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He stated explicitly that he is not taking the fork. Apparently someone already stole it.
Musical Interlude
Axel F, the theme from Beverly Hills Cop, played more or less on an original Amiga. It looks like this is an emulator, and it has 1MB of RAM where a stock Amiga 1000 had just 512K, but pretty close.
The Amiga had four sound channels playing 8-bit audio at 15.75kHz, so for anything other than electronic music it didn't sound quite so good. But it nailed this piece.
Disclaimer: Close only counts in horseshoes and retrocomputing.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law a bill that will allow the government to seize land without having to pay compensation, which some in the government say is a threat to private ownership.
The law, which replaces the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975, "outlines how expropriation can be done and on what basis" by the state, the government says, according to the BBC.
Ramaphosa's party, the African National Congress, or ANC, hailed the law as a "significant milestone." However, some members of the government have signaled they will challenge the legality of the law.
If you're not familiar with what happened in Rodesia, you should read up on it. A stable and prosperous country gutted by the west and handed to the communists just because they were black.
Now that we’ve established that, moving on: what I expected, in my wildest dreams, where somehow Trump got beyond the barriers that held him back in his first term was the roll back of some of the crap that made the US a basket case under Biden. You know, actual semi-effective border control. Maybe a few thousand deportations. Perhaps a reining back of the stupid regulations, and some drill baby drill.
But I didn’t actually expect revolution. A revolution that rolls back the now long established corruptions imposed on our system by the likes of FDR.
At first I was in shock at the speed and compass of the EOs and other work going on. And then–
Well, part of it is my health, but I’m having real trouble controlling this. I will read the news on my phone first thing in the morning, because it’s weird and exciting. And then I have to fight to work during the day, because I’m fascinated by this show which is more interesting than anything Hollywood has produced in decades.
And in the middle of all this it was only a couple of days ago that I realized this is a revolution.
Andre says he was picking up donuts with three of his kids -- ages 4, 7 and 10 -- when the jet came crashing down.
"Sounded like a missile was firing bullets, metal at my car, everyone else's car," Andre recalled. "You see a car on fire, a man walking on fire. It was just crazy."
He immediately backed up his car while his son Trey covered his little sister, protecting her.
"I turn around and he has metal outside of his head," Andre described.
On March 4, 2002, as daylight was replacing darkness, Air Force combat controller John Chapman was fighting for his life. He was fighting alone on a snow-covered mountain in Afghanistan called Takur Ghar. The SEAL team he was attached to (codenamed MAKO 30), commanded by Senior Chief Britt Slabinski, had left him for dead. But Chapman wasn’t dead. After battling alone for the better part of an hour in the bitter cold, Chapman was almost out of ammunition. A Chinook (Razor 01) with a QRF of Rangers was 45 seconds from landing. Firing in three directions, Chapman was still killing Al Qaeda and laying down suppressing fire when he slipped his mortal coil. An Al Qaeda fighter took his life with a bullet to the heart. That final, fatal wound was his 16th battle wound. Chapman had fought to the last second of his life. Had he not, it is likely Razor 01 and the men aboard could have suffered the same fate as Chapman. As it was, three QRF soldiers were gunned down as the loaded Chinook settled into knee-deep snow.
Thirteen hours later, it was over. Operation Anaconda had failed. Miserably. It was bound for failure. Multiple command decisions before and during the operation cost the lives of seven men.
After the battle, DEVGRU SEALs universally praised Chapman’s heroism. He was one of them, they said. Today, Chapman’s name is the only non-SEAL on the Navy SEALs wall of honor in Virginia Beach. In after-action statements, SEALs praised Chapman. Chapman was put in for the Air Force Cross (the equivalency of the Navy Cross). That medal was quickly approved. Britt Slabinski, the man who had left Chapman for dead but had never checked Chapman's body for signs of life, received the Navy Cross.
The story, as presented, is infuriating. I can't vouch for its veracity, it is telling just one side of the story.
When I was a child growing up in India, I learned that “might makes right.” Power was often abused, with those in control acting as if they had a God-given right to exploit and dominate others. The display of authority could be so extreme that questioning it or expecting those in power to do their duty might lead to retribution. Those in authority seemed to believe that their positions were not for serving others but for personal gain.
People who showed respect appeared to have meekly accepted a lower, subservient position. Kind people had to hide their compassion, for being nice was seen as a weakness.
In India, I have rarely seen someone in authority take the initiative to solve a problem he was responsible for. When I was at university, an underaged boy who worked in the kitchen was raped and sodomized by the janitors. I reported the matter, but not only did no one in authority do what was right — something well within their power — the authorities and fellow students threatened me with severe consequences if I pursued the matter further. Devoid of empathy, they also made fun of the boy and me.
Yes, there is an element of sadism here. There is some degree of pleasure that Indians take in the pain suffered by others. The attitude of the authorities was like that of the high-placed Delhi bureaucrat who told me that his Black Label whiskey tastes so much better because he knows that most Indians can’t afford to drink it.
There used to be norms, and then the Democrats decided not to honor the norms but demanded that we still do. And during Trump 1.0, we did. We pretended that there were still guardrails, that there was still truth and honor in our institutions, and that’s why so many establishment Republicans believed we should treat hoaxes like the Russiagate lies with more than just a summary dismissal and ruthless mockery.
We naively tried to honor the dead norms, pretending that the regime media was actually trying to report the truth rather than slavishly parroting the Democrat narrative. Well, we learned after Trump 1.0. During Trump 2.0, we’re not pretending anymore. There’s nothing to pretend. It’s a new day. It’s a new dawn - a dawn of the dead ideology of leftism. We’re going to nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
This change didn’t just happen. People didn’t just spontaneously figure out what time it is. This all began about 15 years ago, with the rise of the Tea Party and the appearance of a cultural colossus, Andrew Breitbart. Andrew always knew what time it is. He always saw through the lies. He saw through the Potemkin village facade of institutional integrity. And he wasn’t playing by their rules. His critique of, and attack upon, the regime media was an essential component of what we’re seeing now. If it weren’t for Andrew, we’d still be in a morass of managed decline and utter failure, probably having just ended the second term of Hillary Clinton and watching her being replaced by someone even more evil. Instead, we’re trashing DEI, sealing the border, no longer indulging weird perversions, and terrifying the GOP establishment into fixing the Pentagon with a former Marine corporal casting the tie-breaking vote.
Not tired of winning yet, but we need to legislatively codify our gains. Otherwise, the next Dem president will just do the same thing in reverse.
A Personal Request
Last Saturday, in the middle of the night, my little sister suffered a major heart attack. Her husband administered CPR and called the EMTs, who shocked her heart and got it going again. She was rushed to the ICU and put on a vent. "We will just have to wait and see” we were told.
Well, we're still waiting. During the week the vent was turned down to assist mode, so she's mostly breathing on her own, but she's still unresponsive. A EEG was inconclusive - reduced cranial activity, but quite possibly that's due to the meds in her system. Her kidney numbers dipped, so she's being put on dialysis, which might help clear the meds and any toxins from her bloodstream. We're waiting to see. It's hard.
Plus I'm 1500 miles away. Waiting to see. At least here I have work and my family to keep me busy. If I flew back there, I'd be waiting to see with nothing to do, although I would be with my folks and my sister's family. I feel like I'm riding a knife's edge.
If you are so inclined, would you mind remembering my sister Susan in your prayers? We could all use it. Thank you.
Across the government, "directors of DEI" are changing their job titles to avoid Trump's order to terminate their employment. Trump issued an order stating that anyone who attempts to avoid this order through "disguise" or deception will be fired.
Forty million for Sesame Street in Baghdad is kind of steal now that I see the clips.
Jake Tapper, the completely fair and objective reporter who Loves the Troops (and is a hero to many bi-curious fake "conservative" bloggers) informs his 17 viewers that Elon Musk is bad to "target" Two-Tier Keir for his part in covering up the Muslim Rape Gangs, because he's just "opening old wounds" of a "scandal" that's a whole ten years old.
Reminder: CNN continues to celebrate January 6th every year as if it's Media Christmas. Some old wounds want to remain open!
For those of you spreading the Russian Disinformation Conspiracy Theory that California will not allow people to rebuild their homes as they were, but will mandate that residential neighborhoods agree to put up subsidized housing in apartment buildings for the poor and also rebuild as constrained by "climate change" doctrines, I have bad news for you: Your Russian Disinformation Conspiracy Theories are all true, confirmed by Gavin Newsom.
They burn your fucking house down, and then they forbid you to rebuild, saying that climate change requires you to move into an apartment building.
Lindy Li: "Despite her repeated denials, Beyonce was paid."
Shawn Ryan: "Who was she paid by?"
Lindy Li: "And Kamala Harris thought all these people came out to Texas to hear her speak. Yeah, right. Kamala Harris got booed. She got drowned in boos."
I wonder if we'll find out that some USAID money was sent their way, too.
Such a typical leftwing woman quote: "Let me tell you about me."
I'm shocked, you want to run your mouth bragging about your fake accomplishments?
This is wild.
A CNN analyst launches into a tirade about “not having the same opportunity” and being paid less than everyone else at the table because of her race, essentially accusing CNN of discrimination.
The left has a different idea of "fighting terrorism." They want to give US taxpayer money directly to terrorist groups, so long as they mutually pretend these specific monies will be used for some non-terrorist purpose.
Even though money is fungible, and paying a terrorist group any kind of money frees them up to not pay those expenses and put the money saved into terrorism.
And even though terrorist groups take other people's money and use that money to buy the goodwill of the people they hide among. When I was over in Lebanon, my guides pointed out that the government of Lebanon sends aid to the poor, Hezballah controlled south. Hezballah takes that aid and, after skimming a lot off for terrorism, distributes it to the poor pretending that Hezballah is giving them money.
Aid stations are branded as Hezballah charity organizations, flying Hezballah flags, and of course the money mainly goes to Hezballah supporters.
Trump said, "No more of that."
Biden immediately reversed Trump's ban and started sending billions to terrorists.
More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism.
Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden's aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world -- largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the new Trump administration must take the trend more seriously.
"We should not be putting money into any country or areas where a terrorist group remains in control," Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. Roggio said that "aid, like money, is fungible."
"It winds up propping up these groups," the counterterrorism analyst told the DCNF. "It allows them to use ... whatever money they have to invest into their terrorist activities."
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The largest share of Biden-era dollars linked to terrorism went to Palestinian organizations, Congressional Research Service records show.
The Biden administration gave $1,053,400,000 in taxpayer money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which claims to help war-afflicted Palestinian civilians but is tied to terrorists fighting Israel, according to U.S. and Israeli intelligence. Biden reversed a Trump-era ban on UNRWA funding in 2021 but brought back the ban last year after Israel accused UNWRA workers of participating in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
Intelligence officials later revealed that more than 1,000 UNRWA employees, or around 10%, were linked to the groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to documents found on the bodies of dead terrorists and other evidence. A dozen took part in the Oct. 7 massacre, including a Hamas commander who was teaching in elementary school for UNRWA and led a siege against an Israeli kibbutz that killed almost 100 people.
UNWRA's schools have long used curriculum for Palestinian children that glorifies terrorists and martyrdom, a March 2023 report from UN Watch found.
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Trump and Congress passed a law in 2018 blocking economic support funds for the PA due to its program. Trump later paused all remaining funding for the PA before Biden took office and resumed it.
The Biden administration in part revived the economic support fund that Trump's law restricts. The State Department claimed in documents from 2021 that "most" of the money did not "directly benefit the PA" in violation of the law. However, officials sent $265 million straight to the PA for its "security forces and justice sector institutions" throughout Biden's presidency, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Under Biden, the PA agreed to pay more than $97 million to reward the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attacks, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
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USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for.
Throughout the Biden admin, they knew the money they were pouring into Gaza would benefit Hamas. They did it anyway.
- Federal Communication Commission chairman Brendan Carr has opened an investigation into a radio station backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros that broadcasted live locations of undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
A group backed Soros, a far-left kingmaker, purchased a stake in more than 200 Audacy radio stations across America last year. Among them was the San Francisco-based KCBS 740 AM, which has come under fire for revealing live locations of undercover ICE vehicles and agents that were conducting deportation operations in the San Jose area.
The FCC's Enforcement Bureau has already sent a formal Letter of Inquiry to the radio station as part of the FCC investigation. The Enforcement Bureau proceeding is inquiring whether the radio station--which is licensed to operate by the FCC--is violating the terms of their FCC license, which requires that they operate in the "public interest." The formal Enforcement Bureau Letter notes that the ICE agents were operating at the time in an area known for violent gang activity.
Federal Communication Commission chairman Brendan Carr has opened an investigation into radio station controlled by left-wing billionaire George Soros.
"I want to express my thanks and appreciation to DHS and ICE agents. These law enforcement professionals are honorably serving this country and carrying out vital missions. Their safety is paramount. The FCC will hold broadcasters accountable for complying with their public interest obligations," Carr told Fox News Digital.
Audacy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On the January 26 edition of "KCBS Radio Weekend News," it revealed specific information about undercover ICE agents who were "carrying out an operation on the east side of town."
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The "KCBS Radio Weekend News" host then revealed the specific make, color and model of several unmarked vehicles used in the operation. The station also revealed the exact locations of several ICE agents working in the area.
Bonus: Alex Soros, the nepo baby who's taken over Soros, Inc. as George Soros prepares to spend eternity in Hell, has thoughts about a shadow government of oligarchs secretly running the country.
ICE raided apartment complexes in Aurora, CO today and arrested Tren de Aragua gang members. The same complexes which the gang took control over and the Governor and media said is a conspiracy and a figment of our imagination.pic.twitter.com/PgNbsXiwPm
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.
Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.
The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were "key hidden actors behind a plan" by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats' impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.
In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP's dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP's "annual work plan" and approves new hires of "key personnel." NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.
However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast "after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster's journalists involved in the project."
On December 16, Drop Site's Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. "NDR, Germany's public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding -- b/c no report was ever produced to kill," said Grim. "That was absurd -- and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it."
The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP's original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, "Drew's just nervous about being linked with law enforcement," referring to Sullivan. "If people who are going to give you information think you're just a cop, maybe it's a problem."
OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had "probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government... and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out."
As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as "cut-outs," to interfere in US politics this way.
OCCRP claims they're an "independent" "news" organization, and says that any claims to the contrary are "defamatory." Same lying and bullying tactics they used to get the German report censored.
But OCCRP's agreement with USAID says that USAID has the power to approve or veto OCCRP's hiring decsions.
On the website Patrucic links to, a screenshot from OCCRP's own agreement with USAID states, "Requests for approval of new Key Personnel shall include (a) written justification; and (b) CV curriculum vitae in English... Key personnel positions, candidates and changes to such personnel will require concurrence from the AOR [Agreement Officer's Representative] and approval from the AO [Agreement Officer]."
OCCRP claims on its website that USAID's oversight of OCCRP is not what it appears to be. "This represents a serious misunderstanding of a common procurement procedure. This person or persons, referred to as the grant's 'key personnel,' ensures that the money we get is spent appropriately and that the work gets done. This is not an editorial role, but a logistical one."
But there is nothing in the agreement that suggests USAID's approval of OCCRP's work plan and senior staff are unimportant to the editorial content produced by OCCRP.
Indeed, USAID's Shannon McGuire emphasizes, in the NDR documentary, that USAID controlled OCCRP through what is known as a "substantial involvement clause."
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Sullivan confirmed this. " Under cooperative agreements, which we don't like to take," he said, "they have a say on who the people are, but they can veto somebody."
Patrucic told Public, "I am the editor-in-chief of OCCRP and was appointed during a USAID grant, but my CV was never sent to USAID and no approval was sought or received. OCCRP is governed only by its board of directors and no one else."
But a second USAID official, Mike Henning, confirmed to the NDR filmmakers that USAID approval is not just for "logistical" or "administrative" functions.
"A cooperative agreement has more strings attached," said Henning, "than a grant... Some of the strings that are attached in a cooperative agreement are approval of key personnel, approval of an annual work plan, approval of sub grants of a certain amount above a certain amount."
USAID, he added, would have to approve "the editor in chief or who's the CEO, who's the, you know, managing editor."
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Samantha Power, then head of USAID, said in November 2021 that OCCRP was a "major partner" of the US government. Under its Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting (STAIR) program, USAID allocated $20 million to OCCRP from September 2022 to September 2027 to support investigative journalism in Europe and Eurasia. One of the reporters on the Giuliani story was based in Ukraine. Although OCCRP claims to assign grants retrospectively, it appears that a USAID STAIR grant may have funded the story.
Steve Engleberg, managing editor of the investigative journalism nonprofit, ProPublica, said that OCCRP's relationship with the U.S. government undermines OCCRP's claim to independence.
Shellenberger's "Public" substack is very much worth the $5 per month.
Mike Benz reports on USAID being the central organizer and main motor of the censorship propaganda effort against the American people, paying often-foreign governments and NGOs to label American speech as "disinformation," so that other USAID-funded groups could then ban conservatives from ever getting any advertising money.
Among other things.
He points out that, in 2019, Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article complaining that government censorship had gone too far. He was rebuffed by USAID-sponsored entities who organized and funded a fake astroturf campaign to drain FaceBook of advertising revenue. FaceBook's stock capitalization dropped by $60 billion over a few days, and that was enough to get Zuckerberg to comply.
He notes that Elon Musk, as "a triple-digit billionaire," is better able to resist this "whole of society" economic coercion (organized and funded by the US government) than double-digit billionaires like Zuckerberg.
And what about the rest of us? What about people barely getting by due to USAID's crushing advertising boycotts against us?
All kinds of people we’ve never heard of, and whom we never elected, have had this access for decades. You will need a new argument, because right now all it looks like is that you and others are terrified we’ll see your names as USAID fund recipients. https://t.co/LScuK44rCh
ICE Showed Up to the Apartments Taken Over by Tren de Aragua, But the Apartments Were Empty -- A Traitor in ICE Tipped Off the Foreign Alien Prison Gang Members
—Ace
This is not a firing offense. This is a jailing offense.
EXCLUSIVE: We were embedded w/ ICE as part of a massive federal operation in Aurora, CA targeting Tren de Aragua gang members. But the op fell far short of its goals, possibly due to leaks to the media that the raid was coming. I’m told 30 arrests were made, & only 1 was TdA.… pic.twitter.com/thO5HsAIbV
Kamala Harris gave a meandering, 179-word answer on Israel that "60 Minutes" cut to just 20 words, according to transcripts released Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC says it's investigating CBS for possible election interference, after complaints that the venerated news program cut Harris' word-salad answers to make her look more coherent. Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the network.
Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr got the full transcript and video on Monday after a tug-of-war with the Tiffany Network, which has defended the editing as a standard practice for "time, space or clarity."
But a CBS source told The Post on Wednesday that the "60 Minutes" edit did Harris "a lot of favors and makes her seem more succinct."
"You have to watch the video. A lot of 'word salad,'" the source said. "Feels like a cleanup on Aisle 7. Not a technical foul but one could argue still news distortion."
Hit the link for comparisons of her endless word-salads to what actually appeared on the air. In every case, she babbled for 150-200 words, and CBS trimmed her answers to short, more coherent 25-40 word answers.
In every case, CBS's helpful editors take her rambling, incoherent, dum-dum ding-a-ling non-answers and craft them into something more comprehensible and more "presidential."
The article explains Trump's cause of action here:
After releasing the transcripts, Carr said the FCC will hold hearings over a complaint by the Center for American Rights, a right-leaning activist group, over CBS News' alleged deceptive editing.
"The FCC has concluded that establishing a docket and seeking comment on the issues raised in the complaint would serve the public interest. The people will have a chance to weigh in," Carr said in a post on X.
CBS, which also released the unedited documents to the public on Wednesday, said the transcripts "show -- consistent with 60 Minutes' repeated assurances to the public -- that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful."
The FCC is reviewing whether the broadcast violates "news distortion" rules. Though the agency is prohibited from censorship or infringing on the First Amendment rights of media, broadcasters cannot intentionally distort the news.
LOL. This has been a rule all this time and no one has ever investigated broadcasters for their obvious violation of the rule?!
Note that the American public had not seen Kamala much because she was hiding from the press for months. This was the first time the public would get to see her and make judgments about whether she was qualified to be president.
In other words: This was the time to show her answers in their most complete form. This wasn't just about finding about what her fake "positions" were, but a chance to see how her mind worked, if in fact it worked at all.
CBS deliberately hid this valuable information from the public and presented her as much more cogent, decisive, and direct.
The knock on Kamala Harris was that she was indecisive and incoherent, and the real unedited tape would have allowed the public to see that that knock was accurate.
Instead, they faked the interview to present an entirely false version of her in her first solo major network interview.
If Carr finds evidence of misleading editing, it could impact regulatory approval of Paramount's $8 billion merger with Skydance, which was set to close by next month.
The very partisan cheerleader interviewer asked Kamala Harris how she would pay for her bonanza of spending -- but only after declaring that all of her plans were "logical," but the "illogical" thing was Congress, which would resist all of her very logical spending proposals. That's at about 3:00.
Also, after that, there's video comparison of one of her real answers vs. one of the edited Cheapfake answers.
NEW: 60 Minutes edited out one of Kamala Harris's rambles on the Russia/Ukraine war, clipped in a strong statement instead about Putin "sitting in Kyiv right now."
Edited version:
Question: "Would you support the effort to expand NATO to include Ukraine?"
When CBD asked if I would sit in for him this week. I gladly accepted the oppurtunity. But, to be honest with you. I didn't have a large number of rants in mind. Oh how that soon changed.........
Recently I broke a cardinal rule of mine. Thou shall not discuss ANYTHING POLITICAL on Facebook.
The hypocrisy of the left never ceases me from giggling. If hypocrisy wasn't so sad, the left's lack of common sense would be charming.
Recently a Facebook "Friend " (FBF) posted something about accepting the Alphabet Sexual Persuasion Gagle. One of the reasons a homosexual shouldn't be discriminated against because they did not choose to be homosexual. We are to accept them.
Fine. I can live with that to a point. What is Tolerance and what isn't is a Rant for another time and day. As a Christian I am to love my neighbor as myself. I am to treat everyone kindly, politely and humanely.
My FBF posted we are to judge each gay person individually and not as a group.
Fine. I can accept that as well. It reminds me of what Martin Luther King, Jr., once said. We are to judge content of character and heart and not something that could never be changed. (Skin color)
If being gay is not a choice. Are your political leanings and beliefs inherited rather than an environmental issue? I look at my younger sibling. Same upbringing. We are 20 months apart and one grade difference in school. Same grade schools, same high school, etc. Yet we are so completely different in our core beliefs and outlooks.
So you may ask? Where are you heading with this? Fast forward 2-3 weeks and my FBF is no longer my "Friend ". And in the future would no longer sell me a commodity because I'm MAGA person and using her words, "You cannot be trusted."
Why I even entered into this fray is beyond me. I guess I have too much free time on my hands.
She was rather upset that my President who I voted for was imposing tariffs on her country. (Canada) And Elon Musk was running roughshod over the US treasury. Silly her, a Canuck, telling me how to vote. But, she did thank me for being polite. Coming from a Canadian that just gave me goose bumps.
Let me get this straight? You have never met me. We have never spoken on the phone. And the product you won't sell to me now, you were going to sell me 14 months ago?
I wonder if she would have allowed a gay man to babysit her 10 year old child without any reservations. Just like she won't sell me wait for it a......... DOG.
Good morning kids. The big story this morning remains not only President Trump's Gaza plan whatever it is or whatever it might actually be and the reactions to it. First of all, regardless of whatever my personal feelings are towards the so-called "palestinian" residents of Gaza, and whatever Trump's intentions and feelings are, to forcibly or otherwise coerce/induce them to leave for other pastures, greener or otherwise, would be considered as "Ethnic cleansing" and as such from an international relations standpoint as well as a PR standpoint would be and should be considered as a non-starter. He has also suggested turning Gaza into a Riviera on the Mediterranean where the inhabitants would flourish, if only they'd give up trying to annihilate Israel. If only, if only.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz stated that President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal is “going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions, if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s solutions.” And that other realistic solutions have been lacking. . .
. . . Waltz continued, “I think it’s going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions, if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s solutions. So, that’s what we saw, and I think that is just living in the commonsense, practical reality of this awful situation that’s going on in Gaza and has been going on for quite some time.”
Sadly, what seems to be lacking is Waltz's understanding of history. Let me break it to you gently Director Waltz, the rest of the region has had a solution for 1500 years: It's called finishing Hitler's Final Solution, also known as Mohammed's Initial Solution! To be charitable to Trump, Waltz and company, I'm sure they know this, but the real solution to the problem, is recognizing that the problem itself is Islam. Even if you move a couple million Gazans, you still have 1.5 billion muslims seeking to kill every Jew and other infidel on the planet so as to create an Islamic caliphate that encompasses the entirety of said planet Earth. The estimable Robert Spencer and others have written and spoken of (When they've been allowed) of the Ummah, or worldwide Islamic rule. This is preached in every Mosque and madrassa on a daily basis. Unless and until you can at a minimum get the Islamic world to renounce this and its views on Jews and infidels, You can build Rivieras out the wahzoo and it won't mean a damn thing. Look at Bali in Indonesia? Look at Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain. And look at Beirut circa pre-1975. The fate of all the others will ultimately be Beirut, not because of the bombs and shells from the IDF defending itself or God-forbid avenging yet another October 7 assault/pogrom which would be bloodier by orders of magnitude. It would be at that behest and by the hands of subsequent generations of Mad Mullahs itching to purge non-Islamic western corruption. See Iran post the Shah and Afghanistan post the Red Army's defeat.
You can destroy and rebuild cities. A tyrannical, genocidal bloodlust going back nearly two millennia is quite something else, Mr. President. Gazans don't want the Riviera. They could've had it decades ago. If what you wanted to do was just expose this ugly truth to the world, this whole Riviera and/or mass relocation dog and pony show IMHO has fallen flat and could come back to bite you. We'll have to wait and see.
Fortunately, on many other fronts both here and abroad, the steamrolling of the anti-American Left continues, with much rending of cloth and wailing from the usual suspects.
With that, I'll give you the headless chicken cognitive dissonance of the Democrats with these two headlines.
On Monday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sat down with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday evening to talk about the executive actions of President Donald Trump and his apparent targeting USAID.
Raskin did his best to whip up an extreme amount of fervor and practically radicalize the left's base into protest and possibly violent action against their ideological and political counterparts.
It was thrilling and exhilarating to see hundreds of people show up on just a couple hours notice that we were going to have a press conference outside of [US]AID today. So there’s tremendous popular fervor here, and that’s giving everybody a lot of confidence and showing that we’re not afraid of these people. They might be attempting a coup against America, but we’re going to stop them, and we’re going to use every means available to us.
Maybe pre-placed pallets of bricks, fired FBI agents who can team up with Antifa and BLM stooges to hunt team Trump down in their homes and "get in their faces" as Maxine Love Canal Waters urged back in Trump's first term.
“Injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America,” Scumbag, degenerate, sub literate, prehensile tail-louse-foraging, CAIR-Linked Congressman Al Green Tries to Impeach Trump Over Gaza Plan
As for Jamie Raskin and his ilk, Cancer IS as Cancer does. Hopefully with Pam Bondi now AG and Kash Patel running the FBI, we can put the screws to all the traitors and actual insurrectionists that turned this nation inside out over the past 8 years and more.
No it's not retribution, Lefties. call it restorative Justice against the crimes you committed and projected onto us. Let the terrible swift sword be wielded early often and mercilessly.
Lots of other goodies, from the Trannie madness taking a beating courtesy of Trump as well as continued success in sealing the border, rounding up and shipping out the illegals and much more in the links.
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Christopher Rufo: Every era has its grifters, gurus, quacks and frauds. This is an American tradition, from the snake oil salesmen to the pyramid-schemers to the New Age prophets of the 20th century. One might be tempted to dismiss them as ethically compromised men, duping the gullible for personal benefit, but they’re something more than that: symbols of each generation’s hopes and anxieties. The past decade’s examples, who sold us on critical race theory, transgender medicine and other insanities, are no different. New Age ‘prophet’ Ibram X. [Krement] Kendi revealed as just another fraud after country emerged from BLM-induced mania
President Donald J. Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is moving to suspend all federal funding of sanctuary cities. The DOJ directive could impact upwards of 220 American cities that have some form of sanctuary law on the books preventing local law enforcement and government officials from assisting federal immigration enforcement actions against migrants who entered the United States unlawfully.Several Democrat mayors and governors have already announced they intend to resist President Trump’s nationwide crackdown on illegal immigrants, spearheaded by Border Czar Tom Homan. Subsequently, The National Pulse reported on Tuesday that Homan is considering pursuing legal action against New Jersey Democrat Governor Phil Murphy after the latter claimed he was actively hiding an illegal immigrant from ICE agents in a room above his garage. AG Bondi Moves to Freeze Federal Funding of Sanctuary Cities.
The U.S. flight carrying the migrants who illegally entered the U.S. landed in Amristar, a city in the northern Indian State of Punjab, not far from Lahore, Pakistan. Trump Admin. Begins Deporting Indian Nationals
“President Donald Trump told the American people he’d arrest and deport members of the brutal Tren de Aragua gang, and he’s doing just that,” stated White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “Illegal immigrant criminal gangs like Tren de Aragua will no longer be able to terrorize American communities under President Trump’s leadership.” ICE Has Already Rounded Up Almost 200 Venezuelan Gang Members.
It’s possible, even likely, that he is saying something absurd as a litmus test to shake things up and freak out the media before he pursues a more pragmatic strategy. Maybe he thinks his bold proposal can be used as a bargaining chip somewhere down the line. That being said, the very idea of illegally claiming ownership of Gaza is as farcical as it is insidious — and it deserves to be shot down and ridiculed. Trump Flirts With Poison Pill That Could Destroy His MAGA Agenda
Trump proposes a U.S. takeover of Gaza, pitching it as a redevelopment project, while critics call it a stunning reversal of his anti-nation-building stance. Nation Builder: Trump Eyes Ownership of Gaza Strip
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded a question from NBC News Senior White House correspondent Garrett Haake early in the briefing after President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States would “take over the Gaza Strip.” Trump also said his vision included moving Gazans to nearby Arab nations, which Leavitt said Wednesday would be temporary. (Whatever happens, every mosque and madrassa should remain in ruins and every Koran confiscated - jjs) White House: U.S. Involvement in Rebuilding Effort Does Not Mean Commitment of Troops or Taxpayer Dollars to Gaza
“China has all along believed that ‘the Palestinians governing Palestine’ is the fundamental principle of post-conflict governance of Gaza,” Lin said.
(That's it! No more Chinese food on Christmas for this weather-controller! - jjs) China Defends Hamas, Condemns Trump’s Gaza Takeover Proposal
Kivetz concluded that the commission will “look into the systemic antisemitism. I think what they’ll find is many other things that are correlated that go along with that, including, again, as I said, anti-West indoctrination, a severe bias against our way of life, against freedom, against free markets, against the same systems that allow people to teach.” Columbia Prof.: Antisemitism, ‘Anti-West Indoctrination’ Getting Worse, DOJ Antisemitism Probe Is ‘Great’
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
On Monday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sat down with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday evening to talk about the executive actions of President Donald Trump and his apparent targeting USAID. Raskin did his best to whip up an extreme amount of fervor and practically radicalize the left's base into protest and possibly violent action against their ideological and political counterparts. Jamie Raskin Thinks Dems & Activists Need to Protest Against MAGA 'Coup'
“The movement has organized under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day. Many of the protests are planned at state capitols, with some in other cities,” Associated Press reported. Let them resist billy clubs, tear gas, water cannons, and if need be grapeshot - jjs Left-Wing [degenerate criminal scum] Activists Protest Against ‘Fascism,’ Trump Across U.S. on Wednesday
“Plaintiffs are employees of the FBI who worked on Jan. 6 and/or Mar-a-Lago cases, and who have been informed that they are likely to be terminated in the very near future (the week of Feb. 3-9, 2025) for such activity,” one filing, on behalf of nine anonymous FBI employees as a class action lawsuit reads. It continues, claiming the plaintiffs represent the interests of “…at least 6,000 current and former F.B.I. agents and employees who participated in some manner in the investigation and prosecution of crimes and abuses of power by Donald Trump, or by those acting at his behest.” FBI Agents File Two Lawsuits Seeking to Block Trump DOJ’s Review of J6 Cases.
"You can’t just take out one thing, and the programs all go away." . . .“My concern is that… make no mistake, what’s happening right now is historic. It’s really the first time that the foreign policy establishment has had to respond in a serious way to the concerns of the American people that fund it. This has never been done before. There were attempts in the 1990s to do this, there were attempts with the intelligence communities in the 1970s, but this looks to be the most serious one in American history.” 'Killing USAID does not end USAID'
Miranda Devine: During the previous administration, these are the heroes and truth-tellers who came forward to warn America about the corruption of Joe Biden, the FBI and DOJ. They and their families have gone through living hell as a result. Here are a few who need help. Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler (See also the martyred Phillip Haney Above the Fold - jjs) Even as Trump scores numerous victories in White House return — don’t forget the whistleblowers
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The people who have allowed crime to destroy America’s cities and who went after Trump got a boost from tax dollars funneled through USAID. USAID helped fund the ‘Soros prosecutors’
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to end a Biden government-initiated grand jury investigation targeting Spencer Meads, Eric Cochran, and James O’Keefe for their efforts to expose and publish the diary of former President Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden. In the course of its investigation, the Biden DOJ directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to conduct predawn raids against the three men, seizing their electronic devices in violation of their rights as journalists under the First Amendment.Critics contend that the lawfare effort was intended to chill independent journalists who sought to uncover details about Joe Biden and his family. During his four-year tenure in the White House, Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, faced a bevy of accusations that they profited from the 82-year-old Democrat’s positions in public office and laundered their ill-gotten gains through other family members. Trump’s DOJ Ends Biden Govt Lawfare Against Journalists Who Exposed Ashley Biden Diary.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The report suggests service-sector jobs remain a key driver of employment growth, with gains concentrated in areas such as health care and hospitality. Meanwhile, manufacturing continued to show signs of stagnation, shedding 13,000 jobs, reflecting the ongoing slump that plagued the factory sector for the final two years of the Biden junta. ADP Report Shows Solid Job Gains But Hiring Still Weak in Manufacturing
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Con Ed proposes massive rate hikes that could increase NYers gas, energy bills by $154 a month — thanks to Hochul’s green energy push ZAPPED OUT
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson leads a 17 state coalition of attorneys general asking Republican congressional leaders whether Anthony Fauci may have violated any state laws not covered by his presidential pardon, according to a Wednesday letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. EXCLUSIVE: Over A Dozen States Look For Potential Fauci Charges Despite Blanket Biden Pardon
SECOND AMENDMENT
CBS 42 noted that legislation to create the state-level ban on Glock switches was put forward by state Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D). Ivey has not said if she will side with Democrats to ban law-abiding citizens from possessing other firearm-related items, if said items become popular with criminals as Glock switches have done. Nor has she said whether she expects a state-level ban to somehow succeed in a way that the federal ban has not. (FFS Alabamans, can we not find someone better than a fossilized leathery elephant uterus? - jjs) Alabama GOP Governor Caves: Supports State-Level Gun Control for Item Already Banned Federally
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The transgender proponents called on the district to maintain its policy allowing men to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms if they claim to be transgender after many parents voiced their concerns at a Jan. 30 school board meeting, according to ABC 7 News. Registered sex offender Richard K. Cox was arrested in December 2024 after several people reported a naked man watching women in the changing room of the Arlington Aquatic Center, which shares facilities with Washington Liberty-High School in Arlington, Virginia. Virginia Residents Ask School To Overlook Trans Sex Offender Caught Naked In Girls’ Locker Room To Keep Gender Policy
During a House Oversight & Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Gerry[atric] Connoly (D-Va.) virtue signaled all over the place by calling out Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) for using an abbreviation of a word that he classifies as a “slur.” The word in question, just in case you couldn’t surmise by now, was “tranny,” short for transvestite or transgender. 'Tranny, Tranny, Tranny!' Nancy Mace Triples Down After Being Called Out for Using 'Slur'
Until now, Schumer has never been held to account for his attack on another branch of government. But something happened in the past couple of days that has put the insurrection-y senator back on his heels. The new U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, has sent Schumer a lawyer letter asking him to answer his questions about the Senate leader's "serious threats against public officials." Martin's probe will look into whether Schumer violated laws against issuing threats or intimidation against judges and other public officials. Oops. Chuck Schumer Might Legally Reap the 'Whirlwind' for His Threats Against Supreme Court Justices (Breath status: Not Holding it [X] - jjs) MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING MADNESS
This is about realigning the GOP away from its toxic, out-of-touch former brand once and for all, and bending it to the pro-working class, pro-peace, and pro-accountable government philosophy which President Trump’s visionary leadership embodies. Gabbard and Kennedy's confirmations kills the old GOP
Trump's favorability in the Empire State has risen to 41 percent, up from 37 percent in December, while just 39 percent of New York voters rate Hochul favorably, according to the Siena College poll. The poll found that only 31 percent of New Yorkers would vote to reelect Hochul, with 57 percent saying they would vote for "someone else." Favorite Son? New Yorkers Like Trump More Than Dem Governor, Poll Finds
Support for walking away from the Paris Agreement is similar to that of removing ourselves from the morass of the WHO. Only 39% of Americans believe, either strongly (23%) or somewhat (16%), that we should drop the climate treaty. More than four in 10 – 41% – oppose Trump’s order to vacate either strongly (29%) or somewhat (12%). The next three paragraphs, which are repeated from a previous I&I editorial (because we can’t say it any better than we did then), are for the 20% who said they weren’t sure. These Two Trump Executive Orders Get Little Love From Voters. Why?
She not only refuses to bow, she stuffs the word back in Connolly's face, and adds most correctly, “You want penises in women’s bathrooms, and I’m not going to have it. It’s disgusting.” Trump has finally taught Republicans how to fight
Since former President Donald Trump’s wins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote in November, Democrats have struggled to find a clear message for their supporters as they look ahead to next year’s midterm elections. On “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Johnson said the party’s issue stems from trying to “play by the rulebooks,” adding that Democrats should elevate voices “that will break through.” CHASER: Former Biden Campaign Official Thinks Solution To Dem Woes Is To Trot Out Titty-Caca AOC, Far-Left Rep
The anti-mass migration conservative leader of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has thanked President Donald J. Trump for uncovering the “dark conspiracy” of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) using American taxpayer dollars to fund global leftism. “So apparently USAID financed ultra-progressive Politico in Brussels and basically the entire left-wing media in Hungary under the previous US administration,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).“I think the world owes a debt of gratitude to President [Donald Trump] for uncovering and putting an end to this dark conspiracy,” Orban added, in reference to the Trump administration’s move to effectively shut down USAID and absorb any surviving functions in the State Department. Tech mogul Elon Musk, leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), had said of the agency, “We dug into USAID. It became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but actually just a ball of worms.” Foreign Leader Lauds Trump for Exposing ‘Dark Conspiracy’ Against Him.
"The reason it took so long to give a death toll was due to the size of the school premises, according to local police chief Mr. Forest," reports the BBC. There were four other schools on the Risbergska campus with about 2,000 students. It's large, but they couldn't search all of it in 24 hours? The attacker is still a mystery. Death Toll in Swedish School Shooting at 11 as Authorities Slow-Walk the Truth About the Incident
NATO doesn’t actually do anything these days except use the US as a big brother when they want to bully non-NATO countries. NATO, you're fired
The announcement from the Department of State comes as President Donald Trump has remained adamant about the U.S. retaking control of the Panama Canal. In December, Trump threatened to retake the Panama Canal, and has accused Panama of ripping off the U.S. and charging U.S. ships “exorbitant” transit fees. Trump has also accused Panama of allowing China to have control over the Panama Canal. State Department: U.S. Government Vessels Allowed to Travel Through Panama Canal Without Fees
The Department of Defense (DOD) is reportedly drafting a plan to withdraw all 2,000 troops from Syria in either 30, 60 or 90 days, sources told NBC News. Since 2014, the U.S. has maintained a troop presence in the region, mainly to fight the Islamic State out of its headquarters at al-Tanf in southern Syria. Trump Pentagon Reportedly Preparing To Close Curtain On America’s Syria Excursion
Last Thursday, the director emailed the Office of Personnel Management, which has been administering the program, and asked for a process that would enable CIA to email its entire workforce offering the opportunity, while allowing the CIA flexibility to work through the timing of officer departures in critical areas. Ratcliffe also offered long-tenured officers an early retirement option and halted Entry on Duty (EOD) for those who had been offered a job late in the Biden junta, to review whether their position aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities. These changes are the most significant in the agency’s modern history, and the largest since former CIA Director John Brennan’s reorganization in 2015. CIA Director John Ratcliffe Undertakes the Most Significant Overhaul of the CIA Workforce in Modern History
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
I’d like to see what the kickbacks [in USAID] are. How much money has been kicked back? Who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about, and I read about, and I see every night on the news, and every morning when I read the papers? I would say this: the people that got all that money, are they kicking it back to the people that gave it, from government? No, that’s to me, very, very corrupt. The real question is how much of a kickback has there been. Trump Rips California High-Speed Rail; Sets Up Fight with Gavin Newsom
And yet when these same scientists are asked about human-caused global warming, many tell us that “The science is settled!” and that we are destroying the climate and that we are all going to die in just a few years from rising sea levels and endless burning summers and no winters. Sunspot update: Sunspot activity continued its decline in January
Though the company has not yet announced officially the number of launches it hopes to fly in 2025, it appears the number will exceed the 14 orbital launches it completed in 2024. Rocket Lab wins another multi-launch contract
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
It has 178 keys, and is even larger than you might expect because the top two rows are all double-width. My Everest Max by comparison only has 136, but is both modular and much more compact. And prettier. And cheaper.
People quickly figured out with the original Pi Pico that it was possible to get it to produce a DVI video signal even though the chip has no video logic on board. Now you can get that without needing to make the hardware yourself.
Price has not yet been announced but the existing version sells for $15.
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Did you notice that Elon Musk's Twitter/X bio now reads "White House Tech Support"?
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Musical knowledge:
"Whiskey in the Jar," a song about a notorious Irish highwayman Patrick Fleming who was hanged in 1650, has become one of Ireland's most beloved songs, a true rebel air that stirs the passions.
Fleming was no hero. He murdered, robbed, and maimed rich and poor alike, including women and children before being hunted down. He made a legendary escape from his death cell by scrambling up a chimney but was eventually recaptured. In death, he acquired a heroic air and many poems were written about him.
Historian Alan Lomax says songs of highwaymen attacking the agents of the crown were very popular with Irish and British peasants.
The folk of 17th century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen, and in Ireland (or Scotland) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots. Such feelings inspired this rollicking ballad. The history of Irelands beloved "Whiskey in the Jar"
The song first gained wide exposure when the Dubliners, an Irish folk band, performed it internationally as a signature song, and recorded it on three albums in the 1960s.
Ozzy Osbourne will reunite with all of the original members of Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years, in a gig that will be his last and that's being billed as the "greatest" heavy metal show ever, promoters said Wednesday.
The band, one of the most influential of all heavy metal bands, will headline "The Back to the Beginning" show on July 5 at Villa Park, home of the Aston Villa Football Club in Birmingham, England.
TRex is a sucker for videos showing how things are made. This one is from Porsche, showing assembly of two different models.
Porsche built a top flight race car in 1999 but pulled the plug as part of the budget implications of the company's pivot to SUVs. The design and engineering team was permitted one private shakedown run with the single car that was built. The car was put away and became the stuff of legend, known only through a handful of fuzzy photos passed around the interweb. Porsche refused to acknowledge the car or show the car for years.
Over time, the car gradually emerged from the shadows. Porsche undertook an effort to get the car running for its 25 year anniversary. It is a true unicorn. Here is LMP2000 (internal code 9R3):
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For no reason other than because we can:
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To put and end to the relentless questions "TRex, where and when are the World Stone Skimming championships held?" Every September, Easdale Island in Scotland is the place to be.
Apparently the place is a pile of slate which means lots of flat round rocks which are perfect for skipping across the water.
The concerns were prompted by media coverage of a report for the Scottish government by the independent Scottish Animal Welfare Commission, which published its recommendations on responsible domestic cat ownership last Monday.
Among its proposals, which included encouraging vaccination and neutering, the report also suggested that consideration be given to "containing" cat ownership in certain rural areas that were also home to red-listed bird species. It is estimated that domestic cats kill 27 million birds in the UK each year.
Wait a minute. A commission in Scotland produced a report on "responsible domestic cat ownership?" Yep. 56 pages worth. You will be relieved to know that the report currently does not "recommend making it compulsory to neuter all owned cats." But "[t]his option will be kept under review by SAWC, in order to take into account of future research into alternatives to surgical castration, such as chemical implants."
Like every other good online conspiracy theory, this one looks more true than false.
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Did not originally intend for this to be a recurring theme, but here we are:
Eat what you want, but why is eating metal a thing for the Guinness Book of World Records?
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Speaking of metal, live Metallica with Whisky in the Jar for a big ONT finish:
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The Troll's Tongue, Odda, Norway
1,100 meters high, it says right here
I mean right here. I meant I wrote that.
I have no cite except my own authority.
Elephants are expressive creatures. They display joy, anger, grief, compassion and love. But a mother’s love for her calf is the strongest emotion of all.
"No one voted for Elon Musk." (They did however vote for Donald Trump who promised repeatedly to have Elon Musk root out wasteful spending in our government.)
Xis $550,000 check from USAID is in the mail, I'm sure
What a difference it makes, having an actual Commander-in-Chief:
Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
BREAKING: In December 2024, the @USArmy had its best recruiting number in 12 years.
In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 YEARS.
BOTTOM LINE: America's youth want to serve under the bold & strong "America First" leadership of @realDonaldTrump
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CIA Director Ratcliffe -- what sweet words those are -- announced that he offered buyouts to the incompetents and traitors at the CIA.
Trump is warning that tomorrow is the last day to accept his generous offer of eight months pay in exchange for voluntarily leaving the government. Because after that, he's just firing people, and they can collect unemployment like Non-Governmental Peons have to do.
The Trump administration warned federal workers Tuesday that the "majority" of government agencies will be downsized and that a buyout offer extended last week will not be renewed.
The so-called "Deferred Resignation" program offers more than 2 million federal employees unwilling to comply with a return-to-office mandate about eight months of pay and benefits if they resign before midnight Thursday.
"There will NOT be an extension of this program," read an email to government workers from the Office of Personnel Management.
A new book is pushing the lie that Kamala Harris really wanted to do Joe Rogan's show -- she's not an idiot who's afraid of embarrassing herself without friendly editing, you see -- but Joe Rogan spurned her every effort, because he wanted to rig the election for Trump.
Rogan's theory is that her young aides lied to Kamala about Rogan not being interested, because, in their stupid hyperideological woke view, going on Rogan would "normalize" and "platform" him, and they objected to that.
"We have all the receipts, by the way," Rogan added. "Of course, I have a whole list of conversations that took place ... I think it's someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect. [If] we got along great, and [it improved the] 'young male vote' things could have been different."
I think he's wrong about that. I think Kamala Harris is a deeply stupid woman who at least has the sense to know she cannot survive a long conversation without a friendly editor to knit her word-salads into something palatable.
This is actionable. Part of your defense to a defamation lawsuit is claiming you had no malice. But part of showing that you didn't have malice is going through normal journalistic processes.
Processes like "reaching out to the target of your hit piece for comment."
The authors of this defamation didn't bother doing that, Rogan says.
"[The authors] supposedly talked to 150 different people [about] what happened with her coming on the show. They didn't talk to us, and which is kind of crazy. They didn't even ask. But they said things that just weren't true." Rogan said on his Jan. 4 episode.
I didn't feel like covering the Carlos/"Karla" situation so I'm glad Ed Driscoll did.
The transgender pretending to be a woman "starred" in what I'm told is one of the worst movies of all time. Hollywood really wants to go bankrupt, so they showered 13 Oscar nominations on this piece of shit -- one shy of the record, and two more nominations than The Godfather got -- to say f*** you to all normal, mentally-healthy people.
That much you know.
What you might not know is that someone in the nasty media went digging through this transgender's old tweets to cancel him, and found him saying Forbidden Truths like, get this, George Floyd was just a "drug addict" and "hustler."
St. George?!!? How dare you, sir!
So now, after elevating this no-talent nobody for Woke reasons, they're now cancelling him for Woke reasons.
Instead, the trade press has attacked Gascón for social media posts uncovered by a renegade freelancer, Sarah Hagi, who identifies as a black Muslim and who is Canadian but writes hit-pieces for U.S. media. The trade press has heroized Hagi for exposing dated "racist tweets" by Gascón. Gascón's posts ranged from criticizing Black Lives Matter and questioning the credibility of the George Floyd scandal to what Hagi claims were endorsements of Adolf Hitler.
So a Muslim in a hijab attacks a trans performer who identifies as a woman yet doesn't kowtow to all the liberal pieties. It's an almost humorous fulfillment of the prediction that the Left will eat itself....
But the unserious Hollywood trade press remains trivial. Variety went for standard left-Hollywood accusations. Daniel D'Addario wrote a piece on the Gascón affair, with a headline calling Gascón "the Donald Trump of Oscar Season." D'Addario mentions President Trump nearly as often as he mentions Gascón. A former television critic for Time, D'Addario uses prejudiced phrases -- "the politics of prejudice emanating from President Trump," "our current, entertainment-obsessed president" -- even digging-up the Obama birth certificate controversy and the tired comparisons of Trump to Hitler. D'Addario practices code phrases the same way that Gascón's old tweets, according to Hagi, issued "dog whistles."
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap betray their own integrity by waging industry vendettas against Gascón and Trump as if both were infidels to the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) cause.
What makes this fracas serious is the underlying media mania for cancellation and censorship -- of a performer and a president. It's an extension of the angry zeal that has overtaken the media in general, from legacy publications to the internet upstarts that all mistake partisan activism for journalism. The idea is to effect the revolution in gender and identity that is part of the social transformation progressives demand be installed in our language and thinking. The Academy's endorsement of Karla or Carlos Gascón has exposed the trade media, transforming it into a medium of spite.
They can all go, literally, to Hell. Boycott their garbage movies. Not another dime.
Speaking of mentally-ill garbage people with no moral center who are no longer culturally relevant: Kanye West stripped his current wife/consort down to the skin and showed her naked, much-altered body to the press corps. Note this clip contains nudity. He really wants us to believe he's so totally over Kim Kardashian that he's had a plastic surgeon cut his current consort to look just like Kim Kardashian, and has her exposing herself in public just like Kim Kardashian.
I get it, dude. You're totally over that skank. It's so obvious.
And speaking of media figures with absolutely no remaining credibility or audience: Andrea Mitchell has finally left MSNBC. I imagine she'll be doing some podcast collabs with Jim Acosta, Chuck Todd, Don Lemon, Jennifer Rubin, and all the rest of the Unwanted.
Project Veritas
@Project_Veritas
CASE DISMISSED in Ashley Biden Diary Matter
The US Attorney in SDNY has dropped the case against Project Veritas journalists who were raided and persecuted for investigating the diary of Joe Biden's daughter. After years of threats, no charges will be filed.
From the very start, this was a bogus investigation that exposed the shameful lengths the former administration would go to live up to Joe Biden's line that "no one fuc*s with a Biden."
The Biden DOJ acted like criminals - surveilling our newsroom, confiscating dozens of devices, forcing us to spend millions to defend ourselves against our own government.
This unconstitutional attack set a dangerous precedent that the courts were unwilling to stop.
It is good that the new administration put an end to it, and they should act to hold those responsible accountable.
No American journalists should ever again be targeted for their work.
Shock: Deep State parasite Billy Kristol, who literally is on the payroll of the Deep State, says he prefers the Deep State to actual elected, responsive representative government.
Who could've guessed.
The North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association spreads disinformation, and flirts with actual insurrection, by calling the duly-elected government a "coup":
Democrats are calling upon their most psychopathic antifa-aligned shock troops to "fight in the streets" and go to "war"
This response to to the insurrectionary representative who calls for "war:"
Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
She is not wrong: They are at war against Elon's effort to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse--because their entire professional-activist apparatus is dependent upon waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. Losing access to that cashflow is an existential threat.
These people had better be careful. Let me remind them that the last time a politician "incited" his followers into violence, he was hounded by four separate criminal cases and all of his lawyers and friends were hounded as well.
We watched what you did with the trumped-up fake "insurrection." If you think we're not frothing at the mouth to use the full force of government to ground you into a fine pulp, you're deluded.
I want you to riot. Do it. Do it.
You say we're "fascists." Okay. Well give us the pretext to come after you, and we'll show you how "fascist" we can be using your New Norms against you.
DOOCY TIME: “Are any officials here preparing to fight Democratic lawmakers in the streets?”@PressSec@KarolineLeavitt: “Absolutely not.”
Do you remember the Tren de Aragua gang members who took over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado? The ones the New York Times called a social media hoax that Trump fell for?
JUST IN: Following the announcement of his new EO, President Trump threatens to pull federal funding and investigate schools for Title IX violations if they allow men to invade women's sports or locker rooms.pic.twitter.com/5wm6Np7r0P
An analyst reports that Biden essentially forced hospitals to perform gender transitions on children by declaring "gender" to be protected under Title IX and in other areas of laws. Biden created the circumstances for lawsuits against non-complying hospitals (and non-complying schools, in the case of forcing them to let men beat the shit out of girls in sports).
He says that now that the legal environment is shifted, hospitals are ending transitions for children.
MI’s @LeorSapir has been working on issues around gender affirming care for minors since the beginning. His reaction to the recent executive order:
"We’re already starting to see some effects...we’ve seen so far three hospitals announce publicly that they are discontinuing their… pic.twitter.com/tBejOD3Jg7
Trump told us what he was going to do, then he did what he said what he was going to do, and then he tells us that he just did what he said he was going to do.
It's amazing how honest and direct you can be when you just tell people what you're going to do and then actually do it.
Eli Erlick openly boasted about supplying hormone blockers to minors describing herself as a 'proud criminal in Mississippi'
Trans activist was slammed on social media with conservative commentator Matt Walsh tweeting that he'd reported the tweets to authorities
They come in the wake of some 100 bills that've been proposed across 27 states aimed at stopping children from accessing 'gender-affirming care'
The trans-identified male activist encouraged others from the community to do the same after Mississippi became the latest state to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care.
Erlick took to social media to proudly explain her illegal cross-sex drug distribution network.
By "her," the garbage-tier Daily Mail means "his."
'I'm now a proud criminal in Mississippi for 'aiding and abetting' lifesaving medicine for trans youth,' Erlick tweeted Tuesday.
'I realize the risks of posting this but it's more important to encourage others to share lifesaving medications than guarantee one's safety (granted I'm in little danger in NY).'
In a separate post Erlick said: 'I order 4 times more estrogen & testosterone blockers than I actually take. You should, too.'
'Several states have now banned trans medicine for minors but we won't let a single young person go without medication. We'll provide care ourselves if youth can't access formal medicine.'
Biden's DOJ had fought this every step of the way.
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over communications between ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith and the president's Georgia antagonist, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in what a legal watchdog group has called a case of collusion.
The order from U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich followed the end of Smith's 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and Smith's own resignation from his special prosecutor role.
Judicial Watch had sought the communications in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit but has been stalled by Smith and Justice, claiming that disclosing any information would hurt the prosecution.
Friedrich, based in Washington, said since there no longer is a case, turning over the documents won't jeopardize any case.
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Judicial Watch had been seeking communications between Smith's office and the Fulton County district attorney "requesting or receiving federal funds or other federal assistance in any form relating to the investigation" of Trump and others in the 2020 election case. The group also sought any other communications between the two.
The stalling angered Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who said, "President Trump truly needs to overhaul the Justice Department from top to bottom. It is a scandal that a federal court had to order the Justice Department to admit the truth that their objections to producing records about collusion with Fani Willis had no basis in reality."
Leave the maggots no stone to hide beneath. Let the light sear them.
EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will issue several major directives on her first day leading the Justice Department, including orders to combat the weaponization of the legal system; make prosecutors seek the death penalty when appropriate; and work with the Department of Homeland Security to "completely eliminate" cartels and transnational criminal organizations, Fox News Digital has learned.
Bondi issued a directive regarding "zealous advocacy." Bondi said DOJ attorneys' responsibilities include "aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges."
"The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election," the memo states.
"When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers," the memo continues.
Bondi, in the memo, states that "any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department's mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination."
Bondi is set to establish the "Weaponization Working Group," which will review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of "politicized justice."
The working group's first reviews will include prosecutions against Trump led by former Special Counsel Jack Smith; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg; and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against Trump and his family.
The working group will also review any potential prosecutorial abuse regarding Jan. 6, 2021; the FBI's targeting of Catholic Americans; the Justice Department's targeting of parents at school board meetings; and abuses of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act.
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Bondi said Joint Task Force Vulcan, which was created to destroy MS-13, and Joint Task Force Alpha, which was created to fight human trafficking, would be "further empowered and elevated" to the Office of the Attorney General. Those missions are expected to expand -- specifically Vulcan's -- with a new focus on destroying Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang now designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
She's also ending Biden's (illegal) moratorium on seeking the death penalty, and working to give "justice" to 37 families who lost loved ones to the vicious murderers Biden pardoned.
And as for illegal migrants, Bondi has directed the DOJ to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities.
Bondi also has directed the DOJ to identify and evaluate all funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide support to illegal aliens.
She is also directing litigating components of the Justice Department to investigate instances of jurisdictions that are impeding law enforcement, and directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.
BREAKING: Newly sworn in Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Department of Justice to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities pic.twitter.com/FH3MZpIKdf
Update: Sweet Karoline Announces That DOGE Is Working to Cancel Those Fake $12,000 Per Person Per Year Politico Premium Subscriptions
—Ace
One of Andrew Breitbart's big issues -- which I think my old friend Mike Flynn (the writer/politico, not the general) brought to his attention -- was the fact that the left has turned the government into their political action committee. The left gets funded by anti-American billionaires, yes, but it mostly gets funded by the American taxpayer, as Marxist infiltrators in the government use excuse after excuse to direct money towards leftwing organizations.
On the night of November 26, 1991, Frazier was walking along the street by Brown's first-floor apartment when he found the lights on inside, and decided to commit a robbery.
He broke into her lower-level window and found $10, before moving to another room where he discovered Brown sleeping in a bed.
Frazier then woke Brown up and demanded more money, and she gave him $80 from her purse.
The then-19-year-old later confessed to police that he then held Brown at gunpoint and raped her, during which she begged him profusely to not kill her.
In his confession, Frazier said it was Brown's begging that led him to shoot her in the head, because he 'didn't like whiny women who pleaded for their lives.'
If he were on federal death row, Biden would have commuted his sentence.
Pam Bondi confirmed as AG on close, nearly party-line vote of 54-46 Maybe we can stop voting for all of their lunatics now, huh? I don't know who the lone Democrat casting a vote for her was, but I would guess it's John Fetterman, who has said that he's open to voting for Trump appointees (including the tough ones like RFKJR. and Tulsi) Update: yes, it was John Fetterman, whose stroke rebooted his brain into an elevated state
NEW: Senator Joni Ernst said that USAID employees claimed they lived in Washington DC to collect higher salaries and expense write offs but actually lives in other locations. This was done with the full supervision and acceptance of their bosses at these Federal agencies.
Dude this is just the bleeding edge of the very tip of the iceberg. There are going to be Church Committee-like investigations with Church Committee-like revelations. People are going to prison. We are going to find out the true Secret History of the United States of America.
Susan Collins announces "yes" on Tulsi Gabbard Lindsey Graham announced he's a "yes" on Gabbard and also on RFKJr. and Kash Patel. Though we mostly assumed that, because he's a Deep State operative who keeps his cover as a "Trump supporter" up-to-date
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click Well you can take it as a warning
Or take it any way you like
The lightning, the thunder
You never know where it's gonna strike-ike-ike