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WEEKEND HOBBY, CRAFT AND BODGING THREAD
—J.J. SEFTON
Greetings gang. Hope the weekend is going well so far. Time once again to head
to the basement, garage, craft room, shop, studio or wherever it is you can
escape for a while, get creative and make a mess.
NOTE: This is not an open thread so please refrain from any political or other
non-related commentary.
What have you all been working on, planning or dreaming about?
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ACE OF SPADES PET THREAD, AUG. 19
—K.T.
* * *
Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread.
Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and
current events outside today.
Continue reading
* * *
Pet Art
> Saw this posted on a doorpost on our walk in Sonoma this morning. -San
> Franpsycho
* * *
Dog Art, Happy Dog
> This image dates back to 1991 and a simple afternoon visit to Audubon Park's
> Simon Gumbel fountain & wading pool one sticky summer day. This lucky puppeh
> was just sitting there enjoying the cool and made a great image that embodies
> the simplicity of happiness. Things don't need to be complicated and/or
> expensive to be enjoyed - a cool pool on a hot day is oftentimes enough - as
> it was for this Happy Puppeh. I don't know the breed, but I'd take a SWAG
> (i.e., a 'guess') that it's likely to be in the Retriever family. As always,
> use as you deem Right, Fit, and Proper . . . enjoy.
>
>
> (Dr_No)
* * *
The Horde comes through with more great Pet History:
> The turnspit dog is an extinct short-legged, long-bodied dog bred to run on a
> wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat.
>
>
> Referred to as the kitchen dog or cooking dog, the first mention of these
> little dogs was made in 1576. By 1850 the dogs had become scarce and by 1900
> it seemed as though there were none left.
>
> Turnspit dog - Wikipedia
>
> - fd
Meet The PetMorons
> After the terrible year we had, we decided to get a puppy. This is 10 week old
> Lincoln. He is a Weimaraner obviously. This is our third Weimie and yes he has
> his crazy times. But he has made my husband and me smile, and he is a cuddle
> bug. He plays with our daughters dobermans and runs them around the yard. He
> is always up for a ride and loves the rv. We start traveling in September so
> he's going to be a good travel buddy.
>
> Peggy
Lincoln looks like a great dog! Legs too long to be a turnspit dog. Travel buddy
is better!
* * *
> This is Sasha, a wonderfully polite extra fuzzy tabby cat that I adopted in
> her golden years. She was about 10 or so when I got her, and she hung around
> for another four years, so I guess she liked me. She's been gone for quite a
> long time, but I still think fondly of that ol' bag of hair.
>
> Once in a blue moon, I post as Ask Mr. Lizard. Most of the time, people
> already said what I wanted to, so I lurk.
Thanks for sharing Sasha's photo and story. A beautiful cat!
* * *
> We recently had to say goodbye to our little rescue Borzoi girl Musya. She had
> reached the wonderful age of 13 years and 9 months old.
>
> She came to us from a terrible situation and was in bad shape when she
> arrived. With care and attention she recovered, but her age and health
> (heartworm positive) meant she could not be rehomed and so she lived out her
> life here. For the three years Musya lived with us, she hit the jackpot: she
> was treated exactly as our own homebreds, with clean water, all the nourishing
> food she could eat, bones, toys and treats, shelter, a comfortable bed, kind
> words and ear noogies. She fit in well and was the perfect lady, never giving
> us any trouble at all. Sadly, there was always around her an air of anxiety,
> as though she was scared the good life she was leading was an illusion that
> might disappear at any moment.
>
> She was tiny but sassy. One evening big Dan trotted down to visit her and she
> let him know in no uncertain terms who was boss. It was funny to see the huge
> hulking boy beating a flustered retreat before the fierce little girl. It's
> too bad that she could not have lived her whole life with us because we could
> see she would have been a real firecracker.
>
> Rest well, sweetie. And wait for us.
>
> Hadrian the Seventh
So sorry to learn about the loss of Musya. It sounds like she was full of
personality, and could have had more personality under better circumstances. I
wish she had had had more time with you, too. Such a sweet face.
* * *
> KT,
>
> We have had pets our whole lives. Early on in the Mr. & Mrs. endeavour we got
> our first pet Rex, a Belgian Shepherd. He was a wonderful companion, caring
> and careful around toddlers, in addition to being a trickster. We continued on
> in the same approximate size dogs until we had to put down our last one. About
> three years ago Mrs. asked to go to a shelter in a neighboring county to look
> at and apply for a stray. Skeeter has a gypsy soul, I am convinced someone
> read him Kerouac and Ginsburg while he was encamped at the shelter. He has a
> wandering soul along with the heart of an assassin. He is a stone cold killer
> of anything from lizards to rats to rabbits. Elevation is the only thing
> keeping the squirrels safe, otherwise I would have tails littering the yard.
> After all that he is a sweetheart who loves his mama and really just wants a
> scratch behind the ear.
>
> Here he is at the dog park. He has to be on the "Big Dog" side as he
> terrorizes the old ladies lap dogs.
>
> Best,
> rdohd
Great photo of another dog full of personality!
* * *
Notes: Would the parent of the pet with the name containing "Moo" please provide
a name for yourself so we can post your information?
Wildlife adventure next week, I think.
UPDATE: Can you love someone like a good ol' dog? Think about it.
Thanks to Roger for sending this in.
* * *
What a wonderful collection of pet stories today. Thank you for sharing your
pets with us.
> If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace
> of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
>
>
>
> petmorons at protonmail dot com
>
>
>
> Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you
> comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Until next Saturday, have a great week!
* * *
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace
of Spades Pet Thread, August 12. Some special PetMoron stories and photos there.
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SATURDAY GARDENING, PUTTERING AND ADVENTURE THREAD, AUG. 19
—K.T.
Hi, everybody! Doing okay with the August weather? Any fires or hurricanes
nearby? The flower above is impressive.
> From: Lurker in the 321 I call it Night Blooming Death Blossom. Blooms once a
> year for one night only. What is it?
Beauty like that sometimes doesn't last long. Lurker in the 321 also
photographed other stages of the flower's lifespan:
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Gorgeous. I once had a neighbor with similar cacti. Does anyone know the
species?
*
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
From Martini Farmer:
> Hello KT,
>
> Here are a couple of photos taken around our place here in Kentucky over the
> last several weeks or so. We had a bit of a heatwave, no rain... then it
> rained about 3.15" overnight and has been more typical of our summer weather.
> So the garden has been doing well, as you can see in this haul from a couple
> days ago. The tomatoes are a bit of a disappointment in that they don't have a
> lot of taste. The cucumbers are a "burpless" variety, the typical summer
> zucchinis are doing great as are the green and jalapeno peppers. There are
> some black beans and potatoes still in the garden... waiting.
The veggies look WONDERFUL.
*
Critters:
More from Martini Farmer:
> Next we've got some visitors. House/Barn Swallows checking out the bugs. My
> understanding is that these guys like to feed on flies and aphids, so they're
> beneficial to the garden. There are probably about 20 or 30 of them that seem
> to always be around. They like the open spaces and tend to stay away from
> woods or other congested areas as they swoop around.
>
> The Gold Finches are pretty. We see them year-round if we keep the thistle
> seeds out for them.
>
> And then there's Mr. P(ossum) who routinely joins the cats for the evening
> meal. He's particularly chill.
>
> The cats do not seem to care about any of the visitors... they don't mess with
> the birds or the possum.
Nice set-up.
> Lastly, the "bug." We had a literal infestation of these a couple weeks ago.
> They're "sweat bees" or what some people describe as "hover flies." What
> little digging around I've done on them they do seem to be members of the
> Halictidea family of bees. They don't sting but are attracted to moisture and
> sweat (thus their nickname) and can be annoying. Especially at the pool.
Well, that's quite a variety of wildlife!
*
Adventure
Historic Glamping:
> Glamping might be more in vogue now, but it's certainly not new � an
> adventurous group of ladies was blazing the (well-cushioned) trail back in the
> 1880s. https://t.co/fMBsOkQhPv pic.twitter.com/iY7EVUhLft
>
> — California Sun (@mmcphate) August 17, 2023
The article is interesting. Doing laundry in that washtub doesn't look all that
luxurious to me. What would your dream glamping look like?
*
Gardens of The Horde
From Neal in Israel:
> Attached are some photos from our visit to the US last month for my nephew's
> wedding.
>
> From the Burlington VT area where the wedding was held: Gardens were full of
> colorful lilies?/day lilies?/whatever. Also, the big green lawns and giant
> willows made a major impression on my Israeli eyes. Included the family in the
> photo of the willow to show how massive it was.
Nice combo.
Some gorgeous daylilies there, with different flower forms.
*
>
Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday
Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is:
ktinthegarden at g mail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or
let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Week in Review
What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure
Thread, August 12
Any thoughts or questions?
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ANY FASCISTS NORTH OF RICHMOND?
—K.T.
That surprise hit song,Rich Men North of Richmond, reminds me of the late Angelo
Codevilla's great piece from 2010 on America's Ruling Class, somehow. Glenn
Reynolds called it the best article on American politics this century. But it's
too much for me to tackle today. Even though it is really pertinent to Rich Men
North of Richmond.
This weekend, I have also been thinking about a friend who has recently been
characterized as a "fascist" on social media, with her job threatened. She's
okay for now, thanks to a lot of support from other people.
And I happened to run across a fascinating piece from 2020 by Codevilla on
Mussolini, the original fascist, and the true nature of fascism. I thought it
would be worthwhile to get a little deeper into it. Because "fascist" is no
longer a movement. Now it is an epithet. While those hurling the epithet may not
care what it actually means, some young people might respond to a little
education.
Barbie was called a fascist by a tween in that too-pink movie this summer.
School started this week here. That means school board meetings, with lots of
opportunities for people to be labeled as fascists. And the media is trying to
convince us that next year's presidential election is the thing which must
dominate our lives. You could be called "fascist" pretty much no matter who you
support (bleaah).
Mussolini and Fascism
Codevilla's 2020 essay, The Original Fascist, From movement to epithet is
elegantly written and it is hard to pick out highlights, but here goes:
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> Today, the adjective "fascist" is an epithet -- often mixed promiscuously with
> "white supremacist," "sexist," etc. -- that the ruling class uses to besmirch
> whoever challenges them, and to provide emotional fuel for cowering,
> marginalizing, and disempowering conservatives.
>
> This maneuver consists of defining fascism in terms of unpopular ideas,
> political practices, and personality traits observable in many times and
> places; then, having cited Hitler's Nazi movement as fascism's quintessence,
> of pinning those deplorable characteristics on the intended targets. This
> reductio ad Hitlerum aims at no less than to outlaw conservatives. As the
> Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin exclaimed: "these people are not fit for
> polite society.... I think it's absolutely abhorrent that any institution of
> higher learning, any news organization, or any entertainment organization that
> has a news outlet would hire these people." And the New Republic explains "why
> fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse." The
> establishment doesn't seem to realize that they are preaching some of
> fascism's practices.
> This essay looks behind fighting words to fascism's reality. Although Benito
> Mussolini, fascism's artificer and personifier, died discredited in 1945,
> fascism's socio-political paradigm, the administrative state, is well-nigh
> universal in our time. And as the European and American ruling class adopted
> Communism's intellectual categories and political language, the adjective
> "fascist" became a weapon in its arsenal.
>
> We begin with how fascism developed in Mussolini's mind and praxis from 1915
> to 1935, how it was hardly out of tune with what was happening in the rest of
> the Western world, as well as how it then changed and died. After considering
> how fascism fit in the 20th century's political warfare doctrines, we explore
> its place in contemporary political struggles.
>
> (emphasis mine)
One thing this essay does is show several differences between Nazism (including
its devotion to ideology) and Mussolini's Fascism.
Mussolini - a few highlights.
These are not the only interesting facts about his life:
> Mussolini was radical, talented, ambitious, insatiable. He fashioned fascism
> out of the ideas and circumstances of his time.
>
> In 1883, his socialist father, a blacksmith, named him for the most radical
> revolutionary of the time, the Mexican Benito Juarez. His middle names were
> those of Italy's most radical socialists. But Benito was also raised to revere
> the liberal republicans who had unified Italy. . .
> . . . Since age 18, he carried the official title "professor." But teaching in
> small towns strained his leftist political advocacy and his personal
> ambitions, including sexual ones. He was a "chick magnet." Also because he was
> not about to let himself be drafted into the king's army, he emigrated to
> Switzerland in 1902.
>
> While supporting himself as a stonemason, he learned German and French,
> studied philosophy, in part at the University of Lausanne. . . He was active
> in socialist circles, both Italian and international, giving speeches to
> workers and helping to organize strikes -- which got him expelled. He got to
> know Vladimir Lenin, who later chastised Italian socialists for letting such a
> talent leave their ranks.
>
> Back in Italy, taking advantage of an amnesty for having evaded the draft, he
> served for two years in the army's elite Bersaglieri corps.
He knew Lenin?
> By 1915 he had also married, and fathered a son by one of his mistresses. He
> had become Italian socialism's brightest star.
>
> The socialist movement's adherence to Karl Marx's dictum "the workers have no
> fatherland" had led to the expectation that the masses would not lend
> themselves to war among nations, and is among the reasons why many believed
> that the Great War would not happen. But when it did, rank-and-file socialists
> in all nations dragged all but fragments of their respective parties to
> support the carnage. So long as Italy stayed out of the war, Italy's socialist
> party was the major exception, along with Russia's Bolshevik faction. In 1911,
> Mussolini had campaigned against Italy's war in Libya. In August 1914 he wrote
> a fiery editorial, "Abbasso la guerra!": Down with the war! By November,
> however, he was arguing that entering the war would complete Italy's
> unification by taking the Austro-Hungarian empire's Italian-speaking regions,
> and make possible a host of beneficial social changes. . .
>
> In December, he committed socialist heresy by writing that class struggle is a
> bad idea because the nation is more important than social class. He called his
> few scattered followers fasci, bundles, of individuals. The word recalled the
> bundles of punishing rods and axes that ancient Rome's lictors bore for the
> consuls. Hence he labeled the movement "Fasci Rivoluzionari d'Azione
> Internazionalista" and its members "Fascisti." In 1915, when Italy entered the
> war, as most of the party remained faithful to doctrine, and as Mussolini
> further identified with popular sentiment, the party expelled him and his
> Fascisti and did its best forcibly to silence them.
> The war, and his own military service, had impressed upon him of what human
> beings are capable when acting as a disciplined mass. All over the world,
> people had produced more things, made greater sacrifices for their countries,
> than anyone had thought possible. European elites had been worshiping the
> state's architectonic powers since the time of Louis XIV's ministers (Louvois,
> Vauban, Colbert). G.W.F. Hegel, following Napoleon, had made patriotic worship
> of the scientifically administered, progressive state the political essence of
> modernity. Mussolini's vision of Italy followed from that. "The bureaucracy is
> the state," he said.
>
> "When the nation's interests are at stake," Mussolini explained, "all
> particular interests, whether the proletariat's or the bourgeoisie's, must be
> silent." "All know that Benito Mussolini is an individualist," he declared.
> But, as regards the nation, "[Mussolini] is utterly disciplined." The state
> personifies the country, and disciplines its several elements to its service.
> "Soon, we will be the state." "We do the bureaucracy the highest honor and
> raise it to a level above that which it occupied under previous governments by
> making it into an army of co-belligerents, which works toward the same end."
> He said that Catholicism too must be brought into the nation's service in
> order to revive the Italian people's millennial tradition of greatness. Doing
> all this would take sacrifice, perhaps war, as had the struggle for
> independence in the previous century, and as the Great War had reawakened
> national consciousness.
>
> By year's end, fascism was personified by thousands of street warriors who
> cheered their "Duce" (Leader), and who seemed to live the poet Gabriele D'
> Annunzio's exalted patriotic visions.
>
> Mussolini, however, felt the need to explain himself philosophically. He
> called himself "a practical relativist." . .
>
> "Relativism is akin to Nietzsche's Der Wille zur Macht, and fascism is a most
> formidable creature of an individual and collective will to power."
>
> (emphasis mine)
Doing honor to the bureaucracy? This does not sound like Hitler.
I've seen Italian bureaucracy in action. It doesn't have much staying power.
> In the 1921 elections, Mussolini's Fascists had gained only .04% of the vote.
> But chaos reigned in the streets because of socialist, Communist, and
> anarchist mobs, as well as because of the perhaps 40,000 fascist squadristi
> (the Blackshirts) who fought them. The government seemed irrelevant. King
> Victor Emmanuel III and the rest of the country looked for a savior. Mussolini
> organized the descent of some 30,000 squadristi on Rome to demand he be named
> prime minister. The incumbent, Luigi Facta, demanded the king institute
> martial law. When the king refused, Facta resigned and the king appointed
> Mussolini to head a government with almost no fascists. But, beginning with
> parliament's grant of plenary powers for a year (recalling the Roman
> institution of constitutional dictatorship), Mussolini gradually dispossessed
> the rest.
>
> Hegel, as well as the positivist and Progressive movements, had argued for the
> sovereignty of expert administrators. Fascist Italy was the first country in
> which the elected legislature gave up its essential powers to the executive,
> thus abandoning the principle, first enshrined in the Declaration of
> Independence and the U.S. Constitution, by which people are rightly governed
> only through laws made by elected representatives. By the outbreak of World
> War II, most Western countries' legislatures--the U.S. Congress included --
> had granted the executive something like "full powers," each by its own path,
> thus establishing the modern administrative state.
>
> (emphasis mine)
*
Fascism was an Italian movement
Codevilla makes the case that fascism was an Italian movement which is now dead.
After the parliament gave up its power to the executive, Mussolini's word became
law. This should make us very uneasy here in the USA.
Mussolini's economic program and comparisons to the New Deal are described
(remember Liberal Fascism?)
Mussolini's downfall includes his meeting with Hitler. Many features of fascism
were tied to Italian history and culture. You'll need to get into the essay to
see this. The expansion of the Administrative State in many countries seems to
me to be its contribution to the world.
Birth of a Slur
> Communists in general and Joseph Stalin in particular are responsible for
> turning the words "fascism" and "fascist" into mere negative epithets. . .
>
> In 1922-23, Germany was the big question. Its socialist party was really the
> only big nationwide force other than the Christians. The two did not get
> along. Stalin judged that the Communists could defeat them both, and the
> National Socialists, too, acting alone. Perhaps most of all he feared that if
> Communists were to ally with movements not under his control, he might lose
> control of the Communists.
>
> Hence, Stalin elaborated the doctrine of "social fascism" which, verbiage
> aside, meant that Communists should consider all to the right of
> them--essentially all who were not under Communist discipline--as "fascists."
> Stalin wrote:
>
> Fascism is the bourgeoisie's fighting organization that relies on the active
> support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing
> of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organization of
> the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the
> country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as
> little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive
> successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support
> of the fighting organization of the bourgeoisie. These organizations do not
> negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins.
> Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organizations; a
> bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism,
> and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The
> bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc.
>
> In 1935, after the Communists had lost Berlin's streets to the Nazis and
> Hitler had taken power, Stalin dropped the notion that everything to the right
> of him was fascism and reversed tactics. Thereafter, "popular front" became
> the watchword--meaning Communists would ally with everyone, under whatever
> banner, to defeat his worst enemies. . .
> But the notion that everything to the right of Communism is fascism remains a
> fixture in the minds of Communists and other radicals. They never ceased to
> think of non-Communists and especially anti-Communists as fascists.
>
> Marxist ideology lets them do that. According to Marx, consciousness is
> epiphenomenal to class reality. Hence, what people think subjectively does not
> affect what they are objectively. Truth that is class-objective and hence
> politically correct, is whatever the party judges useful to itself. That is
> why Communists believe they may apply the term "fascist," or any other, to
> people who do not think themselves so. But this reasoning, so clearly
> expressed, is adequate only among Communist apparatchiks.
>
> For that claim to have force outside of the Stalinist canaille, for it to
> migrate into modern Western society's bloodstream, it had to be translated
> into pseudo-academic form. The book The Authoritarian Personality (1950), by
> the Communist Theodor Adorno and researchers working at the University of
> California, Berkeley, began doing that by popularizing a test that purports to
> correlate personality traits with fascism--that is, Adorno's F-scale (F for
> fascist). The test consists of a questionnaire that measures agreement with
> what Adorno calls "conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian
> aggression, anti-intraception [the rejection of all inwardness], superstition
> and stereotypy, power and 'toughness,' destructiveness and cynicism,
> projectivity, and [excessive] sex." These are the characteristics by which
> Adorno defined fascists.
Other academics started formulating their own "F-scales" to describe people they
didn't like as fascists. But they are really just parroting Stalin.
This cracks me up:
> This author first encountered the scam in 1963 as a student at Rutgers
> University's Eagleton Institute. The text assigned us, Herbert McClosky's
> "Conservatism and Personality" ( American Political Science Review, 1958 ),
> consisted of one questionnaire to measure conservatism, as defined by
> McClosky, and a second designed to measure personality traits, most of which
> were translations of Adorno's F-scale. The article touted its scientific bona
> fides by stating that both sets of definitions had been submitted to, and
> certified by, experts, including McClosky's graduate students. Not
> surprisingly, the project's results showed a strong correlation between
> conservatism and repulsive, dangerous personality traits.
>
> Having received permission to do a term paper on that article, I replicated it
> as "Liberalism and Personality," using the same "scientific"
> methods--likeminded friends--to validate the questionnaires as McClosky had
> for his. What do you know? The results showed that liberals suffer from even
> worse disorders than conservatives, many unmentionable in a family
> publication. Only one of my professors cracked a smile.
*
Stalin and Adorno were a long time ago.
> But what is the point of repeating from society's commanding heights that the
> ruling class's opponents are fascists, fascistizing, near-fascists, Nazis,
> white supremacists, racists, and so forth?
>
> Today, those words mean simply that those so indicted have no right to
> challenge the ruling class. Whatever they do in that regard is illegitimate.
> Whatever may be done to quash them is legitimate, because it involves saving
> all things decent.
> To engage in these practices in 1922-26 and in 1933-34, Mussolini and Hitler
> had to change Italy's and Germany's basic laws because, although they
> controlled the government, they did not yet control society's commanding
> heights: the judges, schools, businesses, press, and religious establishment.
> But because the 21st century's ruling class has almost a monopoly of all those
> heights, it does not really need new laws. Having seized the power to make
> words mean whatever they want, as well as the power to include and exclude
> from society's prime places, they are the law.
>
> Our ruling class increasingly labels people fascists -- but not for doing or
> saying things other than what they did or said in previous decades. Those who
> are so labeled have not changed. Indeed, those who call them fascists chastise
> them for refusing to abandon their ways. Nor has fascism changed. It is one of
> history's closed chapters -- except for the theory and practice of political
> economy that it invented and that is now well-nigh universal. Hence, the
> invidious labeling and the punitive consequences result from a change in those
> who impose them. We may understand that change as the progressive deformation
> of liberalism.
>
> That people who still sometimes call themselves "liberal," who had once
> defined themselves in terms of all manner of freedom, should vilify and try to
> hurt those with whom they disagree is counterintuitive. But our liberal, or
> formerly liberal, ruling class's claim exclusively to embody enlightenment and
> righteousness, its taste for humbling those outside itself, is our time's
> predominant reality. That claim, that taste, are impervious to reason.
>
> We may understand why they are impervious, and hence why fighting that class
> is the only alternative to submission, by reference to the German sociologist
> Robert Michels. At the turn of the 20th century, he developed what he called
> the "iron law of oligarchy," which argued that any and all human
> organizations, regardless of their ostensible purpose or structure, end up
> serving the interests of their leaders. . .
Are the Rich Men North of Richmond impervious to reason?
* * * * *
Music
There was one criticism of Rich Men North of Richmond that led people to
characterize the artist as mean: a line criticizing welfare. In response, a
couple of people posted excerpts from this piece on welfare in Appalachia, the
Big White Ghetto:
> This is about "the draw."
>
> "The draw," the monthly welfare checks that supplement dependents' earnings in
> the black-market Pepsi economy, is poison. It's a potent enough poison to
> catch the attention even of such people as those who write for The New York
> Times. Nicholas Kristof, visiting nearby Jackson, Ky., last year, was shocked
> by parents who were taking their children out of literacy classes because the
> possibility of improved academic performance would threaten $700-a-month
> Social Security disability benefits, which increasingly are paid out for
> nebulous afflictions such as loosely defined learning disorders. "This is
> painful for a liberal to admit," Kristof wrote, "but conservatives have a
> point when they suggest that America's safety net can sometimes entangle
> people in a soul-crushing dependency."
>
> There is much here to confound conservatives, too. Jim DeMint likes to say
> that marriage is our best anti-poverty program, and he also has a point. But a
> 2004 study found that the majority of impoverished households in Appalachia
> were headed by married couples, not single mothers. Getting and staying
> married is not a surefire prophylactic against poverty. Neither are
> prophylactics. Kentucky has a higher teen-motherhood rate than the national
> average, but not radically so, and its young mothers are more likely to be
> married. Kentucky and West Virginia have abortion rates that are one fourth
> those of Rhode Island or Connecticut, and one fifth that of Florida. More
> marriage, less abortion: Not exactly the sort of thing out of which
> conservative indictments are made. But marriage is less economically valuable,
> at least to men, in Appalachia -- like their counterparts elsewhere, married
> men here earn more than their unmarried counterparts, but the difference is
> smaller and declining.
> Speaking in the Rose Garden in March 1965, Lyndon Johnson had high hopes for
> his Appalachia Bill. "This legislation marks the end of an era of partisan
> cynicism towards human want and misery. The dole is dead. The pork barrel is
> gone. Federal and state, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican,
> Americans of these times are concerned with the outcome of the next
> generation, not the next election ... The bill that I will now sign will work
> no miracles overnight. Whether it works at all depends not upon the federal
> government alone but the states and the local governments as well."
>
> The dole, as it turns out, is deathless, and the pork barrel has merely been
> reincarnated as a case of Pepsi. President Johnson left out of his
> calculations the factor that is almost always overlooked by populists: the
> people.
People are listening to the song.
This might be good advice for some folks:
Dark as a Dungeon
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—MISANTHROPIC HUMANITARIAN
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Is this how breakfast in bed was invented?
> DRINKING coffee could give you a boost in the bedroom, experts claim.
>
>
>
> A cup of Joe in the morning is known to increase your energy — but the
> caffeine and other natural chemicals also help improve blood flow to other
> parts of the body.
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> AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
>
> Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign
> hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless
> we receive an update.
>
> Prayer Requests:
>
> 7/15 – Coelacanth sent thanks for the prayers of the Horde for his son Cam,
> who has returned to the family and has graduated from a very tough Masters
> program. However, he was recently diagnosed with POTS (Positional Orthostatic
> Tachycardia Syndrome). His balance is off and he gets winded on a short flight
> of stairs. He has faith that this is all still part of God’s plan.
> 8/5 Update – His condition is improving, although he is still limited. Found
> out that his neat little apartment was grossly contaminated with several types
> of mold which may have contributed to his condition. His new job is going
> well.
>
> 7/22 – Donna&&&&& would appreciate prayers, as she found out she has breast
> cancer. It was caught early and is slow-growing, so she is optimistic.
> 8/5 Update – Her lumpectomy surgery is scheduled for August 16.
>
> 7/22 – Dash my lace wigs posted that she and her husband could use some
> prayers. He had an incident involving too much drink, too many stairs, too
> much anger, and The Law. He is on court-ordered sobriety, and she thanks Jesus
> for that, but sees a long and difficult recovery ahead. She prays that he
> succeeds, and that she will have the strength to stand with him through it.
> 8/5 – Thanks to all who continue to pray for them; her husband has 3 weeks
> sober. Thank you, Lord.
>
> 7/24 – The DMV MGC is requesting Moron prayers that strength, endurance, and
> peace may be granted to blaster, Sra blaster, and her sister, as they face a
> rough family situation that several others among the horde are currently
> facing as well as others that have already faced, or will eventually, face.
> Sra blaster’s mother is not doing well either physically or emotionally and is
> also suffering from dementia/Alzheimer’s. She is being cared for by both her
> daughters right now in Florida and very dependent upon them but needs healing
> and home care (which is hard to come by in Florida). Prayers for her recovery
> and ability to resume some level of independent living would be appreciated.
>
> 7/29 – Village Idiot’s Apprentice updated the Horde on the good news of his
> dad’s recovery. On 7/22, he was non-verbal and incapable of controlled muscle
> movement. He could still communicate with facial expressions and his eyes. On
> 7/29, he packed up his walker, folded and loaded his clothes and announced he
> was ready to go home. It looks like he had sepsis that knocked him loopy, as
> well as the UTI.
>
> 7/29 – Thefritz asked for prayers for his son-in-law and his daughter, P.R.T
> and C.G.T. His son-in-law found a lump in a testicle and the doctors have
> ordered surgery. They have been trying to get pregnant and recently
> miscarried. They have been married less than two years, so this has left them
> fearful for his life and a future with biological children. Thefritz asks,
> “Dear Lord, please bring healing and calm to them. Give them strength together
> to deal with this. In Jesus’ name, I pray.” He also thanks the Horde in
> advance for their healing prayers.
>
> 8/3 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his friend Mike, who suffers from bone
> cancer and the disease has reached the end stages. Mike is very low and
> probably cannot hang on much longer. Prayers are also requested for his dear
> wife Judy. She has been a magnificent caregiver throughout Mike’s troubles.
> She is terrified that the final days have arrived and, as a very private
> person, it is very difficult for her to share her worries with anyone.
>
> 8/3 – Goddessoftheclassroom asked for prayers. She said she is hurting so
> much, on the fourth anniversary of her elder son’s death.
>
> 8/4 – San Franpsycho updated the Horde on his buddy Paul’s medical status. So
> far, all treatments are ineffective and his tumor remains inoperable. He is a
> candidate for a drug trial at Mt. Sinai and they hope to hear soon if he was
> accepted. So far he is hanging in there!
>
> 8/5 – Screaming in digital heard that her sister-in-law’s mother is in ER with
> breathing problems. Prayers are appreciated.
>
> 8/5 – Grammie Winger said she would appreciate any prayers for her son.
>
> 8/5 – Mindful Webworker had some requests: MiladyJo has her first hip
> replacement surgery scheduled for the end of August. Praying it all goes well
> and she’ll be out of pain. While they were repairing GoodsonM’s busted leg,
> they saw heart problems. The cardiologist told him if he’d get his blood
> pressure down and lose some weight, he should be okay. So far he has dropped a
> bunch of weight, which is encouraging. Prayers for peace and happiness for
> Daughter and her husband. With MiladyJo and GoodsonM both being somewhat in
> capacitated, Daughter has been a huge help to them (driving, dog care, etc.)
> SonC, his wife, and their two kids (oldest just turned 6) remain estranged –
> and strange. No visits or contact for almost 2 years.
>
> 8/5 – RedMindBlueState provided an update on his buddy’s wife. Her cancer is
> stage 3. The surgery went well, but she’s in for a lot of chemo over the next
> 6 months. Thank you for all the prayers.
>
> 8/6 – Cybersmythe requests prayers for Parnell to recover from his cancer.
>
> 8/12 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for Gabriella, a lovely young lady with
> great promise, who was transferred from the hospital in Puerto Rico to one in
> Tampa to get advanced treatment for a very aggressive cancer. This past week
> showed this new treatment seems to be extremely effective and she has made a
> remarkable recovery. She is not out of the woods yet and still needs prayer
> support, but her outlook has improved so much that the hospital staff were
> celebrating it!
>
> 8/12 – Mk Y asked for prayers for the family and 3 year old son of Logan, his
> nephew, who was killed in a motorcycle accident.
>
> 8/12 – Moon_over_vermont received a diagnosis of stage 4 cancer in June. It is
> a type of cancer that typically responds to treatment, but it’s everywhere.
> The second chemo started this week. If his/her comments ever made you smile or
> you thought they were insightful, or if you can spare a passing thought or
> prayer, it would be appreciated.
>
> 8/12 - Tuna sends thanks for all the prayers after the death of her husband
> last month. She knows they were instrumental in being able to find a little
> peace of mind.
>
> 8/12 – Oddbob sent out an emergency prayer request for his 4 month old
> granddaughter. She had some sort of seizure on 8/11. They took her to ER and
> they did a bunch of test and found nothing. Then it happened again on 8/12, so
> they went back to the ER.
>
> 8/15 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for V. She has not been able to reach V,
> a dear member of her congregation. She hasn’t been in church for two weeks,
> and usually never misses. She lives alone and has no family. Fenelon figures
> she may have to go to her house.
>
> 8/16 – P asked for prayers for her nephew R, out east. He suffers from Chiari
> malformation – his brain doesn’t quite fit in his skull, so part of it
> protrudes from the base. He has suffered all his life with migraines and
> dizziness, which makes it nearly impossible to keep a job. A neurosurgical
> specialist will operate on him on 8/21. Please pray that the operation is
> successful and he will be able to live a much more normal life.
>
> For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's
> Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign
> hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel
> free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up
> with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she
> may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are
> generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
>
>
> Romans 8:26-27
> 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what
> we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through
> wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the
> Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the
> will of God.
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Simple house keeping items.....Or as the kids would say, "Rulz? Life aint fair!"
1) Opine and/or bloviate away in this open thread.
2) Be nice to one another including the Hectors of the world.
3) At age *29 even thinking about running with sharp objects may cause injury.
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DAILY TECH NEWS 19 AUGUST 2023
—PIXY MISA
Top Story
* Microsoft: AI is a tidal wave of change as big as the internet.
Also Microsoft: The Ottawa Food Bank is a top-ten must-see tourist spot when
you travel to Canada. (Ars Technica)
> Consider going into it on an empty stomach.
Thanks for the tip!
To be fair, this is Canada, and after you've finished carving your initials
into a moose and then fended off MAID Team Six while seeking treatment for
the resulting moose bite there is not a whole lot to do.
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Tech News
* A key feature of NFTs that never actually worked no longer works. (The Verge)
They're talking about royalty payments, which are supposed to pay the creator
of an NFT (the article talks about the "artist", another disconnect) every
time an NFT is sold, just like in the real world where such royalty payments
are enforced by the Secret World Government's Unicorn Death Squads.
Which is to say, nothing in the real world works this way, and it never
worked for NFTs either. You could set it up to work on specific marketplaces,
but anyone could just not sell their NFTs on those marketplaces.
* AI could be the saviour software companies need. (Tech Crunch)
Or unicorns, one of those two.
Worth noting that when the article says "saviour" it means "insanely
unethical tool for milking more money out of customers trapped in
subscription plans for what used to be a one-time purchase".
* In the market for a rather large and somewhat expensive tablet running Linux
- and not the Android variety either, but a choice of distributions including
Ubuntu and Mint? The StarLite Mk V might be what you're after. (Liliputing)
With a 12.5" screen it's not pocket-friendly, but the 2880x1920 resolution is
nothing to complain about, and that's paired with an Intel N200 CPU - so yes,
it can also run Windows, 16GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of storage. Which is
user-replaceable, like recent Microsoft Surface devices. It doesn't say but
it's safe to assume it uses an M.2 2230 SSD.
* Speaking of tablets that can also run Windows, the Lenovo Legion Go is one.
(WCCFTech)
This is a handheld gaming device - like the Steam Deck - but with detachable
game controllers so you could in theory just use it as a tablet.
It will be powered by AMD's Z1 CPU - all these devices are, except for the
Steam Deck itself - and will come with... Uh, that's all the details we have.
* Remember the days when phones came with headphone jacks and microSD slots,
and even, sometimes, replaceable batteries? Nokia apparently does, because
the G310 5G has all of those. (Liliputing)
And it costs $186.
It comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which are both adequate for a
budget phone, and the CPU has two A76 cores and four A55 cores, which should
also be fine. (A70 series cores are much faster than A50.)
The main camera is a 50MP autofocus, with an 8MP selfie camera.
And you can buy a replacement screen for $55 and swap it yourself if you
happen to drop it.
Only real shortcoming is that screen, which is a 720p model and not 1080p,
but given all the other good points I think this could be a solid little
device for anyone who wants a phone and not a status symbol.
On sale in the US next week.
* 25% of Gen Z is retarded. (The Verge)
They don't trust mainstream media - wise - so they instead get their news
from TikTok and find themselves distressed that nobody is investigating Katy
Perry for murdering a nun.
> A recent study by Google's Jigsaw unit, published alongside the University
> of Cambridge and Gemic, found this to be the case on TikTok as early as
> 2018 – the year it debuted in the US – with a participant investigating a
> rumor that Katy Perry had killed a nun.
> "They were disappointed to find no stories from major news sources that
> definitively answered this question," the study says. "They went to TikTok
> and concluded that if Katy Perry fans hadn't weighed in, the story must not
> be true. They trusted Katy Perry fans, who engaged with and reported on her
> activities daily, to know the truth."
So yes, there are even worse places to get your news than The Verge,
incredible though that may seem.
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—WEIRDDAVE
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Dave Matthews couldn't do this good of a Dave Matthews impersonation
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>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
Cat-astrophy
Fido Friday: Sleepytime
Wholesome moment
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>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
Banging Gran
Aye, Aye, Chief
Tonight's prank
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>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
Good question. Any contractors know?
This is wild
Aliens meets MG-42
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>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
I agree with this
I see people all the time say “It's because I'm (insert identity group)”. No,
it's because you're an asshole. Even if you weren't (identity group), you'd
still be an asshole.
Japan on the US
Neat find. Why on Earth anyone would cover this up in the first place is beyond
me
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>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
Today's stupid
Poignant
This is called a hammered dulcimer, and this guy is playing the shit out of it
> pic.twitter.com/21Vca0Q3ct
>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
I feel this in my bones.
Don King is asshole
The final conspiracy revealed at last
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>
> — ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
Today's question:
I think bolt is the most reliable, but lever guns are the most fun.
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HIGH ANXIETY CAFE
—ACE
Cinque Terre, Italy by Valentino Selis
Some very short videos here
This tight little unit is enjoying a shower.
Peeping tomcat.
Would you like a slice of cartoon cake? Stay with it!
Surf's up!
Just running some errands in Switzerland.
Why did the baby cross the road? A little harrowing but everything's fine, don't
even worry about it.
Another baby rescue. Tense but the baby is saved.
This is gross but fascinating. This is one very blocked pipe. I think that must
be Jonah Goldberg's toilet.
Some people have a good sense of their surroundings. And then there's this
woman. (And, to be honest, me -- I'm barely aware myself.)
Man revives puppy by giving it CPR as its worried mom-dog looks on.
Apparently tying knots with your tongue is something people can do in real life.
Now we're cooking with fire.
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Some of these Transformer furniture designs are awesome. I really like the
secret garage entrance.
> Engineered designs pic.twitter.com/9BWB6mnwbe
>
> — Enezator (@Enezator) August 17, 2023
A little less anxiety. Still some anxiety, though.
> it must be very enjoyablepic.twitter.com/cNFlKAXKRN
>
> — Enezator (@Enezator) August 17, 2023
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NORTH CAROLINA OVERRIDES LIBERAL GOVERNOR'S VETO TO BAN TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES
FOR KIDS 18 AND UNDER
PLUS: THE WEEK IN WOKE
—ACE
A small victory.
> The North Carolina General Assembly completed an override to Gov. Roy Cooper's
> veto of the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which bans transgender girls and
> women in middle school, high school and college from joining women's sports.
>
> HB 574, which is the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, was among multiple
> overrides the House and the Senate made on Wednesday night. It was passed by
> the House by a vote of 74-45, while the Senate voted to override Cooper's
> decision later Wednesday night.
>
> HB 808, which does not allow medical professionals to provide hormone therapy,
> puberty-blocking drugs or gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, was
> also overridden.
An "inclusive" comedy show was so inclusive it had to
exclude wrongthinkers.
> Five years ago, Andy Shaw and I set up a monthly comedy night in London called
> Comedy Unleashed. Our objective was to challenge what we perceived to be the
> groupthink that was developing within the industry. Promoters, television
> commissioners, critics, even comedians themselves, had begun to turn on acts
> who failed to convey the "correct" political opinions, and many fellow comics
> confessed to me that they had begun to self-censor for the sake of their
> careers.
>
> And so we launched a night which would encourage innovative and free-thinking
> acts, where we might cultivate a comedy-literate audience who understood that
> the art form cannot exist without the potential to cause offence. Not that the
> acts we booked necessarily had to be offensive; rather, they would be free to
> tease the limitations of the audience's tolerance should they wish. The only
> condition was that they should be funny.
>
> This year we decided to make an appearance at the trade fair known as the
> Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We liaised with a local promoter and booked a venue
> in Leith, on the outskirts of the city. The bill was to include Bruce Devlin,
> Mary Bourke, Dominic Frisby, Alistair Williams and the co-creator of the
> classic sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd, Graham Linehan.
>
> Graham has been considered controversial for holding a range of beliefs. Most
> notably: that human beings cannot change sex, that women deserve the right to
> single-sex spaces and the chance to compete fairly in sports, that feminists
> such as J.K. Rowling should not have to put up with rape and death threats for
> stating biological facts, and that gay and autistic children ought not to be
> medicalised and put onto a pathway to sterilisation. What a monster.
>
> Those who claim that "cancel culture does not exist" will struggle to explain
> how it is that one of the most successful sitcom writers of all time now
> cannot work in the comedy industry, and why his musical adaptation of Father
> Ted has been effectively held hostage by the rights holders, Hat Trick
> Productions.
>
> Given that we knew our show would sell out, we did not advertise Graham in
> advance, preferring instead to tease the audience with the prospect of a
> "surprise cancelled comedian". With the show just a few days away, we finally
> announced his appearance, and within 24 hours the venue, Leith Arches, had
> posted a statement on Instagram stating that they "DO NOT suppprt [sic] this
> comedian, or his views and he WILL NOT be allowed to perform at our venue and
> is CANCELLED from Thursdays [sic] comedy show with immediate effect".
More "inclusion!" An academic fellowship for "inclusive science" is only
available to those of certain privileged races.
> he "Inclusive Science Communication Fellowship" is "supported by a $2.8
> million collaborative National Science Foundation grant" and run by the
> University of Rhode Island Metcalf Institute, Michigan State University's
> Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and the University of Rhode Island
> Science and Story Lab. ...
>
> A requirement is that applicants "[s]elf-identify as Black or African
> American, Indigenous or Native American, Hispanic or Latina/e/o/x, Asian or
> Asian American, Middle Eastern or North African."
"Latina/e/o/x." Leftists are vandals of language (and all other things,
including human bodies).
Feminist medical school professor hails the "progress" of confused children
"identifying themselves" as "gender minotaurs."
> A California hospital executive and professor claimed children can identify as
> a mythology-inspired creature and claimed that this category of children love
> mermaids, according to a presentation reviewed by Fox News Digital.
>
> Diane Ehrensaft, a self-identified "feminist" who supports a "gender
> revolution," is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the
> UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital gender development center. She is also a
> professor at UCSF School of Medicine. The developmental and clinical
> psychologist specializes in pediatric "gender-affirmative care for transgender
> and gender-expansive patients."
>
> Her biography paged reflected that Ehrensaft focuses her research on how
> genders before puberty develop as well as the mental health effects of puberty
> blockers and cross-sex hormones, which are part of chemical sex changes, on
> children.
>
> Ehrensaft made what some may consider fringe claims about gender ideology,
> including that kids can identify as "gender hybrids" which include a
> mythology-inspired creature called a "gender Minotaur," and that kids can
> change their genders by season and can have different identities depending on
> their location.
>
> Diane Ehrensaft claims children can identify as "minotaurs."
>
> According to Britannica, a "Minotaur" is derived from Greek mythology and was
> a creature which had the body of a man and the head of a bull.
>
> "I totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and the children
> are leading it. And it's a wonderful thing to see. And it's also humbling to
> know [children] know more than we do about this topic of being gender
> expansive," she said during a 2018 talk at the San Francisco Public Library.
>
>
>
>
>
> Ehrensaft believes the transgender revolution is the next phase of the 60s
> feminist movement, which featured challenging stereotypes about gender.
>
> "Now, we've got genders moving boulders, and it makes a lot of people
> nervous," she said.
>
> Ehrensaft believes that transgenderism is derived by a "gender web" which is
> influenced by culture, upbringing and nature.
>
> "Each person's web will change over time as they age," the event's description
> said. "What's Your Gender? Don't answer until you hear all your options...
> Ehrensaft wants you to get off the binary measurement scale."
>
> She introduced language such as "genderfluid," "non-binary" and "gender
> expansive." She then predicted the language will evolve beyond that, and cited
> her conversation with a 7-year-old as proof that there can be "gender
> minotaurs" and hybrids.
>
> "And as you know, language is political. So what's good today will be
> politically incorrect tomorrow. So we'll just keep changing as we go," said
> Ehrensaft. "This is a whole group of kids you all should know about."
>
> ...
>
> Fox News Digital reached out to Ehrensaft and the children's hospital for
> comment but did not receive a response.
A federal court has ruled that schools are allowed to secret transition the
gender of other people's children, and parents have no right to challenge that
policy in court.
> On Monday, a federal court ruled that a a group of parents could not challenge
> a Maryland school district's policy keeping parents in the dark about their
> children's gender transitions.
>
> The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that three parents in the
> Montgomery County, Maryland school district could not challenge the policy.
> According to NBC News, this was due to the fact that the parents had not
> alleged their children were transgender in the first place (via NBC News):
>
> The policy, which the Montgomery County Board of Education adopted for the
> 2020-2021 school year, permitted schools to develop gender support plans for
> students to ensure they "feel comfortable expressing their gender identity."
>
> The policy directs school personnel to help transgender and
> gender-nonconforming students create a plan that addresses their preferred
> pronouns, names and bathrooms, and bars staff from informing parents of those
> plans without a student's consent.
>
> Lawsuits are pending challenging similar policies in other states. The
> Maryland case was the first to be argued before a federal appeals court.
They dismissed for lack of standing. They claim that parents only have the right
to even sue if their children are transgender. So you have to wait until they
cook your children's brain before you have any recourse.
> The judges' decision points out that children of the parents who brought
> forward the challenge do not have gender support plans (via United States
> Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit):
>
>
>
> > The parents have not alleged that their children have gender support plans,
> > are transgender or are even struggling with issues of gender identity. As a
> > result, they have not alleged facts that the Montgomery County public
> > schools have any information about their children that is currently being
> > withheld or that there is a substantial risk information will be withheld in
> > the future. Thus, under the Constitution, they have not alleged the type of
> > injury required to show standing.
> >
> > Absent an injury that creates standing, federal courts lack the power to
> > address the parents' objections to the Guidelines. That does not mean their
> > objections are invalid. In fact, they may be quite persuasive. But, by
> > failing to allege any injury to themselves, the parents' opposition to the
> > Parental Preclusion Policy reflects a policy disagreement. And policy
> > disagreements should be addressed to elected policymakers at the ballot box,
> > not to unelected judges in the courthouse. So, we remand to the district
> > court to dismiss the case for lack of standing.
I think this might be reversed, unless the federal judiciary really believes you
don't have a right to object to the policies in compulsory government schools
until they're halfway through transitioning your children.
America's First Female Admiral -- and boy, I tell you what, what a looker! --
Rachel Levine called actual adult human females "egg producers" while visiting a
gender clinic.
Some women produce eggs, other women produce semen. So of course "she" can't
call mothers "women." She has to specify which type of woman.
> Levine visited the Identity Alaska on August 6 but is just now being reported.
> Levine praised the clinic's 'tireless' efforts to provide 'lifesaving medical
> care.'
>
> Levine praised the gender-affirming care clinic that wants to eliminate the
> word 'mother' and replace it with a phase like 'egg producer." It is just the
> latest example of transgender activists not respecting women, in general, and
> normalizing propaganda. The clinic delivers propaganda such as that children
> should learn that doctors 'assign' gender to babies and they 'guess' about the
> gender.
>
> ...
>
> The highest ranking openly transgender federal official in the country wants
> to call women the 'gestational parent,' 'egg producer' or 'carrier' instead of
> mother. It's insulting. Stop reducing women to their reproductive organs
> simply to appease gender dysphoric people, who are a miniscule minority in
> America. At some point, common sense has to take over and say enough is
> enough.
The woke military is paying self-identified "queer" doctors to chop off the
breasts and genitals of servicepeople. And obviously, people are joining the
military not to serve, but to just force taxpayers to pay for endless surgeries
and endless leaves of duty.
The leftwing idea of paradise on earth.
A man has won another championship in women's powerlifting.
Oh, that's not the real news. He's won ten of the twelve events he's entered.
No, the real news is that he set yet another national "women's" record in
powerlifting.
Did I say "national"? Well yes, but he also broke the world record for "women's"
powerlifting. That still has to be certified by world "women's" powerlifting
authorities.
> A male athlete has set yet another women's national record in Canadian
> powerlifting.
>
> Anne Andres -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- won first place
> in the Canadian Powerlifting Union's 2023 Western Canadian Championship on
> Sunday. There, Andres set both a Canadian women's national record and an
> unofficial women's world powerlifting record.
>
> This is Andres' 10th first-place finish out of 12 competitions.
Wow, what a proud moment.
In some good news, Dallas "Pride" is cancelling its planned "Night of 1000 Drag
Queens" citing lack of public support.
The drag queens wanted to protest a law that forbids them from putting on
"sexualized" shows for children.
That's the hill they want to die on.
But they're not into children or anything. It's just that this is insanely
important to them. For... unspecified reasons.
> A drag queen-themed Pride event in Texas was canceled after the community
> failed to raise necessary funding, according to local reports.
>
> Dallas Pride scheduled the Night of a Thousand Drag Queens event as a protest
> against Senate Bill 12, legislation that will restrict public sexual
> performances that was signed into law June 1 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
>
> Dallas Pride Interim Executive Director Christine Bengston said the event was
> originally scheduled for July but was later pushed to August to allow more
> time for fundraising.
>
> We were hoping and were billing it as a last hurrah to come fill the street
> with drag queens," Bengston said in an interview with The Dallas Express.
>
> "We thought that people would come together," she added. "Well, it didn't
> work."
>
> Senate Bill 12 restricts "sexually oriented performances" in the presence of a
> child or on public property in Texas.
>
> According to one of the definitions in the bill, a "sexually oriented
> performance" means a visual performance that features "a male performer
> exhibiting as a female, or a female performer exhibiting as a male, who uses
> clothing, makeup, or other similar physical markers and who sings, lip syncs,
> dances, or otherwise performs before an audience" and "appeals to the prurient
> interest in sex."
Quebec now has a drag queen (or transgender, who knows) weatherman.
Advantage: Mexico.
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> .@Homer33c hired this individual as an elementary school teacher. He claims to
> suffer from �mania and psychosis� which can lead him to be �violent and
> hurtful.�
>
> Would you feel safe knowing this person is teaching your kid?
> pic.twitter.com/n9yzmCOWsJ
>
> — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 17, 2023
> .@Homer33c just hired this person as an elementary school teacher. These are
> some of he/they�s posts:
>
> Would you be comfortable with this person teaching your kids?
> pic.twitter.com/Y0M4qcyJ7J
>
> — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 17, 2023
Although the school district won't comment, they do at least acknowledge that
they are aware of the... concerns about this individual:
> Parents blasted the @WhiteCoSchools board after a teacher gave middle
> schoolers an assignment to write a story about themselves murdering someone
> pic.twitter.com/O49vRDco53
>
> — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 17, 2023
The Education Departments of America's colleges aren't sending their best.
> Drag queen with massive prosthetic breasts and visible protruding nipples says
> �we�re the ones you keep your kids away from� while performing a
> hypersexualized show in front of children at the Austin �family-friendly�
> pride festival.pic.twitter.com/3NCpyQLUcs
>
> — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 17, 2023
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COUNTRY PROTEST SONG BY OLIVER ANTHONY RACKS UP 19 MILLION YOUTUBE VIEWS IN 9
DAYS
—ACE
Michael Shellenberger sums up the case the left is making that he's an
inauthentic plant:
> There is nothing authentic about the viral country hit "Rich Men North of
> Richmond" by Oliver Anthony, say journalists. His real name is Christopher
> Anthony Lunsford. He is a "conservative industry plant, astroturfed into
> existence by all the Daily Wire freaks and some right-wing social media
> promoter," according to an online sleuth. "The entire concept was likely
> dreamt up in a Daily Wire/Con Inc laboratory," acknowledged a Trump supporter.
>
> But if it is just a deep folksy fake, it's a great one. Lunsford's song hit
> number one on the iTunes chart one week ago and was being streamed three
> million times daily as of last week. The music and lyrics have inspired a
> remarkably diverse audience of supporters, as shown by the video of reactions
> to Lunsford, spliced into a viral video by Matt Orfalea above.
>
> To be sure, Lunsford could be a one-hit-wonder. He himself is modest about his
> abilities. "There's nothing special about me," he wrote on Facebook. "I'm not
> a good musician, I'm not a very good person."
>
> All Lunsford did was produce a hit song, and yet over the last two weeks,
> journalists have been attacking him as a racist and far-right grifter.
>
> In truth, there's really only one thing in the song that might be reasonably
> considered conservative, and that's a single line criticizing welfare. There's
> nothing racist whatsoever in the song.
>
> And if Lunsford is a grifter, he's not a particularly good one. In his
> Facebook post, Lunsford said that he lives a 27-foot-long camper that he
> bought on Craigslist for $750. Its roof is a tarp.
The left is just attempting to destroy him because they don't like the lyrics of
the song:
> [Verse 1] I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day Overtime hours for
> bullshit pay So I can sit out here and waste my life away Drag back home and
> drown my troubles away
>
> [Pre-Chorus]
> It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
> For people like me and people like you
> Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
> But it is, oh, it is
>
> [Chorus]
> Livin' in the new world
> With an old soul
> These rich men north of Richmond
> Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
> Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
> And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
> 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
> 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
>
> [Verse 2]
> I wish politicians would look out for miners
> And not just minors on an island somewhere
> Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
> And the obese milkin' welfare
>
> [Verse 3]
> Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
> Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
> Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
> 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down
>
> [Pre-Chorus]
> Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
> For people like me and people like you
> Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
> But it is, oh, it is
>
> [Chorus]
> Livin' in the new world
> With an old soul
> These rich men north of Richmond
> Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
> Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
> And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
> 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
> 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond
>
> [Outro]
> I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
> Overtime hours for bullshit pay
I feel all of this:
Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
And so they're trying to destroy this guy -- for writing lyrics they don't like.
Ya Boi Zach pointed out that the press doesn't write reports any more. They
write only two kinds of propaganda: Puff pieces, and hit pieces. And they don't
even wait to collect the facts before choosing which they're writing. They know
going in.
So leftist life-ruiners and defamation merchants are claiming that his viral
success is actually due to, get this, bots.
Bots and Macedonian Content Farmers? Russian hackers?
Boy they just have that one move, huh?
> Is viral sensation Oliver Anthony too good to be true? Too "right" to be true?
> Or an authentic working class hero, which is something to be?
>
> Since the Virginia native's "Rich Men North of Richmond" song began taking off
> from out of nowhere less than a week ago, the Appalachian country-folk singer
> has been acclaimed by freshly minted fans as a phenomenon of the people and
> accused by detractors of harboring ugly right-wing attitudes or suspected of
> being an "industry plant."
I've heard another viral sensation accused of being an "industry plant." This
annoying Stronk Empowered Feminist group, the Tramp Stamps. The term is pretty
vague. It claims that someone who is a nobody and then suddenly gets famous
wasn't a total, complete nobody, but actually had some experience in the music
industry and had a connection or two here or there.
It's kind of a stupid charge because literally everyone who makes it in any
industry has some connection to it. If you're a country musician, even if you're
a nobody, I bet you've played some small Nashville bars, if only on a Monday.
Does that mean that an out-of-nowhere nobody isn't an out-of-nowhere nobody?
Well, no. Obviously a few people heard of Oliver Anthony before last week --
again, maybe just people who go to bars in his hometown, but I'm sure he's had
some small-scale local success.
The idea is that someone the entertainment industry, which cannot stop tripping
over their own feet and losing hundreds of millions of dollars every movie, is
somehow so smart and capable that they know that if they pretend an
almost-nobody is a complete nobody, they can gin up a Viral Sensation story
which will make the almost-nobody a huge somebody.
This is stupid. People are idiots and these fucking morons are stepping on my
last nerve with their constant stupidity.
> The suspicions of progressive musi fans have largely to do with the fast
> numbers he's racked up as an independent artist with supposedly no industry
> backing whatsoever. The "Rich Men" video (hosted not on his own YouTube page,
> but that of a site that promises "real music, real people, real cuture" [sic])
> has racked up 12 million views in six days. The red-bearded upstart has
> accumulated 341,000 Twitter/X followers within days of registering on the
> site. On the iTunes downloads chart, he has the top three songs as of this
> writing, and five of the top 10. And while paid downloads are hardly a solid
> measure of broad success nowadays, Anthony's breakout tune has cracked the top
> 10 on a much more indicative one, Spotify's daily USA Top 50.
>
>
> It's a phenomenon not unlike the recent rise of Jason Aldean's similarly
> right-rousing "Try That in a Small Town," but with a literally friendlier
> face. His critics maintain he is punching down as well as up, with the song's
> lyrics about "the obese milkin' welfare" ("Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and
> you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds") as
> well as the supposed fat cats in Washington, D.C. that are ostensibly the main
> target of the tune.
>
> What's known about Anthony, who has a minimal news or paper trail up to this
> point, comes largely through a YouTube monologue he put up a few days before
> releasing "Rich Men." In that speech, he declares himself nonpartisan: "I sit
> pretty dead center down the aisle on politics and, always have," Anthony says,
> facing the camera from behind the wheel. "I remember as a kid the
> conservatives wanting war, and me not understanding that. And I remember a lot
> of the controversies when the left took office, and it seems like, you know,
> both sides serve the same master. And that master is not someone of any good
> to the people of this country."
>
> But if an artist is known by the fans they keep, the highest-profile fans
> Anthony has quickly accumulated are very much on the right side of the aisle
> -- insta-supporters like former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake,
> Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, firebrand commentator Matt Walsh, former Mumford
> & Sons banjoist-turned-political gadfly Winston Marshall and far-right country
> figure John Rich, who said he has had long conversations with Anthony and
> offered to produce and finance a full album. If Anthony wants to prove the
> centrism he professes by picking up some less partisan public figures as fans,
> he may have his work cut out for him, given the way he's instantly been
> embraced as a hero to the right.
>
> Whether Anthony really is an ideologue in good old boy's clothing remains to
> be seen.
Weird how no one on the left, like Beyonce, is ever suspected of being an
"ideologue" despite packing their "music" with overt propaganda.
No one on the left is ever an ideologue and certainly not an extremist. Why,
they're all just centrist moderates who only believe in human values and common
sense. Just ask them.
Just ask Jake Tapper, for example.
> When he does stick with social issues, he doesn't seem like a political
> scientist, exactly: The only three "issues" he addresses in his plaints
> against politicians are high taxes, welfare queens and child trafficking. His
> focus on the latter, which is the sole topic he addresses in his YouTube
> monologue, has led to the suspicion that he may harbor or represent QAnon
> views, since that is a key bugaboo of that movement, although he has been
> limited in how conspiratorial he has publicly gotten.
Oh no, not that. The last big unexpected hit the left attempted to crush and
kill was also accused of pushing the "QAnon conspiracy theory" that child
trafficking is real. Now this guy brings up the conspiracy theory that Jeffrey
Epstein had an island which he stocked with underage girls for the delectation
of his wealthy well-connected Democrat palz, and we all know how completely
untrue that conspiracy theory is.
> "I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an
> island somewhere," he sings, a slightly confusing couplet that seems to
> indicate belief in a government cover-up having to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
Newsflash, they covered up for him for decades. They still are covering up for
him.
Oh lookie here at what I just found: The former Attorney General for the Virgin
Islands (location of Pedo Isle) says the Democrat governor pressured her to
grant special favors to his good pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Does that mean that this isn't a QAnon conspiracy theory? Or is the leftwing
groomer media still going to insist this is all made up?
How about if mega-bankers JP Morgan are also involved?
> The former U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general revealed in court documents
> made public Monday that the governor of the territory pressured her to give
> convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein special treatment.
>
> In July statements under oath, Denise George testified that Democratic Gov.
> Albert Bryan Jr. pressured her in 2019 to issue a special waiver to Epstein,
> which she denied to do, that would allow him to enter the Virgin Islands
> despite his sex offender status that prevented his entry, according to court
> documents. Bryan fired George unexpectedly in December, four days after her
> office sued JPMorgan Chase over its dealings with Epstein, according to The
> New York Times.
>
> "My thoughts about that even then, in particular then, it did not sit right
> with me," George said in her deposition about the 2019 request by the
> governor. "Because my thing is, first of all, why is the Governor, you know,
> getting involved in this matter that is a law enforcement matter. Or only the
> Attorney General to make based on law, and that he was doing so on behalf of a
> convicted sex offender, a sexual offender, child predator, this person,
> Jeffrey -- Jeffrey Epstein."
>
> The statements from George were part of a deposition in a larger legal battle
> between the government of the Virgin Islands and JPMorgan. The two entities
> have thrown a number of accusations at each other, including accusations from
> JPMorgan that the Virgin Islands looked the other way when Epstein entered the
> country and the Virgin Islands levying accusations of executive discussions of
> Epstein surrounding himself with "nymphettes."
Above: Exhibit C, for "Conspiracy Theory"
I'm a little sick of the Pedophilia Deniers of the leftwing groomer press, who
invent conspiracy theories about these crimes not actually happening but all
being an illusion of QAnon.
Maybe they're being fed these crazy conspiracy theories by RUSSIAN BOTS.
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Look at all of this "industry planting."
> This is heartwarming 🥲
>
> pic.twitter.com/oeQnnMlYp8
>
> — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 17, 2023
Everything I don't like is racism, or a RUSSIAN BOT.
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GAINZZZ CAFE
—ACE
Mostly animal vids in this one.
One of the new weight-loss drugs, Wegovy, reduces heart attacks and strokes "in
people at high risk."
I mean, to some extent, that's obvious: If you lose weight due to whatever
reason, you're going to improve your cardiovascular health.
But these findings may make these drugs coverable by insurance and more readily
available.
> Wegovy, a weight-loss drug from Novo Nordisk, also helps prevent heart attacks
> and stroke in people at high risk, according to a company news release.
>
> The trial of more than 17,000 adults 45 and older with obesity or overweight
> showed a 20% reduction in first heart attack, stroke or death from a
> cardiovascular event. Participants were given weekly injections of 2.4 mg of
> the drug semaglutide, sold as Wegovy, or a placebo, for as long as five years.
>
> The results, released Tuesday, have not yet been peer reviewed or published in
> a scientific journal, and the Danish pharmaceutical company only provided
> limited information.
>
> Doctors who treat patients with obesity were thrilled by the report, which is
> the first to show a major health benefit for a class of drugs first approved
> to treat people with diabetes.
>
> "Obesity treatment is far more than about weight loss. It's about health
> improvement. It's about extending life," said Dr. Michael Albert, an obesity
> specialist in Oklahoma who runs a telehealth medical practice called
> Accomplish Health. "I think we'll look back and see this was a watershed
> moment (in the treatment of obesity)."
>
> Albert, who has consulted for Novo Nordisk in the past, said he thinks the new
> trial will be enough to convince the federal government to cover the cost of
> Wegovy and weight-loss medications, known as GLP-1 agonists, which can run
> $1,300 a month or more without insurance.
>
> ...
>
> Novo Nordisk's stock rose nearly 16% on Tuesday on the news of the study's
> result.
This plagues me: 80% of the time after I fall asleep, I wake up 10-20 minutes
later.
> Something that 70% of us experience, yet very few of us have even heard of:
> "hypnic jerks." Also known as sleep starts, sleep twitches or myoclonic jerks,
> the phenomenon tends to occur in the 10 minutes or so between the moment you
> go to sleep and the moment you actually fall asleep. As you're lying there
> with your eyes heavy and your breathing nice and rhythmic, your muscles
> suddenly contract in violent fashion, ripping you from your rest.
>
> Sound familiar? It might not because a third of adults don't experience hypnic
> jerks, and many who do simply roll over and into their official sleep cycle (a
> little confused, but none the worse for wear). Still, others are familiar with
> the full suite; hypnic jerks can include hallucinogenic elements like
> perceived bangs or stomps and sensations of falling off a cliff or getting hit
> by a truck. I've had the former before -- I wouldn't recommend it. Some
> sleepers may even cry out when this happens. If you share a bed with a
> partner, you may have witnessed it firsthand.
>
>
> It's possible that this all sounds unpleasant, if not a little alarming. In an
> age of careful and considered sleep hygiene -- with sleepers spending more
> time and money to make their little sleep havens as dark, cool and tech-less
> as possible -- should we be making a point to stamp out hypnic jerks, too? Are
> they negatively impacting our sleep patterns? The answer is more or less no.
> Sleep experts stress that research into hypnic jerks is light, but that's
> expressly because it's a harmless occurrence.
It's not harmless when it takes you 30 minutes to fall back asleep.
> If hypnic jerks become a more frequent or intense in your wind-down routine,
> consider limiting your afternoon caffeine consumption. Other triggers:
> nicotine, exercise too late in the day...
As Bond told M in Never Say Never Again, approximately: "Very well, sir, I shall
cut out the exercise."
No but I think I'll stop vaping an hour before bed, see if that improves things.
> ...stress and anxiety (e.g. working before bedtime, or laying there litigating
> the entirety of your day). Fortunately, the everyday switches that decrease
> your chance of a severe hypnic jerk will help you sleep better, anyway.
Maybe I'll get this book to help me sleep.
The Young Me watching that clip: Boy does James Bond look old
The Old Me watching that clip: Boy does Sean Connery look young
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Cat wants to strengthen his core.
This doberman does not skip leg day.
Dig deep! DIIIIIG DEEEEP!
Dog is an avid fan of the racing sports.
98 year old completes a 5K in under an hour.
> Just training for that next run in with the cat 😂#dog #dogs #animal #animals
> pic.twitter.com/obOs1Z5G4s
>
> — Pier Pets (@PierPets) August 1, 2023
> The best workout partner 😂 #dog #dogs #animal #animals
> pic.twitter.com/L23wHQwRo0
>
> — Pier Pets (@PierPets) July 29, 2023
> He's just trying to help in his own way 😂#dog #dogs #animal #animals
> pic.twitter.com/ExL9VNoP9m
>
> — Pier Pets (@PierPets) August 1, 2023
Typical female fitness influencer (mild content warning).
Gym geniuses:
> hahahaha legendpic.twitter.com/cDbbVS3nSQ
>
> — Enezator (@Enezator) August 14, 2023
I understand and approve of the pig one. It's a cute way to avoid touching your
chest when benching. I suppose it's technically possible a girl might think
you're interesting.
I ended a semi-fast earlier this week. Time to finally start lifting again. For
real this time.
So, tell me about YO GAINZZZ.
And also -- any PLANZZZ, PROJEXXX, or good BOOXXXXX.
I won't ask about good movies -- I know there are none.
Close it up
Posted by Ace at 04:10 PM Comments
LAW SCHOOL ORGANIZATION HOLDS CONFERENCE ON HOW TO VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION AND
EVADE THE LAW AND CONTINUE PRACTICING HARDCORE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
—ACE
Of course. The law does not apply to the lawless left.
They are the aristocracy. They make the law, they do not suffer it.
> The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) held a conference in July
> discussing how higher education institutions can continue to racially
> discriminate, following a ruling by the Supreme Court banning race-based
> admissions policies, according to videos reviewed by the Daily Caller News
> Foundation.
>
> In June, the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard University and the University of
> North Carolina's use of race-based admissions policies is unconstitutional,
> halting the practice in all higher education institutions. In early July, AALS
> held a conference featuring several panels and speakers who suggested
> institutions use recruiting tactics, diversity statements as well as "data and
> analysis" to increase racial diversity.
>
> ...
>
> "A lot of us have looked this problem square in the eye before, or this issue,
> and have come up with creative solutions to maintain the kinds of classes that
> we want," Cary Lee Cluck, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
> Assistant Dean, said during the seminar. "This is just another moment in time
> where we have to stop and reassess."
>
> Kristin Theis-Alvarez, assistant dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the
> UC Berkeley School of Law, noted Berkeley has a four-page personal statement
> that was a "direct outcome" of California's Proposition 209 in 1996, which put
> a stop to affirmative action in the state, according to the seminar. The
> school also allows applicants to submit an optional socioeconomic
> questionnaire and diversity statement rather than explicitly asking for race
> during the admissions process, Theis-Alvarez said.
And they're pushing the "personal statement" as the only criteria for admission
because it allows black students to identify as such in official application
materials. Previously, these schools claimed that Asians just didn't have "good
personalities" and discriminated against them; now they'll just say "the
personal statement was boring and didn't have the kind of passion I was looking
for."
> "In the past, applicants have included information about such things as gender
> identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disability, socio-economic
> background, being a first-generation college student or graduate student,
> being a student parent a re-entry student, their geographic diversity or
> ideological diversity and others," Theis-Alvarez said.
Harvard, UMass, and Tuft's are all similarly scheming to subvert the law.
They're employing the same "tell us you're black in your personal statement and
how being black means you're black and have black perspectives on matters of
black diversity" tactic previewed at the conference discussed above.
> Harvard, UMass and Tufts hopefuls are being asked to give details about their
> upbringing, community and what makes them 'diverse' on application websites
>
> This comes at the advice of the Biden administration, which on Monday began
> urging colleges to use a range of strategies to promote racial diversity
>
> In June, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that colleges could no longer factor in
> race when considering potential students, ending a decades-old policy
>
>
> Top US colleges are continuing diversity drives when selecting students
> despite SCOTUS's ruling against affirmative action - in part due to advice
> given by the Biden administration.
>
>
> Harvard, UMass and Tufts hopefuls are being asked to give details about their
> upbringing, community and what makes them 'diverse' on application websites in
> thinly-veiled attempts to skirt the legislation.,
I like black music, black athletes, and black comedians.
Am I diverse now?
Oh no I can't be, because I'm white. The "background" statement is just a signal
to look at my picture and verify my race.
But this is the basic idea: We won't admit students based on race. Wink. We'll
just admit them on their "diverse" background features and interests, which have
nothing (wink to do with race.
> ...
>
>
>
> Colleges can also consider how an applicant's race has shaped their personal
> experience, as detailed in students' application essays or letters of
> recommendation, the guidance states.
That's the Biden Administration once again defying the courts. The Supreme Court
said they could not admit based on race, and Biden is telling them: Keep on
admitting based on race. Just call it their "personal experience in living as a
member of the black race."
> Students applying to Harvard are now faced with a question about their
> background with the preface: 'Harvard has long recognized the importance of
> enrolling a diverse student body.
>
> 'How will the life experiences that shape who you are today enable you to
> contribute to Harvard?'
>
> And high school grads hoping to secure a spot at Tufts are being asked: 'How
> have the environments or experiences of your upbringing -- your family, home,
> neighborhood, or community -- shaped the person you are today?'
Posted by Ace at 03:26 PM Comments
CONGRESS INVESTIGATING WHETHER THE DEMOCRATS ARE USING NONPROFITS AND FOREIGN
DONATIONS TO ILLEGALLY "WIN" ELECTIONS
—ACE
They had better watch out -- questioning any aspect of the Democrat Party's
voting operations is now the predicate for a RICO prosecution..
> The powerful House Ways and Means Committee is opening a probe into whether
> liberal activists are misusing tax-exempt nonprofits to mobilize Democrat
> voters in battleground states, injecting foreign money into elections, or
> evading campaign finance laws.
>
> Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., a member of the tax-writing committee and a
> founder and the House Election Integrity Caucus, said Wednesday that Democrats
> are far ahead of Republicans in running campaigns to get voters to cast early
> or absentee ballots and lawmakers are concerned that foreign money may be
> seeping into the process.
>
> "We're going to be investigating that as a member of the House Ways and Means
> Committee and the Oversight Subcommittee," Tenney told the Just the News, No
> Noise TV show Wednesday.
>
> The IRS says that 501(c)3 tax-exempt ground can conduct voter registration and
> get-out-the-vote drives but only "if they are conducted in a neutral,
> non-partisan manner, for example, without reference to any candidate or
> political party."
>
> But Tenney said she is concerned liberal activists are using the system for
> "vote trafficking" to push only voters who support Democrats to the polls and
> to accept large funds from liberal donors or foreigners interested only in
> electing Democrats.
>
> "We're going to look into whether they're abusing the IRS rules in order to
> get all kinds of money, whether it's foreign money or Sam Bankman-Fried's
> mother funneling money in there to target certain types of voters in certain
> demographics in swing states to make sure that they get those vote votes in,"
> she continued.
>
> Committee Chairman Jason Smith sent a memo to committee members this week --
> obtained by Just the News -- saying his team has gathered evidence suggested
> possible abuses of tax-exempt groups by Democrats, including mis-expenditures
> of tax-exempt funds and use of foreign money.
>
> "The Committee has learned that a Super Political Action Committee (PAC)
> recommended donations to 501(c)(3) organizations as 'the single most effective
> tactic for ensuring Democratic victories' and that large donations from a
> wealthy donor to state election offices in 2020 may have been done in a manner
> that helps one political party over another," Smith wrote. "Additionally, the
> Committee has also found that significant amounts of foreign money is flowing
> through 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations to influence elections."
>
> ...
>
> She added: "We have got to get aggressive. And we also have to look at the
> next factor. The Democrats use the the legal system, they're doing what they
> call 'lawfare.' That means suing, suing, and suing."
Posted by Ace at 02:30 PM Comments
MAUI'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR REFUSED TO ACTIVATE THE WARNING SIRENS TO
ALERT PEOPLE DURING THE WILDFIRES;
THAT ADMINISTRATOR NOW RESIGNS
—ACE
This is Democrat governance at its... most typical.
In fairness, he has something of a point. Sort of.
> Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya today defended
> his experience and the decision not to activate emergency sirens warning Maui
> residents and visitors about the fast-moving fire that destroyed the historic
> town of Lahaina last week Tuesday.
>
> Andaya said he did not regret his decision in response to a reporter's
> question. Sirens are used primarily for tsunamis, not for brushfires, he said.
> The public is trained to seek higher ground when the siren is sounded, he
> said.
>
> "Had we sounded the siren that night, we were afraid that people would have
> gone mauka," he said, adding that people would have headed directly into the
> flames. Andaya added that there were no sirens located on the mauka or
> mountainside of Maui where the fires were spreading.
The problem with that claim is that no one actually goes immediately running for
the hills. Usually they get into their cars, 95% of this are equipped with a
piece of high-tech gear called "a radio." And on this "radio" device, they will
hear "news reports" telling them that the danger is posed by wildfires, not a
tsunami. And those "news reports" will mention official government guidance
regarding how and where to take shelter.
The death toll of the fires is at 111 and climbing as they find more bodies.
He has now resigned.
> "Today Mayor Richard Bissen accepted the resignation of Maui Emergency
> Management Agency (MEMA) Administrator Herman Andaya. Citing health reasons,
> Andaya submitted his resignation effective immediately," the County of Maui
> stated.
No word yet on whether the director of their water management system, who did
not release water to reservoirs and did not make that water available to
firefighters, will resign or if he will continue insisting that water should not
be "used" but simply "revered."
Posted by Ace at 01:40 PM Comments
LOL: ERIC ADAMS COMPLAINS THAT KATHY HOCHUL ISN'T HELPING HIM ENOUGH WITH
ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND SHE REPLIES THAT HE SHOULD SHUT UP AND PUT ON HIS BIG-BOY
PANTS
—ACE
Whoever it was who decided to start busing illegals to blue jurisdictions --
either Abbott or The Meatball -- is a bona-fide genius.
Because it's cracking the Blue Coalition wide open.
> It looks like the illegal "migrants" who have made their way to New York City
> -- both at the invitation of New York's mayor Eric "Sanctuary City" Adams and
> courtesy of bus rides to blue paradise from helpful Republican governors --
> have strained relations between the two most important elected officials in
> the state. They are busy casting aspersions at each other over their combined
> levels of incompetence.
>
> Governor Kathy Hochul fired the first salvo.
>
> The governor sent a rip-roaring letter to Adams via her state lawyers that
> lays out everything the state has done so far to assist and mitigate the
> crisis the city pretty much brought on itself. It's clinically thorough, while
> simultaneously leveling a broadside at the city administration aka Adams.
>
> > ...The leaders of New York City and New York State, where officials say the
> > arrival of migrants has set off a humanitarian crisis, seemed to turn on
> > each other this week, after the state sent a scathing letter accusing the
> > city of resisting its help and being slow to act.
> >
> > In the letter Tuesday night, a lawyer representing Gov. Kathy Hochul faulted
> > Mayor Eric Adams's management of New York's migrant crisis in sharp terms,
> > puncturing the appearance of city-state harmony that the two leaders have
> > spent much of their tenures cultivating.
>
>
>
> This is a small sample of the smack-down handed out in the actual document
> itself. It's got "Get your act TOGETHER" laced all through it.
>
> > ...A lack of coordination from the City to date has impeded the State's
> > ability to foster productive relationships and discussions, including with
> > the counties and localities that have offered to help. In particular, the
> > City chose to send migrants to counties and localities outside of the City
> > with-little-or-no notice to or coordination with the State or those counties
> > and localities. That has created opposition and has led to litigation that
> > might have been mitigated or avoided if the City had acted in concert with
> > the State and with the counties and localities where it sent migrants.
> > Moreover, the City's failure to inform the State of critical incidents that
> > have occurred in shelters outside of the City has compounded these
> > difficulties.
That may sound like Gay Pablum, which it is, but in leftist therapeutic culture,
"a lack of coordination has led to a failure to foster productive interpersonal
interactions" is basically calling someone the N-word, the F-word, the C-word
and the R-word all in one.
And Eric Adams whines: "It's not faaaiir!"
No but really he is whining that "it's not fair" for the state to drop all of
problems of illegal immigration on one jurisdiction.
Like, for example, El Paso. Or Arizona. Or any border state or border town.
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> New York City�s mayor Eric Adams says an unprecedented surge of asylum seekers
> has left the city at a breaking point but he�s now facing new criticism from
> the state�s governor Kathy Hochul. @gabegutierrez reports.
> pic.twitter.com/hyUHBtzUZv
>
> — TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 17, 2023
Oh, and there was another subway stabbing by a lunatic with a miles-long rap
sheet who is, for unknown reasons, still allowed to roam the streets attacking
citizens.
Eric Adams ran as the law and order candidate. What a joke.
> A panhandler stabbed a 76-year-old stranger who declined to give him money
> outside Manhattan's Herald Square subway station, leaving the victim seriously
> wounded, police said Monday.
>
> The stabber asked the victim for a handout on the steps leading into the
> station at W. 35th St. and Sixth Ave. 11:30 p.m. Sunday -- then stabbed him in
> the chest when he refused, cops said.
>
> The victim stumbled into the Herald Square stop for help and was rushed by
> medics to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition.
>
> The attacker ran off and is being sought.
He was later caught -- molesting a 21-year-old woman.
More from Beege Wellborn. From the NY Post:
> Cops caught up to him at the Times Square station, where he was arrested and
> charged with misdemeanor assault, the sources said.
>
> Police said they then linked Trotman -- who has a slew of arrests dating back
> to at least 2017 -- to the attack on Ahmed a day prior.
>
> Trotman was also charged Monday with forcible touching for allegedly grabbing
> the buttocks of a 21-year-old woman walking at Wall Street and William Street
> in Lower Manhattan back on July 12, cops and sources said.
Oh, and he's a racist homophobe. This would get him five years in prison alone
if he were white, but of course he's not, so... just another multicultural
addition to our ever-strengthening stew of diversity.
> "Caucasians are ignorant people," he ranted when a Daily News reporter asked
> about the stabbing. "They suck d-- in their sleep. That's what happened."
In leftist utopia Chicago, drivers won't be able to get gas at night because
constant crime and armed robberies are forcing gas stations to shut down after
sunrise.
This is about Indiana gas stations, but they neighbor Chicago.
> An Indiana town is requiring gas stations to close overnight in response to an
> uptick in violent crime across the city.
>
> City leaders in Hammond, about 25 miles south of Chicago, voted 7-2 Monday in
> favor of requiring the gas stations to close between midnight and 5 a.m., FOX
> Chicago reported.
>
> The measure will affect 37 gas stations. City leaders said violent crime --
> often involving firearms -- have occurred at gas stations late at night and in
> the early morning hours over the last several years.
And there was another brazen daylight looting of an LA Nike store. Don't get me
wrong -- I want Nike robbed into bankruptcy.
But this is civilization dying.
Here's a fun little TikTok about the nation's sudden descent into barbarism and
savagery.
Close it up
Posted by Ace at 12:50 PM Comments
UPDATE: BIDEN USED THREE FAKE NAMES TO SECRETLY PASS CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION TO HIS COMPROMISED CRACKHEAD RUSSIAN-HOOKER-CONSORTING SON
—ACE
And he was using the fake names precisely because he didn't want his sharing of
sensitive government information with his security risk son for corrupt
"business" purposes discovered in a FOIA search.
> In late November 2014 -- before the rest of the world knew that American
> Martin O'Connor was about to be released from detention in Turkey -- the U.S.
> embassy in Istanbul sent an email to the State Department that was then
> forwarded to senior advisers to then-Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama White
> House point man for many foreign policy crises.
>
>
>
> "The lead attorney for Mr. O'Connor reports that the court granted the
> detention appeal and he expected Mr. O'Connor to be released from jail today,
> barring any unforeseen problems," the U.S. embassy in Instanbul wrote in an
> email that got forwarded to top Obama administration security and diplomacy
> officials, including current Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland. "Mr.
> O'Connor will not be allowed to leave the country until his next hearing which
> is set for December 11, 2014. The lawyer expressed confidence that he will be
> able to leave after that hearing. The attorney is handling his release
> arrangements, pick up and temporary housing near his law firm's office.
> Istanbul consular plans to speak with Mr. O'Connor after his release."
>
> State Department officials forwarded the information to the vice president's
> office, where Biden aide Colin Kahl (now President Biden's Undersecretrary of
> Defense for Policy) sent it to the private email account
> robinware456@gmail.com. It wasn't just any private account. It was one of
> three pseudonym accounts used by Joe Biden.
>
> Soon after the then-vice president would forward the information to his
> globetrotting son Hunter Biden with the subject line "Fwd: Mr. O'Connor Being
> Released from Detention today."
>
>
> The email is one of more than a dozen that Just the News obtained and reviewed
> over the last two years showing how Joe Biden's personal email accounts were
> sometimes used during his first White House tenure to forward government
> information or discuss government business with his son.
>
> The practice is now at the center of the expanding congressional investigation
> into the Bidens' foreign business dealings as House Oversight Committee
> Chairman James Comer demands the National Archives turn over unredacted copies
> all emails Joe Biden sent his son and Hunter's top business partners during
> his time in the Obama administration.
As mentioned yesterday, Comer is demanding that NARA (the folks who cooked up
the classified document case) turn over all emails from these pseudonymous
accounts or on which Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were copied. He demands no
further Democrat-protecting redactions.
At Redstate: leftwing CNN pundit John Avlon says thatBiden is "very obsessed"
over media coverage of his crackhead Smartest Man I Ever Met; his aides are
afraid to even mention Hunter Biden to him.
> "There's deep reluctance, as this reporting shows, to raise this with
> President Biden because he has stuck by his sole surviving son--and he will.
> And in private also, I've heard reports that he's very obsessed with the
> negative coverage of Hunter. He's concerned about it, it's an irritant.
>
> "And that's understandable. But not one that allies around him want to raise
> because it will derail a conversation," Avlon continued.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Well, Biden may be filthily
corrupt, but at least he can still rely on the rock-solid support Americans give
him for his masterful handling of the economy!"
And that's where you're wrong, Bucko. Very wrong.
> An overwhelming majority of Americans are disappointed with President Biden's
> handling of the U.S. economy, according to a new poll released Thursday.
>
> The poll, conducted by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs
> Research, found that just 36% of Americans approve of Biden when it comes to
> the economy, lower than his overall approval rating of 42%.
>
> Biden's economy numbers remain as low as they were two months ago, despite
> weeks of pushing his "Bidenomics" messaging from the White House. According to
> the poll, 55% of Democrats say Biden should not run for president again,
> though 82% indicated they would vote for him if nominated.
>
> The poll of 1,165 adults was conducted Aug. 10-14, using a sample drawn from
> NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be
> representative of the U.S. population.
>
> That poll found 62% of respondents disapprove of Biden's handling of
> inflation, compared to 34% who said they approve. Inflation has remained
> stubbornly high in the U.S. with Americans spending hundreds of dollars more
> each month than they did two years ago.
>
> Biden and former President Donald Trump, the two frontrunners for the
> Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, repectively, are largely
> unpopular with Americans in polls.
So now you're thinking, "Well, he may be filthily corrupt and a one-man
economy-killing machine, but at least he's a psychologically normal individual
who does not have a list of carefully-rehearsed pick-up lines to use on
children!"
Wrong again, Jive Turkey.
Wrong again.
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> He made it awkward with one fell scoop.
>
> President Biden raised eyebrows Wednesday when he invited children to join him
> on an ice cream run, telling the youngsters that "Daddy owes you."
>
> "I want to say one thing to your children. I know some really great ice cream
> places around here and Daddy owes you, so talk to me afterwards," Biden, 80,
> told a packed crowd in the East Room of the White House, according to a clip
> shared on X (formerly Twitter) by RNC Research.
>
> The seemingly off-script remark came during the octogenarian's speech marking
> the first anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act.
>
> The moment quickly made the rounds on social media, where Sen. Ted Cruz
> (R-Texas) captioned a clip of Biden's comment with "#StrangerDanger."
> BIDEN: "I wanna say one thing to your children. I know some really great ice
> cream places around here and daddy owes you, so talk to me afterwards."
>
> pic.twitter.com/iSPaGKhTFN
>
> — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 16, 2023
Close it up
Posted by Ace at 12:00 PM Comments
THE MORNING RANT: ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE EXPLODING IN POPULARITY!!
—BUCK THROCKMORTON
I frequently mock electric vehicles for their propensity to spontaneously
combust, but these things are seriously scary. We just keep hearing more
disturbing stories about EVs that burst into flames, many while they are parked,
turned off, and not charging.
Here are some more of these stories since the last time I discussed the topic.
*****
“Mercedes EQE Loaner Car Burns Down Inside Florida Homeowner's Garage” [Inside
EVs – 7/24/2023]
> A Mercedes-Benz EQE Sedan caught fire and burned to a crisp inside a Florida
> homeowner's garage last week, severely damaging the building.
The link directly above includes an embedded video of the house burning from
this ferocious EV fire.
> The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 350+ Sedan was in the garage when it caught fire on
> July 19. According to Jennifer Ruotolo, the EV was a loaner from Mercedes-Benz
> while her own car was getting serviced. She told News4Jax that the luxury
> electric sedan wasn't even charging when it burst into flames – she doesn't
> own a home charging unit.
The header picture up top is what the electric Mercedes looked like after it was
pulled out of the garage.
As we’ve discussed before, even very minor fender-benders often cause EVs to be
considered total losses by insurance companies, because there is no way to know
what damage was done to the battery, and it doesn’t take much to turn a lithium
ion battery into a potential bomb. Ponder that the next time you rent an EV or
consider buying a used one, since you have no way of knowing if that car had
some minor impacts or curb encounters that might have damaged the battery.
*****
The World Rallycross Championship was shut down last month due to a destructive
EV fire, again, from a vehicle that was not being driven.
Continue reading
> A battery fire has destroyed both of Speed One Racing’s electric Lancia Delta
> World Rallycross cars. The two Lancia Delta Evo-e race cars were reportedly in
> the paddock at Lydden Hill Race Circuit in the UK on Friday morning when a
> fire originating in one of the cars’ battery packs spread and consumed the
> team’s road tent, taking both cars with it. The fire shut down the World
> Rallycross Championship event while race authorities attempted to ascertain
> the cause of the fire.
*****
A few weeks ago I covered the story of electric truck manufacturer Nikola, and
how it tweeted out that foul play was suspected when one of its semi-trucks
caught fire, which soon engulfed other trucks around it. Of course, an
investigation revealed that there was no foul play. The problem involved the
batteries.
Apparently, once EV batteries are damaged, they’re like those wacky birthday
candles that re-ignite even after you blow them out. One of those damaged trucks
caught on fire again at Nikola’s headquarters.
Undamaged EVs are alread terrifying enough (there is no way would I ever allow
one to be parked in my garage) but if an EV was in a wreck or otherwise damaged,
where the heck do you store it knowing that it could erupt in flames at any
time. If I were a wrecker driver I would not want to ever tow a damaged EV.
Back to Nikola, you may recall that I put it at the top of my “EV Manufacturer
Dead Pool,” predicting it would be the next to go out of business, following
Lordstown Motors’ bankruptcy.
Well, Nikola is getting closer. It just suspended all sales of battery powered
trucks and recalled all those on the road.
“Nikola Recalls All Battery-Electric Trucks, Halts Sales After Fire Probe”
[Reuters – 8/14/2023]
> Nikola said on Friday it was recalling all the battery-powered electric trucks
> that it has delivered to date and is suspending sales after an investigation
> into recent fires found a coolant leak inside a battery pack as the cause.
*****
I have an obligation to acknowledge when I get things wrong. As noted above, I
predicted that Nikola would be the next EV manufacturer to go bankrupt. I got it
wrong, it was actually a Biden-touted electric bus maker that was next in line.
Proterra, Electric-Bus Maker Touted by President Biden, Goes Bankrupt [WSJ –
8/08/2023]
> Proterra, an electric bus maker that has been lauded by President Biden for
> its U.S. manufacturing operations, has become at least the third
> electric-vehicle business to file for bankruptcy in roughly the past year.
[h/t to Mr. CBD for bringing this one to my attention. I think Proterra was his
entry in my EV Dead Pool.]
*****
GM has been plagued by exploding EVs, so they are now trying to figure out why.
I know! I know! [Buck waves hand furiously in the air.] I know the answer to
this one!!
It’s when lithium-ion batteries are used as a power source for a vehicle rather
than using a gasoline powered engine.
You’re welcome, GM.
*****
I believe that others on the blog have already covered this next story, and I am
not going to joke about it, because this awful EV conflagration took a man’s
life.
“Burning Car Carrier Towed to Temporary Location off Dutch Coast” [Reuters –
7/31/2023]
> A burning car carrier off the Dutch coast has been towed to a new location
> away from shipping lanes as part of an operation to salvage the ship, the
> Dutch public works and water management ministry and local media said on
> Monday.
>
> The freighter, which was travelling from Germany to Egypt when the blaze broke
> out on July 26…
>
> Ship charter company "K" Line said on Friday there were 3,783 vehicles on
> board the ship - including 498 battery electric vehicles, significantly more
> than the 25 initially reported.
>
> EV lithium-ion batteries burn with twice the energy of a normal fire, and
> maritime officials and insurers say the industry has not kept up with the
> risks.
Shipping companies and insurance companies have a day of reckoning coming
regarding EVs. They are under pressure from the eco-left to embrace electric
vehicles, but EVs are explosively dangerous, they are almost impossible to
extinguish when they catch fire, and they are so fragile that the slightest
damage to an EV will require it to be totaled.
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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MID-MORNING ART THREAD
—CBD
Figurepiece
Thomas Pollock Anshutz
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THE MORNING REPORT — 8/18/23
—J.J. SEFTON
Good morning, kids. Yesterday's editorial brought a lot of heated discussion,
especially towards the tail end and after the art thread was posted. The
gravamen of my disquisition is that for people to agree that America as founded,
or at least the last vestiges of same were snuffed out in the wake of the 2020
election theft yet still engage in the same sort of retail party politics as if
it's business as usual is just plain schizophrenic.
At the heart of this is the divide between those who stand by Donald Trump as a
candidate out of a sense of misguided loyalty and those who think it's time to
move on to someone else, primarily Ron DeSantis as a candidate. You have to put
that out of your mind and most especially the notion that there is going to be a
free and fair election come November of next year. It's not going to happen.
The most optimistic assessment I can make is that there is a slight chance that
whoever is the nominee will somehow miraculously overcome the now
institutionalized fraud courtesy of the 2020 lockdowns and barely eke out a win,
that eventually does survive a challenge in SCOTUS. But, given what is at stake
and the players involved, you can bet your ass that they will not allow that to
happen. So this bickering about loyalty to Trump or ditching him for his
failures and flaws in favor of DeSantis to me is pointless.
And to be fair, Trump does himself absolutely no favors, either as a candidate
in a kabuki theater production of either The Producers or Bananas or even as
someone who you want to get behind as a leader of a movement.
> After being indicted at the start of the week on 13 felony counts in Fulton
> County related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020
> presidential election, Trump said on social media that he was going to be
> releasing a “detailed but irrefutable” report on alleged election fraud “which
> took place in Georgia.”
>
>
>
> “Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped
> against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION!” Trump stated,
> adding that prosecutors should go after those who allegedly rigged the
> election.
>
> However, Trump’s lawyers pled with him to not hold the event because it could
> be used against him in his case. One of his former White House lawyers warned
> it could lead to an obstruction charge because it could be seen as trying to
> taint the jury pool.
>
> “Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020
> Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I
> believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud &
> Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful
> Indictment by a publicity & campaign finance seeking D.A., who sadly presides
> over a record breaking Murder & Violent Crime area, Atlanta,” Trump wrote on
> social media. “Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!”
Ugh. Just fucking ugh. As old Rummy himself once quipped, “You go to war with
the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
For better or worse, instead of a Ghandi or MLK or dare I say Christ, we have le
mauvais homme orange. And I have a nasty suspicion that even Trump doesn't quite
get the nature of the situation he finds himself in. He certainly didn't with
his horrendous staffing choices. While you can chalk that up to sabotage or
perhaps a naivete about who and what dwells in D.C. and their loyalties, how the
hell after taking more knives to the rear than Julius Caesar joining in with the
O'Jays on "Backstabbers," does he support Ronna Romney McDaniel to chair the
RNC?
He better wake up and smell the coffee because as he goes so goes the rest of
us. And that has zero to do with elections and everything to do with gulags.
That admonition and warning is not just for him but for every other candidate
(of which only two others strike me as legit), GOP politician and
pundit/commentator out there. Okay, stop laughing.
This is not a game anymore. It's deadly serious. It's nice to see pundits and
such writing articles that declare the charges brought against Trump are so
ridiculous and baseless that they'll be laughed out of court. But for them to
not understand that the anti-American evil in the very act of bringing those
baseless, nakedly political charges in the first place is a tell. With judges
like this Tanya Chutkan, along with Amy Berman Jackson, Beryl Howell and the
horrendous Emmet Sullivan and a jury pool that will eagerly go along to convict
or will otherwise be helped by cadres of Antifarians who know where they live to
get their minds right, who'll have the last laugh?
Trump is going to prison. Quite possibly death row. Make no mistake. Then what?
> Let us assume President Trump isn’t thrown in prison, left-wing Secretaries of
> State allow him on the ballot, and the Democrats do not successfully “fortify”
> the election. In that situation, Donald Trump wins in 2024 in an electoral
> landslide. Even so, in that case, I believe we will see widespread political
> violence from the Left that will far surpass in size and scope the George
> Floyd riots of 2020.
>
>
>
> The Left is deeply afraid of President Trump. They are also in charge of
> tremendous financial resources. The leadership of virtually every institution
> in American life from Wall Street to the woke military despises ordinary
> Americans and the MAGA movement. The Biden regime would be more than happy to
> sic their communist paramilitaries, like ANTIFA, on the heartland.
>
> This is a dangerous possibility and one that all patriotic Americans need to
> be ready for.
>
> If Biden claims another stolen election victory it will mean political
> repression orders of magnitude greater than what we are seeing now. If Trump
> wins, the entire American liberal establishment will go on the warpath.
>
> President Trump and his team walk a narrow tight rope.
>
> But they do have options. For one, the Trump campaign should start now by
> laying the groundwork for widespread pro-Trump rallies and protests if the
> President is unjustly imprisoned. The trucker rally in Canada is the model. At
> its height, the Canadian government nearly imploded in the face of this public
> pressure.
>
> President Trump could easily capture that energy. But he shouldn’t just aim to
> motivate truckers. The American rail networks are even more vulnerable to a
> widespread strike. The rail companies treat their employees like serfs and the
> federal government won’t even allow them to strike for better wages. President
> Trump should start now by promising to support our tough and unheralded rail
> workers in receiving the wage increases, health benefits, and vacation days
> they deserve.
>
> When the moment comes, IF President Trump is thrown in jail by our corrupt
> regime or is denied his rightful election victory, the moment will be perfect
> for a strike. The Biden regime believes that by controlling the nation’s
> financial sectors and federal law enforcement agencies that they are
> all-powerful.
>
> They need to be taught a lesson. A widespread coordinated rail strike and
> trucker protest could easily bring the nation’s economy to a screeching halt.
> America’s transport networks are a critical vulnerability for the Biden
> regime. Our leaders hate the people who work in these industries but also need
> them to keep showing up in order to keep the money flowing.
>
> Any protest against the liberal totalitarians of the Biden regime comes with
> risks. Federal agents will attempt to infiltrate such protests to stage
> provocations and false flags. Organizers of such protest activity will be
> censored by the major social media companies at the behest of the deep
> state.
>
> The federal government would be more than happy to throw pro-Trump protestors
> in prison or even use violence against them. In light of these considerations,
> patriotic Trump defenders should utilize the tactics of the pro-democracy
> protests in Hong Kong against the Communist Party in China. These patriots
> should take measures to confuse facial recognition software and video
> recording and they should turn off cellular communication devices while
> protesting. They should also use cash instead of credit cards to pay for goods
> purchased in or around a protest.
>
> Beyond encouraging protests and a transport strike, President Trump should
> also consider simply refusing to go along with these corrupt prosecutions.
> This is a high stakes option but it has the benefit of putting the Biden
> regime in an uncomfortable position. If President Trump refused to show up to
> court, decrying these legal prosecutions as illegitimate (which they are), he
> will force the deep state either to give up their witch hunt or to use force
> to make President Trump submit.
>
> Are they really willing to take such a drastic step?
There are some Pollyanna-ish undertones to this essay but the thrust of the
piece is important. Considering who and what the Left is, what they have already
done, what they are capable of, and considering they are now within a red nether
hair's breadth of finally imposing the thousand-year Robert Reichhhhhhhhhhhh-uh
on us, what do you think?
Have a good weekend. See you tomorrow for the hobby thread. Be there. Aloha.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
* “A society that witnesses constant cultural churn … should be considered
presumptively undemocratic.”
The Conservatism of Democracy
* "How National Public Radio uses your money to peddle lies, hate and disease."
Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Ideology
Continue reading
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
* "Biden’s initial plea deal would have had him plead guilty to two misdemeanor
tax charges and enter a diversion agreement allowing him to avoid jail time
for a felony gun charge. The deal fell apart during a July 26 hearing when
Noreika uncovered a section of the diversion agreement promising broad
immunity for future charges."
Judge Approves Motion Allowing DOJ Prosecutors to Bring Charges Against
Hunter Biden in a Different District
* "In particular, Comer said he seeks documents in which the elder Biden
allegedly used a pseudonym; his son’s former business partners Hunter Biden,
Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer are copied; and all drafts of then-Vice
President Biden’s speech delivered to Ukraine’s parliament in December 2015."
Comer Seeks Records of Biden Allegedly Using Pseudonym as Vice President
* "Comer has requested all unredacted emails to and from all the aforementioned
parties by Aug. 31, 2023."
Why Did Joe Biden Need Three Aliases in Ukraine-Related Emails? Awww, You
Know Why!
* "As arguments mount against Joe Biden’s claims that he’s had no involvement
or knowledge of his family’s foreign business, House Democrats have taken the
increasingly far-fetched position of defending the [so-called quote-unquote
"president"]."
House Democrats Defend Joe Biden’s Weakening Position in Business Scandal
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION,
SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
* "Willis brought the charges against President Donald Trump. A grand jury
indicted him this week."
GA State Senator Demands Emergency Session to Investigate Fulton County DA
Fani Willis
* After being indicted at the start of the week on 13 felony counts in Fulton
County related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020
presidential election, Trump said on social media that he was going to be
releasing a “detailed but irrefutable” report on alleged election fraud
“which took place in Georgia.”
Trump Cancels Event Where He Said He Would Show Evidence Of Election Fraud
In Georgia
* Reinforcing the integrity of the study, a Facebook-funded attempt by USA
Today to “fact check” it fell flat.
Trump Indicted for Citing Data From Ph.D.-Vetted Study On Election Fraud
* "Is Fani's case a nonstarter? Let us count the ways."
Fani’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
* "After her 2016 loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, Clinton
repeatedly called Trump an 'illegitimate president.'"
FLASHBACK: When Democrats Were Cool With Calling Elections 'Stolen'
* Chutkan’s grandfather, Frank Hill, and great uncle, Kenneth Hill, were
imprisoned during the British colonial era, with Governor Sir Arthur Richards
describing Kenneth, in particular, as “probably the most dangerous subversive
agent in Jamaica.”
Jan 6 Trump Judge Is Close Relative of ‘Dangerous’ Jamaican Marxists
* "The public needs to back up and ask the most basic legal question about the
current criminal complaint against President Trump." (What does not having a
case mean when they have the judge, prosecutor and jury? - jjs)
The Legal Flaw of United States v. Trump
* "Making America Great Again won’t come without risks." (If a lynchpin of the
author's thinking is a GOP taking his side, we're doomed already - jjs)
How President Trump Can Use Political Pressure to Defeat the Biden Witch Hunt
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS,
DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
* "Why is mystery man not in jail?"
Video: Ex-Capitol Police Chief Shares New Information About Ray Epps
* "It’s been a slow boil since the Patriot Act in the wake of 9/11, but now
they’ve cranked up the heat."
Domestic Enemies of the Constitution and the American People
MAUI WILDFIRE DISASTER & DISASTROUS GOV'T RESPONSE
* “Given the gravity of the crisis we are facing, my team and I will be placing
someone in this key position as quickly as possible and I look forward to
making that announcement soon,” [Maui County Mayor Richard] Bissen said.
Maui Emergency Management Head Resigns After Questions of Not Sounding Alarm
During Wildfires
* “Maybe if we change the name of Maui to Ukraine, maybe they will pay
attention to us.”
Video: Tulsi Gabbard Blasts Biden Junta's “Horrible” Response To Maui
Disaster
* "The death toll now stands at 106, and more coroners are on their way to
assist in the identification of the victims from recovered remains."
Resort Worker’s Video May Have Captured Start of Maui’s Deadly Wildfire
* "We are suffering."
Maui Residents Slam Biden Junta Response To Deadly Wildfires
* "After the cantankerous [so-called quote-unquote "president"] told reporters
he had 'no comment' for the Maui victims as he lounged at the beach near his
Delaware vacation home, the Biden [junta] scrambled to do damage control with
more updates about help for Maui on Monday. "
Biden’s $700 Checks To Hawaii Fire Victims Won’t Even Cover Their Share Of
Ukraine Bill
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
* “I have a negative view of the tyranny of the minority.”
Video: Ramaswamy Gives ‘LGBTQ+ Reporter’ a Reality Check
* "Lib journos gleefully compare Trump to 'mobsters and gangsters' following
Georgia indictment on RICO charges."
WATCH: Media Give Donald Trump the Tony Soprano Treatment
* “The presence of political bias can influence user views and has potential
implications for political and electoral processes.”
No-Shit-Sherlock Dept.: University Study of AI Powerhouse ChatGPT Reveals
Clear Leftist Bias
* "Finds alleged defamatory statements about Sandmann’s encounter with an
activist banging a drum in his face were non-actional opinion."
Nick Sandmann Loses Appeal Over Dismissal of Defamation Claims Against
Several Media Outlets
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK
SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
* "His policies will tug against each other until the whole structure
collapses."
Biden’s Environmental Tent Cannot Stand
* "The Democrats are using the 'climate crisis' as a means to establish
unfettered political power." (This among many other things - jjs)
A Climate For Absolute Power
* "Minors want to force officials to take into account climate change."
Montana Madness
* "We need your car battery, comrade."
Buy an EV, Power Your Neighbor's Fridge!
* "By maintaining endangered species protections on the growing bear
population, lawmakers are enabling grizzlies to threaten communities."
Letting Grizzlies Terrorize Ranchers Is Climate Crazies’ Next
Anti-Civilization Crusade
* "Researchers trying to proclaim a novel idea worthy of publication could be
manipulating the results."
Combatting Academic Hucksters in the Sciences
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
* "Sanctuary cities feel the heat."
Biden’s Spreading Illegal Immigration Crisis
* "There is a humanitarian crisis building inside the United States, and
instead of finger-pointing, Democrat politicians should start coming up with
solutions." (umm, Rick old boy, the crisis IS their solution! - jjs)
Finger-Pointing Among New York Democrats Over Migrant Crisis Becoming Comical
* “The largest suppliers of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs are Mexican
cartels that arrange to have Mexican immigrants trying to cross the borders
and smuggle in the drugs. The border patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous
infectious disease is pouring across the border. The United States has become
a dumping ground for Mexico and, in fact, for many other parts of the world,”
said Trump.
Docs Warn Migrants Bring Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Measles, & Syphilis Over
Border
* ". . . the Biden [junta's] “zeal” to bring in illegal aliens and to overlook
those hiring illegals has “dramatically expanded child labor” in America.
Former ICE Official: Biden Border Policies Fuel Illegal Child Labor
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
* "The city has all the gun controls Democrats push on a national level with
promises that the measures will increase safety."
Democrat-Run Washington, DC, Sees 27% Surge in Homicides Year-to-Date
* Judge Smith said Binns’ offenses were “simply unacceptable,” but ultimately
did not consider him to be likely to re-offend or to be a risk to the public.
Comedian Busted With 35,000 Child Abuse Images Doesn't Get Jail Time
* "Bass announced the task force at a press conference Thursday morning, days
after a mass looting event in the Westfield Topanga mall made national news."
(But isn't what happened a form of reparations? - jjs)
Karen Bass Launches Task Force to Fight Retail Theft; Newsom Triples Highway
Patrol in L.A.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
* Dissent: Majority’s decision is “an unfortunate abdication of judicial duty …
with respect to a very important constitutional issue that is directly
harming and will likely continue to harm the parents in this case by usurping
their constitutionally protected role.”
Maryland Parents Can’t Sue School Over Policy On Secret Gender Transitioning,
Federal Appeals Court Rules
* Daniel Greenfield: "Don’t ban graphic porn, ban PragerU, leftists demand."
Radicals Want Porn, Not PragerU, in Schools
* "New accreditation standard would require law schools to ban behavior that
‘hinders free expression.'"
American Bar Association Considers Crackdown On ‘Disruptive Conduct’ in Wake
of Stanford Shout Down
* Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on
Monday, the lawsuit brought by NCF Freedom Inc. and New College students and
professors claims that SB 266 — which was signed into law by Gov. Ron
DeSantis in May — violates the First Amendment “because it favors and permits
speech which opposes ideas such as diversity, equity and inclusion and social
activism, etc. but disfavors and censors speech which promotes those ideas.”
Leftists Sue New College Of Florida Reformers For Not Letting Them
Indoctrinate Students On Taxpayers’ Dime
SCOTUS ABOLISHES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
* "Harvard’s end run around the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions
ruling may hasten the end of affirmative action."
Standing in the Schoolhouse Door
ABORTION
* The court’s decision, which is expected to be appealed, is now in limbo until
the Supreme Court decides whether to take up the case. If the high court
upholds the Fifth Circuit Court’s ruling, the abortion pill will be subject
to the FDA’s 2000 regulations.
Federal Court Upholds Abortion Pill Restrictions In ‘Significant’ Pro-Life
Victory
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
* "The evidence exists for Trump to finally prove that his 2020 election claims
are valid. All he must do now is present it."
Trump Can Prove It
* In his warning to county clerks, Gray specifically highlighted ongoing
efforts by the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence to use private funds as
a means of influencing the electoral process. The Alliance is an $80
million venture funded by left-wing nonprofits to “systematically influence
every aspect of election administration” and advance Democrat-backed voting
policies in local election offices.
Wyoming Secretary Of State Warns Election Officials To Repel Dems’ ‘Blatantly
Partisan’ Dark Money Election Scheme
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
* ". . . And the trainer might surprise you."
Judge Orders Lawyers to Religious-Liberty Training
* "Illulian’s lawyers made it clear that if the Beverly Hills officials
continued to threaten Illulian in this manner, they would be sued for
violating numerous civil rights laws as well as the Constitution, and would
held personally liable for damages in those lawsuits."
Today’s Blacklisted American: California City Harasses Rabbi for Having
Guests Over for Dinner
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
* "Tahir Javed has maintained access to the White House and top Democrats."
Bro-Fo Omar Touted DNC Megadonor's Medical Device Company During
Controversial Pakistan Visit
POLITICS
* "Bill Mitchell, one of Ron DeSantis’ top online influencers, is threatening
to mobilize fellow DeSantis supporters to help Joe Biden win the 2024
election if Trump is the nominee."
I Don’t Care Who You’re Backing in the GOP Primary, Don’t Pull This Crap
* "Ramaswamy recently overtook DeSantis for second place in a Kaplan Strategies
poll; he is third but rising in the RealClearPolitics polling average."
Report: Documents Unearthed Reveal DeSantis Super PAC Plan to Defend Trump
and ‘Hammer’ Ramaswamy in Debate
* Ramaswamy, a businessman, has risen to political popularity since announcing
his presidential campaign. During his interview with Carlson, he said his
campaign is focused on fighting back against the “bipartisan consensus” that
Americans “can’t handle the truth.”
'Play Some Political Snakes and Ladders': Ramaswamy Talks Campaign, America's
Future and Foreign Policy with Tucker
* Robert Spencer: "And so as 2024 approaches and victory seems certain over the
man they fear and hate the most and have accordingly saddled with dozens of
bogus felony charges, the Dems face what looks to be an insoluble dilemma. It
could only take someone of immense stature to cut this Gordian knot. Is
Michelle Obama standing by with scissors?"
It’s Getting Serious Now: L.A. Times Kicks Off the Dems’ 'Dump-Harris'
Movement
* "Among Republicans, 34 percent give McConnell positive marks, including only
five percent who say he is 'very favorable' versus 49 percent who see him
negatively."
Poll: 18% of Americans View Mitch McConnell Positively as Age Comes Under
Scrutiny
* Christie isn’t just disliked by 57 percent of Republicans, the people he
expects to potentially elect him in 2024, but he also earned the ire of 60
percent of Democrats. Even a good portion of independents, 46 percent, say
they have a “somewhat” or “strongly unfavorable” opinion of Christie.
The Poll Results Are In: Everyone Hates Chris "Krispy Kreosote" Christie
* * * * *
* "Not just a 'bad president.'”
A Final Word on Barack Obama
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
* "This past May, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden endorsed the
Danish and Norwegian training program but stopped short of setting a
timetable for transfers of the advanced American fighter jet."
US to Send F-16s to Ukraine
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
* Victor Davis Hanson: "One way to get along with China is to deal with it
exactly the way it deals with the U.S."
The Great China-American Abyss
* "Racism against black people by regime-approved Chinese is not limited to the
Internet. Black people in China – most of them African immigrants – faced a
wave of violent racism in Guangzhou in 2020 in which Han Chinese wrongfully
evicted them and banned them from restaurants and other businesses, blaming
them for the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. In reality, the Wuhan
coronavirus originated in the central city of Wuhan, China; the population of
Hubei, the province where Wuhan serves as a regional capital, is about 96
percent Han Chinese."
Human Rights Watch: Heavily Censored Chinese Internet Teeming with Anti-Black
Racism
* "Niger, a key state in the Sahel region which stretches along the Sahara from
the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, hosts thousands of soldiers from America
and France, many of them driven there after military coups in neighboring
Burkina Faso and Mali saw their new rulers realign with Russia and, in Mali’s
case, bring in Wagner Group forces."
MORE WAR? U.S. Refuses to Rule Out Military Intervention in Niger
* "Misery and mischief in Niamey."
Niger Coup Provokes Blame Game
* "Marin posed in photos with a bralette, heels, and a mini skirt at the
festival."
Former Finnish PM Parties in Helsinki After Resigning Office, Divorce
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
* "Fort Cavazos soldiers forced to endure food service shortages while
sweltering in 100+ degree heat, and the excuses are unconvincing."
U.S. Army Soldiers Facing Unconscionable Food Shortages on Domestic Bases
* Of course not. They're Muslim. And besides, they were just starting to turn
their lives around . . . - jjs
9/11 Terrorists May Never Be Given the Death Penalty, Families Told
* "How does one base have a death toll of 17 in the span of eight months? Why
would the base not want to share information concerning what happened to
these individuals and why so many people at one military installation have
died? Since the base is funded with American tax dollars and the people dying
are public servants, I think the general public has a right to know what is
going on at Tinker Air Force Base, don’t you?" (Aww, accountability; what a
quaint idea - jjs)
17 People Died on One Military Base Just This Year, but the Air Force Won't
Say Why
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
* "All law enforcement has been asked to apprehend culprits and bring them to
justice."
Churches Torched by Muslim Mob in Pakistan Over Claims of Ripped Quran
* "But they won’t stop persecuting minority religions."
Islamic State Group Wants Quran Burning to End
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
* "For Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission, dysfunction is no bar to
ambition."
Failing Upward
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
* "Two stories today illustrate how allowing freedom and capitalism to rule in
the development of America’s aerospace industry carries with it the potential
for wonderful achievements as well as depressing failures."
The Ups and Downs of Capitalism in Space
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON
MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
* “Republican Sen. Joyce Krawiec, primary sponsor of the bill restricting
gender-affirming care, said the state has a responsibility to protect
children from receiving potentially irreversible procedures before they are
old enough to make their own informed medical decisions.”
Puberty Blockers and Gender Surgeries on Children Barred in NC After
Republican Override of Veto
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
* "Something is happening in this country. A growing movement has started, in
which regular folks look around and realize this ain’t what they expected in
America."
Rapper Drops Remix of Rich Men North of Richmond, and WOW
* “Whatever the controversy is that’s come up has more to do with what the film
is. I think we’re way overboard on that kind of sensitivity.”
Disney Legend Defends Splash Mountain and Song of the South
* "Now they’re coming after Lee’s horse." (If only he named it Falla - jjs)
To the PC Police: Leave America’s Pets Alone
* "We’ve now reached the weirdest depths of social engineering where if you
don’t enthusiastically support the regime’s pre-approved form of bread and
circuses, you’re a hateful bigot in need of re-education."
It’s Getting Really Weird
* ". . . watching these morons eat themselves alive is far more entertaining
than the vast majority of what Hollywood has given us in recent years. So who
am I to say anything other than, ‘Have at it. Take each other out, and maybe
we’ll eventually get some entertainment worth watching.’"
Eating Themselves Alive! The Mob Goes After Sandra Bullock's Oscar Just for
Being in Disputed Movie The Blind Side
* "From Christopher Rufo, the perfect book to give to your clueless friends."
How the Woke Revolution Happened
HITHER & YON
* David Harsanyi: "The drab sequel to ‘Justified’ completely misses the point."
Justified: City Primeval is Worse Than Bad. It’s Boring.
* "Fox's conspiracy saga made seamless, soaring jump to big screen in 1998."
The X-Files: Fight the Future Captured Epic Series to Perfection
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DAILY TECH NEWS 18 AUGUST 2023
—PIXY MISA
Top Story
* Fools and money: Purchasers of ugly monkey jpegs - which is to say,
distributed database entries which are unique identifiers of digital images
of ugly monkeys stored on someone's server somewhere - are suing auction
house Sotheby's and ugly monkey jpeg purveyor Yuga Labs alleging that they,
which is to say the buyers of said ugly monkey jpegs, are too stupid to be
allowed out of the house without a leash. (Ars Technica)
And while this is undoubtedly true, it might be hard to establish as a point
of law that this idiocy is the fault of Sotheby's or of Yuga Labs.
> Sotheby's sold a lot of 101 Bored Ape NFTs for $24.4 million at its "Ape
> In!" auction in September 2021, well above the pre-auction estimates of $12
> million to $18 million. That's an average price of over $241,000, but Bored
> Ape NFTs now sell for a floor price of about $50,000 worth of ether
> cryptocrurrency, according to CoinGecko data accessed today.
Or rather, don't sell at that price.
At least you can eat tulip bulbs.
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Tech News
* Is the PCIe 5 Seagate Firecude 540 worth buying? (Serve the Home)
No. But it's less not worth buying than ugly monkey jpegs - about a thousand
times cheaper, for a start, and you actually own it.
* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI is a tidal wave as big as the internet.
(Bloomberg)
A tidal wave? As in, it brings nothing good, you can see it coming a mile
off, and you'd best seek high ground right away?
Seems apt.
* The iKoolCore R1 Pro is a four port 2.5Gb Ethernet router that measures 3x3x2
inches and includes a quad core Pentium N6005 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and up to 1TB
of SSD. (Liliputing)
It also has HDMI, USB-C (and a second USB-C for power input), two USB-A
ports, and a microSD slot.
This is all identical to the iKoolCore R1 non-Pro edition released a few
months ago except that this model has upgraded cooling and doesn't crash all
the time.
Which is a plus.
* The Verge continues to descend into Musk-induced insanity. (The Verge)
Today's report is titled "Elon Musk is killing 'Environmental Twitter'" but
instead makes the case that environmental activists are mindless zealots who
will brook no opposition, or indeed anything but the most slavish support.
Which is true.
Disclaimer: Nothing exploded today. It was a good day.
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Flashback: All the Stupid Things the Light Night "Comedy" Hosts Said About
Ivermectin
I haven't even noticed that they're off the air. Jimmy Dore says he's noticed in
only one way: YouTube isn't flooding his recommendations with horrible "comedy
clips" from these apocalypse-level non-talents. I've literally never clicked on
one of their "comedy" clips so YouTube doesn't bother recommending them to me.
AP/NORC poll: 76% of the public doesn't want Biden to run again; 69% don't want
Trump to run
It's August and the FDA is just getting around to telling people not to use the
pregnancy tests manufactured by the failed Chinese lab in Fresno, taken over in
December by its main creditor/distributor with assets like unlabeled blood and
tissue samples and genetically-engineered mice moved to Reedley after an
electrical fire and code violations. In Reedley, the outfit was really shut down
in March. Pathogens on hand included malaria, dengue and many others. From what
I read, users of a recalled pregnancy tests in, say, March should do a repeat
test with another brand in case the recalled test was inaccurate. The 15
products recalled in August follow 2 FDA recalls of COVID tests before the
Reedley lab was shut down. "The city of Fresno denied the company's application
to reopen near the Fresno Yosemite International Airport earlier in August."
(K.T.)
The fat butterball pudsucker Philip Bump smugly explains that "subjective news,"
news crafted to suit a particular narrative, has replaced "real news" like the
kind he creates
This plus-sized dickkneader really has no idea he's part of the biggest
"subjective news" network in the country, he's just completely, autisticly
unaware
You will hate him if you watch it. Then you will hate me for linking it, and,
ultimately, you will come to hate yourselves for having clicked on it.
People are still doing these after Sam Hyde exposed them for the vapid
free-association jagoff sessions that they are?
That's not fake, it's real. He faked his way on to a TED panel.
TED Talk: How to dry your hands with one paper towel! It's like really
understanding calculus for the first time. It's mind-expanding, man, it's like a
Drug Called Knowledge (TM), man!
Disney to raise price on ad-free Disney+ to $13.99 per month starting October 12
Brilliant! They lose customers so they raise the price. [CBD]
Live: Bob Iger spins Disney's failure in shareholder earnings call
LOL, Disney Minus lost 500,000 subscribers in the last quarter (domestically,
they're claiming they gained subscribers when you include foreigners who pay
very little for the service) while Hulu gained three million... that means that
Disney will have to pay Comcast more when it is compelled to buy out Comcast's
one-third share in Hulu...
Iger read a prepared bullshit statement and then turned the call over to his CFO
(or something like that). We'll see how badly (and perilously, from a legal
point of view) Iger lies in anwering shareholder questions.
This says Disney lost 10 million subscribers.
Wildfires decimate Lahaina, Hawaii
Devastation
Robbie Robertson, Lead Guitarist and Songwriter of the Band, Dies at 80
[CBD]
Ugh: the Bradmore Arrow extractor, used to pluck an arrow out of the face and
skull of the future king of England. It's not the tool that bothers me, it's the
wound that it was made to cure.
The second part of Tucker's interview with Devon Archer.
I said it was "long and only intermittently newsworthy." That's half-true. It
isn't filled with instant news you can use in the Biden Crime Family
investigation. But is revealing about how The Regime uses its useless,
talentless get to rake in money from foreign governments and gangsters:
> Devon Archer's long interview is worthy of watching. It's basically the story
> of "How I Became a High Class Govt Con Man." And it's prevalent in DC in both
> parties. Int'g note, how everyone craved attention from pension funds bc they
> have so much money to invest, and with political supervision only. Reminded me
> of the movie "The Irishman" about Jimmy Hoffa's reign and how the mob and
> everybody else wanted access to the Teamsters pension fund, for the same
> reason.
> Posted by: PJ
70s Mystery Hit: Exactly 50 years ago, this one hit wonder was a #1 smash all
summer long. The lyrics, especially the last two lines, are like showing the
cross to Dracula to today's cultural revolutionaries. [J.J. Sefton]
Megyn Kelly gloats over loss of US "Women's" National soccer team
Longer clip with Clay Travis here
TikTok account (click if you're okay with that): "Hoe_Math" account explains why
cvcks are a plague on humanity and human relations
I think he really means "simps" but "cvcks" sounds funnier.
The Exorcist director William Friedkin dies at 87
There's going to be an uncomfortable conversation with the Virgin Mary
Song parody: "Hunter's in the Basement"
Good rant against the child-sex-adjacent piece of filth at Rolling Stone who
claimed child trafficking is an "exaggerated" problem just to dunk on his
Twitter enemies
There are an unfortunately large amount of people who will lie and actively
champion evil when they fear that true information may somehow lead to them
getting to s*** one less d*** this year
Tucker interviews Hunter Biden's "business" partner Devon Archer
It's like pulling teeth but eventually he admits that what Hunter Biden brought
to the table was Joe Biden, and he had no other qualification for these
big-money deals besides "being the guy who knows The Guy." Again, after pulling
teeth, he admits that Joe Biden knew he was talking to Hunter's foreign
"business" partners on those calls. One assumes he was not calling just to
discuss the weather.
David Azzerad answers Jonah Goldberg's third-favorite smear of actual
conservatives
> Faced with such a record of failure, any even-remotely competent movement
> would have long ago revised its strategy. Not Goldberg and his friends.
> They're sticking to the stale platitudes of mainstream fusionist conservatism:
> Freedom good! Big government bad! It hasn't worked since the New Deal, but
> it's bound to start working any time now.
But it does work, David! It does the most important thing it's intended to do:
It keeps the amiably-out-to-lunch would-be Patriots! sending money to Jonah
Goldberg and his useless gang of grifters.
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