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AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
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Saturday Night "Club ONT" August 2, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. The Summer of Fun.
Club ONT Token Economy - where tokens are earned. One token per witty comment.
No refunds for fish puns nor dad jokes. Who runs Club ONT? The one with the most tokens and the strongest bladder. It's your chance - even Auntie Entity had to wait in line.
A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and asked his father when they could discuss his use of the car.
His father said he'd make a deal with his son: "You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. Then we'll talk about the car."
The boy thought for a moment and decided to accept the offer.
After about six weeks his father said, "Son, you've brought your grades up and I've observed that you have been studying your Bible, but I'm disappointed you haven't had your hair cut."
The boy said, "You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair...and every painting I see of Jesus shows him with long hair."
His father replied, "Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?"
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Bill Maher isn't a Club member, but he is kinda funny sometimes
HOLY SMOKES: Bill Maher may have just ENDED CNN’s Erin Burnett’s career over her “possibly white” comment about the NYC shooter—with one SAVAGE comedy bit.
Absolute masterclass.
This was a full-blown eulogy for woke media credibility.
Inspired by life events. That one friend - you know the one. Always getting roasted, never gets rattled, ends the night with a drink in hand, and no bar tab. The name is Daulton Donnie.
The Donnie Blue Ballz
- Fill rocks glass with ice
Add
- 2 ounces of Tito's
- Top with Blue Bubbler
- Mock your friend
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Bonus Donnie Drink. He gets thirsty like that.
The Rusty Donnie
- Fill rocks glass with ice
Add
- 2 ounces of Jameson Orange
- Top with Orange Water
- Mock your friend. Again.
In the time it took you to click this link, I bet you guessed who Streatham Wells School in southwest London chose, in an effort to "tackle misogyny," as an example of masculinity for their boys.
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News from the Club ONT Sports Desk
There seems to be a new type of spectator engagement at WNBA games. Has anyone seen CBD lately?
During Friday's game between the Valkyries and Sky, what appeared to be a lime-green dildo was thrown onto the court during the third quarter.
This comes after a similar incident occurred just three days prior when an object was thrown on the court at the end of the fourth quarter of Tuesday's game between the Dream and the Valkyries. With less than a minute to play and the game tied 75-75, the sex toy fell from above and bounced on the free throw line before flying across the court.
A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.
Crews were stuck with a job they did not relish - rolling up the scattered tube steaks for disposal.
Four people required medical attention, Dauberman said, for injuries that police said were not life-threatening.
A front-end loader was used to scoop up the hot dogs and drop them into a dump truck.
A new analysis of 450 genomes from cultivated potatoes and 56 genomes of wild potato species has revealed that the potato lineage originated through natural interbreeding between a wild tomato plant and a potato-like species in South America about 9 million years ago.
This hybridization event led to the appearance of the nascent potato plant's tuber, an enlarged structure housing nutrients underground, according to the researchers, who also identified two crucial genes involved in tuber formation. Whereas in a tomato plant the edible part is the fruit, in the potato plant it is the tuber.
There currently are roughly 5,000 potato varieties. The potato is the world's third most important food crop, after rice and wheat, for human consumption, according to the Peru-based International Potato Center research organization. China is the world's leading potato producer.
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Club ONT Music
Yesterday marked 10 years since the last ever Rush concert. Here is the final song from that night.
Club ONT regrets the events of last Saturday where a patron apparently handed the keys to their car and a crisp $20 bill to someone sitting on a bench near the front door. Neither the car nor the $20 bill have been seen since. Club ONT reminds you that Club ONT does not offer valet parking. The Moose out front should have told ya.
Saturday Evening Move Thread[movigique]: The Life Of Chuck/Eddington
—Open Blogger
A relatively quiet three weeks since we talked about Return of the Living Dead. We saw two new movies: The Life of Chuck and Eddington, and two classics, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Apartment.
It probably goes without saying that the new movies are not in the same league as the classics, but it's not really fair to come to any conclusions about the state of cinema from that. On IMDB, The Apartment is #98 on the list of all-time greatest movies, while Cuckoo's Nest clocks in at #19.
The Boy (who is now "nearly 29" himself, creating an odd temporal paradox) is one of my metrics for classic films. He, for example, really enjoyed all the 1984 movies we saw—clear-eyed evaluation of the entertainment value of Return of the Living Dead and Repo Man (good, worthy but started stronger than it ended)—and Cuckoo knocked his socks off.
The Apartment less so. I personally felt a strange nostalgia for this time on aesthetic level. Not the depiction of life, really: The idea of an insurance drone whose rent is a about week's pay ($80) for a West Side New York apartment near Central Park is far enough removed to be a fairy tale in 2025. But, man, this is a good looking film, with Wilder bringing his noir chops into a comedy-drama.
I've never seen a young Shirley MacLaine on the big screen, and she's tragically adorable.
When receiving an international honor, Wilder said the story (which showcases immorality) could have happened in any city in the world except Moscow, the communists all broke out in applause. Then he said, "Because nobody has their own apartment in Moscow."
I could talk about it forever. But we can't live in the past, and we wouldn't want to, unless it was the movie past. So let's soldier on.
The life of Chuck is a three part story told backwards which, during the first part—actually the last part narratively, gawrdangit I hate it when they do this—created in me a sense of anxiety. Not like Eddington, which I'll discuss in a bit, but more like "Oh, no, what have I done?"
You see, the first part shows the world ending. And it's ending in the way a CNN watcher would perceive it as ending. I don't know how else to describe it. Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose name I have been struggling to pronounce for half my life at this point, is Marty, a teacher who's dealing with the death of the Internet, kids not showing up to school, roads literally collapsing, PornHub going away, etc.
Then there's a speech (by Carl Lumbly), a monologue of liberal pieties about man's mistreatment of the Earth, which is short-circuited by "but this is even bigger".
Meanwhile, inexplicably, signs appear all over town, in windows, on TV, "Thanks, Chuck! For 39 great years of service!"
This message is actually weirder after the exposition.
Nobody knows who Chuck is, however.
We meet Chuck in Act II. He's an accountant, played by Tom Hiddleston, and he's at a conference when he walks past a busker drumming. But he doesn't walk past, he starts to dance instead. And he's good. And he's joined by a young woman (Karen Gillan) whose boyfriend just broke up with her via text.
In the last part of the movie (Act I), we see young Chuck, and we get an explanation for his behavior and, essentially, what happened in the first part of the movie.
The Boy and I liked this, but for me, the experience was rather odd. There were things that I didn't like at first that won me over eventually.
Dancing is fun. Movies used to know this.
Pluses, Delayed Pluses
First of all, I have to call out the movie's look. It's a good look. It's not generic, it's not color-coded, it's not ugly. This means it towers over the average 2020s era film.
Second, the acting is impeccable. Hiddleston probably goes without saying. If you only know him as Loki, you might not recognize him. You'll hear a lot about Mark Hamill because it's probably his best performance ever as Chuck's grandfather. Chuck's grandmother is played by Mia Sara (forever best known as Ferris Beuller's girlfriend, Sloan, looking lovely and unmodified here). And if that's not enough of an '80s cage-rattler, Chuck's nosey neighbor who lets him in on the family secret is played by Heather Langenkamp, nasal cannulas hanging on her upper lip.
No, no, she's great. Really. I just need to lie down.
Anyway, the acting is top notch, with many fine actors having small but meaningful parts: Mathew Lillard, Harvey Gullen, David Dastmalchian. On and on.
So, where did it put me off?
Like every generation, GenX believed they would never grow old. (Probably because they were gonna die young in quicksand or possibly being eaten by piranhas.)
Well, there's a narrator (Nick Offerman). I'm leery of narrators. Show me the story. If I wanted a narrator, I'll read the book. But this is very well done. By Act II, I had decided it was a good choice.
The music (The Newton Brothers) does this low-toned "bong" at significant dramatic moments which I rolled my eyes at at first. But ultimately it fits with the tenor of the film: This is a movie about a man's life, and the consequential and inconsequential aspects thereof, and how we don't necessarily know which is which.
It didn't forget its mission. It is very United Colors of Moviemaking, with an improbable racial mix, but everyone's talented so, y'know, who really cares about that?
Is it great? Ironically, perhaps, it's the philosophical underpinning of the story that is the weakest. Like, the third act (the beginning)—a very writerly concept shoehorned into the Everyman's head—doesn't actually make any sense in the context of the story. Literally everyone in the apocalyptic part of the story should know who Chuck is.
Furthermore, the punchline/twist is fine, but also doesn't comport with human behavior in any very admirable way. Chuck has a choice about living that he makes in a life-affirming way. But he also keeps his choice a secret, which strikes me as very selfish.
This is done far, far better in the Korean film Be With You.
"Oh, God. I look 20 years old."
-- Heather Langenkamp in "Nightmare on Elm Street" // "The muffins have a lot of bran in them, good for the digestion." -- Heather Langenkamp in "The Life of Chuck"
Eddington
My review of any Ari Aster movie is going to be "I liked it, but I can't really recommend it to almost anyone." Hereditary is his most normal of films, being essentially a remake of Rosemary's Baby, with emphasis on moody anxiety and shocking gore. I consider Beau is Afraid to be a masterpiece surreal picaresque but I can't blame people for not wanting to spend three hours in anxiety for entertainment purposes.
Well, if you like anxiety, and you especially like it when it hits close to home and reminds you of a bunch of real-world unpleasant experiences, let me tell you: Eddington is the movie for you.
The plot, ostensibly, is that normal, none-too-bright sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix in the most normal role I've seen him in since Signs) is fed up with also none-too-bright establishment stooge mayor (Pedro Pascal in the kind of role he shines in), and so decides to run against him for mayor, immediately turning the sheriff's office into his makeshift campaign HQ (which can't possibly be legal). Well, it's a small town, so as it turns out the sheriff's (mysteriously sexually traumatized) wife (Emma Stone) used to date the sheriff when she was sixteen, and the sheriff's wife vanished years ago, while his son is getting to BLM activism because the one cute white girl in Eddington is an activist, organizing road blocks and apologizing for her privilege.
"Six feet!" Joaquin reminds Pedro, even though he doesn't believe in any of it.
Actually, every white young adult in the movie punctuates every thing they say with apologies for being white. Even at a prominent funeral, the eulogizers apologize for daring to speak on "stolen land". The mayor is a self-serving jerk, but the sheriff is an impetuous idiot who wrecks his own life by trying to tie his wife's trauma to his candidacy.
This ushers in the end of the second act, when the sheriff's impulsive nature gets the better of him, and the third act ratchets into increasing insanity and violence.
But Is It Any Good?
The Boy liked it. The Barbarienne gave it 9 out of 10 (which may be her lowest rating). Me?
Well, "good" or not, I wouldn't recommend this movie to most people. Like, in the beginning of the movie when the sheriff (who is asthmatic) rolls out to the grocery store, and reminds the grocery store bouncers (remember those?) that they don't really have the authority to police masking, and everyone's standing six feet apart waiting to get in, and nobody's wearing a mask properly anyway, but everyone's talking about all the death caused by Covid-19 (or is it?)—there's no denying that Aster captures the insanity of the lockdown/masking period.
There's also no denying that the events of the movie, which has everyone scrolling their devices constantly, and seeing stories about murder hornets, pedophile rings, etc., go by, reflect the distracted, sanity-baiting life a la mode.
Actually, the entire movie is populated by morons and madmen.
The small scope of the film works as a perfect satire. There is one homeless guy who wanders around. He's genuinely a menace but there's not really anything anyone can do for him or to him, and he ends up being the catalyst for the sheriff's denouement. (Keep the word "denouement" in mind. It's going to come back.) The BLM protests block a road, but there's really no reason for anyone to care about it. There's no traffic on the road, and the town appears to be largely deserted. (The Mayor's son mocks the Sheriff for driving around yelling out his campaign promises to, essentially, no one.)
The sheriff's crazy mother-in-law (Deirdre O'Connell) watches a constant feed of conspiracy theories, and her ultimate fate is clearly meant to be satirical—it doesn't make any actual sense—but I didn't feel like this was a political film. If it was, it fails at that, and (ironically?) it might have been a better film if it had been political.
Ad Aster
As my children pointed out, this is an Ari Aster film, and as such things that I view as its failings are probably my own in having the wrong expectations.
Your wife, introducing you to the cult leader she's about to allow to impregnate her.
To me, the brilliance of Beau is Afraid is the largely agency-free Beau struggles to survive and manages, ultimately, to gain some control over an existence which is literally insane. I don't mean that he's insane; I mean the world is insane. It is, at times, out to get him, and if we take his struggle literally (or maybe even if only metaphorically), his willingness to forge on become increasingly admirable. In this framework, the indignities and absurdities of the world are not just encouraging us to point-and-laugh.
Here, the Sheriff has apparent agency, but this is largely thwarted by his own impulsiveness. By the end of Act II, he does something to set himself on a path that goes increasingly out-of-control. The movie is over at that point, and the last hour is just a depiction of his descent—the denouement, in other words is a full hour before the end of the movie.
So, while the proceedings were often entertaining—e.g., a Kyle Rittenhouse callback where a young man saving the Sheriff's life has his phone in one hand and a gun that he's filming while he's firing it in the other—they were dramatically pointless. There was nothing to be learned, and no one to root for, unless one wants to root for "mere anarchy".
I expected better emotional resonance or, as I said, even a political message might have been welcome if just to explain why I sat there for two-and-a-half hours. Somehow, I expected more.
When the cops pull up to remind you to wear a mask. While sitting in a car. Alone. At the outskirts of town.
But I didn't expect anything on the level of The Apartment or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which maybe is actually telling in itself.
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. Good news! The Ace of Spades Wheel of HobbiesTM) is back in service. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it landed on fishing.
I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests.
You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.
As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged - especially with this theme.
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TRex is not wise in the ways of fishing (as the content below will make clear). Many others, however, enjoy the fine arts of the reel and rod, lures, casting, and hip waders. Some even drill through the ice and fish on a frozen lake in the winter! Can you imagine? For purposes of the theme, crabbing, catching lobster and other similar activities are in scope. Looking to the Horde to help with the hobbying theme this week.
We will leave aquariums, koi ponds and other such marine habitats for another time. This is about catching, not just observing. We'll also leave boats and boating for their own thread another time.
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Seems like as good a place as any to start:
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Always wonder what is happening underwater...
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Every picture tells a story:
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Truth:
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This photograph apparently shows the US Fish & Wildlife Service electrofishing for invasive Silver Carp in the Fox River in Illinois.
TRex does not know about electrofishing but the photo implies that an electric shock applied to the water makes the fish jump. The interweb says it stuns rather than injures the fish, but I'm unfamiliar with stunned fish jumping with such enthusiasm. Anyone know about this technique?
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Fish fine art:
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Maybe people who fish enjoy watching videos of other people that fish. Seems a little like watching someone else golfing or playing a video game to me, but I have a small brain and short arms. Since TRex is not wise in the ways of fishing, I am not equipped to select youtube clips with wisdom and prudence.
Since this is a Hobby Thread, one aspect of fishing that might resonate with a broader mix of Morons is making lures and hooks. There is a crafting element involved.
I have a soft spot for people that make their own tools. I also have a soft spot for youtube videos with no commentary.
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Bears fish too.
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Fresh is EVERYTHING in places like Japan and Hong Kong:
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Fine literature:
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Fine music:
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Bonus Horde Hobbying from the Ace of Spades Archives
Many of you knew Moron Jay Guevara who recently passed away. Did you know he made a carpentry post on Ace of Spades in December 2021 with links to some of his favorite YouTube channels? Tis true: My Favorite YouTube Channels - Carpentry
The links all still work. Thanks for the tip KT!
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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a random grab bag of hobbies. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
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Notable comments from last week:
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Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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Would TRex include a mystery click behind the top photo in a Hobby Thread? Maybe... If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Hello K.T. and fellow Pet Morons. After taking last week off, I have a few interesting updates.
First, Chick A's problem with Splay Legs has been resolved. Dr. S. removed the bindings after 12 days and was satisfied with the results. One eagle-eyed commentator in the comments sections asked a question about his toes, noticing that one foot had 2 toes forward and 2 back, while the other foot had 3 forward and 1 back. Normal is 2 forward and 2 back. I asked Dr. S. about this and he wasn't too concerned. He feels like this should self-correct once they get in a proper cage and start perching.
Chicks A and B have left the T-Rex phase and actually look like little birds. They have started wing flapping and should be ready to make their first flight soon. This will be a major milestone in their development. Notice that Chick B's colors are starting to come in nicely on his breast. The other picture shows how much Chick A's wing and tail feathers have come in.
Chicks C and D are doing well too. As you can see, they have really grown, but are still in the fuzzy state
Regards,
David
So glad to hear about Chick A's legs improving!
Chicks A and B are starting to develop some personality!
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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde
From gp:
Some bugs that members of The Horde could perhaps identify: Friendly, not friendly? Could the chicks above eat any of them?
I took Ava (age eight) and Nana for a visit to an Illinoisgravel hill prairie in 2017. I brought my sweep net, and my Canon PowerShot SX150 IS, which I found at a garage sale for $2.
Nana brought her Nikon CoolPix L22. I set the camera on macro, handed it to Ava, and I caught and posed the bugs for them to shoot. Here are five pics. I'll send more next week.
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Ava (first two photos) and Nana (last three) took some professional level photos there. Now it's time for critter identification!
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Thank you for sharing your pets and interesting animals and animal stories with us.
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Good news on the gardening front- a mysterious vining plant popped up in my pepper plant and turns out to be a pickling cucumber, which I’m excited about. Just need about twenty more. And my first Carolina Reaper turned orange ( 1.8 million Scoville units; a jalepejo is 6K), and I’m getting strawberries.
Fun! And impressive for a container garden. I'll skip the Carolina Reapers though.
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My cousin and her husband will be leaving their apricot tree and apricot harvest for a lower elevation and warmer climate this fall, after about 27 years. A peach tree wouldn't typically produce nearly that long.
This tree is too big and too tall for easy thinning and pruning. See the old-fashioned apple/pear ladder.
I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Late Comment Review on a carnivorous plant:
Lirio100:
It was a Drosera filiformis so not sure what happened since the other two plants were fine. I can move the dish closer and protect it better this time I do have one question--it was recommended to use distilled water, which I do. What is the problem with tap water?
Tony Litwin:
To Lirio100: Sorry for missing your post, but here is your answer. Tap water has too many minerals in it to use out of the tap. Either use tap water that has been allowed to sit for several days or rain water, both of which can be caught in a barrel type catchment. You don't have to use distilled water.
As for your Filiformis, that is odd since Filiformis is native to the northeast of the US down to the panhandle of Florida. The one thing about Filiformis is that when it dies back in the winter, it makes what is called a winter bud which looks like it is dead, when it isn't. Try again with the Filiformis and when it dies back in the winter leave the plant where it is and see what happens in the spring. I'll bet it starts growing again. Hope this helps and good luck growing.
Here's a hybrid of that sundew from Tony. The April 23, 2022 thread also includes some other great photos of carnivorous plants from Tony, plus a puncture plant (also discussed last week) and a machine someone invented to remove them.
Drosera tracyii x D. filiformis 'Florida Red'
(Check for other interesting comments you may have missed from last week, too.)
Well, perhaps the most inconsequential, yet prevalent, stories in media right now concern advertisements for blue jeans featuring an attractive young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. A passing reference was made to "blue jeans" in connection with "genes" and "eye color". This led to wild speculations concerning the coming of a Fourth Reich and so forth. You have seen some of this craziness.
But this advertisement did not happen in a vacuum. As Walter Kirn wrote recently:
Old news is more important than new news because new news is built on top of it. When you are renovating a structure you don't start with the roof but with the foundation.
Let's go back and get the old stories right. Otherwise nothing will be right, from here on out.
In my youth, I met my best friend's uncle, who taught English at Cal Tech. One of his activities was writing dialog and music for their faculty musicals.
Yes, faculty musicals.
I remember a bit of a recording of a soliloque:
I am an old man
Sitting in my laboratory
My Bunsen has gone out . . .
These scientists were not always as single-minded as they looked. Heh.
Anyway, my friend's uncle wrote a song entitled "Blue Genes" to celebrate some honor given to Watson and Crick.
So the "Blue Genes" play on words has been around for a while. But Hitler was not its source.
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Incidentally, the quality of faculty artistic performances may have regressed since Cal Tech faculty members created and participated in musicals. (Start at 18 minutes)
Remember that protesters at Evergreen gave a black student of Bret Weinstein a hard time for studying science. Tried to get her to drop her educational plans.
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Are you "Possibly White"?
Bill Maher notes that identifying a gunman as "possibly white" means that other activities may also associate you with being white. Maybe you could wear jeans:
“This phrase ‘possibly white’ has really caught on and people want to know: am I my possibly white?”
“So we put together some indications if you would like to hear.”
“If you find yourself nodding your head to the Wells Fargo hold music… You are possibly white.”
“If you’ve ever waited in line for an artisanal chocolate chip cookie… You are possibly white.”
“If you’re married to a black person in a Subaru ad… You are possibly white. You’re probably white.”
“If you take your mistress to see Coldplay… You are VERY, very possibly white.”
The BHC, which is unique within the CSU system, will welcome in 70 students in the fall of 2024. Each will receive a $2,000 scholarship. They will take their general education courses together and have a large part of the library reserved for their use. Several faculty members will work exclusively with these students. “It is meant to increase Black excellence — and the recruitment and retention of Black students,” says Dean Boatamo Ati Musupyoe. “To offer students a structured curriculum, composed of small classes and a faculty with a proven record of teaching success, we’re creating an environment where Black students will feel welcome and included.”
Wood frames it this way: “Sacramento State is home to the largest population of Black and African American students in the Cal State system, and more than all of the UCs except two.” Yet it has consistently wrestled with low Black graduation rates, he says. With the creation of the Black Honors College, Wood hopes that the university will rapidly increase graduation rates and will provide Black students the resources they need to flourish.
The successful American Eagle Jeans commercial did not occur in a vacuum.
Seeing certain newspapers go all-in on deceptive interpretations of the Russiagate evidence now emerging, I'm even beginning to doubt their restaurant reviews.
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)
[H/T to a Moron]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Mishicot)
1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Be Kind, Be Nice. Trolls need admonition.
3. No. You may not run with sharp objects here. Go to Slate or something like tha.
4. Have a great weekend!
When Weasel isn't thinking about, tinkering or shooting guns he thinks about you Saturday morning Morons. Thanks Weasel for the following educational film.
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/29 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update and her thanks for all the prayers and words of encouragement. They have sustained her and her family as she continues to battle cancer. She continues to receive good news: her oncologist is quite pleased with her response to the current medication protocol; they are decreasing the lab work frequency to every other week instead of weekly; the side effects from chemo have been barely noticeable; she can just take 4 tiny pills for chemo instead of spending one day a week at the cancer center. It’s been 7 months so far, and she expects that at some point the tumors will start growing again, but for now, they are encouraged.
6/6 Update – Teresa has a side effect from the chemo – her fingernails and toenails are starting to loosen and “lift” off their nail beds. It is painful, and also carries a risk of infection.
7/9 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update – all is well for her for now. She will have more lab work done on 7/15, and then a CT scan on 7/28 to see if the tumors have shrunk any more. She is still losing hair, and her fingernails and toenails are still being “wonky”. She is not nauseous, so she is happy with her current situation.
6/11 – Legally Sufficient asks the Horde’s prayers for her friend, Bubba, who was in a bad auto wreck on 6/8. Prayers for comfort, healing, and strength are needed for Bubba and his family. He is in ICU and will be there for a couple more weeks. Thank you!
7/15 Update - Legally Sufficient asks for continued prayers for healing, strength and comfort for her friend Bubba. God is great! Bubba continues slow and steady improvement following his horrific vehicle accident. She received a photo of him visiting a job site this week and she said she doesn’t mind telling you that it suddenly got dusty here. Bubba was not able to stay very long before the heat and humidity took a toll and he was forced to retreat to air conditioning. Bubba is still under doctor’s orders to not drive, but has an able and willing chauffeur (his wife) who takes him where he wants to go. The prayers are working, please keep them coming for a little while longer!
6/28 – Dave R requested prayers for healing, strength, recovery, and curing, as he was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He is 62 and a long-time AoSHQ reader.
7/5 Update – Chemo starts on 7/7.
6/28 – H asked for prayers for a mom of two elementary aged boys who lost her mother 3 weeks ago, and her husband on 6/28, both to cancer.
7/19 Update – The visitation was good, but prayers are still appreciated, especially for the boys, as they go through a hard stage of life without their dad.
7/3 – Ciampino’s daughter posted to let us know that Ciampino is back in the hospital. He is dehydrated again. His kidney cyst is back and bigger, so he will need to have another surgery, but they don’t know when.
7/7 Update – Ciampino passed away. His daughter posted how much he loved everyone’s witty humor on the site, and sent her thanks for giving him years of enjoyment and community.
7/19 Update – Please contact Annie’s Stew for more information if you would like to contribute to Ciampino’s cremation fund raiser.
7/5 – Boswell asks for prayers for his best friend Mark’s mother. She is 90 years old and was diagnosed with sepsis after her colon burst. She had surgery on 7/3, but her recovery is not going well. She is too weak for the tests she needs to find out what is wrong. Please pray that she recovers fully, as she and Mark are very close. He is devastated.
7/16 Update – Mark’s mother passed away peacefully in her sleep. Mark is, of course, quite saddened by this, but at least she did not suffer at the end, and her family was by her side when she went. Boswell hopes that his friend finds solace that she lived a long, happy life and she raised such a wonderful son.
7/9 - Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her niece Amanda, and her husband Barkley. They are at Vanderbilt Hospital, where Amanda seems to be rejecting her second heart transplant. She is only 40 years old, and has been having heart issues for 20 years. She had her first heart transplant 4 years ago, and things are not looking good.
7/11 – Racially Ambiguous Honky, the brother of G’rump/toby928, sent his thanks for the prayers on his behalf, after his appendix burst and he had sepsis. He says he is recovering well.
7/11 – JR requested prayers for the families of those killed in Gaza.
7/11 – Stateless sent his thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers for him. His house officially became his on 6/30, ending 6 months of uncertainty since his Mom passed. He is getting stronger and is learning about and working to process emotions differently, after losing so much.
7/11 – Screaming in digital asked for prayers for her mother. Mom is still recovering from a UTI plus 3 falls within the last couple of days. During the day, there is some improvement. But once she starts sundowning, she is terrified and clings to whatever she can hold onto. She only weighs about 105-110, and isn’t eating much, but it is hard to move her when she is like that. If she doesn’t improve her mobility and cooperate/help with transfers to and from the wheelchair, etc., and consistently feed herself, she won’t be able to stay at the assisted living facility.
7/19 Update – Screaming in digital’s mother passed away.
7/11 – Frankie asked for prayers for her friend “R”, who is back on hospice for Huntington’s disease. He was on hospice before, but went off for an experimental medication, but unfortunately it wasn’t helpful.
7/11 – Igotnothing sent a prayer of praise. A grand-nephew, quadriplegic since birth due to deformities, and now age 10, after many surgeries and care and prayers, is able to walk. The boy and his family (mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-aunt and great-uncle) went on his first ever walk in the woods. What joy!
7/11 – Matthew Kant Cipher requested prayers for Layne, a family friend who is also his son’s FIL. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and is awaiting further test results to determine whether they treat with chemo or remove his bladder. As of now, it appears to be contained. Please pray that he and his family are blessed with God’s love and grace through this time of trial.
7/18 – Tecumseh Tea had a heart attack and needs prayers.
7/23 Update – Tecumseh Tea had a Type 2 heart attack, which is considered mild. She sends prayers of thanks for that! The angiogram showed a healthy heart, with little plaque and clean arteries, so no stent was needed. They did find a myocardial bridge, which is a congenital defect. The goal is to keep BP 140/70 with a pulse of less than 60, but so far they have not been able to meet that goal. She can’t get a cardiologist appointment until 8/22, so the GP is helping, but so far they have not been able to get the right BP meds. Please pray for a sooner visit, and the right meds that work for her, and answers.
7/19 – Huerfano asked for prayers for a rapid and full recovery for brother R, who had hernia surgery. He cannot see his grandsons until he has recovered. He misses them , and they miss him.
7/19 – Farmer Bob posted an update. He is doing well. He is competing in 5Ks and triathalons, and sends his thanks for the prayers. His ex-wife has “gone off the deep end” (or just remains so), with weird lies and accusations. She could use a prayer or two.
7/19 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Cheri and Gretchen, church ladies of his acquaintance. Cheri had a medical incident while driving and veered off the road and struck a number of pedestrians, sending 3 or 4 to the hospital. Gretchen and her husband were passengers in the car and her husband had a heart attack after the accident and died. Cheri is just sick about it and has kind of snapped. Gretchen has lost her best friend of 65 years.
7/19 – H asked for prayers for Brandon, a homeless man in San Marcos, TX, who has a broken ankle and has to seek care for that injury, specifically prayers that he would see God providing for him. He is asking for God to help him advocate for his care.
7/23 – D sent an update on his wife Susan, as they deal with cancer. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster. They cannot operate on the cancer, because it has spread too much. They have started chemo and hope to get it to shrink. Susan’s gallbladder is inflamed, but they cannot remove it, due to the chemo, and her blood sugar is having issues. Thanks to everyone for their prayers; Susan has pulled through all of this and is looking great as they keep praying to the Lord.
7/26 – Stateless asked for prayers for his neighbors. The nice lady across the street lost her husband of 30 years about 3 months ago. And a different neighbor lost his beloved wife of 34 years in July.
7/26 – Fenelon Spoke requested prayers for J, a dear lady who attends her church. J has been going downhill since she had a heart procedure several months ago and now cannot speak. She may have dementia and is living in an assisted living facility.
7/26 – Coelacanth sent his thanks for prayers for his son. He has come a _very_ long way but could still use more prayers as he deals with vax and black mold injuries. Also, Coelacanth cut his left hand pretty badly and severed two tendons. He will be on light duty at work for 6+ weeks. Prayers are appreciated.
7/26 - Brother Tim was discharged from the cancer rehab facility and has returned to his routine of living out of hotel rooms, while working on better housing prospects. He is praising God for all the blessings and mercies!
7/30 Update – Brother Tim found out that the cancerous mass impinged on a blood vessel. He needs a full body scan to make sure it has not spread. He is relieved that he only needs radiation and not chemo to make sure the original cancer stays gone. He’s also out of PTO. He said that sometimes it feels like 2025 will be the death of him – possibly literally.
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2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Because it had no security at all. Anyone could look up anyone's personal information, or even log in as an administrator and redirect their luggage.
The vulnerabilities resulted in complete confidential private information exposure of all airline customers in all countries who used the service of this company, including full control over all the bookings and baggage. Because once you are the super-admin of their most sensitive systems, you have have the ability to do anything.
It was found by security analysts before anyone took advantage of it. The CEO of security group Cyber9X is quoted above.
The departures come as Intel implements a major cost-cutting plan, aiming to reduce its global workforce by 15%. The company expects to close the year with approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, which means that the company will have fired 30,000 people in 2025.
Those numbers don't add up because Intel has already laid off 15,000 staff this year.
I used to kind of like Atlassian because small companies could buy any of their products for $10 and host them on they own servers. They did get their fangs into you as you grew, of course.
Rescued baby sea otter Joey loves chomping on ice cubes. Wildlife sanctuaries offer ice cubes to rescued sea otters for enrichment and helping them stay cool in warm weather.
The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to reverse precedents that limit state and local governments' ability to commit people on streets who are at risk to themselves or others, according to a White House fact sheet obtained by The Hill.
It also requires interagency work on grants for states to enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping, loitering and squatting, and to track sex offenders. And, it requires redirecting funds to ensure people sleeping on streets and causing public disorder, and suffering from serious mental illness or addiction, are moved to facilities like treatment centers.
Additionally, the order requires that discretionary grants for substance use prevention, treatment and recovery do not go toward funding "drug injection sites or illicit drug use," and it aims to stop sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance from being housed with children and allows programs to house women and children exclusively.
The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party's biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump's Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.
The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization's fight to survive.
Louisiana 'Medicaid millionaire' bought Lamborghini while claiming government benefits for years
Investigators say Taylor flaunted luxury lifestyle on social media while fraudulently receiving government benefits
Not so fast.
A Louisiana woman who purchased a Lamborghini while fraudulently obtaining Medicaid benefits is facing a fraud charge, authorities said this week.
Candace Taylor, 35, of Slidell, dubbed the "Medicaid millionaire" by the office of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, was arrested Monday. The state Bureau of Investigation began looking into Taylor after receiving a complaint from the Louisiana Health Department saying she underreported her income to qualify for Medicaid benefits.
"From 2021 through 2024, Ms. Taylor continued to transfer tens of thousands of dollars between her personal and business accounts, with personal inflows consistently exceeding the eligibility thresholds for Medicaid," the affidavit directly states.
Medicaid provides health insurance for low-income adults and children. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments. The federal government establishes parameters for states to follow. However, each state administers their Medicaid program differently.
Taylor initially applied for Medicaid in May 2019 under the alias Candace Sailor, listing a bi-weekly income of $1,900 and no dependents, authorities said. That application was denied.
Less than a year later, she re-applied under the same misspelled name, prosecutors said. She was allegedly inconsistent with the years she reported having a dependent.
Investigators eventually discovered she owned six different businesses that generated more than $9.5 million between January 2020 and December 2024, according to court documents.
More hospitals are dropping their "gender affirming" genital mutilation services.
The Trump administration is definitely on a roll. Last month the LA Children's hospital announced that it would be shutting down the largest gender-affirming care clinic in the United States, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development. Then a week ago Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC made a similar announcement. This week several more hospitals and medical groups have followed suit.
Sexton reports that Connecticut's Children's Medical Center and Yale New Haven Health have ended their barbaric butcheries, as well as the University of Chicago Medical Center.
And -- this is a big one, because it operates in eight states -- Kaiser Permamente.
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched an inquiry into whether health providers are failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or are making false claims about its benefits.
Why it matters: The action could help make the case for using unfair competition laws to crack down on health providers, by asserting gender-affirming care involves deceptive claims, legal analysts say.
Driving the news: The FTC solicited public comment through Sept. 26 from consumers who "may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about 'gender-affirming care,' especially as it relates to minors."
The move followed a public workshop the FTC held in early July to "gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing" surrounding gender-affirming care for minors that featured prominent critics of youth gender-affirming care.
The agency justified its involvement by saying its role is to assess whether medical professionals have violated parts of the FTC Act by failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or making false or unsubstantiated claims about its benefits or effectiveness.
Reality check: Gender-affirming care for minors is supported by major medical organizations including the American Medical Association.
LOL. "The leftwing organizations dominated and whip-sawed by the radical transgender cult says this is all great, and that's all you need to know."
We began by conducting a keyword search of every article published in the JAMA Network--a group of 13 medical journals affiliated with the American Medical Association--between April 1 and May 31. The phrase "diversity, equity, and inclusion" appeared 56 times, more often than atherosclerosis (45) and osteoporosis (16). Another progressive-coded term, "inequity," showed up 99 times--more than asthma (75) or opioid use disorder (65).
All of these papers are left-leaning, according to AI analyses.
DEI-inspired scientific studies are often plagued by poor design: sampling bias, lack of proper control groups, leading survey questions, and circular reasoning. Researchers frequently treat incidental associations as proof of causation. These methodological flaws are baked into published papers, which then get cited, flaws and all, by others. Over time, some DEI-based studies acquire unwarranted credibility and authority.
Take Brad Greenwood and colleagues' research from 2020, which claimed that "newborn-physician racial concordance"--meaning the child and the doctor are the same race--"is associated with a significant improvement in mortality for Black infants." But the original authors failed to control for babies with very low birth weight. When Manhattan Institute researchers replicated the study, they found that racial concordance had no such effect. Nonetheless, the original study has received more than 800 citations, including 21 by articles within the JAMA Network.
Another study with similar left-wing premises has also made the rounds. Kelly Hoffman and colleagues claimed in a 2016 paper that "Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans." Their conclusion was based on a sample of 194 medical students and 28 residents, with no attending physicians included except for "10 experienced physicians," whose recommendations served as the benchmark against which sample participants' knowledge was evaluated.
In one of the paper's two case vignettes, these physicians identified narcotics as the appropriate pain management for kidney stones. Had they consulted the 7th edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual from 2012, however, those physicians would have known that NSAIDs are the "primary analgesic of choice" for that condition, not opiates. While this error calls into question the study's conclusions, the paper nevertheless has been cited over 3,000 times, according to Google Scholar.
Nepo baby and former celebrity Jamie Lee Curtis calls plastic surgery a "disfigurement."
Sounds like she's talking about her Freak Friday co-star Lindsay Lohan.
Jamie Lee Curtis is condemning Hollywood's obsession with plastic surgery for "disfiguring" generations of women.
"The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers -- there's a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances," the "Freakier Friday" star said in a new interview with the Guardian.
"It is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want. I'm not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it's hard not to go, 'Oh, well that looks better.' But what's better? Better is fake."
To drive her point across even further, Curtis, 66, rocked a pair of oversized wax lips -- which she personally bought from Amazon -- to her accompanying photo shoot with the outlet.
"The wax lips is my statement against plastic surgery," she proclaimed. "I've been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who've disfigured themselves. The wax lips really sends it home."
Curtis then defended her use of the word "genocide," recalling its definition of the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. She said she uses it "specifically" because it's a "strong" word.
Defund and decertify. We have too many fake universities pumping out uneducated students and giving them fake Participation Trophies of Learning as it is.
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: An official at the University of Iowa was recorded in an undercover video bragging about how she and others at the school have been taking steps to "operate around" state and federal DEI bans, saying, "I am proud of the fight." pic.twitter.com/mT4yDbjTzc
The New York Times paid real money to a feminist writer to put her primal scream on paper, in which she whines about a new syndrome callled "heterofatalism," which means something like, "Why do we femcels have to be straight women who want the penis? Men are awful and we should all be lesbians."
Granted, I am sensitive today - my mother is dying, and the Texas Monthly flood piece I linked this morning had me in tears with my coffee - but the gracelessness of this makes me want to cry, or scream. I think I need to take a walk pic.twitter.com/D1OeGmaIHV
Mark Halperin: Biden's Inner Circle Is Threatening Kamala Harris That If She Dishes About His Cogntivie Impairment, They'll Start Admitting How Incompetent She Is
—Ace
So now the very mean old man, the most absurdly thin-skinned moron narcissist on the planet -- whoops, except for Jasmine Ratchet -- is threatening Kamala Harris that if she discusses Biden's dementia in her stupid book, they'll open the vaults about her.
During Friday's edition of his "Morning Meeting" newsletter on his 2WAY platform, Halperin dropped a not-so-subtle warning: if Harris ever turns on Biden, the former autopen president's handlers are ready to unleash a barrage of "embarrassing" information to put her in her place.
"I'm going to break a little news here, okay? We talk all the time about what did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it about his cognitive decline... if the Biden people decide that Kamala Harris is coming after Joe Biden, wait till you hear the Palinesque stories about how much they tried to help her be prepared to be vice president and be in a position to run and how much they decided: not happening," Halperin explained.
"And if the Biden people feel threatened, you will hear stories about Kamala Harris as vice president that will not make her look good. Okay? So there's a closeness to the couples -- it's not like they're at war currently -- but I'm telling you, if Joe Biden feels threatened, if his people feel threatened by her, this is going to escalate in a big way," he added.
I mean, I think he was making a similar threat during the campaign. Biden must have told her "Do not EVER disagree with any of my policy choices" -- why else would she have claimed she could not think of a single decision Biden had made that she would have decided differently?
She couldn't possibly be that stupid, could she? Certainly she had her allies in the media repeating the spin that she would govern completely differently than she had previously promised, so she was aware that the progressive policy ship was sinking.
Maybe this is all an okey-doke, with the two people no one wants to hear from ever again promising major revelations in their horrible books just to drive up sales.
Earlier I said that Kamala's political career was over, and she was essentially admitting that in saying she doesn't "wanna go back" to the "broken system."
But Biden's top advisor Mike Donillon says she's running in 2028:
For as long as I've been alive, leftists, hippies, health nuts, and Food-Worriers have demanded we remove artificial ingredients -- like chemical food dyes -- from our food.
Fifty years of demands on this front yielded no results.
Until now.
And the response from the left? Silent fuming.
#6 – FDA approves new natural blue food dye from gardenia fruit.
Artificial dyes are being phased out en masse while clean, natural ingredients are taking over.
.@DrMakaryFDA on artificial food dyes: "Studies have shown that they are linked to Attention Deficit Disorder... The FDA normally approves a natural color as a food dye once every couple years — well we just approved 4 and we're going to approve 2 more in the next few months." pic.twitter.com/gLcQ33s4Rt
I can see right-leaning people, who don't want the government intruding into our lives or consumer choices, and who are up to their eye teeth with constant Food-Worrying, sitting on their hands for this.
But leftists? Leftists who have been demanding this for half a century?
One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism, and all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away.
Some preamble for this next link: I don't want to insist that you believe the new thinking on corn syrup/fructose. You may well think, "They're literally telling us that this or that is poison every ten years before reversing themselves later."
But here's my pitch: Whether or not you buy it, it's been a steady buzz in health circles -- and the awful media -- that corn syrup/fructose is not a "healthy" sugar, but is in fact a sugar even more unhealthy than sucrose. Fructose is processed in the liver, unlike other sugars, and American livers are already over-taxed due to our high obesity rates and diabetes rates and exploding rates of fatty liver disease.
Anti-sugar campaigner Dr. Robert Lustig insists it's the most poisonous of all sugars.
I'm not saying you have to buy any of that. I'm not sure I buy the claim that one sugar is "better" than another. They're both bad, at least in the enormous quantities we now consume them in.
I am saying the media has bought into this idea, and has previously reported that high-fructose corn syrup is driving our high obesity rates.
Until now, that is. Trump badgered Coca-Cola into dropping the high fructose corny syrup from its sodas and replacing it with cane sugar (as Mexican Coke is sweetened with, which is then imported into the US by people who say it just tastes better).
Again, my point isn't about HFCS itself, but how the media routinely does complete 180's whenever Trump endorses a policy.
This was going on pre-Trump, of course. For thirty years, the media enjoyed saying that all Republican efforts to cut government spending were utterly useless because the only real way to reduce the deficit was to rein in Social Security and Medicare spending.
Then, in 2012, Mitt Romney and his political fuckboy Paul Ryan actually grabbed that third rail and did what the media had shouted for thirty years was the "eat your vegetables" solution to fixing the nation's finances and proposed very modest reforms to Social Security and Medicare.
And the media demonized them for doing exactly what they said must be done for three decades straight.
I'll never forget that. And it's why I forgive Trump for not having the "bravery" to address this issue: Because we all saw what happened the last time someone proposed doing what the media insisted must be done.
So: Are you making GAINZZZ for Trump?
I had Trump GAINZZZ for a couple of weeks and then this last week I became Low-Energy Jeb.
I would just like the weather to not to "feel like" 100 degrees plus, alternating with heavy rain. I would so much enjoy that.
But men are 49% of the market (actually, more like 90% for a sportscar) and the trans market is.... slightly less than that, right?
Mardell, 64, has been at the company for more than three decades including the last two years as chief executive during one of the most transformative periods in the firm's recent history.
This includes spearheading a remarkable financial turnaround for the company, which has seen it bounce back from heavy losses and debt around the beginning of the 2020s to posting its best profits for a decade last year.
JLR reported a pre-tax profit of Ł2.5billion in 2024-25.
But arguably Mardell's biggest involvement has been his role in Jaguar's controversial 'woke' rebrand and shift to an electric-only premium car brand from 2026 - including the unveiling of the polarising Type 00 concept.
A spokesperson for JLR told the Daily Mail: 'Adrian Mardell has expressed his desire to retire from JLR after three years as CEO and 35 years with the company. His successor will be announced in due course.'
He will reportedly leave the role on 31 December.
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Its success has been driven by record wholesale volumes of its Defender 4X4s, which sold 115,404 units over the 12-month period.
In contrast, just 26,862 Jaguars were sold worldwide in the financial year - a 45.8 per cent drop - after production of all models ceased in November as part of a planned 'sunset period' for the manufacturer, its dealers and its customers to prepare for the company's hotly-debated electrified relaunch.
American Eagle has issued a response to ugly cat ladies unashamedly showing their envy and resentment that a white woman is getting more attention online than they are.
No, it's not this one. This one is a parody, though most wish American Eagle would endorse it:
American Eagle's genuine response is good enough: They are defiant, and they say, correctly, that a bunch of ugly harpies coping on TikTok and BlueSky is not real life, and that their own polling shows that 71% of respondents like the ad:
At the Federalist, Rich Cromwell writes that this contretemps, as stupid as it is, is important. It shows that the mentally-ill, unaccomplished social-media-addicted nobodies who have bullied, harrassed, and deplatformed us for ten years are shrieking because they're realizing they have no power here.
Given that denim is one of American Eagle's staples and that Sweeney is rather attractive, it's a brilliant pitch replete with a dad-level pun. At least, it's a brilliant pitch to not insane people. For the insane, though, it's "Nazi propaganda," "Nazi fascism," and "an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness."
[T]he completely unhinged and disproportionate response to the campaign shows the inmates who have been running the asylum are losing the plot in real time.
For starters, it's an advertisement for blue jeans and, to be honest, not exactly an original one. Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic marketing, people are talking, and American Eagle's stock trended upward as a result. But using attractive people to sell products isn't some revolutionary idea. It's basically the foundation of advertising, albeit one that was briefly lost to the siren song of "inclusive beauty," which, lol. Businesses may pretend to care about social causes and stakeholders, and there are definitely true believers ensconced in almost every Fortune 500 company out there, but at the end of the day, the purpose of business is to make money, not engineer social change.
But the brief stranglehold the inmates held over businesses gave them a false sense of security, of permanence. They thought they'd won the war, whereas we can now see that they only won a few victories and that those victories were not exactly strategic ones.
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Much has been made of the vibe shift, which is truly a thing of beauty, especially to those of us old enough to witness the descent into madness over the past decade, but the thing is, the vibe really has shifted. And those whose worldview and, more importantly, income streams depend on fomenting controversy are on the ropes. They may preach equity, but as always, some pigs deserve a little more equity than others.
As such, don't get upset at the dying media for its desperate attempt to cling to the old vibes, to keep beating fascist Nazi colonial whiteness tropes into a bloody pulp better suited for a muumuu than a pair of nice-fitting jeans. (Did I just commit white supremacy by discussing muumuus, insane people of the internet? If so, please let me know on your preferred social media site!)
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It cracks me up that for three or four years, people have been scratching their heads and saying "hey, where'd all the white people go in commercials?"
Now they bring one white girl back and it's a five alarm Nazi fire.
Allahpundit's favorite MSNBC host Chris Hayes agreed that it's a "problem" that Democrats have to answer for the silly posts made by rando nobodies, like racists insisting that white women are no longer permitted to be "centered" in advertising campaigns.
He apparently doesn't read MSNBC itself, which published a hit-piece saying, essentially, that any ad featuring white people is an insidious backslide into White Supremacy.
Holy crap, Good Morning America on Disney owned ABC ran a story this morning saying the Sydney Sweeney clothing ad is connected to Nazis. Legacy media is dead: pic.twitter.com/IcPmRJr8R0
Black Conservative Perspective compiled more desperate, envious nobodies boohoo whinin' and cryin' that a white girl appeared on their computers without their consent.
This one's a gem -- in addition to claiming that it's white supremacy for any white woman to claim to be hot, she also rips her fellow leftwing lunatics for... not wearing masks in public, which she says is its own kind of White Supremacy because covid affects mostly "brown and black people" or something.
shitlibs are policing other shitlibs for criticizing the Sydney Sweeney ad while not wearing COVID masks (this is real) pic.twitter.com/AQ4YFnONyd
In case you didn't hear: the newest rage of Current Year, the fight against "eugenics" (a word that stupid lefties just discovered, so they have to repeat it endlessly like four year olds who just learned a new word) has entered its second week.
Dunkin Donuts ran an ad featuring a blond-haired, blue eyed guy calling himself "The King of Summer" and saying that his coloration -- "golden sun" -- was genetic.
And the left went into Genetic Convulsions again:
OMG, now the liberal snowflakes on TikTok are being triggered by a Dunkin Donuts commercial 😂😂
And what is that lesson? It's pretty simple: Normal people are normal. They respond to normal stimuli, such as attractive young women and men in advertising pitches. They don't mind looking at "kings of summer" or svelte starlets in TV and print spots. In fact, normal people tend to prefer it.
Mainly, though, normal people don't like being lectured about social-justice causes in sales pitches, or in other forms of entertainment. They have grown sick and tired of it, in fact, so much so that they are responding very enthusiastically to advertising campaigns that either eschew it, as Sweeney's jeans campaign does, or deliberately provoke the Lefty lecture circuit, as Dunkin' Donuts is doing. The days of Bud Light and other woke products scolding their customers is over, and ad companies have figured that out.
For years they have demanded that the entire world "decenter whiteness." Whites should no longer appear in commercials, and when they appear in commercials, they can only be part of mixed-race families.
The woke racists insisted that corporations and all of society join them in denouncing whiteness and insisting that whites should hide their shameful pale faces and pass the torch to the Superior Races of non-white people.
They're just fighting racism, doncha know
And yes, Black Conservative Perspective compiled a bunch of people, mostly woke white progressives trying to gain credibility with minorities by insisting that it's time white people passed the torch and exit the stage, boohoo whinin' and cryin' about the silly Dunkin Donuts ad.
A Cultural Enricher With 43 Prior Counts of Aggravated Cultural Enrichment Attempts to Kidnap a Child at a Virginia Mall
—Ace
This is in super-progressive, tyrannical Fairfax County, where they cover up "transgender" boys' forcible sodomization of girls in the bathroom so as not to upset The Bigots.
Of course it's also a Sanctuary County.
Virginians 4 Safe Communities
@VA4SafeComm
Fairfax Child Kidnapping Suspect Andres Caceres Jaldin has 30+ charges including Malicious Wounding (Att Murder) & was FREE to victimize kids thanks to Fairfax Soros Prosecutor Steve Descano
BREAKING: Surveillance footage captures the abduction of a girl at a Fairfax, Virginia mall by an immigrant with prior police encounters. pic.twitter.com/bz42Z5LuwY
White? Boy, for a Regime that is built on identify whites and then discriminating against them, they sure seem to be overly "inclusive" in the category of whiteness when it comes to crime.
Winsome Earl-Sears is now running to replace Glenn Youngkin as governor in Virginia, but she's currently behind leftwing CIA Deep State bitch Abigail Spanberger, who is pretending to be a "moderate."
Some good news on the illegal alien deportation front:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: US Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks reports a new record monthly low at the southern border - only 4,399 Border Patrol apprehensions in July, beating the prior record low of 6,070 in June. Zero releases into the US again.
Average of 141 apprehensions per day in July. It's unheard of for the nearly 2,000 mile long southern border.
Biden record high December 2023: 249,785 (majority released)
Trump record low July 2025: 4,399 (zero released)
Ali Bradley
@AliBradleyTV
EXCLUSIVE: Lawful permanent resident from Mexico with multiple child sex offenses was arrested in a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation this morning in El Paso, Texas.
He will now be processed and go before an immigration judge to face deportation.
ICE/ERO, HSI, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals were all involved on the op that took at least a week to plan.
Attorney General James Uthmeier
@AGJamesUthmeier
Yesterday, we announced the arrest of over 40 pedophiles, and 7 are now on ICE holds.
Orange County believes they shouldn't transport these depraved criminals to ICE for deportation at the end of their sentences.
If she's going to make this all about race, I will too.
She says that Trump is showing "racial animus" and presumes, on this basis, to take over the powers of the presidency.
A San-Francisco-based federal judge on Friday blocked the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to cancel temporary protected status (TPS) for recipients from Nepal, Nicaragua, and Honduras.
Judge Trina Thompson asserted that Trump administration officials had demonstrated a likely racial motivation for the cancellation and paused the deadline for them to leave the country.
"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees," she asserted.
If this reads to you more as an impassioned political stump speech from a crazed demagogue more than a judicial ruling: Congratulations, you read at an age-appropriate level.
"The Court orders that the TPS terminations shall be postponed to preserve the status quo and until a hearing on the merits on November 18, 2025. Postponement will be subject to extension at the November 18, 2025 hearing."
The move is a blow to Trump's efforts to speedily deport large swathes of immigrants and another instance of a federal judge blocking White House policy, even after the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of nationwide injunctions.
"Color is neither a poison nor a crime," U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said in a 37-page ruling Thursday, which postponed a Sept. 8 deadline Noem had imposed for those 63,000 immigrants to leave the country or lose Temporary Protected Status, better known as TPS.
Again, this is simply not a judicial opinion, this is a stump speech for a black revolutionary politician.
The San Francisco-based Biden appointee accused Noem of using terminology drawn from "the discriminatory belief that certain immigrant populations will replace the white population." The judge also pointed to language Donald Trump used on the campaign trail in 2023 denouncing immigrants for "poisoning the blood of our country." And she said Trump, Noem and others have conflated TPS recipients -- who were admitted into the country legally -- with criminals.
No, they have not conflated them with anyone. They have reasoned that the previous grants of automatic asylum to "refugees" from these countries is no longer justified -- if it ever was.
Why were Honduras and Nicarauga designated as countries whose nationals were allowed to come to the US and live permanently?
Because, see: They have bad weather.
No, really:
One of those random facts you learn reading court opinions that is just absolutely wild
Temporary Protected Status has been in place for Honduras and Nicaragua for 26 YEARS BECAUSE...THE WEATHER IS BAD THERE pic.twitter.com/CvUojxgSYw
Exactly as Predicted, EU Law Supposedly Intended to Protect Children from Porn Is Immediately Deployed Against Its Real Target: Political Speech by Adults That is Critical of the Failing, Traitorous Regime
White House warns Starmer: Stop threatening US tech companies' free speech
Members of Donald Trump's administration monitoring Online Safety Act with 'great interest and concern'
The White House has warned Sir Keir Starmer to stop threatening American tech companies amid mounting backlash over Britain's online safety law.
Members of Donald Trump's administration are monitoring the Online Safety Act with "great interest and concern" after key allies said it was censoring free speech and imposing unfair burdens on US businesses.
The law, which regulates online speech, allows the British government to levy massive fines on companies like Apple, Truth Social, and X if it finds that rules on hate speech have been broken.
Those in the president's inner circle see the potential penalties as an unwarranted foreign intervention into American free speech.
"President Trump has made it clear that free speech is one of our most cherished freedoms as Americans," a senior US State Department official told The Telegraph.
"Accordingly, we have taken decisive action against foreign actors who have engaged in extraterritorial censorship affecting our companies and fellow citizens.
"We will continue to monitor developments in the UK with great interest and concern."
Since the law came into effect last week, Ofcom, the UK's online regulator, has written to several American firms ordering them to conform to the act, in letters seen by The Telegraph.
It has sparked outrage from US lawmakers and legal experts, who say the overreach is a threat by the UK to silence American companies and citizens.
Congressman Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary GOP committee, said the law was an attack on American companies.
"Ask Apple and they would view it as a $500 million attack," he told The Telegraph.
"There's general concern... and then there's concern on how this impacts American citizens, American companies and infringes on our First Amendment.
"As long as foreign legislators, judges, and regulators continue their attempts to silence US citizens, we will not stop fighting back."
...
During his meeting with the Prime Minister in Scotland, Mr Trump warned Sir Keir not to censor his social-media platform, Truth Social.
"Well, I don't think he's going to censor my site, because I say only good things," Mr Trump said.
There's new news about the Rotherham racist Muslim rape gangs:
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Incredibly disturbing new details out of the UK reveal that not only were countless little girls raped by migrant grooming gangs, but when they went for help, many were raped again by the police. Take one guess who was staffing the police departments.
So in the UK:
-Authorities ignored migrant grooming and rape gangs because prosecuting them might lead to accusations of racism
-Victims of Pakistani rape gangs who went to the police were instead raped again by the police themselves (who were of Pakistani origin).
-In other cases, police leaked the accusations of victims to perpetrators, who then threatened the victims.
-Judges in Islamic rape cases have allowed defense lawyers to spend entire trials calling grooming gang victims sluts, then denied the release of court transcripts to hide that this happened.
-The government is currently weighing a formal definition of "Islamophobia" that would include linking grooming gangs to Islamic immigration.
-Local governments are hiring "Sharia law administrators"
-Mass censorship is used to cover up protests against this as well as criminally punish those who complain
Is Great Britain just a gigantic Epstein Island?
Yes. Here's the link to the BBC story. Yes, when women went to the Rotherham police to report sexual abuse and r*pe by "Asians," the Asian police at the station also sexually abused them.
We're hitting levels of Cultural Enrichment that shouldn't even be possible.
This issue was discussed in Parliament -- and the discussion in Parliament was censored, with censors citing the "Online Safety Act's" forbiddance of "hate speech."
They cannot win on the immigration issue -- the public is now roused and demanding changes -- so they just claim that anyone urging reforms of immigration law is trafficking in "hate speech" and that it is criminal to make those arguments.
Has a British Government ever appeared so terrified of its own people? More to the point, can you think of one that deserved it more?
The social contract has been shredded. You go to work and pay your taxes for a state that seems to be crumbling into disrepair. In exchange, the Government takes your money, and uses it to fund an alleged secret scheme to fly in Taliban fighters to live on your street. But don't worry -- we've got a new "elite police squad" to prevent trouble.
That police unit won't be patrolling your neighbourhood to keep you safe from harm. Rather, it will be tasked with scouring social media for protest pre-crime, monitoring your opinions for anti-migrant sentiment. The police might not have enough resources to deal with shoplifting. They might not have solved a single theft or burglary, or recover a stolen bike, across a third of England. But we are to believe they have resources for what really counts: scrutinising your views for wrongthink.
The current state of affairs is so absurd that simply writing it down feels almost subversive. But each element is true: we do appear to have flown unvetted Taliban members into Britain. The Government really will be watching your posts for signs of dissent. This isn't some accident, some Civil Service blunder. It's by design. It truly appears that Labour's strategy is to impose ever more restrictions on the freedoms of the law-abiding, in the hope that eventually people will acquiesce with a resigned shrug.
The problem is that it isn't working. The population is fed up with being punished for doing the right thing. The hectoring about slavery, imperialism, war and all the other iniquities of history used to justify sacrificing our comforts and liberties on the altar of mass migration is no longer having the desired effect. British citizens living today did not build the empire. They didn't enslave anyone. Why should they foot the bill for housing illegal migrants up in four star hotels in central London? Why should they put up with them working in the shadow economy?
Unfortunately for the Government, the previously silent majority is beginning to vocally express its frustration. MPs and ministers are fearful that the country is becoming a "tinderbox". But even this isn't enough to convince them that we must change course.
Keir Starmer’s brain just malfunctioned.
Reporter: "Trump makes it look easy dealing with illegal migration. You must be envious of his record in such a short period of time."
Angry Boxed-Wine Connoisseur AWFL Says She's Totally Proud to Have Written the ICA and the "Steele Dossier" Might Be True
—Ace
A Brennan stooge named Susan Miller was recruited to write up RussiaGate "reports" which ultimately served as the foundation of the ICA that kicked off RussiaGate.
Actually she claims to have written the ICA itself, which seems to be, what's the word, a lie. But more on that later.
The retired CIA spy who says she led the team that helped draft the controversial 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment on Russian election meddling has called Donald Trump a "dictator" and MAGA supporters "Nazis" -- and insists that the now-discredited Steele dossier "might be true."
Susan Miller, a recently-retired CIA counterintelligence officer, has taken to social media and news media interviews in recent days to tell the story of how she was allegedly hand-picked by former CIA Director John Brennan to lead the team which helped draft the ICA in late 2016, gleefully exposing her anti-Trump sentiments.
She has repeatedly suggested that Trump might be a "Russian asset" or a "Kremlin asset" without providing any evidence, despite recent reports showing that calmer, less politically-driven voices in the intelligence community at the time cast doubt on such allegations, but were squelched by Brennan.
No proof, but it "might" be true?
Miller has also repeatedly claimed in recent weeks that British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier might be true, despite the dossier having been thoroughly discredited for years now by a special prosecutor, congressional probes, and even the CIA itself.
She has also claimed that some officials inside the CIA -- whom she refused to name -- had wanted her ICA team to declare that Trump's win was illegitimate due to Russian meddling. She has admitted that although the ICA did not come to that conclusion, she has suggested that her team may have been able to reach that finding if it had been able to poll every single voter to see if they had been swayed by Russian meddling.
According to the University of California at Santa Barbara, 136,787,187 people voted in the 2016 election.
Miller has also sent mixed messages, saying that the ICA team had found "no collusion" when they were writing their assessment in late 2016, and even claimed that this "no collusion" finding was made clear in the ICA. In fact, the ICA's major reference to collusion was a direct citation to a two-page annex on the Steele dossier.
The 2016 ICA was written at the direction of President Barack Obama and largely overseen by Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and since-fired FBI Director James Comey. It was finished in December 2016, with a publicly declassified version released in early January 2017 and a more extensive classified version declassified and released last week.
...
Miller has also said she doesn't remember basic facts about the ICA timeline, including when Trump was first elected and when the CIA and her ICA team allegedly first received purportedly key intelligence about Putin's motivations. Miller even forgot whether the intelligence had come in before or after Trump's win.
She also couldn't remember if the ICA team she says she led had access to intelligence on a personal directive from Putin himself or not.
Miller decried Ratcliffe's lessons-learned review as a political hit job and claimed that none of it was true, before admitting that key allegations in Ratcliffe's report, including about Brennan insisting that the dossier be included in the ICA, were probably accurate.
She doesn't remember much about the twisting of intelligence, but she is absolutely sure that all criticisms of it are invalid.
...
Miller has used her LinkedIn account to repeatedly attack Trump since leaving the CIA last year.
The New York Times wrote an article in May titled, "FBI Dismantles Elite Public Corruption Squad." Miller's response on LinkedIn? "This is awful! Further proof that Trump is a dictator."
Miller also supported analogies between Trump and Adolf Hitler. An ABC News article from February said that "The Diplomatic Security Service is being targeted for firings. Why that matters: Analysis." A commenter from the United Kingdom said, "I'm just a Brit (you know, that little island off the coast of Europe that stood up to Hitler) but I have to say that harming DSS would be equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot." Miller replied, "Yes....the Hitler analogy is not lost on a bunch of us.....sadly...."
Much more at the article. This woman is clearly a lunatic.
She's also a liar. When JustTheNews contacted her to ask about her clear anti-Trump bias, she claimed she was actually a Republican who was "pro-Trump" and actually voted for Trump.
She... voted for Trump in 2016? And then a month later wrote memos accusing him of being a Russian agent and a reincarnated Hitler?
No, you're a liar and mentally unwell. If she "voted for Trump," then she did so in a primary because Democrats believed Trump would be easy to defeat in the general.
She looks just like you'd expect: Not like a happy, pretty Republican woman who has good relations with men, but an angry, masculine wine-box-demolshing harpy whose husband decided he couldn't take her any longer so now she's going to get Revenge On ALL the Men.
It even turns out that she's lying when she repeatedly claims to have written the ICA itself.
She actually didn't. She's just resorting to that beloved tactic of leftwing power-mad women, Resume Padding.
In response to last week's damning official document release about a now-infamous intelligence document that helped launch years of Russiagate madness, CNN wrote:
Retired CIA official Susan Miller, an author of the agency's 2017 intelligence report on Russian election meddling...
No, she's not.
"Not an author. Not involved," says a senior intelligence official.
"There's a chance she's on some emails or something like that," adds another person familiar with the investigation. "But she's not the author of the ICA... she wasn't leading this effort. So it's just totally bizarre that she claims the opposite."
As if Russiagate weren't a weird enough story already, the sudden appearance of mysterious former CIA officer Susan Miller in a high-profile media campaign reduces the affair to a freak show. In a story about one of the most elaborate media frauds in history, in which the CIA used phony intelligence to prop up a rushed report insisting Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 election on behalf of Donald Trump, it's only fitting that the person leading the media defense of the original intelligence is not an author of the report in question and may not be significantly involved at all.
In a detail Jonathan Swift might have written, Miller is set to receive the Hidden Hero Award in November from the International Spy Museum in Washington, given to the official who makes "outsized contributions to the intelligence community." Racket made multiple attempts to ask Miller about her role with the ICA. She did not respond.
However, we were about to go to press when Joe MacKinnon of Blaze media excellently beat us to the punch on this story. MacKinnon received an amusing two-part response from Miller. First:
My team and I at CIA wrote a CIA analysis about Russian influence on the election.
Second:
This was a CIA report, briefed to Trump by our then-director, and by me to the Senate and congressional intelligence committees. The DNI used that report as the basis for the ICA... I indeed did not write the ICA, but the ODNI used my report as the basis for theirs.
That's not even a non-denial denial. It's an oops.
Why lie? Well, all of these grifters now rely on partisan payoffs, and there's a big difference in the Grifter Potential between someone who just worked at the CIA during RussiaGate and someone who "wrote the ICA" accusing Trump of being a Soviet spy.
Kamala Harris is reemerging with a new project: a book titled 107 Days, chronicling her brief and unsuccessful 2024 presidential bid. In a video message Thursday, the former vice president said, "I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward." She called the writing process one of "candor and reflection."
The book's title refers to the 107-day sprint from President Joe Biden's sudden withdrawal from the race on July 21, 2024, to Election Day. Harris, who stepped in as the Democrat nominee, initially surged in the polls but failed to sustain that momentum. She ultimately lost to President Donald Trump--both in the Electoral College and in the popular vote, breaking a two-decade streak for Democrats.
Harris said the campaign was "high-stakes and deeply personal," and that she's spent considerable time "reflecting on those days." Rumors of a book deal had circulated for months. CNN reported Thursday that the upcoming publication influenced Harris's decision not to pursue the California governorship, a race in which she was widely expected to be a top contender.
Stephen Colbert had this dweebcel politician on his show (of course).
I have constantly written about Kamala Harris's constant complaint -- when she fails, she claims that other people -- usually white men -- have "failed to position her for success." She proves with every utterance that she is nothing but an overpromoted DEI hire. Who else would expect everyone else to do her homework for her but a DEI hire who is endlessly promoted based not on performance but simply for her mere existence?
You can hear that again in her whining on the Colbert show. You see, the system is "broken." The evidence that it's broken is that the country didn't just give this Proud Woman of Color the win she was entitled to based simply on existing.
Pop Base
@PopBase
Kamala Harris tells Stephen Colbert she decided not to run for Governor of California because the system is broken:
"For now, I don't wanna go back in the system. I think it's broken. [...] I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles and I think right now, they're not as strong as they need to be."
A DEI hire finally reached a level of incompetence that caused people to say "No, you've depleted your allotment of Social Promotions," and it's the fault of "democracy" and "our systems" and "most fundamental principles."
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn't want to run for Governor of California
"The system's broken... so I don't wanna go back into the system."
She just GAVE UP
Donors were skeptical of donating again to Kamala Harris. One said she "lacked fire in the belly," that is, she didn't seem like she really wanted to run for governor.
Or president.
She is basically acknowledging that by saying "I don't wanna go back into the system." Even if she attempts to un-retire from politics, donors will take this quote as confirming that she lacks "fire in the belly" and would just be running for the sake of appearances and to fill her bank accounts.
So even if she didn't intend it, this marks her official retirement from elective politics.
Today is a good day. The Trump Curse continues posting W after W.
Stephen Colbert also had on Democrat Senator and ex-CIA wannabe girlboss Elissa Slotkin, because of course he did. That's what audiences want to see -- dweeby, plain-faced drab Democrat drulls.
Slotkin presents herself as a CIA girl boss, but having been an analyst in the Iraq war is a freaking punchline. No intel agency in history every turned in a worse performance. Why doesn't some interviewer ask her to speak in Arabic? She claims to be fluent -- another joke https://t.co/1ayTTxYGDE
She wants to assure you that her fellow gonzo communist subversives in the CIA are just "good, corn fed" defenders of the republic.
And if they attempt to topple the duly-elected president of the United States in a coup, well, they're just doing that for you.
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Former CIA analyst @ElissaSlotkin tells Colbert: "This idea that there's some network of people that are running the world, it doesn't really match reality ... The way that Trump is going after them is particularly -- first of all, it's nasty. Second of all, it's completely counter to our interests to be demoralizing the people that are protecting us."
By the way, "Corn Fed" usually describes a blond, blue-eyed Scandanavian-descended midwestern farmboy who is healthy and robust due to eating his own farm's corn in between doing heavy physical work.
In other words: She's promoting racial eugenics and Nazi fascism.
But that's okay because she's using eugenic-appeal to prop up the Deep State coupists.
She blew off an important Senate vote. She fake-apologized for blowing off the vote... while failing to admit what Very Important Mission required that absence.
She skipped out on the vote to go on Colbert's cancelled show, of course.
The Climate Hoax Is Being Canceled with the EPA Terminating the “Endangerment Finding”
—Buck Throckmorton
The foundation upon which federal government regulators have been empowered to impose climate communism is officially being been ripped away. Thanks (yet again) to the election of Donald Trump and his appointment of Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is implementing actions to rescind the 2009 “Endangerment Finding.”
As explained by our friends at The Heartland Institute in a press release this week:
The Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA in 2007 authorized the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases if the agency made the determination that global warming harms human health. In an appearance on the Ruthless Podcast this week, Zeldin said reversing the Endangerment Finding would be the “most significant deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
In other words, our rulers in robes at the Supreme Court decreed in 2007 that if the EPA were to determine that global warming, caused by “greenhouse gases,” endangers health, then the governing mechanisms of the United States that are found in the Constitution could be suspended. Thereafter, the EPA could assume command-and-control regulatory powers over every aspect of economic activity, so long as those activities involved “greenhouse gases.” Coincidentally, when you breathe, you are exhaling CO2, a “greenhouse gas.”
Conveniently enough, once Barack Obama became President in 2009, his EPA promptly ruled that “greenhouse gases in the atmosphere threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” This became known as the “Endangerment Clause.” This clause took specific aim at gasoline powered cars in stating that “greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to the greenhouse gas pollution that threatens public health and welfare.”
The Endangerment Clause was the moment when the climate cult started worshiping electric vehicles, and regulators started working to mandate them. July 29, 2025 was the date that Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin put a stop to the madness.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If finalized, the proposal would repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice and giving Americans the ability to purchase a safe and affordable car for their family while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin. “In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year.”
This is a joyous moment. There is more work to do, but Trump and Zeldin have proved that they relish the battle.
Rather than come up with my own closing summary, I am simply going to quote Research Fellow Linnea Lueken from that same Heartland press release.
“The obsession over a trace gas is absurd, antiscientific, and has led to pain for Americans in the form of higher energy bills, overregulation of appliances, agriculture, and more. Basically, the Endangerment Finding gave unaccountable government agencies the ability to have a say over whatever they wanted, since every human activity results in the production of carbon dioxide. It never should have happened. The government should never have tried regulating a gas essential for life in the first place.”
I'm frankly surprised the title is 107 Days. I would have thought it would be:
Days Are Important:The Amount of Days Was a Number and That Number Was 100 Plus 7 Which is 107. 107. One Hundred and Seven. It's a Memoir and Memoirs are About Remembering Things Because Remembering Things is Good. Not Bad. Good. Memoir. A Memoir. Like a Reservoir But With Memory. We Have to Let it Flow. We Have to Let It Flow Into the Reservoir of Our Mind and Our Heart. Our Heart Which is the Beating Heart of Not Just Our Blood, But Our Progress. And Our People. And Democracy. The End.
Soft weak poop from the early 80s Mystery Click I never liked this song, but it is memorable. In a weak, annoying way. The kid's in shock up and down the block
The folks are home playing beat the clock
Down at the golden cup
They set the young ones up
Under the neon light
Selling day for night
It's alright
Nobody rides for free (nobody, nobody)
Nobody gets it like they want it to be (nobody, nobody)
Nobody hands you any guarantee (nobody, nobody)
Nobody
Former CIA operative John Kiriakou talks with Matt Taibbi about the Brennan/Comey Coup Both guys are old liberals, maybe even of the far-left variety, and both are appalled by the Democrat/Deep State coup against the US. Kiriakou says that CIA officers were legally obligated to report to the Inspector General John Brennan's repeated overruling of actual intelligence to encode his partisan conspiracy theories into US intel product, but of course they didn't.
Podcast: Israel protects the Druze, and Western Culture, Tulsi Gabbard is tenacious, NYC's mayoral race is a catastrophe, The Democrat Lying Machine, and more!
At Budokan Mystery Click Now I had heard the WACs
recruited old maids for the war
But mommy's neither one of those
I've known her all these years Maybe I'll stop linking obscurities and start linking more crowd pleasers. If you can stand the sight of Dan Rather, three members of the band talk about how they got famous in Japan before they ever even played in Japan. Hint: Manga.
Warner was in Costa Rica on a family vacation and drowned while swimming near Cocles after allegedly being caught by a high current on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred between 2 and 2:30 p.m. local time.
Costa Rican National Police told The Post that Warner was pulled from the water by people in the area and taken to shore, where the Costa Rica Red Cross tried to revive him but were unsuccessful in their efforts.
His body was taken to the morgue at San Joaquin de Flores for an autopsy. The cause of death is listed as asphyxiation by "submersion."
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