Irons in the Fire
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Tuesday, May 07, 2024
As nature continues it's quest to kill me,
Allergies. Until about five years ago they rarely bothered me, but starting then, twice a year, they mount major assaults, with smaller skirmishes in between in the summer. Now, add that to my knees having developed tendonitis("If we can't cripple you by going out, we're going to do this!"), and the last couple of weeks have been bad at times. And today I started more of a workout to- hopefully- smooth things out, and that was a bit of a mistake.
I know Nature wins in the end, but she has to be such a bitch beforehand?
Monday, May 06, 2024
It occurs to me that this old song, with the change of one word,
Now change Jacobites to Bidenites
What ye think?
Yeah, indoctrination of the kids starts young,
Greta Thunberg famously quit school to campaign against climate change.
It was impossible to challenge a pig-tailed child, even if she demanded the world stop functioning.
Recall her tearful “how dare you!” in front of the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019?
It reverberated widely because of her age.
A grown-up making the same plea would be seen as unbalanced.
Yet the idea of Greta as a climate-warrior spokesperson was born when a grown-up activist saw how teen anti-gun crusaders, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., viciously attacked ideological foes with minimal pushback.
No one could argue with a traumatized teen — and that was the point.
The concept has only spread since.
Works on some adults, too. One day, on a friend's Fecesbook page where she'd been praising the kid, I said that they'd taken an autistic kid(fact), that she was being used for political purposes(fact and opinion), and that the bastards doing it were bastards. I was immediately hit with "Well, at least she's doing SOMETHING!", and accusations that 'You can't argue the facts of climate change so you're attacking the girl!" Etc. When I pointed out that said kid herself had said she's autistic, that just made me an even meaner right-winger and denier than I'd been before. And all this bullshit was from adults.
This sounds like the sanctions should include criminal charges for every
Near the end of the second day of closing arguments in the Google monopoly trial, US district judge Amit Mehta weighed whether sanctions were warranted over what the US Department of Justice described as Google's "routine, regular, and normal destruction" of evidence.
Sunday, May 05, 2024
This sounds a lot like "You can defend yourselves, but
Which does sound like something from Biden & Co. Hell, if there were a major terrorist attack here in the US they'd be trying to decide when people had calmed enough that they could start toning down the response; can't take too much risk of damaging the terrorist supporter vote.
I'm going to put some news up so I'll feel like I've done something constructive
The CDC seems to be ready to do the same fine job with flu it did with Wuhan.
Much like the fine job being done in the Mar-a-Lago case. Just makes your trust levels do something, does it not?
Now throw in the BATFEIEIO, on top of the other crap, doing more outstanding work.
Just because you're not in the woods doesn't mean you don't have to worry about animal attack.
And Lawdog has some thoughts on duty. Which has gotten a lot more complicated.
Just or otherwise, there is a very definite perception that District Attorneys would much rather throw the book at someone with no previous criminal history, while the felons and violent thugs get deals.
On the other paw, for a man to be even hinted at any variety of sexual offence, whether it be harassment or outright rape, is to be guilty until proven innocent.
And to certain parts of the howling Internet mobs you can never be innocent — and they will make it a crusade to destroy your life.
A very recommended readSaturday, May 04, 2024
No political crap tonight, getting some of the aforementioned setup done,
I have had the fun, the last couple of days, of a new phone
Come Monday, lots of places to call and say "Here is my new number." Which will also be fun.
And no, I couldn't recover any files, when the old one broke, it BROKE.
Friday, May 03, 2024
It's been some long days and short nights, and now
Well, it's the leftist way
Isn't it, though?
Thursday, May 02, 2024
"Those people aren't supposed to resist what we do, this is life-threatening!
When the college and city won't do anything about them but
Which brings up this idiocy
Nice for them to admit their real motivations, isn't it?
And it seems some of the university clowns involved have a history of allowing this kind of crap.
In 2021, with Shafik at the helm of the London School of Economics, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely was swarmed by a mob of protesters after she was invited to speak at the prestigious university’s Debating Society.
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
When the .gov decides "The peasants are being so troublesome,
Looks like the Irish cops decided to copy the RCMP, if this information is accurate.
As a lot of universities continue down into the drain, Updated
As to which, I wonder if they could make it a class-action suit?
Anti-Israel students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt have taken over a campus building in addition to occupying a portion of campus, forcing administrators to close campus for the rest of the semester.
Posts on social media show that the protesters have vandalized a building on campus with anti-Israel messaging. The university estimates damage to property is in the millions.
Over at Columbia, apparently the campus brass decided they'd looked stupid long enough and asked NYPD to clear some of the mess. Which was done.
Well, it's the clowns running these colleges and hiring marxists and other idiots to teach kids to be this way, so hopefully the blowback from this open "Kill the Jews!" from staff and students will wash the bastards out. Probably not, but if there's enough money loss, maybe(that's about all these people will really get upset about).
Speaking of what has been taught,
This must be why Ivy League students, supposedly our “best and brightest,” fail to grasp how the First Amendment actually works. For them, “free speech” means being allowed to occupy/disrupt/scream at whoever, wherever, and whenever. What’s more hilarious, however, is when activists’ tough façades fade away faster than Joe Biden’s train of thought when challenged.
In the near future perhaps their excuses can include screaming “I’M A PROFESSOR!!” when they’re about to be arrested for trespassing, interfering with an arrest, etc.:
There's also that if their feelings are hurt, or they think they can use it as a weapon, they'll scream "TRIGGERED!" and "MICROAGGRESSIONS!", yet they should be free to insult, slander, threaten lives, and physically attack people and that should be allowed. And some universities and governments agree with them.
Update
As to some campus "We have to shut this down", let's not forget the possibility of Biden, or someone in the cabinet, calling presidents and deans and saying "This is really hurting the Party, you have to shut some of this off!"
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
She can decide that for herself. I think she's a fool,
If his #3 was involved in all this, the chance of his knowing nothing
Unlike many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, the Diana Teran scandal has the potential to topple the county's power structure, or to put a severe dent in it.
That potential exists because of the sheer volume of personnel and criminal cases Teran was involved with that might now be challenged in court, and because her actions at issue in the criminal case allegedly involve coordination with high-ranking county officials, such as Inspector General Max Huntsman, District Attorney George Gascón, and current and former members of the county Board of Supervisors.
People are going to demand their case be retried, fired officers are going to demand to be cleared and receive damages, and a bunch of corrupt politicians are going to be willing to do just about anything to stay out of jail.
Well, the voters elected the bastard and his minions, so.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Attention Republican Party:
Especially since the only ones who actually seem to try to stand, your own selves screw over. Because "You're not behaving as We wish." So screw yourselves. Without lube, using an old shovel handle.
Sincerely, etc.
I've been watching a bunch of normally sensible people losing their damn minds
Part of my growing up was in farm and ranch country, and it was simple: a dog that started attacking livestock was put down. Period. A hunting dog that wouldn't/couldn't hunt might well become just a pet or be given to a new home where that's what he'd be, but if it started killing chickens or some other livestock...
I have no idea if she wants to be Veep or not, and bringing this up might well be because, if she were picked, you know the story would come out so she took care of that now.
Reminds me of Rush Limbaugh once having fits because of a program to cull feral cats somewhere, because he couldn't seem to get it through his head that a feral cat is not like his pet.
Some chickens are coming home to roost,
AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout.
Lots of legal weaselwording, but they do say yes.
Well, well, isn't this interesting?
"So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago," Kelly notes. "Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with 'classified markings.'"
"I will double check indictment but I don't recall this event in the timeline," she added.
Whole post here
Sunday, April 28, 2024
It has come to my attention
Which also means some upper-body exercises that won't aggravate the arthritis problems. This will be fun.
which works quite well as a throw lever for variable-power scopes. After reading his piece, next time I needed something from Amazon(I think Tam calls it BezosMart) I ordered a set. I've got one on a scope now, and it works well.
I'm also going to steal from another post of his about a scope, a comment with a way of leveling a scope:
Level the weapon on a convenient work surface with the scope rings loose enough so the scope can be rotated by hand. Hang a plumb line directly behind the rifle by a few feet. Use something beyond the plumb line as a screen--wall, box, whatever. Shine a strong flashlight (100 lumens or so) backwards through the scope. The cross hairs will be projected onto the screen along with the shadow of the plumb line. Align the vertical cross hair with the plumb line shadow.
I'm going to have to give this a try next time I have one to mount.
Borrowing from Insty, nothing says "We have nothing to hide!" like
The dean of the medical school, Steven Dubinett, announced Friday that his office had formed a task force to review all first-year courses, including "Structural Racism and Health Equity," after the Washington Free Beacon published materials from the mandatory class. But the school isn’t happy about having its hand forced.
In an email to students and faculty, Dubinett implied that the leaks were an "attempt to intimidate" the medical school and hinted that future leakers could face discipline—especially if they record lectures.
"What's done in classes, especially equity classes, STAYS there, you idiots!" Yeah, that's confidence inspiring.
Well, when you have idiots leading a required class that includes ...a guest lecturer, Lisa Gray Garcia, led the required course in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" as well as a prayer to "Mamma Earth," part of which was caught on tape and thrust the course into the national spotlight.
you should expect people to have a problem with it. Especially in a freaking medical school.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Australia, apparently you like having wardens in charge of you, you just changed the names
Watch out, however, for any argument that says Australia should not dictate terms to the social media giants because that’s what China does. That is classic false equivalence. The eSafety Commissioner is acting with the authority of a federal law passed by a parliament that reflects the will of a free people in a democracy.
The response in the article:
I’m not sure why “acting with the authority of a federal law passed by … a democracy” makes censorship OK. If every act of a democratically elected parliament is acceptable, would it also be acceptable for an elected parliament to pass a law abolishing all future elections? Would establishment journalists like David Crowe then write an article explaining that the abolition of elections was legitimate, because the politicians who abolished future elections were elected by the people?
I have a simpler response:
"The PRC has laws duly passed by their government that ban anything being said they don't like. So what makes you different other than appealing to "We're a Democracy, so we can legally censor anybody!"? Especially since the journalist calling for Musk's head(with a duly required slap at Trump) says
Musk poses a deceptive question: “Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content for ALL countries... then what is to stop any country from controlling the entire Internet?” He jumps to the alarmist scenario of total state power, without a moment’s thought about his responsibility for the content he publishes.
Hey, dickhead, your government is demanding the state power to censor anyone, anywhere, under the guise of YOUR law in YOUR country; that kind of sounds like 'total state power' you're demanding. Then trying to hide it under 'his responsibility for content'. Because you just can't stand the idea of someone, somewhere, seeing something you don't want them to.
* Perfect place for this quote:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis
Friday, April 26, 2024
Having vented some spleen about some politicians,
Have I mentioned how sick I am of politicians?
This is one of the great challenges of our current political climate. Some people would rather have nothing if they don't get everything they want on an issue. I am a proud conservative, but I also see the national security risk of doing nothing day after day. I worked for months to make some progress closing our wide open borders, rather than just complain about the problem and hope it magically gets better on its own after a press conference. We still have work to do, which is why I was back at it again this week to make progress on closing our open border.
So he voted for it with NOTHING for the border, and we really should shut up about it because it's annoying him. My interpretation.
The FISA bill ...included 50 new limits on the authority, protections for Americans, and consequences on anyone who abuses the law. There were significant new civil liberty protections in the final version, which I supported.
Because the FBI and others have shown SO much concern for the laws that tell them not to violate said laws, and others, and people's rights.
FISA only applies to foreign intelligence. It is illegal to use that authority to spy on Americans, and the new version of the bill includes fines and jail time for any abuse.
Yet the FBI and others were violating that before, and they will again, but "We made new laws about it!" which is supposed to make it all better.
And the final:
I understand that some people did not want FISA renewed, but as a member of the Intelligence Committee, I am very aware of the importance of learning about terror plots before they happen. We should not ignore the very real threats coming at our nation from foreign terror organizations, even in the past few weeks. We can protect American lives, while also protecting our civil liberties.
Want to bet the FBI & Co. were violating that before it was even signed?
And, though he doesn't mention it, this crap gave the FBI even MORE latitude for doing warrantless searches.
Am I being fair to him? Well, his statement on the vote included
“Our open southern border has allowed in millions of people from around the world. Without this authority, we cannot investigate if a foreign terror organization is preparing another attack on Americans from one of the many people already on US soil. The United States is a constant target for terrorists, and nearly every day, our intelligence community stops an attack before it happens.
First, hey, know what? If the Stupid Party had had the integrity and balls to, y'know, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE BORDER THAT WOULDN'T BE SUCH A THREAT. But there's always a excuse/reason not to, it seems("You can't get everything!", etc.)
Second, 'every day stops an attack before it happens.' I have to call Bullshit. Sounds so much like the TSA insisting they stop lots of terrorists but there are never, that I've heard of any details. Probably because it's said bullshit.
I think the other Senator, Mullin, said basically the same crap. I don't think my Rep., Bice, has said anything(it's possible she did and I hadn't heard).
So yes, I'm pissed at all of them. The usual "If you knew what I did you'd understand" excuses. I'm going to sign off before I descend into really bad language.
Oh, said politicians: if you have people looking through social media to see if people are upset with you, damn right we are. And I think you've earned it.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Once again, Biden & Minions want to damage the firearms industry in any way possible
The Outdoor Wire has learned the Commerce Department plans to make that “pause” on the issuance of new export licenses for firearms, related components and ammunition permanent.
That announcement, we’ve learned, could come as soon as tomorrow and “most definitely” by the first of next week.
More than a few United States Senators are already less than thrilled at what they call yet another example of Biden administration bureaucratic overreach, but there’s little they can do at this point.
So yell at the clown you have in Congress. Myself, after their most recent surrenders, I don't know if my asshats will even bother to say anything.
Med schools worrying more about DEI and marxism
Know what you call that? Disaster in the making. Also "What medical school did you go to? No, thank you, I'll find another doctor."
The Republican(?) Speaker of the House:
"How dare you show that video! I'll have the Sergeant at Arms fine you if you don't take it down!"
Really?
Then comes the "Oh crap, this is attracting too much bad attention to me!" moment.
Is there something in the air around there that causes people to want to surrender to what Democrats want?
A bit more info here
The new head of NPR is upset that people are reading and hearing what she's done
Now I have gathered additional facts that raise new questions about Maher’s role as a regime-change agent, both foreign and domestic. She has brought the Color Revolution home to America.
In the first part of her career, Maher seemed to follow the wave of U.S.-backed revolutions through the Middle East and North Africa.
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During much of 2011, Maher worked for the National Democratic Institute, a government-funded NGO with deep connections to U.S. intelligence and the Democratic Party’s foreign policy machine. The organization was “set up to do independently what CIA had done covertly worldwide,” says national security analyst J. Michael Waller. While initially some distance supposedly existed between NDI and the intelligence services, that relationship has devolved back to “the gray zone,” per Waller, and it appears that they often work in concert. “NDI is an instrument of Samantha Power and the global revolution elements of the Obama team,” Waller explains. “It has gone along with, and been significant parts of, color revolutions around the world. It is very much a regime-change actor.”
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Over time, however, some of those dissidents grew skeptical of Maher, who seemed to be using the same platforms to penetrate activist and opposition circles. In 2016, after Maher became the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation—to the puzzlement of some observers—one of her Tunisia contacts accused her of working with the CIA. “Katherine Maher is probably a CIA agent,” said Slim Amamou, a digital activist and cabinet minister in Tunisia’s transition government, who had spent a significant amount of time with her. “[S]he was constantly trying to get introduced in the activist social network.”
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Maher, for her part, was not shy about her political agenda. As I have reported, during her tenure as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, she advanced a policy of censorship under the pretense of fighting “disinformation.” I wrote:
In a speech to the Atlantic Council, an organization with extensive ties to U.S. intelligence services, she explained that she “took a very active approach to disinformation,” coordinated censorship “through conversations with government,” and suppressed dissenting opinions related to the pandemic and the 2020 election.This is just some bits and pieces from the article.
In that same speech, Maher said that, in relation to the fight against disinformation, the “the number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States.” These speech protections, Maher continued, make it “a little bit tricky” to suppress “bad information” and “the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.”
Maher’s general policy at Wikipedia, she tweeted, was to support efforts to “eliminate racist, misogynist, transphobic, and other forms of discriminatory content”—which, under current left-wing definitions, could include almost anything to the right of Joe Biden.
Another "Why don't you trust the system?"
Also the FBI & Do'J':
House Judiciary GOP: FBI Is Tracking Parent Protesters
Wray: No Evidence for Garland to Target Protesting Parents, But FBI Made Threat Tag to Identify Them
Garland Defiantly Pledges Feds Will Continue Monitoring Parents Protesting At School Boards
Dozens of FBI Agents Raid Respected Pro-Life Advocate’s Home While His Wife, Seven Children Watch In Terror
Report: FBI Targeting Donald Trump Supporters as Threats to 2024 Election
Garland Memo Fallout: RI Assoc. of School Committees To “Coordinate” With FBI And Gather Information On Public Meeting “Issues”
Note also, the FBI head has lied under oath, blown off subpoenas, and if you or I did anything approaching his actions, we'd be in a cell: he's still the Director of the EffingBI
An American hostage, crippled by Hamas,
Anybody believe Biden gives enough of a damn to actually do anything?
This is how it's supposed to work
Texas isn't New York, though, and when DPS officers in riot gear showed up at the University of Texas, beautiful chaos followed.
I'll bet a bunch of the university clowns are all upset. And who cares?
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
"Why don't you trust the system/courts/FBI(or other appropriate agency)?"
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Once finalized, the settlement will resolve 139 tort claims filed against the DOJ and the FBI in 2022 by the long list of athletes and patients who reported abuse by Nassar, including Maggie Nichols, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
Bad enough, right? Now add this in:
The claims, which in total sought roughly $1 billion in damages, were filed after the department said it was declining to pursue criminal charges against agents whom the DOJ's inspector general found failed to properly investigate allegations of abuse by Nassar.
The watchdog report found the FBI was notified of Nassar's behavior but failed to act for more than 14 months, a period where Nassar is alleged to have abused at least 40 more girls and women.
At this point someone will have to come up with a reason to trust the Do'J' and FBI about ANYTHING...
Tyrant wannabes gonna tyrant, and she really wants to be
Short version: an aloha snackbar type stabbed a church official in Australia.
The 'eSafety
Said Commissar(yeah that's deliberate) is pissed because X won't take it down in ALL countries because she ordered it.
And it goes from there.
Get this from one Aussie senator:
“I think he’s a social media knob with no social conscience, he has absolutely no social conscience,” she said.
“Someone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away. That bloke should not have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating hatred, showing all this stuff out there to our kids and doing all the rest,” Lambie added.
Awww, her feelings are all upset because she cannot order the world around.
I do wonder, how much of their upset is because the stabber is a protected species?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
And the public schools strike again
"I'm gonna murder you," shouted the trans-identifying student at Pennbrook Middle School as the 13-year-old blindsided a 12-year-old girl last week and bashed her skull repeatedly with a Stanley cup. The victim had to be hospitalized, her scalp stapled back together, and she had to go through a concussion protocol, according to police.
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The Daily Mail reported Monday that another 12-year-old female student — remaining anonymous because of her age, like the victim and the thug — made a public statement that "she and two fellow students filled out paperwork explaining what they knew was going to happen if nothing was done and said that she was warned 'watch your back' at lunch."
"You could've stopped it," she said. "It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don't get how you couldn't have stopped that."
Because they didn't want to risk being called names by someone, much easier to let someone get the crap beat out of them.
Go to the Daily Mail article, you can have the full flavor of a bunch of school bureaucrats assuring everyone they feel terrible about this. Yeah, I'm sure, it's causing them all kinds of problems and attention they don't want.
More reason to distrust the CDC: politics above medicine
They've been playing these bullshit games for years. Only fix I can think of, since the anti-2nd Amendment clowns involved aren't likely to change, is cut their funding by the amount this nonsense costs. THAT the bastards would pay attention to.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Another reason to keep kids out of public schools, or at least
Business Insider's Matt Drange revealed in a recent report about the epidemic of teacher relationships many of the sordid details - including emoji-filled text messages, transcripts from investigations and disciplinary files.
Drange said, the pages 'documented grooming and groping, the sharing of d**k picks and porn, sexualized comments in classrooms, oral sex in bathrooms, and statutory rape,' that in some cases continued for years.
His report highlights a disturbing pattern that 'school administrators across the United States catastrophically failing to prevent abuse,' and there is no federal agency, he said, that tracks teacher sexual misconduct.
Drange said during his investigation, he requested disciplinary records and severance agreements from the ten largest school districts in all 50 states, and license revocations from every state's Department of Education, but his request was met with opposition.
Alabama, Iowa, and Virginia refused to release any records, he said. While other districts, asked to be compensated, in order for the request to be filled.
In his report, he wrote that the Hawaii Department of Education asked for $75,060. The Katy Independent School District in Texas wanted $125,352, and the Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska invoiced $243,836.
While other districts, he revealed, never provided records, including Alaska's Bering Strait School District. In 2019, the BSSD paid $12.6 million to 13 sex abuse victims involving an instructor at the school.
And a real winner, from the People's Republic of Massachusetts,
Springfield Public Schools in Massachusetts, was another district he cited, that would not release any records and claimed it would be an 'invasion of the teachers' privacy outweighing any possible right of the public to know.'
Which, to suspicious me, sounds like "Go away, we're not admitting anything!"
Throw in this from Chicago. So kids are getting often lousy educations, and may be abused by teachers, and the schools- like in some of the crap that came out about the Edmond school district in Oklahoma- want to hide it or just make it go away.
Speaking of yanking federal(our) money from NPR,
Gee, once again a lot of rich brats decided they know how everyone should be properly controlled, and allowed to live. Because they're so much smarter than everyone else, and care so much.
Been said before, but finally going before the Supremes: Jack Smith is not a legal Special Counsel, and what all he's done is illegal.
Speaking of rich brats and 'Higher' Education, a collection of stuff at Insty. Includes both a bunch of overpaid college brass and screeching rabid howler monkey students who want to destroy things, and the fact that most of America is disgusted by it.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Yank all federal money(OUR damn money, remember) from Yale
And you'll notice the asshole in the foreground who doesn't look happy to find out he's on camera. Probably doesn't want to deal with any heat for his part in this shit.
Jeez, no wonder Californicated has so much trouble protecting kids
From another piece:
“The reason we find pedophiles … in kids TV is that’s where the kids are,” the host continued. “DeSantis wasn’t wrong. We’re so tribal now, the left will support child fucking if the wrong party calls it out.”
Later, Maher pointed out how Brian Peck — who was convicted of sexually assaulting a Nickelodeon child actor in 2004, which was later revealed to be Drake & Josh star Drake Bell in the docuseries — was hired by Disney to work on a children’s show after serving his time in prison. (The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Peck voiced the role of a mirror on three episodes of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody for Disney Channel, and worked away from the show’s set, in a voiceover studio. THR also learned that Disney fired him immediately after learning of his conviction.)
“For pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world after all,” Maher added.
When he's right, he's right. But that ending of 'giving kids a break from our culture wars at least until the election is over' bothers me. Makes it sound like part of the reason he's upset is that this crap is hurting the Democrats. It may not be that, but it really bothers me.
Let's start this with Wuhan letting a bunch of people pull their control freak out
Google doing more evil.
Considering the things they've been caught at, he's not wrong about the EffingBI
Speaking of, I found out both my Senators and my Rep. in Congress voted to let the warrantless search crap- with extended powers!- continue for two more years. And, considering these rat bastards, I doubt they'll ever actually try to stop it.
No, I haven't been yelling at them yet. Partly because the urge to tell them exactly what I think of them is so strong, and because they've demonstrated it won't do any good. I now find myself in the situation that voting for these bastards would, in far too many ways, just be voting for the leftists, because said bastards don't have the guts or desire to stand up on really important things like this.
Oh, I'm sure they'll have some "We had to for national security!" excuse for their abandoning that oath to uphold the Constitution, and I've not got the stomach to listen to it right now.
Somebody coined the name 'Londonistan' a few years ago;
"You're openly Jewish, you have to either leave this area under escort or you'll be arrested for causing a breach of the peace."
I will refrain from further comment.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
The days having rolled around again to one of those evenings,
Oh, this has the Didn't Earn It people in an uproar
"You can't discriminate against someone because they're white, or male, just because you claim you're 'trying to make up for past discrimination'." Which has all the Usual Suspects crapping themselves.
DEI offices and consultants and other racists hardest hit.
Hey, remember Pres. Gropey's order to build a dock in Gaza
Last October I wrote about the potentially catastrophic state of our country's maritime support system, the U.S. Maritime Support Fleet. Biden has someone in charge right now they mockingly refer to as "The Ghost Admiral." We have already lost the capacity to mobilize a tanker fleet to fuel our naval vessels at sea in event of a large scale conflict.
What this exercise attempting to cross the Atlantic has proven is that we may not need tankers. Our poorly maintained and continually neglected naval vessels, be they Navy or Army, may not be capable of making it to the conflict to begin with.
Read it. Calling this a cluster would be raising it in status. And the personnel trying to do something with all this mess are screwed.
On this day in 1775
Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.[7] He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces, trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Speaking of treacherous, backstabbing politicians,
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"RCM bills itself as an operation which houses functions for Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which helps illegal aliens enter the United States," Oversight Project said, adding that disgraced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "is a former board member of HIAS, which received numerous grants from Soros' Open Society Foundation over the years."
And the Democrats and their hounds in the intelligence agencies and 'Justice' Department will keep giving him a pass
They were HIGHLY CLASSIFIED and relevant to current national security threats.
We need an immediate damage assessment from the Intelligence Community.
— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) April 17, 2024
On the latest "Let's make up a law" crap,
If you're in a state where it may do some good, yell- politely- at the Congresscritters, because the more noise made about this, the better.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Just how fornicated is Californicate?
No excerpts, just read it for the full flavor of the- well, 'idiocy' doesn't cover it.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Even if I had no other problems with the World Health Organization,
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and any of his successors would have unrestricted authority to implement WHO regulations.
The treaty would provide “a framework for international cooperation and solidarity” and address issues like surveillance systems and responding to outbreaks, Ghebreyesus said when announcing the treaty during a March press conference. “The world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one.”
The World Health Organization “global pandemic treaty” includes a plan for a mandatory, universal digital passport and ID system. Article 4 of the draft outlines the treaty’s overarching “principles,” including “universal health coverage,” “equity,” “transparency,” “inclusiveness,” “gender equality” and “diversity. “ Also, the treaty targets “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
Throw in all the other crap, and there's a simple response:
Monday, April 15, 2024
I doubt anyone not connected would get the same consideration
The local police who paid the February visit to Carroll's home said she surrendered the firearm after authorities "offered to secure the weapon at the police station's property for safekeeping" until Carroll obtains a New York pistol license, per NBC News.
Bleep, what a load of crap.
If there's a war and they're involved, the Brit Navy is screwed
The lack of weapons on the Type 45 warships has raised concerns the Navy is falling even further behind the United States, with drastic shortages of sailors also prompting warnings.
Well, you crap on your military, want everyone all woke or gone, and decide you'd rather spend on social(ist) crap than keep your forces ready, what do you expect?
Like our military, in fact.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
'Anti-War' my ass: as long as someone attacks the US or Israel,
With this shit proving it:
A smile creeps across her face as she tells me: “They’re part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.”
(about the tag: this may not meet the legal definition, but that's what this is)
The new head of NPR: New boss,
You can just feel the desire to report both sides of things, can't you?
Have to wonder if one of the reasons for the Iranian drone/missile attack
One of my least favorite people in the country,
That big rally in Dearborn where the lead speaker went through is 'worst country, shouldn't even exist(ever notice these people never leave, though?), and then the chants of 'Death to America!' broke out. Such wonderful people, aren't they? Well, somebody actually committed journalism and asked her about this, since it was in her district:
Fox Business' Hillary Vaughn had caught up with the congresswoman, who, before even being asked a question, screeched "I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!" As Vaughn managed to communicate that "at a rally in your district people were chanting 'Death to America,' Tlaib once more replied "I do not talk to Fox News!" before Vaughn could ask if the congresswoman condemned the phrase.
When Vaughn was able to get a word in to ask, Tlaib changed her answer, but only slightly, and it wasn't to offer any sort of condemnation. "I don’t talk to people that use racist tropes," she said.
"Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting 'Death to Amer…' Why are you afraid to talk to Fox News," Vaughn continued to ask.
I'd say she's not afraid to, she's pissed that someone actually asked her about this, and made it worse by not backing down she the started the standard leftist line about 'racism'. Because, apparently, quoting people is a 'racist trope' when she doesn't want to respond to a question.
If you want to see this, here's the X link.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
What? Obama was protecting Iran and others from investigations?
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
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But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.
I've only been through about a third of this, and holy SHIT... If this isn't giving aid & comfort to the enemy, what is it?
I hope Rand Paul has good security
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Paul also identified two additional parties who were part of the original plan to create chimeric coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab: the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal agency formerly headed up by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology and one of the authors of the now-disgraced “Proximal Origin” paper.
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“Anthony Fauci, for the first several months and really for years, has tried to call anybody who believes that it came from the lab or looks at evidence that the virus came from this lab, calls them conspiracy theorists, downplays them, denigrates them," Paul said. “He promoted journal articles to downplay and say it wasn't possible when all the while it looks like he knew it.”
Getting this all out is great. The "Please don't do this/Don't you dare do this!" has got to be interesting.
And, don't forget, most of our Professional Journalists were doing what they were told, as opposed to actually investigating and giving a damn about the truth.
I agree, and we can't let the bastards forget that we know
I thought about what he said for a few minutes and then said that I think we all are using the wrong terminology. We have fallen into the habit of saying things like, “During Covid, we couldn’t even go to church,” “Because of Covid friends lost their jobs;” and the like.
I then said to my friend that we all needed to change the language that we had been trained and had become accustomed to using. I said to him, “Covid didn’t close your business, the government did. Covid did not make the insane decision to close down gyms while leaving liquor stores open; the government did. Covid did not prevent us from going to worship at the church of our choice; the government did. Covid did not chase down and try to arrest bikers, surfers, joggers, and others engaged in outdoor exercise; the government did. Covid did not prevent families from holding and comforting their parents and grandparents during their final hours of life; the government did. Covid did not shut down our schools; the government did (aided and abetted by Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions). Covid did not set arbitrary limits on how far apart we should stand everywhere from in grocery stores to national parks, how many people should attend Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings in our own homes, while either remaining silent or actively encouraging mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations; the government health bureaucracy and little totalitarians, such as Anthony Fauci and the ‘Scarf Lady,’ Deborah Birx, did.