confidence because they are alpha male free. pic.twitter.com/530Ytwq31M
She's just this ridiculously obnoxious narcissistic provocateur.
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Many are saying "she is a Karen" about me because I call out men who pee standing up. I won't back down 'til they sit down.
She's also one of those sad, lonely people who attempt to start smalltalk conversations with strangers on Twitter:
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Jan 26
What music album is perfect from start to finish?
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Jan 24
In your opinion, what is the #1 condiment?
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Jan 17
I stand with Greta Thunberg. Do you?
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Jan 10
Without revealing your age, what video game did you play the most?
That's So Jonah. Goldberg, I mean. Though I've seen Tom Nichols and David French pull the "Well Twitter Friends, what shall we talk about now?" move as well.
I guess she's doing it to increase her "engagement" for the algorithm and become a more powerful influencer.
Or she's just a sad narcissist who doesn't have much actual human interaction.
Like Jonah Goldberg.
Just endless brain-damaged-level trolling:
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Jan 13
Was having the best date last night… everything was going perfect until I got up after dinner to use the bathroom and noticed he took me to a restaurant without gender-neutral bathrooms. I went out the back door and left.
To all those asking: yes, I peed in alley.
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Jan 13
I'm going out with my hot liberal girlfriends tonight... all of us have a pack of woke feminist M&Ms in our purse in case we are approached by alpha males. It's the best repellent.
Wish us luck!
I don't believe she has any friends, and certainly not "hot" ones, and I do not belie e she is ever approached by "alpha males." She is ugly and charmless.
Just never-ending self-validation, constantly telling herself Yo Go Girl! because no one else will:
Angela Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
Boyfriend material:
Uses pronouns.
Puts almond or oat milk in coffee.
Sits while urinating.
Apologizes for everything.
Does not want to be the provider.
"Takes four D batteries."
Got a few dates lined up this week. Check out the abs… alpha males & conservative women need not apply. https://t.co/KCwA2xYeBZ
Super-Woke Leftwing Head of the Scottish National Party Says That All Trans Women Are Women. But Also, Sometimes Trans Women Will Be Kept in a Male Prison.
—Ace
Scotland, which is pretty much now just the Soviet Union Current Year America with kilts, is determined to take every stupid leftwing meme and club reality with it until reality gives up and adapts itself to leftist talking points.
A Scottish man had r@ped two women and then decided, "Forgot to mention, I'm a woman now, so please take me to My Future Victims Prison, I mean, to the All-Female Prison."
Although their law still claims that all trans women are women, and completely indistinguishable from real women in the eyes of the law or the eyes of biology, Scottish law has been amended to say that in certain cases, trans women aren't 100% women.
After facing pressure to intervene in the transfer of a transgender convicted rapist to an all-women's prison, Scotland's government has decided to stop transferring such inmates with a history of violence against women to its all-female prison, according to reports.
The Agence France-Presse, or AFP, reported the decision was made just days after a rapist was removed from the all-female prison.
On Saturday, violent trans prisoner Tiffany Scott was granted permission to transfer to an all-women's Scottish prison after previous requests were rejected.
Scott is known as one of the most violent inmates in the Scottish prison system, the Daily Record reported, and managed to stalk a 13-year-old girl while incarcerated under a former identity as Andrew Burns, by sending her repeated letters.
While incarcerated, Scott has reportedly been involved in several violent attacks against guards, a female nurse and fellow inmates. She has also inflicted self-harm by attempting to hang herself after shredding "tear-proof" clothing and ripping an IV out of her arm.
Scottish government officials also faced pressure to intervene in the transfer of Isla Branson, another convicted rapist, who was initially granted approval for an all-women's prison. The decision was later reversed.
On Tuesday, Bryson was found guilty of raping two women in 2016 and 2019 while still known as Adam Graham.
Before sentencing on Tuesday, Bryson had been transferred to an all-women's prison known as Cornton Vale. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ordered that decision to be reversed on Thursday.
The security issues surrounding incarnated prisoners and their gender identity has surfaced in the aftermath of a gender recognition bill that was passed in December by Scottish members of parliament. The bill was then blocked earlier this month by the U.K. government.
So now Scotland won't be putting the r@pist transwoman fox into the real woman henhouse.
But Scotland's First Minister and Woke Clownwhore head of the increasingly noxious Scottish National Party (noxious not because it's nationalist, but because it is Soviet on steroids) Nicola Sturgeon can't just bray "Trans women are women" any longer, because there are apparently some trans women who aren't women.
The left is raking her over the coals for this, but everyone should rake her over the coals until she just admits that no, trans women are not really women.
For God's sakes. Isn't that obvious?
Peter A Smith
@PeterAdamSmith
Jan 30
Does Scotland's First Minister believe all trans women are women?
Scottish Gov has just implemented an effective ban on trans prisoners who've committed sexual & violent crimes against women being moved to a women-only prison. @itvnews
We ask this because ScotGov just tightened prison policy for trans people only. Cisgendered women cannot be sent to a men's prison, regardless of crime-- such fundamental rights of being a woman cannot be removed. But it is different for trans women. This has broader implications
It would appear Scotland's First Minister accepts there are caveats to her own belief that "all trans women are women." What does this say about her personal commitment to trans equality as a whole?
The interviewer tries to get Sturgeon to admit she doesn't really believe trans women are women, but Sturgeon insists they are, it's just that some dangerous trans women, who are women, can't be held in prison with women, for safety issues.
But, the interviewer objects, you wouldn't move real women to a male prison just because they were dangerous and had attacked other women, would you? And the answer which Sturgeon won't give is, "No, of course not, real women wouldn't be put in a men's prison, because they're really women."
Instead of speaking the obvious truth, she just keeps babbling contradictory parts of her deranged Book of Leftwing Dogmas, as her Evil Death Cult demands she does.
Does Scotland’s First Minister believe all trans women are women?
Scottish Gov has just implemented an effective ban on trans prisoners who’ve committed sexual & violent crimes against women being moved to a women-only prison. @itvnewspic.twitter.com/DRbvItHZ3i
I don't know about you, but excluding women from women's prisons just because they've got penises, male pattern baldness and have committed a couple of rapes seems awfully TERFy to me. https://t.co/1OtW8KVcFN
Pressed by ABC's Sara Ferguson about whether Melinda French Gates' distaste for Epstein was related to his ability to sexually compromise people, Gates replied: "No."
"I had dinner with him and that's all," Gates said.
Gates started meeting with Epstein in 2011, when the latter was already convicted of sex crimes and had to register as a sex offender, according to a 2019 report in The New York Times. The two met at least four times, the outlet reported.
French Gates said in March 2022 that she had felt uncomfortable with her ex-husband's meetings with the disgraced financier.
"He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterward," French Gates' told Gayle King of "CBS This Morning" of the one and only time she met Epstein herself.
Speaking of AI, Gates notes that it's going to replace a lot of blue-collar workers.
And a lot of white collar "workers," too.
Microsoft co-founder @billgates says that while AI is going to affect not just blue-collar jobs but also white-collar jobs, "there will be plenty of time to adapt." #abc730pic.twitter.com/hb1XmBcrJC
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that I reported on ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a chatbot launched by OpenAI this past November. The New York Times hailed it as "the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public."
I also noted that the chatbot passed a Wharton Business School test as well as the US Medical Licensing exam . . . it is that good.
Now comes news that another program from OpenAI will be used to create content for the digital media and entertainment site BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeed Inc. said it would rely on ChatGPT creator OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize some content for its audiences, becoming the latest digital publisher to embrace artificial intelligence.
In a memo to staff sent Thursday morning, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Jonah Peretti said he intends for AI to play a larger role in the company's editorial and business operations this year.
For the moment, AI will be used to generate "personalized" results for Buzzfeed's idiotic quizzes, but the company has posted a quiz that was created by the Chatbot, and plans to use the Chatbot to write BuzzFeed content -- taking cues from humans (or NPCs), who will provide its "prompts," or idea seeds.
Legal Insurrection notes that BuzzFeed's stock value increased on the news.
Mouse Traditionalist Magnífico
@MagnificoIX
Instead of journalists learning to code, the code is learning journalism.
I'm just going to post links all day. I had very bad sleep last night and can't get my brain together. Maybe I'll try getting the chatbot to write some posts for me.
Hunter Biden's infamous art dealer with Chinese connections has not agreed to testify before Congress, citing the need to consult with legal counsel.
Georges Bergès, who has dubbed Hunter an "American story," confirmed on Thursday he received the House Oversight Committee's demanded letter from Wednesday requesting his appearance before the investigative panel.
"This week the Chairman of the House Committee on Reform & Oversight of the 118th Congress of the United States of America issued a letter to the Georges Bergès Gallery with certain requests," Bergès told Fox News.
"At the moment I cannot comment and I will refer you to my legal counsel, but know that my singular focus has always been, and will continue to be, the integrity of our artists and the privacy of our art collectors," he said.
It remains unclear if Bergès will testify with or without receiving a subpoena from the committee.
Hunter reportedly sold at least five paintings for $75,000 to anonymous buyers in 2021. The price tags for Hunter's pieces are up to $500,000.
The Law Of Unintended Consequences is always operative. Of course you can see it in a slightly different way, as explained in a Yiddish aphorism: "Man plans and God laughs." But there is more to this than the unforseen results of new technology used in novel ways. This is one more egregious example of the hubris and stupidity of our so-called "elites."
What happened to those decade-long environmental studies that seem to be required before we build a 20 foot foot bridge over a swamp in the Meadowlands? What about the survival of the North Atlantic Sargassum flea? All cast aside so that our obviously idiotic government planners can worship at the altar of Gaia and virtue signal their commitment to the Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse.
Never mind that the environmental impact of these monstrous, ugly, fragile and polluting machines is completely unknown. Vibration? Electromagnetic fields? Sound? Changes in currents? How do these impact the oceans?
They don't know, and they don't care. Graft, virtue signalling, political correctness, wokism, naked vote buying...you name the leftist neurosis and it is operative in this massive boondoggle.
Nine whales -- including two sperm whales and seven humpback whales -- have been found dead off the coasts of four East Coast states in less than two months, according to federal environmental officials. The discovery of the whales, five of which were beached in New Jersey, sparked calls from environmentalists to halt offshore wind development until more information was known about their deaths.
Of course the assumption that the deaths of these whales* are caused by the wind farms is nonsense, just as the assumption that there has been an increase in whale deaths is also nonsense. There are multiple other explanations for the appearance of these dead whales on the coast, and it could be as benign as the concomitant increase in their population! Yup...humpback whale populations have been increasing.
But the correlation between an increase in whale carcasses on our beaches and the wind farms is just too delicious to discard because of logic and rational analysis of the issue. It is my fervent desire that the rabid environmentalists, who seem to crawl out from under their rocks whenever some obviously benign project is proposed, will lose their minds over this one.
I want MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) to be reconstituted! Does anyone remember the anti-nuclear power movement? Let's have Jackson Browne back for an encore! And maybe Graham Nash can blabber on about giant sponges and Bruce Springsteen can yell at us for a set or two.
Seriously...there is so little research on the long-term effects of these machines that building them in the oceans off our coasts is profoundly irresponsible. We simply don't know what will happen, and until there is enough data to make an informed decision about the net effects it makes much more sense to go slowly and build small pilot projects that will test for environmental safety and economic viability.
Or...you know...open Shoreham and reopen Indian Point...two nuclear power plants that could generate far more electricity than all of these wind farms combined.
Tadarrius Bean and Demetrius Haley both joined the MPD in August 2020 after education qualifications to become an officer were dramatically lowered two years prior. The department nixed the required associate’s degree or 54 college credit hours for recruits in 2018 due to a lack of applicants.
“They’re desperate. They want police officers,” retired NYPD detective Mike Alcazar told the Post. “They’re going through it, they check off some boxes, saying, ‘Ok, they’re good enough, get them on. . . ”
. . . Bean and Haley were also hired during the summer of the George Floyd riots, a global protest movement organized by Black Lives Matter in response to the death of Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. The protests spread to more than 2,000 cities across America, causing more than $1 billion in property damage and killing at least 25 people. Such a movement, whose main mantra was “defund the police,” significantly damaged police morale.
According to a June 2021 survey by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the rate of retirement at police departments rose 45% in 2020 compared to the previous year, with a 20% increase in resignations. The hiring rate also dropped by 5%.
Simply put: police officers were quitting at unprecedented rates across the country to escape such a hostile environment, and departments were struggling to meet minimum staffing requirements. This coincided with a massive crime wave across America’s major cities.“
So at that very moment you’re hoping you can put police out there to try to deal with crime, you’re seeing the workforce shrinking with an unprecedented number of retirements and resignations,” PERF’s Executive Director Chuck Wexler told NPR.
While a shortage of recruits is no excuse for relaxing hiring standards for cops, it is a product of disastrous dynamics the Black Lives Matter movement and leftist elites have cultivated. There is a lot of power and money in stoking fears of racism and hatred. And it is all done at the cost of the safety of the American public, most especially black Americans like Nichols.
You know, in a way, "society" really is to blame for Nichols horrific death. American society turned upside down and inside out for nearly 50 years by something known as The Great Society. Everything that is wrong with America, or whatever the hell nation this has been transmogrified into since the last thing it looks like to me is America, can and should be blamed on Democrats, Leftists and the RINO flunkies who have profited and continue to profit off these nation-killing bloodsuckers.
Munchausen's by progressivism – so perfect an expression I wish I'd thought of it. Beat the host to near unconsciousness with a lead pipe and then ride in to the rescue with multi trillion dollar government programs that only succeed in flatlining him. Then, blame someone else for it. Isn't this the story of race relations and black America?
Look, there is absolutely ZERO excuse for what these cops did to Tyre Nichols, with the caveat that we still don't know the whole story of how he wound up on the receiving end of a murderous beating. It cannot be, as the racial arsonists and propagandists will no doubt insist that it was solely based on his melanin content. And that because the cops who did this were black were part of a white-controlled system and so, QED, they, too, are de facto white.
Funny how no one ever has the stones to ask these bastards the question, "Well if America is a white supremacist nation where black people have zero chance to ever get ahead, how do you account for Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey? Either they are too stupid to realize they're Uncle Toms or they are willingly working for the masters."
OR, the premise that America is a white supremacist nation where black people have zero chance to ever get ahead is complete and utter horseshit. Again, as I postulated yesterday, something that is so obvious and true yet people insist on believing their lying eyes. Is there racism? Can individual people be racist? Yes and yes. But nowhere in history has a society ever gone through what it did to try and eradicate the evils of the past, and some in the present, to try and build a more perfect union. And the fact that we are a multi-ethnic and multi-religion society makes the fact that we achieved what we have achieved in so short a time that much more miraculous. And "exceptional."
The unforgivable crime is those who have sought, and are indeed on the cusp of, absolute power have spent nearly one hundred years putting us at each other's throats so as to gain that power. Look at this Critical Crackpot Race Theory poison. Aside from distorting and perverting historical facts, the essence of the whole enterprise is to define America by it's flaws and the "original sin" as it were of slavery, not by the fact of how we as a people have tried and continue to try to overcome our flaws.
So Psaki-psircling back to Munchausen's by progressivism, the Left destroyed the police and made life unbearable for cops in uniform and for potential candidates to join the force. DEI (D-I-E) dictated that skin color, gender, sexual deviance and everything under the sun EXCEPT actual competence would be the criteria for hiring. And when even those candidates were not around, the bottom of the barrel was scraped. As it obviously was in Memphis. So, the race hustlers got the cops they wanted, and when yet another black male "who was just turning his life around" dies at their hands, it's still the fault of white supremacy and America as founded. Self-licking Ice Cream Cone Status: [x] Licked.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, while everyone is getting all worked up over another victim of Democrat-Leftism, there's the other side of police incompetence. Except this time, it really is political terrorism.
In the span of a few weeks, not only did authorities release all relevant videos, the five officers were arrested, investigated by a grand jury, indicted on second degree murder charges, and fired by the Memphis Police Department.
Transparency and justice, to the extent it ever will ease his family’s grief, came quickly for Tyre Nichols.
That is not the situation for four Donald Trump supporters who died on January 6, either wholly or partially due to the actions of Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers on duty that day. More than two years after the fact, body worn camera footage is only slowly being released at the criminal trials of January 6 defendants. (Only D.C. Metro police are required to wear body cameras.)
And the Department of Justice, unlike the city of Memphis, is making it nearly impossible for the general public to access the very limited trove, which has been uploaded to a platform created to house all digital evidence for the department’s “Capitol Siege” investigation.
But the unedited video—the government has produced cherry-picked clips from otherwise protected recordings to bolster the regime’s “insurrection” narrative in the media and in court—so far documents what I described last week as the worst incident of police brutality since the civil rights movement. Footage from just three D.C. Metro officers revealed how police wantonly and, in some cases, viciously attacked American citizens exercising their rights to protest at a government building. Cops used an arsenal of munitions, including rubber bullets, flashbangs, stinger balls, and massive amounts of chemical gas against protesters assembled on Capitol grounds. . .
. . . And what about releasing the body-worn camera footage of Lila Morris, the D.C. Metro officer who repeatedly struck Rosanne Boyland with either a baton or stick on January 6? Newly released open source footage shows a horrific scene after her beating as protesters attempted to resuscitate her as other officers looked on.
Body cam footage of Morris’ colleague, Officer Terence Craig, indicated he was in the lower west terrace tunnel when the attack on Boyland occurred. “She’s fucking dead! This is on you, motherfuckers!” one man screamed at the officers. “This is the woman you killed, you fuckers!”
But where is Morris’ body cam video or that of other officers near her on January 6? Surely Rosanne Boyland is entitled to the same level of transparency and accountability as Tyre Nichols, since she too was pepper sprayed and beaten—where is #JusticeforRosanne hashtag?
According to testimony by Robert Contee, then-acting chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, more than 1,000 of his officers were at the Capitol on January 6. Quick clips of a handful of officers, including Daniel Hodges, who repeatedly referred to Trump supporters as “terrorists” during his public testimony to the January 6 select committee in 2021, have been used to garner sympathy and stoke outrage.
If it’s acceptable to make public small segments of body camera footage from selected officers, then the Department of Justice and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser should order the release of all footage on an accessible platform for the American people to see for themselves.
After all, Tyre Nichols isn’t the only victim entitled to the truth.
Except, Julie Kelly (which I know you know), some victims are more equal than others. While all this is going on, the DOJ has responded to Jim Jordan's demands for documents pertaining to Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' crimes: FOAD.
When it comes to law enforcement, the fish stinks from the head. We're becoming both a lawless society and one where the book is thrown at those who refuse to knuckle under. A book? Hell, the entire library.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
"The war against [Chinese] COVID wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars, imposed massive disruptions, handicapped millions of students, and probably didn’t save many, if any, lives." $60 Billion in Chinese COVID Fraud? Try $4 Trillion
Just like the Nazis, the "woke" ideologues who promote "diversity, equity and inclusion" are dedicated racists. Granted, their racism reflects different ideological roots, neo-Marxist critical race theory, and ostensibly benefits and opposes different groups than the Nazis' brand. But by making race the fundamental intellectual and moral criterion -- and by systematically segregating anyone outside of their criteria -- those "woke" ideologues fit the classical definition of racism. An Uncomfortable Historical Reality– We've Seen 'Woke' Racism Before
"District attorneys must disclose witnesses’ credibility problems—but what happens when they themselves aren’t telling the truth?" Untrustworthy Prosecutors
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
“I would focus primarily on China because this is truly frightening — and I don’t say that lightly,” he said. “We know based on the laptop, the emails, the U.S. Treasury Department suspicious activity report reports that have been released that the Bidens have received some $31 million from Chinese entities. When you look at the businessman that may that happen — that made those deals happen, Steve, all of them have links to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence, a gentleman.” Peter Schweizer: We Need to Know Why Foreign Money Went to the Bidens
"Murthy, who has served as surgeon general under the Obama and the Biden administrations, signaled the warning in an interview with CNN, noting adolescents should only be allowed to access the platforms until they were 16 years old at the earliest." (and yet the Left is pushing for 16-year-olds to vote, right? - jjs) U.S. Surgeon General Warns 13-Years-Old Is Too Young To Join Social Media
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The organization responded to a request made by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) regarding its investments in entities that push left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices that “destroy shareholder value in pursuit of faddish ideological aims, often without proper disclosure to investors.” National Association of Attorneys General Invests Taxpayer Money in ESG
Thad McCotter: ". . . the WEF’s climate apocalypse’s dog is not barking at communist China, because it is begging for treats. This inconvenient truth belies the impending climate apocalypse; evinces that this alleged 'crisis' isn’t about controlling the climate; it’s about controlling you; and if the WEF gets its elitist way, the only impending “mass extinction event” will be of your liberty and prosperity." Where Is the Climate Cult’s Outrage at Genocidal Communist China?
"A whale washed up near the southern Jersey town of Brigantine, near where geotechnical surveying of wind farm leases has been taking place. In fact, a lot of the dead whales have washed up suspiciously close to the sites of future windmill farms in both New York and New Jersey." Whale Corpses Are Stacking Up But the Libs Won't Talk About What Might Be Killing Them
“This is the second-largest percentage drop in real disposable income ever, behind only 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression,” he observed. “To keep up with inflation, consumers are depleting their savings and burning through the ‘stimulus’ checks they received during 2020 and 2021. Credit card debt continues growing, while savings plummeted $1.6 trillion last year, falling below 2009 levels.” Warning Signs Indicate a Great Depression May Be Coming
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attended a meeting on Friday with the agency’s emergency committee to discuss renewing the PHEIC designation. Tedros issued the declaration three years ago last week, ceding to Chinese government pressure not to do so for weeks despite evidence the W.H.O. was aware of the highly virulent infectious disease spreading out of Wuhan, China, as early as December 2019." W.H.O. Renews Chinese Coronavirus Emergency in Shadow of Dubious Chinese Statistics
"Now, casting aside its regulatory history and fundamentally changing congressional law without an act of Congress (indicative of an unconstitutional major questions doctrine violation), ATF has ruled that every owner of a firearm containing a pistol brace, a preponderance of which are disabled gun owners, will have to identify him or herself on the national firearms registration and transfer record, obtain approval from the Attorney General before transferring the firearm to anyone else, and pay transfer taxes." Presto Change-O, the ATF Turns Gun Owners Into Felons
"The Utah legislature passed two resolutions in May 2021 to ban CRT from schools, and the Utah Board of Education then approved similar restrictions in June 2021, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Which apparently hasn’t stopped the more zealous pro-CRT Utah educators from trying to brainwash students." Utah Educators and Union Officials Caught Boasting of Secretly Teaching CRT
Robert Spencer: ". . . Old Joe is trying to hoodwink his audiences into thinking that he and his family are as upright as they are corrupt in reality. It’s manipulation on top of mendacity. And now that he has used it to proclaim his optimism over our national prospects, all we can do is brace ourselves." Uh Oh: Joe Biden Gives Us His "Word as a Biden" That He’s Optimistic About America’s Future
"Donald Trump accomplished some great things by winning in 2016. Here's why we can't expect him to get the chance to do it again." The Case Against Trump 2024
"The Democrats rolled him in 2020 with [Chinese] Covid and George Floyd, and it’s not clear, in 2022, that Trump has learned his lesson or can distinguish friend from enemy." Is Donald Trump Worth the Fight?
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The problem is that Putin may have other requirements on his checklist." No World War III. Check.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“The trip of the NATO secretary general to South Korea and Japan is a prelude to confrontation and war as it brings the dark clouds of a ‘new Cold War’ to the Asia-Pacific region,” North Korean political researcher Kim Tong-myong charged in an article published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), an outlet controlled by the North Korean regime. North Korea Calls NATO Chief’s Seoul Visit a ‘Prelude’ to War
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"This bill not only keeps minors from getting permanent, life-altering surgery even before their brains are fully formed. It also gives providers who may want to push the trans agenda good reasons to think twice before administering hormone treatments and puberty blockers." Utah Bans Sex Change Surgery for Minors
"The pro groomers, after their grooming session, congratulate one another on their hard work, as if indoctrinating toddlers into any ideology is an achievement." (be a real shame if this person were found dead in an alleyway, the victim of a mugging gone bad - jjs) WATCH: Professional Groomer Visits Preschool, Indoctrinates Children Into Transgenderism
"A 59-year-old trans skater performing at the opening ceremony of the European Figure Skating Championship was heralded as a victory for inclusivity. One problem – 'they' couldn’t skate." Stunning and Brave
"What happens when a civilization loses all of its reference points?" Upside-Down Land
"The winger was a three-time Art Ross Trophy winner, a two-time Hart Memorial Trophy winner and had also accumulated a Lester Patrick Trophy and a Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, according to CTV News. He has long been considered one of NHL’s top 100 players of all-time." Hockey Legend Bobby Hull Dead at 84
NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Either buy an SSD or two regular hard drives. I don't know anyone who actually needs these things. They just don't fit anywhere on the price/performance map.
I'm not certain but this might be a non-chipset. The Ryzen 7000 chips (like earlier Ryzen models) include SATA and USB and video and all that stuff, so you barely need a chipset unless you want to run multiple M.2 drives or lots of SATA devices.
Getting All Your Ducks in a Row Video of the Day
The video he's reacting to is by CGP Grey who I've mentioned before, but this channel is new to me. And he's quite good. I haven't caught him in an error (at least not one he didn't correct himself on), and he's caught every error that I caught in content he was responding to, plus some errors I didn't catch.
He's knowledgeable, seems to be conservative-leaning though not outspoken about it, and likes to explore historical what-ifs. Oh, and he loathes Woodrow Wilson.
Disclaimer: As do all right-thinking people.
I really don't think you had much of a choice there spokesperson.
Quote II
“I think we have to be very careful about what we are as a constitutional republic. I am not a fan of Ilhan Omar. She’s an anti-Semite. She’s a bigot. She’s a racist. She’s a socialist. But that doesn’t mean that we cancel people in this country. Republicans don’t stand for cancel culture. And that’s essentially what this is.” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)
Quote III
“I’ve been trying to understand the driving ideas underneath this globalist utopian tyranny that seems to be developing from the top-down, and I think it’s driven at least in part by this religious vision that I already described — you know, that you have to construe culture itself, especially industrial culture, as the tyrannical father raping and pillaging everything in its way, which is [an] unbelievably dangerous way to think — too one-sided,” Dr. Jordan Peterson
Quote IV
“As a result, Moderna made $19 billion in profits over the past two years and its CEO [Stephane Bancel] became a billionaire who is now worth over $6 billion. What is Moderna doing to thank the American taxpayer for their generous support? It plans to raise the price of the COVID-19 vaccine by 400 percent up to $130 when it goes on the commercial market. Meanwhile, it costs just $2.85 to manufacture the product.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
New ‘Mega Ranch’ Will Grow 45 Million Pounds of Mushroom Root for Plant-Based Meat
Last July, New York-based startup MyForest foods announced the opening of a vertical farm that would grow three million pounds of mycelium a year, all for plant-based bacon. Now competitor Meati Foods is blowing them out of the water with a facility that will be able to produce more than 45 million pounds of product once it’s fully scaled up. The company announced the opening of a factory it’s calling “Mega Ranch” in Thornton, Colorado (a suburb north of Denver) last week.
Meati makes a variety of plant-based imitation meat products, or “animal-free whole-food proteins,” including a classic steak, carne asada, a classic cutlet, and a crispy cutlet. The meats are made of 95 percent mushroom root, with additional ingredients including oat fiber, seasonings, fruit and vegetable juices, and lycopene (for color). With up to 17 grams of protein and 12 grams of dietary fiber per serving, the company says the meats are comparable to their animal-derived counterparts in nutritional value.
Arrival (NASDAQ:ARVL) became the latest company to announce a sizable headcount reduction on Monday.
According to a press release, the company is seeking to lay off half of its global staff in order to reduce operating costs. The cut equates to 800 total employees and will be coupled with “cost reductions in real estate and third-party spending” to reduce operating costs to $30M per quarter.
Additionally, the Luxembourg-based EV startup announced the appointment of a new CEO. Effective immediately, Igor Torgov, former Arrival EVP of Digital, will fill the top spot. Torgov replaces interim CEO Peter Cuneo, who himself replaced current board chair and company founder Denis Sverdlov as CEO in late November 2022.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded a $5,000, 10-week residency to an art scholar who pretended to be of Native American descent, so the scholar could develop a "toolkit and curriculum around cultural appropriation," before resigning.
Kay LeClaire, who uses they/them pronouns, labeled themselves as "two spirit," an Indigenous term used to describe those who identify with both masculine and feminine qualities.
LeClaire had, for years, falsely claimed "Métis, Oneida, Ojibwe and Cuban heritage" and had even adopted an Ojibwe name, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Federal employees have already received a 4.6% bump this year from President Biden, but that’s not good enough for Democrats who are proposing another 8.7% raise on top of that because workers were subjected to the supposed cruelty of former President Trump during his administration and the pandemic.
The raises affect 2 million federal workers and would take effect in 2024.
“For years now, federal employees have risked their health and safety working on the frontlines of this pandemic,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) declared in a press release announcing that he and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) would reintroduce the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates for FAIR Act to Congress. It is unlikely to pass with Republicans now controlling the purse strings in the House of Representatives.
‘It wasn’t even good’: Subway airport customer says footlong sub with only veggies cost her over $16
'Their quality has gone so down hill.'
A user on TikTok has sparked discussion after claiming they paid $23.46 AUD (around $16.78 USD) for a footlong Subway sandwich containing only veggies — and “it wasn’t even good.”
Hackney Council has approved plans for six more low-traffic neighbourhoods
The east London borough already has the highest number of LTNs in the capital
Its three-year Local Implementation Plan aims to tackle traffic and pollution
A Labour-run council is set to ban most vehicles from 75 per cent of its roads as it expands its network of low-traffic neighbourhoods.
Hackney Council has approved plans to introduce six more of the controversial schemes over the next three years.
The east London borough already has the highest number of LTNs in the capital with 19 and half of its roads restricted by traffic filters.
The plans will increase this to three quarters of its streets.
WHERE YOU GONNA PUT THOSE WIND TURBINES?
There are several reasons why wind and solar energy are doomed to fail, but the most basic is that they are low-intensity energy sources. They produce ridiculously little electricity per acre. Thus, Robert Bryce, one of our top energy experts, calculated in a paper he wrote for American Experiment that if we wanted to get all of our electricity needs from wind turbines, we would have to dedicate an area twice the size of the State of California.
(Natural News) First and foremost, overcoming addictions is physical. The human body has several cleansing organs that get taxed and overworked, in desperate need of cleansing. Second, specific vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants get drained, leached, and depleted from the body due to the addiction(s), making it harder to recover and not relapse, especially for those who are unaware of the natural remedies that need to be replenished.
Whether you are addicted to sugar, caffeine, alcohol, or nicotine, there are natural solutions available at health food stores online and in the retail sector, and they won’t cost you an arm and a leg to load up on either. Time to do a little digging. Engage in a little research, and find out the best natural remedies for overcoming common addictions. Don’t feel bad. Don’t blame yourself. Don’t feel defeated. You can win this important battle, and you’ll feel great knowing you came out on top, the natural way.
***
As a father with 3 daughters I got lucky this never happened to me while fishing with them.
A family of otters are having the time of their lives playing on the ice. Slipping, sliding, and rolling all over each other. They eventually swim away.
Thirty-five-year-old wildlife guide for Yellowstone Adventure Tours Andrea Baratte loves seeing these adorable otters in the park. She shared the captured footage and story with LatestSightings.com.
***
The ONT Musical Interlude & After Hours Emporium
Born on this day: 30 Jan 1947
Steve Marriott, guitarist and singer/songwriter. He was a major influence on many UK bands. Marriott was a member of Small Faces who had the 1967 UK No.3 & US No.16 single with ‘Itchycoo Park’ plus the 1968 No.1 UK album 'Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake.' Formed Humble Pie who had the 1969 UK No.4 single ‘Natural Born Bugie’. Marriott died in a house fire on April 20th 1991. via thisdayinmusic.com
&&&
On this day: 30 Jan 1969
The Beatles with Billy Preston, played their lunchtime rooftop gig on top of the Apple building on Savile Row, London. Lasting for just over 40 minutes it was the last time The Beatles performed live. The played ‘Get Back’, ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, ‘The One After 909’ and ‘Dig A Pony’. Traffic was brought to a standstill as crowds of people gathered below and watched from windows in nearby buildings. John Lennon ended the performance by saying "I’d like to say ‘Thank you’ on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition." via thisdayinmusic.com
The Who has announced the release of a new album, The Who With Orchestra Live at Wembley. The LP, which was recorded at the band's 2019 concert at London's Wembley Stadium, is scheduled to be released on March 31. It features Who favorites like "Pinball Wizard," "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley," as well as selections from their most recent album, 2019's Who. You can see a complete track listing below.
The Who With Orchestra Live at Wembley will be available in multiple formats, including one CD, two-CD/Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos audio, triple black vinyl and a limited-edition yellow, orange and red vinyl set.
***
Nothing wrong being judged by a jury of your peers. Unless your peer is bedridden. Genius Award Winner.
A 99-year-old bedridden woman is facing criminal charges after she failed to appear for jury duty. Marion Lenko recently received a jury summons at her senior care facility.
In December, a summons was sent to her son-in-law Edward Ritchuk, who lives in a suburb of Montreal, Canada, ordering Lenko to appear in January.
"When I first received the letter, I thought it was a joke," Ritchuk told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ritchuk emailed Lenko's son, who lives in Florida, but he never sent a response indicating that his mother is unable to serve as a juror.
As a result, Lenko is now facing criminal charges.
A 100-year-old reading volunteer has been awarded the prestigious British Empire Medal in the 2023 New Year Honours.
Peter Davies, a World War II veteran, spends his free time reading to local school children. After losing his wife of 72 years, Davies said he felt like a "lost soul" and so he decided to begin volunteering at Dean Valley Community Primary School in Bollington -- a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.
"I'm sure I get more out of it than the children do. It is a lovely, warm feeling [that] I belong," Davies told the BBC. "I'm not this old man who lives on his own. I'm part of the community, which is great."
He says it's also giving him "street cred" in his village.
***
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Non-Binary Gluten.
Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. The ONT often imitated, never duplicated. Why? You.
Bad news for Joe Biden and his cover-up merchants in the FBI and the media.
A Rasmussen poll out Monday, and exclusively revealed here, shows that almost three-quarters of voters (72%) regard the president's handling of classified records as a scandal. That includes a majority (55%) of Democrats.
Nearly half (48%) of all voters say it is a "major scandal," according to the national poll of 1,000 voters taken over the weekend.
But even more damning for the president is that 60% of all voters believe it is likely that information from those classified documents "was used by Biden's son, Hunter Biden, in his foreign business deals." Fully 44% believe it is "very likely."
Leon County circuit judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Florida Department of Transportation and a contractor did not fully comply with public-records requests about controversial state-funded flights of illegal migrants to Martha's Vinyard in Massachusetts.
Judge Angela Dempsey last week issued two similar decisions rejecting the lawsuit that the non-profit Florida Center for Government Accountability filed in October against the Department of Transportation and Vertol Systems Company, Inc.
The center contended that the department and the contractor violated the state's public-records law by not fully providing requested documents about the September flights of about 50 migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha's Vineyard. The flights, engineered by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration, have drawn national scrutiny.
Dempsey concluded that the center did not prove the department and Vertol had withheld documents.
"The burden is on the plaintiff to prove they made a specific request for public records, that Vertol received the request, the requested public records exist and Vertol refused to provide them in a timely manner," Dempsey wrote in one of the decisions. "While plaintiff meets the first and second prongs of the test, there is no evidence that the public records exist or that Vertol refused to produce public records in a timely manner."
A Google executive claims he was booted by the tech giant for rejecting a high-ranking female colleague's grabby advances at a posh company dinner.
Ryan Olohan, 48, accuses Google of firing him after one its top executives, Tiffany Miller, groped him at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019 and told him she knew he liked Asian women -- which Miller is, according to a blockbuster November federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan.
Miller, director of Google's programmatic media, rubbed Olohan's abs, complimented his physique, and told him her marriage lacked "spice," according to court papers.
The alleged hands-on encounter unfolded during a drunken company gathering at Fig & Olive on West 13th Street shortly after Olohan was promoted to managing director of food, beverages, and restaurants and joined a new management team that included Miller in Google's Manhattan offices, according to the lawsuit.
Per his story, she must have realized she was in trouble so she began retaliating against him by filing meritless HR complaints, claiming he was "microaggressing" her and wasn't "inclusive." I guess she means, he wasn't inclusive in what vadge he planted his seed in.
No, she actually claimed there were "too many white guys" on his team.
Again, this all looks like her trying to create a paper trail to defend against sexual assault charges.
The guy brought this all to Google HR which blew him off. They admitted that if the sexes were reversed, they would "escalate" the case -- in other words, discipline or fire the sex-assaulter -- but as women can do anything and never face punishment, they weren't going to escalate it.
And then, after going to HR again and again to fill up her victim's own file with complaints about "microaggressions" and "too many white guys," she got her victim fired.
Olohan said he reported the issue to Google's human resources department the following week, but nothing ever came of the complaint.
The HR rep "openly admitted ... that if the complaint was 'in reverse' -- a female accusing a white male of harassment -- the complaint would certainly be escalated".
Olohan claims Miller began retaliating against him after he made the complaint by criticizing him and reporting him to human resources for "microaggressions".
The retaliation allegedly continued at a Google-hosted event in December 2021 in which Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of his colleagues. And although Google was aware that Miller's continued harassment of Olohan stemmed from his rejection of her sexual advances, it again took no action. Miller drunkenly berated Olohan yet again during a company get-together at a karaoke bar in April 2022.
Olohan said he began feeling increasing pressure from his supervisor, who told him that there were "obviously too many white guys" on his management team. In July he was encouraged to fire a male employee to make room on his team for a woman, the suit claims.
The following month, Google fired Olohan, ending his employment after 16 years at the company.
Is she hot? She's kind of average. Hot women don't have to paw married men, of course.
That pic looks like it's about 15 or 20 years old.
She looks like she's got a lot of miles on her, and like she's seen more wang than the midwives at her ancestral birthplace.
He then insists than anyone having a glass of wine at the end of the day is just like a homeless man insisting that he should be able to shoot heroin all day long while living in a taxpayer-funded shelter.
Kevin Dalton
@TheKevinDalton
"Clean and sober is one of the biggest damn mistakes this country ever made…We all need to self medicate periodically" - Gavin Newsom, explaining his plan to self medicate California out of our addiction epidemic.
“Clean and sober is one of the biggest damn mistakes this country ever made…We all need to self medicate periodically” - Gavin Newsom, explaining his plan to self medicate California out of our addiction epidemic.
She claims that ‘there is no such thing as black on black crime’ and everything that happened to Tyre Nichols is ‘a deep expression of white supremacy’. pic.twitter.com/YKPMhDJhAh
They is pegging levels of Stunningness and Bravery-Having that shouldn't even be possible!
This was shown to daycare owners in NC.
A teacher used a doll to teach gender identity to 4-5 year olds.
When a child brings up “non-binary,” the teachers say it’s “a huge testament to how much we’ve been talking about it in the classroom” & “it’s constantly in conversation” pic.twitter.com/ufpRTwkXO1
At the Davos event titled “Are you ready for brain transparency?” The WEF speaker explained how brain-wave data collected by your ear pods will be used by your boss to make you "more productive" and help government authorities "fight crime" (link embedded) h/t @peopleconspirepic.twitter.com/7eJkjY8fBQ
The Biden [junta's] targeting of pro-lifers will be on full display this week with the Department of Justice's prosecution of sidewalk counselor Mark Houck beginning on Tuesday.
Houck's case first received national attention when upwards of 20 FBI agents swarmed his rural Pennsylvania home in September of 2022 to arrest him on charges that he had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or "FACE," Act. The FBI executed the unnecessary SWAT-like raid -- reportedly complete with ballistic shields, a battering ram, and multiple agents aiming long guns at Houck -- while his wife and seven children watched in horror.
The spectacle was completely unnecessary, as prosecutors in such cases typically issue a summons to appear rather than execute an arrest warrant. In fact, Houck's attorney informed the prosecutor that he would accept a summons on Houck's behalf. . .
. . . A jury could begin hearing testimony as early as this afternoon, according to Peter Breen, the lead attorney for Houck. Breen also told me the trial could be over as early as Friday.
If convicted, Houck faces up to "11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000," according to a DOJ press release. Based on Houck's lack of any criminal history, however, the governing Federal Sentencing Guidelines would recommend a much lower range of six to 12 months.
But that is assuming both a conviction and one that could withstand an appeal, neither of which seems likely given the facts presented by Houck and the apparent lack of a conflicting version of events. Even an acquittal of Houck, however, would still represent a victory for the Biden [junta], which succeeded in chilling pro-lifer activities through the raid on Houck's home and his prosecution.
A federal court has now said "No" to Biden's DOJ's persecution of its political enemies.
There's a little mystery here: The jury was reportedly "deadlocked" just a few days ago. Note that does not mean there was a tie; one holdout can deadlock a jury in a criminal case, which requires unanimous verdicts.
One of the 12 jurors deciding the fate of the pro-life father of seven Mark Houck in Philadelphia federal court has been replaced by an alternate.
The alternate took the place of the original juror at approximately 1:30 p.m. Monday, when deliberations began again. Defense lawyers for Houck could not comment on the reason for the replacement.
The jury began deliberations on the case on Friday but said they were "deadlocked" and would not come to a decision that night.
Was that juror the one holdout? And why was he kicked off the jury? You don't get kicked off just for disagreeing with the majority, obviously; that would defeat the whole point of requiring unanimous verdicts.
No, he must have been kicked off for bringing in evidence not presented at trial or saying something like "I don't care what the facts are, we have to convict him to send a message on abortion rights." Something like that, were he is clearly acting outside the instructions given to him by the judge.
It's not all good news:
Over a dozen pro-life activists still face federal charges brought about by Merrick Garland and Kristen Clarke's DOJ for peaceful protests outside abortion clinics some of whom also had their homes raided by the FBI.https://t.co/TpFlLGtuiE
The Minnesota state senate passed an abortion rights bill that guarantees a right to an abortion up to the time of birth.
The bill, known as the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act, passed by a vote of 34-33 and now goes to Gov. Bill Walz's desk. He has indicated he will sign it.
"Minnesotans don't support elective third-trimester abortion. They just don't. But that's what this extreme bill entrenches in our state law: the right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth," said Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) Co-Executive Director Cathy Blaeser. "Under this bill, even babies who are old enough to live outside the womb and to feel excruciating pain have no protection from lethal violence. The extremism of H.F. 1 puts Minnesota in the same category as just a handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China."
Felicia Somnez, the Leftwing SJW That Attempted To Cancel Half of the Washington Post for Not Agreeing Forcefully Enough with Her Feminist Temper Tantrum Demands, Is Now Working in... Retail Sale at a Clothing Store
—Lamont the Big Dummy
Learn to Fold.
The Spectator reports that Felicia Somnez -- who caused so much drama at the Washington Post last year, trying to cancel a sizable number of her colleagues -- is now working in retail.
For ideas on what to do next, perhaps outgoing Washington Post staffers should look to their former colleague Felicia Sonmez — who Cockburn can reveal is now working in retail, after a tipster clocked her while shopping for winter wear earlier this week.
Apparently she's been blackballed by the leftwing propaganda media. She attempted to hold a leftwing propaganda front company hostage to her leftwing SJW terrorist demands, but made a major miscalculation: She's white. You don't get to do that if you're white.
Cockburn also reports that the Post's infantile leftwing extremist opinion writer, Margaret Sullivan, has also been fired, or let go, however you want to put it. But leftwinger propagandists can only fail upwards (unless they hold their employers to ransom) and she immediately signed on to write leftwing screeds for The Guardian.
I'm sure she'll really stand out there. She'll bring such a fresh and unexpected political perspective to The Guardian.
Bill Kristol's Money-Grifting Gollum Jonathan V. Last: You Know Who's Really Implicated by The Arrest of Crossfire Hurricane FBI Agent Charles McGonical for Taking Money from a Russian Oligarch? Donald Trump, That's Who.
—Ace
Speaking of liberals who lie because their liberal audience pays them to lie: The Dispatch and The Bulwark have made no mention of the exposé about the Hamilton68 lies they promoted. Even Twitter realized that all Hamilton 68 was doing was taking typical Trump/conservative leaning chatter and claiming that "RUSSIAN AGENTS" are behind it all, or at least amplifying it.
Matt Taibbi posted proof that the "RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS" Hamilton 68 claimed proved "RUSSIAN MANIPULATION" are almost all just American, British, and Canadian critics of The Regime.
I expected that.
What I was not expecting was effeminate Regime courtier Jonathan Last to claim that the arrest of the FBI agents who initiated Crossfire Hurricane for taking Russian money was not a black eye for his team of Russiagate Conspiracy Peddlers, but in fact very bad news for Donald Trump, as Charles McGonigal's arrest proves just how deep the Russiagate Conspiracy goes.
How, you might wonder?
Simple: Jonathan V. Last strongly insinuates -- these cowards won't commit themselves to Russiagate Conspiracy Theories because they're tired of having their past statements thrown in their faces, so now they just insinuate so they can say, "I never said that" -- that Charles McGonigal was a RUSSIAN AGENT, sure, but he was a RUSSIAN AGENT paid off to deliberately tank the Trump Russiagate investigation.
That's what he's insinuating. Russiagate was all true and none of us have anything to apologize for for promoting Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Theories for six years; and we'd have the poof of that, except that Oleg Deripaska, who must be some kind of Trump Kremlin Handler, paid off Charles McGonigal to make sure the proof never came to light.
Timothy Snyder's newsletter has become invaluable over the course of the war in Ukraine. But he has insights about American politics, too.
This week he discussed the arrest of FBI agent Charles McGonigal:
On 23 January, we learned that a former FBI special agent, Charles McGonigal, was arrested on charges involving taking money to serve foreign interests. One accusation is that in 2017 he took $225,000 from a foreign actor while in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI's New York office. Another charge is that McGonigal took money from Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, after McGonigal's 2018 retirement from the FBI. Deripaska, a hugely wealthy metals tycoon close to the Kremlin, "Putin's favorite industrialist," was a figure in a Russian influence operation that McGonigal had investigated in 2016. Deripaska has been under American sanctions since 2018. Deripaska is also the former employer, and the creditor, of Trump's 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
The reporting on this so far seems to miss the larger implications. . . . In 2016, Trump's campaign manager (Manafort) was a former employee of a Russian oligarch (Deripaska), and owed money to that same Russian oligarch. And the FBI special agent (McGonigal) who was charged with investigating the Trump campaign's Russian connections then went to work (according to the indictment) for that very same Russian oligarch (Deripaska). This is obviously very bad for Trump personally. But it is also very bad for FBI New York, for the FBI generally, and for the United States of America.
In other words, it's bad for Trump that the man who was "fixing" his problems in the FBI has gotten arrested.
Don't worry, it gets even worse, Last says, just loving this latest conspiracy theory.
Don't worry. It gets worse.
The reason I was thinking about Trump and Putin back in 2016 was a pattern that I had noticed in eastern Europe, which is my area of expertise. Between 2010 and 2013, Russia sought to control Ukraine using the same methods which were on display in 2016 in its influence operation in the United States: social media, money, and a pliable candidate for head of state. . . .
Trump and Yanukovych were similar figures: nihilistic, venal, seeking power to make or shield money. This made them vulnerably eager partners for Putin. And they had the same chief advisor: the American political consultant Paul Manafort. . . .
Anne Applebaum once put the question the right way: why didn't the FBI investigate Trump's connections to Putin much earlier? In retrospect, it seems as though the FBI investigation of Trump's campaign and its Russian connections in 2016 was not only late, but weirdly understated.
"We were so right about Russiagate that we didn't even know how right we were!!!"
Read the whole thing.
If the McGonigal allegations are proven, then we have an entirely new set of problems. Not just that one political party was willing to become the cat's paw of a foreign government, but that a key part of America's law enforcement apparatus was in on the game.
Russia bought off the FBI to exonerate Trump you guys. We were always right, but the RUSSIAN AGENTS in the FBI destroyed all the evidence!
The Bulwark is always denying the Deep Staters they play Mob Lawyers for exist, but now, Jonathan Last says, we have proof of an actual Deep State: The one being run by the Kremlin for Trump's benefit.
In other words: An actual Deep State.
As always, projection is the sincerest form of Trumpism.
A member of his political team, Team Crossfire Hurricane 4Ever, got arrested taking money from a Russian oligarch, and it's a black eye for those who said these guys were corrupt, and this just proves that it's the Trumpists who are guilty of "projection."
Massad Ayoob: Castle Doctrine: Why You Should Remain Inside. Going outside one's home to confront a threat will likely get you charged with a crime. [dri]
S3E2: Joe Mannix joins CBD and J.J. Sefton with his fascinating insights into China's crashing birthrate concluding that the so-called Chinese Century is very much in doubt, US escalates tensions with Russia by sending M1 battle tanks to the Ukraine, the Biden Documentgate Scandal might explode into something even bigger, and more!
I asked for comment from a huge range of actors -- from the Alliance for Securing Democracy to Watts and McFaul and Podesta and Kristol to editors and news directors at MSNBC, Politico, Mother Jones, the Washington Post, Politifact, and others. Not one answered. They're all going to pretend this didn't happen. The few reporters who got this right contemporaneously, from Glenn Greenwald to Max Blumenthal to Miriam Elder and Charlie Wurzel of Buzzfeed to sites like Moon of Alabama, can take a victory lap. Almost every other news organization ran these stories and needs to come clean about it.
The Hamilton 68 tale has no clear analog in media history, which may give mainstream media writers an excuse not to cover it. They will be under heavy pressure to avoid addressing this scandal, since nearly all of them work for organizations guilty of spreading Hamilton's "bullshit" stories in volume.
On the plus side, none of them are denying the story, either: So they are all tacitly admitting it's all true.
More from Taibbi:
Levich's tale is at the heart of what is so sinister about the Hamilton 68 campaign. This was digital McCarthyism, taking people with dissident or unconventional opinions and mass-accusing them of "Un-American activities." The peculiar twist of the Hamilton 68 version of McCarthyism is that instead of targeting leftists (although there are several self-professed left-leaning accounts on the list), the bulk of the real accounts involved conservatives, with handles like ULTRA MAGA Dog Mom and @ClassyLadyForDJT.
Even at Twitter, where there were basically no open conservatives in the email record, it was recognized that Hamilton 68 (and at least two other research institutes using similar methodology) were simply taking organic Trumpish chatter and describing it as Russian scheming.
The site "falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots," as Roth put it, getting "traction around partisan trends, to assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots."
Morbidly obese degenerate grifter obsessive Bill Kristol wants you to send him some more money so that he can "Defend Democracy" against the authoritarians. Won't you help him?
Bill Kristol, Michael McFaul, and "Alliance Securing Democracy" itself are all remaining in coordinated silence regarding Matt Taibbi's expos´ of their McCarthyite lies (and yes I am aware that is a slur on McCarthy, but there is no other generally-accepted word for what I'm describing). They're all counting on their Media frenz to keep the story buried for them -- which is probably a very good strategy, as the Media is once again part of the conspiracy, and is itself implicated. They have just as much reason as Bill Kristol to keep the lie going.
A while ago I said I'd post a Mystery Click that absolutely no one would know, with the exception, maybe, of Australian morons. So here it is: Forgotten 80s Mystery ClickHere's the lyric hint for all the good it will do you:
I've tried to persuade you
But I couldn't make you stay
You wrote the story
And you let it end this way, yes you did
I'm short of the distance
I'm back where I started from
Preparing myself
For the sound of the starting gun
It's a little cheesy but it's a pretty good workout song, as long as the workout you're doing is aerobics and you're wearing neon leg-warmers.
The context of the find is datable through typology and C14, and it dates from 1-250 CE, which means it might very well be the oldest runic inscription discovered. I am thrilled to be on the team of the initial investigation of these inscriptions.
The first stone was found on top of a flat grave, and the skeletal remains are C14 dated to 25-120 CE. However, we can't tell if the stone was put there at the same time as this person had their burial ritual. The stone has several inscriptions on the front...
... and even one on the side. In addition, it has other markings, some of which appears to be non-meaningful, and others that might or might not be meaningful. Some of the runic sequences are difficult to interpret, but one of them seems to be "the headline", so to speak.
Here's the video that caused me to become Lamont the Big Dummy. Here's what really happened, of course You know, sometimes, when it's almost the end of Friday, and you're just scanning for videos to put into the Cafe (and my old-reliable video accounts have barely been posting lately, so I've been more desperate for videos), you just kinda turn off your brain and say "Yeah this looks good" and post it, you know?
Look to the West just around sunset, and you'll see Venus below the slim crescent Moon. When it gets dark enough, you'll see Saturn appear to the lower West. The Moon, Venus, and Saturn will be aligned fairly close the ecliptic. Jupiter will be higher along that same arc.
Posted by: publius
79 The Mexican skull video must be in reverse
Posted by: 496
I'll be commenting all this week as Lamont, because I'm a Big Dummy. Yes of course. I'm such an idiot.
.jpg)
