08/21/2024 The year of our Lord
Wednesday-“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” ~ (Benjamin Franklin)
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BREAKING: The Nevada Supreme Court just ruled against Democrats by DECLINING to block Election Officials from withholding certification of the results in the event of election fraud This means if fraud is discovered in the 2024 election, officials can now halt certification until the truth comes out The Democrat Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar initially filed the lawsuit asking the justices to require the Washoe Board of County Commissioners to certify the June 9 primary election results for two races before August 22 despite the ongoing allegations of fraud they received. He argued that counties don't have the authority to withhold certification and that their vote can only be "YES" to whatever results they get. Additionally, he said they can't even investigate or determine instances of fraud That's insanely bizarre. According to him, even if there's daylight proof of fraud, county officials are just supposed to certify anyway The State Supreme Court's dismissal of the lawsuit is fantastic. By deciding not to take action now, they are giving election officials the opportunity to pursue remedy if or when fraud occurs instead of forcing them to vote under duress THIS DECISION IS MASSIVE!!!
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The Republican people who support DeSantis will never give up trying to destroy MAGA, in the same way they tried to destroy the Tea Party! They don’t have limits to their hatred because they love money more than anything else in their life. Money is the currency of their purpose. Start from this perspective and everything makes sense!
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RFK Jr. Reportedly Set to Drop Out and Endorse Trump This Friday — Sources Reveal Potential NIH or Attorney General Aspirations
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Green party presidential candidate
will reclassify AIPAC as a foreign agent in her first 30 days in office
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Nonfarm payroll growth revised down by 818,000, Labor Department says
8/21/2024, 7:52:48 AM · by BlueStateRightist · 3 replies
CNBC ^ | August 21, 2024 | Jeff Cox
The U.S. economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the 12-month period through March 2024, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. As part of its preliminary annual benchmark revisions to the nonfarm payroll numbers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the actual job growth was nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of the following year.
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Vicious duo who pummeled elderly woman on NYC street freed without bail — despite arrest history: cops
8/21/2024, 7:52:11 AM · by Kid Shelleen · 6 replies
NY Post ^ | 08/19/2024 | Amanda Woods, Dorian Geiger and Steve Janoski
Two brutes accused of randomly pummeling an 82-year-old woman on a Bronx street have been released without bail — even though the violent pair has a combined 18 prior arrests, The Post has learned. William Ballinger and Tammie Moore — both of whom have lengthy rap sheets — were busted by cops last week and charged with second-and third-degree assault for the vicious Aug. 2 attack on the elderly home health aide in Olinville, police said. Prosecutors asked that each of the 32-year-old defendants be held on $30,000 cash bail or $90,000 bond during their arraignments in Bronx Criminal Court...
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Report: RFK Jr. on the verge of earth-shattering political move, making it nearly impossible for Democrats to steal the election…
8/21/2024, 7:51:35 AM · by Tench_Coxe · 3 replies
Let’s be honest: RFK Jr. may just be another opportunistic politician, but he does happen to get a few things right, like his smart, common-sense stance on COVID and the vaccine, among other issues. Recently, we covered a story where RFK Jr. reportedly approached Team Kamala, looking to trade an endorsement for a high-ranking cabinet position, and we didn’t hold back.Word has it, Team Kamala told him to “put an egg in his shoe and beat it.”
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Trump Living Rent Free in Obama’s Head: Claims Trump Is Annoying Neighbor with a Leaf Blower
8/21/2024, 7:47:40 AM · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
Breitbart ^ | 08/20/2024 | HANNAH KNUDSEN
Former President Barack Obama made it abundantly clear during his DNC speech Tuesday evening that former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, is living rent free in his head, going on and on about him in his divisive diatribe before later suggesting that it is the political right that lacks tolerance. Obama opened up his speech by praising President Joe Biden, whom he identified as a friend. But it did not take long for the 44th president to devolve into a long attack on Trump, perhaps signaling that he is truly concerned there could be a second Trump...
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Venezuelan Gangs
8/21/2024, 7:32:05 AM · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
BORDER TRUTH ^ | 19 Aug, 2024 | J.J. Carrell
By the end of Biden’s term in office, his DHS will have arrested and released or allowed into American via the CBP One App and released over 1,000,000 illegal alien Venezuelans. It has been reported beyond argument that Venezuela has emptied her insane asylums and prisons and directed those individuals to America. What has happened to Venezuela’s murder rate? Well, Venezuela now claims the lowest murder rate in the last 22 years! I wonder what the number of murders of American citizens are at the hands of illegal alien Venezuelans. I would need a lot more space on Substack to...
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Black WNBA players are 'racist' towards Caitlin Clark, claims Jason Whitlock as he slams TV networks like ESPN for not talking about it
8/21/2024, 7:24:29 AM · by dynachrome · 15 replies
Daily Mail ^ | 8-21-24 | Max Winters
Controversial podcast host Jason Whitlock has accused black WNBA players of being racist towards Caitlin Clark and slammed networks like ESPN for not talking about it. The No. 1 overall pick and rookie sensation has been subject to rough treatment on numerous occasions during her first season as a pro, with some accusing her opponents of being jealous of her remarkable impact on women's basketball. The latest incident arrived on Sunday when Seattle Storm's Skylar Diggins-Smith took a cheap shot at Clark after she inspired the Indiana Fever to a 92-75 win at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Diggins-Smith, an Olympic gold medalist...
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PETERSBURGH: The Weldon Railroad Again in Our Possession; Gen. Warren’s Corps Takes a New Position (8/21/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 8/21/1864
Posted on 8/21/2024, 7:01:28 AM by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL DISPATCHES]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1864 -- 8:10 P.M.
To Major-Gen. John A. Dix:
The operations of Gen. GRANT'S forces are detailed in the following official dispatches received by this department.
CITY POINT -- 8 P.M. -- Aug. 18, 1864.
Gen. WARREN moved with his corps this morning to and across the Weldon Road, about one mile south of the head works. To that point he met nothing but the enemy's pickets. He advanced from there toward Petersburgh, meeting the enemy in his advance. He had considerable fighting during the day, suffering some loss, and inflicting loss upon the enemy.
I have no report showing the extent of our losses, but judge them to be light from the dispatches.
Some of the enemy's wounded fell into our hands, and a few other prisoners.
CITY POINT, Va., 7:30 P.M. -- Aug. 19, 1864.
Our troops are firmly fixed across the Weldon Road.
There has been little or no fighting to-day, either south of Petersburgh or north of the James,
Warren reports that the enemy's dead in considerable numbers were found in his front unburied.
Gen. BIRNEY telegraphs Gen. BUTLER, as follows:
HEADQUARTERS, TENTH CORPS, Aug. 19, 1864.
The enemy attacked my line in heavy force last night, and were repulsed with great loss.
In front of our colored regiment eighty-two dead bodies of the enemy are counted.
The colored troops behaved handsomely and are in fine spirits.
The assault was in column, a division strong, and would have carried the works if they had not been so well defended.
The enemy's loss was at least 1,000.
D.B. BIRNEY, Major-General.
We have had a great deal of rain about Petersburgh this week, and a very grateful change in the temperature.
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Ukraine attacks Moscow in one of largest-ever drone attacks on Russian capital as war intensifies
8/21/2024, 6:54:28 AM · by Oldeconomybuyer · 7 replies
NY Post ^ | August 21, 2024 | By Reuters
MOSCOW – Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones shot down by air defenses in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022. The war, largely a grinding artillery and drone battle across the fields, forests and villages of eastern Ukraine, escalated on Aug. 6 when Ukraine sent thousands of soldiers into Russia’s western Kursk region. For months, Ukraine has also fought an increasingly damaging drone war against the refineries and airfields of the world’s second-largest oil exporter, though major drone attacks...
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Nordstrom closing corporate offices in Los Angeles and Chicago
8/21/2024, 6:27:58 AM · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
Geek wire ^ | 08/19/2024 | TAYLOR SOPER
Nordstrom is closing two corporate offices and asking some employees to relocate to its Seattle headquarters, GeekWire has learned. Nordstrom confirmed that it will let leases expire at its offices in Los Angeles and Chicago, citing low usage of the spaces as a primary reason for the decision. Most employees based in those cities will transition to full-time remote roles while others will be required to relocate to Seattle, the company said. It will use store locations in Los Angeles and Chicago for smaller team gatherings.
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DOJ seeks to protect Trump in 2020 DC protest lawsuit
8/21/2024, 5:49:42 AM · by blueplum · 9 replies
The Hill ^ | 20 Aug 2024 | ZACH SCHONFELD
The Justice Department is attempting to substitute itself in place of former President Trump as the defendant in a lawsuit brought after law enforcement pushed protesters out from Lafayette Square near the White House following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. If successful, the move would enable Trump to avoid liability in the suit or having to pay any eventual damages. In court filings Monday, the Biden-era Justice Department certified Trump was acting in the scope of his employment as president and filed a notice substituting itself as the defendant. “On the basis of the information now available with...
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Fears for His Safety if Trump Is Reelected, Says Labour Should Openly Back Kamala
8/21/2024, 5:43:13 AM · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies
Breitbart ^ | 08/21/2024 | Kurt Zindulka
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has waded into American politics once again, saying that he is worried about his safety if Donald Trump returns to the White House and that the left-wing Labour Party should openly support the campaign of Kamala Harris. The far-left Mayor of London, who has a long history of public verbal spats with former President Donald Trump, said in an interview with the globalist New Statesman this week that he has personal fears of the Republican nominee being victorious in the presidential election in November.
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15 states sue Biden-Harris administration for enrolling noncitizens in Obamacare
8/21/2024, 5:35:17 AM · by blueplum · 6 replies
The Center Square via MSN ^ | 20 Aug 2024 | Bethany Blankley
(The Center Square) – A coalition of states led by Kansas has sued the Biden-Harris administration to block the federal government from providing free health care through the taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally.... DACA supporters argue recipients should be granted citizenship...Others argue those with criminal records, at a minimum, should be deported. Within the first five years of the program, nearly 80,000 DACA recipients were released into the U.S. with arrest records... If the CMS final rule takes effect Nov. 1, more than 200,000 DACA recipients would automatically become eligible......
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Judge Merchan’s Daughter Reportedly Caught Concealing Work for Harris Campaign
8/21/2024, 4:56:42 AM · by Red Badger · 15 replies
Headline USA ^ | August 20, 2024 | Ken Silva
Why are you and Loren Merchan using the same office for Authentic Campaigns and Avalanche Acquisitions while you’re still working for the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden?' ===================================================================== (Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Aug. 1, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, opened an investigation into the daughter of Democrat Judge Juan Merchan—who’s set to sentence Donald Trump in the Manhattan campaign finance case on Sept. 18—over her past work for Vice President Kamala Harris. In response to Jordan’s probe, a business partner for Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, said their firm, Authentic Campaigns Inc., was being “targeted by a baseless...
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Ezekiel 34:1-11
An oracle against bad and selfish shepherds
The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: ‘Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them:
‘“Shepherds, the Lord says this: Trouble for the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shepherds ought to feed their flock, yet you have fed on milk, you have dressed yourselves in wool, you have sacrificed the fattest sheep, but failed to feed the flock. You have failed to make weak sheep strong, or to care for the sick ones, or bandage the wounded ones. You have failed to bring back strays or look for the lost. On the contrary, you have ruled them cruelly and violently. For lack of a shepherd they have scattered, to become the prey of any wild animal; they have scattered far. My flock is straying this way and that, on mountains and on high hills; my flock has been scattered all over the country; no one bothers about them and no one looks for them.
‘“Well then, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. As I live, I swear it – it is the Lord who speaks – since my flock has been looted and for lack of a shepherd is now the prey of any wild animal, since my shepherds have stopped bothering about my flock, since my shepherds feed themselves rather than my flock, in view of all this, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. The Lord says this: I am going to call the shepherds to account. I am going to take my flock back from them and I shall not allow them to feed my flock. In this way the shepherds will stop feeding themselves. I shall rescue my sheep from their mouths; they will not prey on them any more.”
‘For the Lord says this: “I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view.”’
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Matthew 20:1-16
Why be envious because I am generous?
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day, and sent them to his vineyard. Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, “You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage.” So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the same. Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing round, and he said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day?” “Because no one has hired us” they answered. He said to them, “You go into my vineyard too.” In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first.” So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each. When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each. They took it, but grumbled at the landowner. “The men who came last” they said “have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day’s work in all the heat.” He answered one of them and said, “My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why be envious because I am generous?” Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.’
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1 Thessalonians 2:2-8
We were eager to hand over to you not only the Good News but our whole lives
It was our God who gave us the courage to proclaim his Good News to you in the face of great opposition. We have not taken to preaching because we are deluded, or immoral, or trying to deceive anyone; it was God who decided that we were fit to be entrusted with the Good News, and when we are speaking, we are not trying to please men but God, who can read our inmost thoughts. You know very well, and we can swear it before God, that never at any time have our speeches been simply flattery, or a cover for trying to get money; nor have we ever looked for any special honour from men, either from you or anybody else, when we could have imposed ourselves on you with full weight, as apostles of Christ.
Instead, we were unassuming. Like a mother feeding and looking after her own children, we felt so devoted and protective towards you, and had come to love you so much, that we were eager to hand over to you not only the Good News but our whole lives as well.
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John 21:15-17
Feed my lambs, feed my sheep
Jesus showed himself to his disciples, and after they had eaten he said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep.’ Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was upset that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.’
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Ignorance, Envy and Jealousy,
Painted by James Ward (1769 - 1859),
Painted in 1836,
Oil on canvas
© French & Company LLC, New York, all right reserved
The reaction of the workers to the landowner’s generous treatment of those who worked only the last hour of the day reminds me of the older son’s response in the parable of the prodigal son to his father’s lavish treatment of his younger brother. In both parables, the reaction is one of righteous indignation, feeling that someone received far more than they deserved. The younger son had squandered his father’s property in a self-indulgent lifestyle, yet he was welcomed back and celebrated. The last group of workers had only laboured for an hour, yet they were paid a full day’s wage.
We can easily empathise with the older son’s reaction and that of the workers who toiled all day in the heat. Both parables challenge our sense of justice and fairness. The father in the first parable is incredibly generous towards his wayward son; the landowner in the second parable is exceptionally generous towards those who worked only briefly. This level of generosity and mercy disrupts our conventional sense of justice. Yet this is precisely the message of these parables: God’s generosity and mercy are not just magnified versions of our own but are of a wholly different nature, often leaving us puzzled! Ultimately, this is good news for us all. The 'Good News' is indeed good news.
The workers were envious and jealous. Our painting, entitled 'Ignorance, Envy and Jealousy', depicts envy and jealousy at their worst. Our allegorical painting by James Ward, painted in 1836, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, attracting much attention. It depicts a powerful dramatisation of the conflict between good and evil. We see the figures of Ignorance, Envy and Jealousy filling the throat and widening the mouth of Calumny. All three are feeding the evil beast, endeavouring to tear down Truth which is seen as an unshaken pyramidal shaped figure founded on a rock to Theology right of our composition. Truth is dressed in white, basking in light, a bride to her religion, ignoring the scary chaos of Calumny. The Holy Spirit is floating above her as a dove. Truth is seen reading from Scripture, whilst sitting on blue drapery, reminiscent of the blue vestment typical in depictions of the Virgin.
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Two Years In, Inflation Reduction Act Proves to Be the Climate Boondoggle Critics Predicted
8/21/2024, 4:43:08 AM · by Red Badger · 7 replies
Daily Signal ^ | August 20, 2024 | David Blackmon
In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main impediments to the energy transition today is a lack of what she calls “systems thinking.” “Energy transitions are a change in the organization of society,” she pointed out. “They’re not a simple case of swapping out one technology for another and everything else stays the same. Yet we have this very simplistic narrative that we can take the oil system, we can put renewables in, it’s going to happen immediately, and nothing else will change. It’s like saying we’re going to take...
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Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda
8/21/2024, 4:34:40 AM · by Phoenix8 · 34 replies
Fox ^ | 8/21/2024 | Grossman
FIRST ON FOX – A recent hire at the nuclear security wing of the Department of Energy has previously called for disarmament policies – which reduce or eliminate nuclear weapons – arguing that advancing "queer theory" was essential to that agenda as well as important to America's national security. The Biden-Harris administration announced Sneha Nair had been appointed as special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration in February 2024. Nair believes in eradicating purported "White supremacy" in the nuclear field as well as "queering nuclear weapons" as part of a diversity, equity and inclusion push she believes is essential...
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The Corrupting Influence of DEI on Military Education
8/21/2024, 3:48:18 AM · by karpov · 11 replies
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 21, 2024 | J.A. Cauthen
By now, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry’s capture of academia, business, and government is obvious to most Americans. From former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s televised equivocations before Congress to the unhinged, violent student and faculty occupations in support of Hamas at some of America’s most elite universities, many are no doubt wondering if DEI is producing something counter to its placid-sounding words. That this shameful behavior is occurring at civilian institutions of higher learning is probably no surprise to most observers. Unfortunately, DEI has metastasized beyond the confines of the civilian world and found a willing host in...
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This is disappointing': 'LGBTQ Travel' section is gone from Florida's official tourism site
8/21/2024, 2:39:34 AM · by Recovering_Democrat · 22 replies
WESH ^ | 8/20/2024 | "Spencer Tracy, Reporter"
The largest event for the LGBTQ+ community is months away in downtown Orlando. Come Out With Pride is back this year for its 20th anniversary at Lake...But finding details about it on VisitFlorida.com is currently not an option. The LGBTQ+ travel section is gone with no explanation. The section previously featured blog posts and videos related to the state’s
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Speaker Johnson slams Biden admin for ‘stunning’ IG report on 300K missing migrant kids: ‘Modern-day slavery operation’
8/21/2024, 2:35:24 AM · by Libloather · 22 replies
NY Post ^ | 8/20/24 | Josh Christenson
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed the Biden administration after a “stunning” inspector general’s report released Tuesday found nearly 300,000 migrant children have gone missing in the US. “This administration’s failure to secure our border is facilitating what is the equivalent of a modern-day slavery operation,” Johnson told reporters on a press call Tuesday evening. “The southern border is a national security disaster and a humanitarian catastrophe and Kamala Harris cannot be trusted to fix it,” he thundered. “And this is one of the biggest scandals in American history; it’s one of the most tragic; and we have to hold...
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Zero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled, patch now
8/21/2024, 1:50:54 AM · by Drago · 14 replies
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/zero-click-windows-tcp-ip-rce-impacts-all-systems-with-ipv6-enabled-patch-now/ ^ | 08-14-2024 | https://www.bleepingcomputer.com (& many others)
Microsoft warned customers this Tuesday to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability with an increased likelihood of exploitation that impacts all Windows systems using IPv6, which is enabled by default. Found by Kunlun Lab's XiaoWei and tracked as CVE-2024-38063, this security bug is caused by an Integer Underflow weakness, which attackers could exploit to trigger buffer overflows that can be used to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems.
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“Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for [the Lord] Himself has said, ‘I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you’” (Hebrews 13:5).
God promises to provide for all your needs.
In World War II the death of many adults left many orphans. At the close of the war, the Allies provided some camps to feed the orphans and to try and find a place to relocate them. The children began to develop and grow, receiving the finest food and care. But in one of the camps, the officials became perplexed because the children couldn’t sleep. They would eat three good meals, but at night they would lie awake. The camp authorities brought in some doctors to do a study of these orphans to find out why they couldn’t sleep.
The doctors came up with a solution. Every night when the little children were put to bed, someone would come down the row of beds and place in each little hand a piece of bread. So the last thing the children experienced at night was grasping a piece of bread. In a matter of days they were all sleeping through the night. Why? Even though they were fed to the full during the day, experience had taught them that there was no hope for tomorrow. When they had that bread tucked in their hands, they knew that at least they would have breakfast the next day.
Similarly, God has given you a piece of bread for your hand. That bread is this promise: “My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). If you have that piece of bread in your hand, you can sleep.
You don’t need to stockpile for the future. God is the owner of everything in the world, and He controls all the assets to provide for you because you are His child. Life for the Christian consists not in the abundance of things he possesses (Luke 12:15), but in being content with the things that he has (Heb. 13:5).
Thank God for His promise to provide for all your needs.
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Google Search Confirms Kamala Harris Did Not Exist Prior To July 22, 2024
Hillary Clinton Meets With Kamala To Help Her Improve Her Black Accent
Tim Walz Clarifies That He Is Not Stealing Valor, Just Redistributing It
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“Egregious Federal Overreach”: Utah’s Lawsuit With the Supreme Court Could Bring the Next Major Blow to Big Government
8/20/2024, 10:58:38 PM · by CFW · 28 replies
Liberty Daily ^ | 8/20/24 | Nick Pope
Utah filed a major lawsuit with the Supreme Court on Tuesday that could have major implications for federalism and the administration of public lands across the country if successful. Utah’s lawsuit contends that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) does not have the authority to effectively hold “unappropriated” state lands indefinitely under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), the state announced. The federal government controls about 18.5 million acres of “unappropriated” Utah land under the FLPMA, and Utah’s suit argues that the state ought to control this land because nothing in the Constitution expressly permits the federal government...
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Shaq sends video tribute to child survivors of October 7: I love you
8/20/2024, 10:41:11 PM · by Eleutheria5 · 17 replies
Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/8/24 | Shaquille O’Neal
Video with link to X Former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal sent a heartfelt video message to child survivors of Hamas’ October 7 attacks against Israel, who are being hosted at Camp Timberlane in Toronto, Canada by the OneFamily Together organization for victims of terror. The camp shared the video by O’Neal, commonly known as “Shaq”, on its Instagram page last week. “Shalom,” he said in the video. “I wanted to give you guys a shout out and let you know that I love you. To all the amazing children - I know you came from far, far away, hope you're...
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Former Cop Convicted For Involvement In George Floyd’s Death Is Released From Prison
8/20/2024, 9:20:01 PM · by Olog-hai · 45 replies
One America News ^ | 4:33 PM – Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | OANN Staff Abril Elfi
One of the former Minneapolis police officers who was convicted in connection to the death of George Floyd, whose passing prompted the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, has been released from custody. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Thomas Lane was released from prison on Tuesday. In May 2022, 41-year-old Lane entered a guilty plea to state charges of second-degree manslaughter of aiding and abetting. Nevertheless, prosecutors agreed to dismiss the charges against him for aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder as part of a plea agreement. For the state charges, he received a three-year prison sentence. …
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Back to the Bloodlands: Operation Krepost [Big Serge on Kursk operation]
8/20/2024, 8:43:48 PM · by EnderWiggin1970 · 19 replies
Substack ^ | 8/20/24 | Big Serge
On Tuesday, August 6, the Russo-Ukrainian War took an unexpected twist with the beginning of a brigade-level Ukrainian assault on Kursk Oblast, across the border from Ukrainian Sumy. The decision by Ukrainian command to willingly open up a new front, at a time when their defenses on critical axes of the Donbas are failing, is both aggressive and fraught with peril. The sensational spectacle of a Ukrainian offensive into prewar Russia in a region that is operationally remote from the critical theater of the war has whipped the peanut gallery into a frenzy, and most commentators and observers seem to...
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US judge strikes down Biden administration ban on worker ‘noncompete’ agreements
8/20/2024, 8:41:42 PM · by CFW · 45 replies
CNN news ^ | 8/20/24 | Jeanne Sahadi
A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday barred a US Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban employers from requiring their workers to sign non-compete agreements. The ban, which had been scheduled to go into effect nationwide on September 4, is now effectively blocked. US District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas said the FTC does not have the authority to ban practices it deems unfair methods of competition by adopting broad rules. “The Court concludes that the FTC lacks statutory authority to promulgate the Non-Compete Rule, and that the Rule is arbitrary and capricious. Thus, the FTC’s...
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50 Republican veterans in Congress condemn Tim Walz's military service lies
8/21/2024, 4:22:29 PM · by NetAddicted · 1 replies
Breitbart.com ^ | 8/21/2024 | Kristina Wong
Fifty Republican military veterans serving in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday sent a letter to Democrat vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (MN) harshly condemning his lies about his military service. They said in the letter, which was released as Walz readied to deliver remarks at the Democratic National Convention: The Office of the Vice President is a position that requires the trust of the American people and a solemn commitment to duty on behalf of the United States of America. As veterans who have served our nation, we feel compelled to address your egregious misrepresentations and urge you to...
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Biden Administration's Controversial Sanctions Waiver Decision on Iran Draws Criticism
8/21/2024, 4:15:43 PM · by Right Wing Vegan
MSN ^ | 8/20/2024
In a move that has sparked significant debate, the Biden-Harris administration has recently renewed a sanctions waiver for Iran’s state-controlled broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). This decision, detailed in a non-public notification to Congress on August 9, 2024, permits the IRIB to engage in financial transactions essential for its operations, despite its role in disseminating anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda. The IRIB, which oversees a broad range of media outlets, including television, radio, and news services, has faced criticism for broadcasting content that promotes radical and violent ideologies. Since Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023,...
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DPS {Texas Department of Public Safety} enacts policy refusing court-ordered gender marker changes, will create database of marker change requests
8/21/2024, 3:41:51 PM · by Salman · 3 replies
The Dallas Voice ^ | Aug 21, 2024 | Tammye Nash
According to a Texas Department of Public Safety internal email, a copy of which was sent to Dallas Voice through a local attorney, DPS has — unilaterally and without any public notice — decided to stop amending gender markers on Texas driver licenses and state ID cards. The email also indicates that the DPS will create a database of all individuals who request to have the gender marker on their license or ID changed. The policy change follows an earlier request from Texas Attorney General that DPS provide his office with records from individuals who had had gender markers corrected...
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Noguchi Museum Workers Walk Out in Protest of New Keffiyeh Ban
8/21/2024, 2:55:27 PM · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
ARTnews ^ | August 21, 2024 | Tessa Solomon
Employees of the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, staged a walkout today in protest of a new internal dress code banning keffiyehs, which they deemed “distinctly anti-Palestinian.” This is the second staff work stoppage at the Noguchi, following an action on August 15. Some 50 workers—who, at an institution of roughly 70 employees, represent a majority of its labor force—have signed a petition demanding museum leadership rescind the policy, which was reportedly instated on August 14 in response to a single staffer wearing the Palestinian headscarf on-site. The petition, sent on August 19 by the group Noguchi Museum Rights,...
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AG Ken Paxton Unleashes Voter Fraud Crackdown: Investigates Reports of Illegally Registered Non-Citizens in Texas
8/21/2024, 2:25:01 PM · by DFG · 5 replies
Gateway Pundit ^ | 08/21/2024 | Jim Hoft
exas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a comprehensive investigation into allegations that nonprofit organizations are unlawfully registering noncitizens to vote in Texas. Investigators from the Texas Attorney General’s Election Integrity Unit have been actively conducting undercover operations to identify potential voter registration of noncitizens across the state. This is the same unit that arrested and booked Monica Mendez into the Victoria County Jail on June 23, 2021, after a Victoria County Grand Jury returned an indictment against her on multiple counts of election fraud: 7 counts of Illegal Voting (a 2nd Degree Felony), 8 counts of Unlawfully Assisting Voter...
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Feds Gave Catholic Charities Almost $800 Million That Helped Shelter, Transport Biden’s Migrants into U.S. Communities
8/21/2024, 2:13:09 PM · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
Breitbart ^ | 08/21/2024 | Neil Munro
Congress and President Joe Biden’s government have reportedly paid the Texas arm of Catholic Charities USA $769 million since 2021 to help deliver a huge population of poor migrants into U.S. communities, workplaces, and housing. “Catholic Charities has a history of prioritizing the needs of migrants over those of Americans,” said Sheena Rodriguez, the president of Alliance for a Safe Texas, which champions border security and anti-trafficking programs. “I’ve spoken with numerous homeless Americans who claimed they were forced out of [a Catholic Charities] shelter in the dead of night to accommodate the influx of illegal migrants,” she told Breitbart...
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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez resigns after bribery convictions
8/21/2024, 12:57:55 PM · by Enterprise · 15 replies
https://www.bbc.com ^ | 8/21/24 | BBC
Bob Menendez's resignation from the US Senate became official Tuesday, a much-anticipated move that follows his conviction on bribery charges in July. The New Jersey Democrat was found guilty on 16 counts tied to a scheme where he accepted bribes, including gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz, to aid the Qatari and Egyptian governments. He will face a potentially lengthy prison term at his sentencing in October. Menendez, 70, has maintained his innocence and said he plans to appeal. Menendez initially resisted calls to step down and - until last week - had kept his name on the ballot for re-election...
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Singapore's prime minister emeritus stares at 'woke' concepts in America, utterly stupefied at its idiocy
8/21/2024, 12:02:13 PM · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
American Thinker ^ | 21 Aug, 2023 | Monica Showalter
His disdain is palpable. Singapore's history taught its leaders early that hardcore rule of law and equality of opportunity, not equality of results, was the way to succeed. Elon Musk spotted this video on X (Twitter) featuring Lee Hsien Loong, the recently retired prime minister of Singapore, and couldn't help sharing: Elon Musk @elonmusk X-Twitter WisdomWisdom is a good word for it, because left unsaid, it's also about experience. Who is Lee Hsien Loong? He's the senior, or emeritus, prime minister of Singapore, the third in the nation's history, and the son of Singapore's founding father, the great Lee Kuan...
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‘Bombshell’ BRICS Payments Platform To Ditch US Dollar Gaining Support From Central Banks, Finance Ministries: Report
8/21/2024, 10:41:20 AM · by RomanSoldier19 · 41 replies
https://dailyhodl.com ^ | August 18, 2024 Financeflux | Alex Richardson
Central banks and finance ministries of all BRICS nations are discussing the launch of a new payments platform that would circumvent the US dollar, according to a new report. According to Russian government-backed media publication Tass, Russia’s Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko told a press conference that a standalone payment system dubbed the “BRICS Bridge” is gaining support.
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Disney drops arbitration bid in allergy death after backlash
8/21/2024, 10:35:14 AM · by DallasBiff · 17 replies
DW ^ | 8/20/24 | DW
The media giant has withdrawn a controversial attempt to settle a wrongful death case in arbitration. It had previously argued a one-month Disney+ subscription was a waiver against suing the company. Snip Why is Disney being sued? The lawsuit revolves around the death of Kanokporn Tangsuan, a doctor from New York, who ate with her husband and mother at the Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant on October 5, 2023. They had chosen the location because it was advertised by both the restaurant and Disney as being particularly accommodating with food allergies. However, despite seeking assurances from the wait staff,...
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Ohio Secretary of State’s Office to Investigate into Algorithms Allegedly Placed in the Ohio State Board of Elections Registration Files
8/21/2024, 10:30:45 AM · by bitt · 15 replies
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 8/21/2024 | jim hoft
Jerome R. CORSI, Ph.D. tells The Gateway Pundit, “We have cracked the Enigma Machine of Democratic Election Fraud.” And officials are taking the findings seriously. Brian Katz, Ohio Public Integrity Division Director, announced on Monday that the Secretary of State’s Office will investigate algorithms placed in the Ohio State Board of Electionss voter registration file. Katz writes, “My understanding is that you have knowledge of certain algorithsm embedded in the state’s voter registration database that could allow for the manipulation of mail-in voting records or other election datea.” Katz told Dr. Corsi, “I ask that you provide this evidence as...
The God’s Five Stones website published a paper by Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., who documented when working with the New York Citizens Audit (NYCA), clear evidence that an algorithmic code has been placed onto the New York State Board of Election’s (SBOE) voter registration database that alters voter identification numbers (IDs) that allow the creation, voting, and hiding of falsified voter registration that could be used in a mail-in ballot election fraud scheme.
On July 27, 2024, Paquette published on his substack an update showing that the New York SBOE had recently changed all their voter ID numbers, providing evidence that the Spiral Cipher that Paquette originally detected remains operative today.
In addition to New York State, Paquette has detected evidence of algorithmic alteration of SBOE voter registration roles in as many as 13 additional states, with algorithmic coding confirmed in both New Jersey and Hawaii.
ased on scatterplot analysis (i.e., mapping SBOE IDs as the dependent variable on the X- variable and voter registration date as the independent variable on the y-axis presents prima facia evidence of algorithmic alteration of the SBOE voter registration database in Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas (Harris County).
While it is premature to assert that the algorithmic alteration of SBOE voter registration databases has been used to conduct election fraud, coding alteration of SBOE voter registration databases is inherently suspect of malevolence that needs to be investigated further before the presidential election on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
The advantage of SBOE algorithmic election fraud is that a small group of National Security Agency professional cryptographers could conceivably carry off an election steal that would be difficult, if not impossible, to detect by honest SBOE officials as the election was being conducted.
Paquette insists that the algorithmic alteration of SBOE voter registration rolls would permit rogue SBOE officials steal elections either as voting were occuring, or after a pause in vote tabulation to prermit the request, printing, and voting of “clone” or “ghost” fraudulent SBOE IDs that would be counted because they would be certifiable, even if fraudulently so.
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Massive zombie-style knives given up before new law
8/21/2024, 10:10:39 AM · by smokingfrog · 45 replies
BBC ^ | 8-21-24 | Jack Grey
A number of large-bladed "zombie" knives have been handed in to a Welsh police force before legislation makes them illegal to own. North Wales Police shared an image of the knives, which were handed in to officers in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, for destruction. From 23 September, it will be a criminal offence to possess zombie-style knives and machetes in the UK. An official Home Office "surrender period" will be in place from 26 August to 23 September, during which time financial compensation will be given for each knife handed in.
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‘Tim Walz Reenlisted After 9/11’ Is The Latest Lie About His Military Record
8/21/2024, 9:30:59 AM · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
The Federalist ^ | 08/21/2024 | Jason Beale
Just like claims that he served in war, or retired as a command sergeant major, the story Walz tells about reenlisting is not true.When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was introduced as Kamala Harris’ running mate, the campaign presented him as a bonified patriot, a career National Guardsman who retired as a command sergeant major after 24 years of faithful service to his country, including a deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.Walz enlisted two days after his 17th birthday in April 1981. As Walz tells it, when the planes hit the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, the attack compelled...
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Records Confirm USSS Deleted Text Messages of USSS Officials Including Kimberly Cheatle [VIDEO]
8/21/2024, 8:55:36 AM · by Red Badger · 79 replies
Rumble Via Liberty Daily ^ | August 21, 2024 | Julie Kelly & Liberty Daily Staff
Records Confirm USSS Deleted Text Messages of USSS Officials Including Kimberly Cheatle That sounds like a FELONY........... VIDEO AT LINK...................
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Bud Light Boycott Effects Endure—Brand Drops To Third
8/21/2024, 8:48:50 AM · by Cronos · 81 replies
forbes ^ | 23rd July 2024 | Alicia Park
Bud Light fell to third place in U.S. beer sales as Michelob Ultra took its place behind the top-selling Modelo, reinforcing the impact of the 2023 Bud Light boycott, which toppled the brand from its No. 1 spot. In the four weeks ending July 6, the U.S. beer market was led by Modelo—which overtook Bud Light last May—with 9.7%, followed by Michelob Ultra with 7.3%, Bud Light with 6.5% and Corona Extra sitting just below 6%. The crucial four-week period includes the July Fourth weekend, which can heavily impact a beer brand’s yearly performance, according to the Wall Street Journal....
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White supremacist Nick Fuentes, who abused JD Vance’s wife Usha, praises Kamala Harris
8/21/2024, 8:33:17 AM · by Words Matter · 24 replies
MSN ^ | 08.20.24
The comments came a few days after Senator JD Vance, the vice-presidential candidate from Ohio, rejected far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who had recently targeted Vance's wife, Usha Vance, because of her Indian heritage. Vance stressed that the best way to handle such attacks was to "ignore" them. Jaden McNeil @JadenPMcNeil: Homosexual anti-Trumper Nick Fuentes praises Kamala Harris as a good candidate and says she's extremely likable. Aug 19, 2024
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Ford scraps plans for electric SUV
8/21/2024, 8:13:06 AM · by Red Badger · 35 replies
Just The News ^ | August 21, 2024 | Terrance Kible
Ford previously pushed back the project only to cancel it amid stiff price competition as electric vehicle manufacturers struggle to move their product ================================================================= Ford Motor announced Wedneday it has scrapped plans for a large electric SUV. The reversal will reportedly result in $1.9 billion in write-downs and special charges. Ford's course change comes amid lower-than-expected demand for electric vehicles, The Wall Street Journal reported. This spring, Ford, a major U.S. automaker, delayed plans for the electric SUV to 2027. Ford blamed the cancellation on pricing pressuring as other automakers use aggressive discounts to move electric vehicles. Ford has another...
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Europe's 1st commercial rocket by RFA explodes on test stand at Scotland spaceport
8/21/2024, 8:05:51 AM · by SunkenCiv · 49 replies
Space dot com ^ | August 20, 2024 | Brett Tingley
An explosion put a dramatic end to a test fire of a new rocket being developed by the German company Rocket Factory Augsburg.The explosion occurred on Monday (Aug. 19) while Rocket Factory Augsbug (RFA) was test firing the first stage of its new RFA ONE rocket. The test was meant to lay the groundwork for a planned debut launch as early as this year from SaxaVord Spaceport, a new facility being developed in the Shetland Islands, around 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of the Scottish mainland.A video published by the BBC shows the rocket engulfed in flames after an explosion...
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The Shroud of Turin first came to prominence in the 1350s, and by the 16th century, it had a permanent home in Turin, Italy. For hundreds of years, the faithful believed that it was Jesus’ burial cloth, and plenty of people believe it today. But in the ‘80s, some researchers concluded that the shroud only dated to the Middle Ages.
Now, a group of Italian researchers have used a new technique called Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) to study the shroud. Comparing the shroud to another linen sample that dates to the New Testament era, they conclude that the cloth dates back to the time of Jesus.
“We obtained one-dimensional integrated WAXS data profiles for the TS sample, which were fully compatible with the analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55–74 AD, Siege of Masada (Israel),” write researchers Liberato De Caro, Teresa Sibillano, Rocco Lassandro, Cinzia Giannini, and Giulio Fanti. They conclude, “The experimental results are compatible with the hypothesis that the TS is a 2000-year-old relic, as supposed by Christian tradition, under the condition that it was kept at suitable levels of average secular temperature—20.0–22.5 °C—and correlated relative humidity—75–55%—for 13 centuries of unknown history, in addition to the seven centuries of known history in Europe
The Daily Mail explains the features of the shroud that lead Christians to believe that it was Jesus’ burial cloth:
The cloth appears to show faint, brownish images on the front and back, depicting a gaunt man with sunken eyes who was about 5ft 7 to 6ft tall.
Markings on the body also correspond with crucifixion wounds of Jesus mentioned in the Bible, including thorn marks on the head, lacerations on the back and bruises on the shoulders.
Historians have suggested that the cross he carried on his shoulders weighed around 300 pounds, which would have left contusions.
The Bible states Jesus was whipped by the Romans, aligning with the lacerations on the back, who also placed [a] crown of thorns on his head before the crucifixion.
Does this new research prove that the Shroud of Turin is actually the cloth that covered Jesus while He was in the tomb? We can’t know now, and we may never know. But our faith in Jesus shouldn’t rest on the status of artifacts. As Jesus told the Apostle Thomas, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29b, ESV).
Is the Shroud of Turin Real or Fake? New Research May Shed Light on Its Authenticity – PJ Media
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I really don’t like politics. But as Christians, we must not distance ourselves from politics because it’s politics and politicians that direct our public discourse, and it’s what we do as Christians, regarding politics, that determines the trajectory of our society and culture. We must not be ignorant of the devil’s devices. Will we continue to allow God and Jesus Christ to be erased and minimalized, or will we stand boldly for the One we claim to serve? Will we continue to bow the knee to “Caesar” or is there no king in America except King Jesus for us? Will we push back against evil, wickedness, perversion and the exploitation of our children? Or will we ignore it all, claiming “politics” is none of our business?
What we do, as Christians, makes a difference, whether we want to accept that responsibility or not. Perhaps more importantly, what we fail to do, as Christians, has a profound impact in the nation and world we live in — and the nation and world our children and grandchildren will inherit from our watch.
America was founded with a wonderful system of checks and balances to ensure our government would never become tyrannical or corrupt. Unfortunately, our politicians have ignored that system for decades. I don’t think there’s been anyone in our Executive Branch that’s not been compromised since perhaps JFK.
Our Legislative Branch figured out how to become millionaires off the public dole long ago. Even in times of government shutdowns, they’ve managed to give themselves raises in their salaries…salaries that they continue to receive for life — long after they leave office, if they ever do. And they’ve figured out how to launder money through shady business deals, gifts from so-called “lobbyists,” by taking outright bribes from Big Pharma, and through continuing to fund foreign wars by way of the Military Industrial Complex.
And our Judicial Branch is a “set up” too. If you think there’s no agenda there and their only intention is to properly interpret the Constitution, you’d be wrong. Our Supreme Court, and lower court justices are equally beholden to the Globalist Regime, the Deep State, whatever you want to call it.
Make no mistake, our “public servants” today — with a very few exceptions — deserve none of our admiration or respect. They’re swindlers, criminals — and if the truth were to be known, most of them are perverts. They serve themselves on this “all-you-can-eat” buffet we’ve laid out for them, which we pay for, and they get it all for free, and no one can stop them. Most of them have never done a hard day’s work in their lives. They consider themselves above the law, (which they are), and their credibility is less than that of the telemarketer, the used car or timeshare salesman.
Now, once again, we find ourselves in another so-called “election” year. I hate to be cynical, but I don’t believe we’ve had free and fair elections — at least on the national level — for a very long time. For decades, they’ve been rigged. Especially when it comes to the Presidential elections. Presidents are selected, not elected. That’s my opinion. The outcomes of these theater shows are pre-determined well in advance by entities and powers we know nothing of. Once in office, their actions are controlled by puppeteers pulling the strings.
And once again, for this cycle, we have the customary two choices. Perhaps never before in our lifetimes has the choice been made so stark in contrast for us. On one side, we have a political party that’s all-out Communist and they’re proud of that agenda. On the other side, we have the “America first” ideals, which of course, most Americans prefer. Because we’re tired of the tyranny. We’re sick to death of the perversion forced upon all of us under wicked laws. Our backs are broken by soaring inflation and out-of-control national debt, and our jobs are eliminated by an ever-increasing number of businesses that can no longer keep the lights on.
America is at the brink of total collapse; in whatever direction you look. Our economy, our cost of living, our personal investments. Our morality as a nation has never been lower. As a people, we are now more divided than ever…by the color of our skin, by our gender, by our preference of sexual activity, by our income levels and more. Normal working people can’t afford the basic necessities anymore — food, shelter, clothing, transportation, utilities — while those who choose not to work receive every advantage…or should I say “bribe?”
At the same time, our nation is being invaded by foreign enemies who mean to do us harm, and already have and this invasion is being facilitated by the Regime in power. We’re living out the promise of Deuteronomy 28:43, “The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you while you sink down lower and lower.”
God spoke to Moses in Deuteronomy 28, and instructed him to warn his people, “If…you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes…all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.” And so, they have.
Be not deceived. Both Democrats and Republicans are to blame for the state of our nation, but if you want to get to the root of the problem, we need only look in the mirror. We’ve sunk to this current level because we’ve done nothing to stop it, or even push back against it. Nor did most of our parents. Because for so many years, we’ve chosen to believe the “system” was legitimate. The last few years have revealed that it’s not…and hasn’t been for a very long time.
I’m concerned for what’s to come in the months ahead as we approach the November election. You should be too, and you should be preparing — physically and spiritually — for the dark winter ahead. I’ve also tried to figure out the plot to this sick theater play they’re putting on for us. Not so long ago, I really believed that Michelle Obama would pick up the baton from Joe Biden. But now I realize that would be too obvious. The Obamas can be more useful to Satan if they remain behind the curtain, planning, scheming and orchestrating.
So now we have Kamala Harris as the presumptive nominee of the Communist party…having been placed in the position of their new figurehead without a single vote cast on her behalf. I didn’t think they’d take that route but stick with me and I’ll try to make sense of it.
Harris subsequently chose the one of most reviled Communist governors in the nation as her running mate: Tim Walz of Minnesota. I’ve spoken with many people from Minnesota and none of them know anyone who’s ever voted for this man, yet he’s taken power there, and kept it. He’s the poster child for the murder and mutilation of children, which Communists love. Last year, he signed legislation that includes no limitations on abortion. And with an Executive Order, he made Minnesota a “trans-refuge” state — meaning that children are welcome to go to Minnesota for irreversible transgender surgeries and sterilizing hormone treatments — without parental consent or knowledge.
He also presided over the burning and looting of Minneapolis and St. Paul, leaving the Twin Cities in utter desolation, even as he worked to defund the police there. By the way, Kamala Harris raised money to bail out those who were arrested. Two peas in a pod.
And to illustrate the “wokeness’ of Walz even further, he does attend a so-called “church,” but it’s an ELCA Lutheran church, where parishioners are instructed not to refer to God using male pronouns; the church supports “reparations” for black people, encourages congregants to celebrate Ramadan, and uses a modified, gender-neutral, version of the Lord’s Prayer. Abomination. Of course, they also celebrate the LGBTQP+ agenda, abortion and mutilating sterilization and surgeries of children who somehow manage to escape death by abortion.
So why in the world would the Communists choose Harris? And then why would they choose such a radical Communist like Walz? I think I’ve finally figured it out. The Leftists know the vast majority of Americans are fed up with the Communist tyranny and their “woke” agenda. They know Americans are tired of the lies of “Net Zero” and “Climate Change.” They know Americans won’t stand much longer for sexual perversion and hedonism forced down our throats, nor will we allow our children to be indoctrinated and brainwashed with these mental illnesses much longer.
In short, they know they can’t possibly “win” an election and stealing it again this year would not be a good “look” for them. So, they’ve chosen the most radical Leftist team one could assemble to pit against Donald Trump, who appeals to American Nationalism, who brings the ideals of “common sense” back into the discussion and who offers the promise of ending the “wokeness” and embracing our beloved American history and heritage.
I’m not saying Trump is a legitimate Christian Conservative. I certainly hope he’s for real, but he did preside over the COVID scam, and the depopulation shot; he did credit himself for being extremely LGBTQ friendly, and he never pardoned the J6 political prisoners, though he absolutely could have. So, while I, like most Americans, like what he purports to represent, I have my doubts about him as well. He’s a politician; so, I must give him the same scrutiny I give all politicians.
But by choosing the most radical Communist team possible, the Left is energizing their most radical Communist base supporters: the brainwashed young people, with pink, blue and green hair, who now hate America, question their gender, support sodomy while at the same time supporting Islam, and see themselves as entitled to all the free stuff government has to offer (including their college indoctrinations). These are the tattooed ones, with nose piercings, wearing masks and hoods, who choose death over life, stop traffic, deface our monuments, attack people in the streets, riot, burn, loot and destroy on command….and for $30 – $50 an hour, I might add.
You see, the Left needs chaos. They can’t very well finish the job of destroying the country while they hold power, so they must do it while the other side holds power. Trump will most certainly win the election, and then it will be Civil War 2.0. (Or is it 3.0? …I’ve lost track). I’m sure that right now, as we speak, they’re preparing “Obama’s Private Army” to begin the attack. They’re also equipping and training the millions of foreign invaders they’ve settled in to strike all our major cities when they get the call on their free cell phones.
So the Left is energizing their base, though they know they can’t possibly win and won’t get a free pass on another stolen election. But they’re telling their base what they want to hear: free college, free healthcare, free housing, free drugs, free abortions, free sex, choose your own gender — make one up if you like — no morality, no personal responsibility, “must stop climate change,” “Christianity is oppression,” “Nationalism is bad,” “Globalism is good.” Fifteen-minute cities. You get the point.
If you think the riots of 2020 were bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I’m not planning for much beyond November, and November is coming up quickly. I suggest you prepare. Stock up on food and other necessities. Get some things you can use to barter with your neighbors, find alternative ways to stay warm this winter. Only God knows what’s about to break loose, but everyone knows it’s not going to be good.
Understand this is all part of the One World Order plan. Also know that Trump is not your Savior…whether he legitimately wants to rescue this nation or not. And if you don’t know Who your real Savior is, now’s the time. Don’t wait. Energize your relationship with Jesus, the King of kings. Because the Left is energizing their base right now, and their demons are chomping at the bit. The spiritual war we’ve been enduring will soon become physical.
https://new.americanprophet.org/the-left-is-energizing-their-base/
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As Steely Dan might say, the things that pass for knowledge today, I can’t understand. It’s all lies, falsehoods, and misdirection on tap, served fresh 24/7/365.
Lie #1: Joe Biden was a great president, a dedicated public servant who put country first and stepped aside so that Kamala Harris’s brilliance could save our democracy.
Well, that’s five lies all tied up in one bundle! Joe Biden is easily the worst president in my lifetime, possibly ever. He and his family got rich, not by serving anyone, but by grifting on his various political offices. Slow Joe also didn’t step aside; he was kicked to the curb by his Democrat comrades after it became clear he was going to lose in November. And so now we have Kamala Harris, who was chosen as V.P. simply because she possesses ovaries and dark pigmentation. And for the one millionth time, America is a republic — if we can keep it — not a democracy.
Lie #2: Man-made climate change will make the Earth unlivable for humans in (pick one) 5, 10, 39, or 5,000 years.
Ha, ha! If you think our Creator would allow us, His/Her/Zey’s most ambitious, creative, and intelligent organism, to destroy our beautiful terrarium, then you’re either a fool or an atheist, possibly both. Our most brilliant minds can’t predict tomorrow’s weather with precision, our weather records extend a mere blip into the nearly five billion years of the planet’s estimated existence, and the only reason the scam’s called “climate change” is because leftists gave up on “global warming” when the Earth inconsiderately stopped warming.
Lie #3: Democrats love black people.
Where to start with this one? The president who ended slavery in America was a Republican. It was the Democrat party who championed Jim Crow laws. It’s Democrats who’ve historically come up with all kinds of handouts and special programs for blacks, not because they love them, but because they think African-Americans simply can’t cut it on a level playing field. Folks, that’s racism of the highest order.
And Democrats just love killing unborn babies, a statistically telling percentage of whom are black.
Lie #4: Diversity is our strength.
Nope, sorry, uniformity is our strength. A team that’s chosen based on merit alone, and who plays according to one set of values and with a single goal in mind, always wins. But don’t take my word for it; ask any recent champions of the almost three-quarters African-American NBA. If diversity is strength, then the NBA is arguably one of the weakest b-ball leagues on the planet.
Lie #4: Gender is fungible.
People who think that taking hormones and having your penis or breasts amputated changes your sex are truly the saddest products of our failed education system. They no doubt also imagine that having webbed feet makes you a duck, or sharpening your canines makes you a vampire. It’s fun to pretend, like I do having a catch while wearing my Yankees jersey, sadly, that does not make me a Yankee. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the human race is born male or female. Period.
Lie #5: Life begins at birth.
During the process of conception, a live sperm unites with a live ovum, this within the vital body of a live woman. This human continues to live — unless torn limb from limb and vacuumed out by an abortionist — until a live baby comes into the world. There is literally no time, from the very moment of conception until birth, where an unborn human is not alive.
Lie #6: Fat is beautiful.
All humans of any size are precious and children of God. That being said, I’ve been a skinny, just right, and borderline obese child of God. And nothing is just right when you’re overweight and out of shape. You’re easily fatigued, your clothes don’t fit you properly, and trust me: hardly anyone of the opposite sex is giving you a second look. Although no one, including me, should hate himself for carrying extra poundage, it’s imperative to work toward one’s ideal weight, especially if you wish to live a long and active life.
Lie #7: No one is illegal.
If there’s no right or wrong, if all that follows this life is one long dirt nap, then OK, no one’s illegal. But in a world such as ours, with an almost universal moral code and a multitude of written laws, much is illegal. You can’t waltz into a foreign country without permission any more than you’d stroll into a stranger’s house and raid his fridge. Or steal his car, assault his spouse, or molest his kids. It’s one of life’s most difficult challenges to stay on the right side of the law. And, frankly, some people don’t even try and should absolutely be called illegal. And punished accordingly.
The Lie #8: The FBI is the pre-eminent law enforcement agency in the world, and they enforce the law without fear or favor.
This might seem true to people who’ve been in a coma for the last decade or consider themselves staunch Democrats. But to believe this, you’d have to ignore (deep breath): the Feebs lying to FISA courts in order to spy on Donald Trump, sharing communications where they talk of insurance plans for stopping Trump, giving Crooked Hillary a pass on mishandling classified info and destroying subpoenaed evidence, wasting time and millions of taxpayer dollars on the Trump-Russia Collusion Scam, stuffing Hunter Biden’s laptop full of debauchery and criminality into the circular file, setting up a bunch of halfwits for a faux conspiracy to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, killing an old, disabled man in Utah for the crime of threatening Joe Biden on social media, and pawing through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer during the outrageous raid on Mar-a-Lago, all the while prepared to use deadly force to settle a records dispute. A records dispute!
At present, Funny Business, Inc. is “handling” a robust investigation into the attempted assassination of former president Trump. Expect an in-depth report on that incident sometime after the Feebs decide whether or not there’s any evidence of criminality on Hunter’s laptop.
Lie #9: Joe Biden and the Democrats have brought decency back into the White House.
I don’t know about decency, but it’s true that senile Joe and his lackeys brought a bunch of things into the Executive Mansion: Dylan Mulvaney, a man pretending to be a girl; a “mysterious” bag of cocaine; a transgendered person flashing his fake breasts on the South Lawn; six of the president’s seven grandchildren, the youngest born of an affair between a stripper and Biden’s felonious son being persona non grata; the selfish, spoiled, America-hating soccer star Megan Rapinoe; the lewd, obscenity-spewing rapper GloRilla; a pair of vicious German Shepherds, both fond of chomping on Secret Service agents; and, of course, Hunter, the president’s crack-smoking, sex-trafficking, illegal gun–wielding Biden Family bagman. If that’s decency, you can keep it.
Lie #10: The U.S. economy’s great; you just don’t know it.
Perhaps this seems true to all the millionaire actors, athletes, newscasters, entertainers, and academics so fond of smooching Democrat derrières. But for those of you like me, who have to pay bills and balance checkbooks, this is not the best of times, but the worst. I mean, Burger Kings are going out of business. Dollar Stores have had to come up with a new name since almost everything costs more than a dollar these days. Personal credit debt is at a record high, not to mention our astronomic national debt. How can anyone tell this particular lie without covering the smirk on his face?
It’s perhaps life’s greatest challenge to personally embrace truth and reject falsehoods. I’ve struggled with that challenge, but at least I’ve made an effort.
Not so for the people peddling the lies listed above.
10 Lies Leftists Tell You - American Thinker
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Why were American boys forced to swim naked in gym class up until the 1970s? We found the answer
I was catching up with my uncle recently, and he dropped a story that had me questioning everything. It was so wild, I thought he was pulling my leg. When he kept insisting it was true, I even wondered if Uncle Toby had a touch of dementia. But nope, Uncle Toby’s sharp as ever, and his story was 100 percent real.
So, what had me so floored? We were talking about schools and sports, and Uncle Toby casually mentioned that when he was in high school back in the 1950s, all the boys had to swim nude.
Uh, excuse me, what?
Yup, you heard that right. Uncle Toby said during gym class, the boys and girls were separated. The girls swam in bathing suits, but the boys? They swam totally naked. I was like, “Uncle Toby, what kind of crazy school did you go to?” And he swore it was a regular public school, adding that most schools in the US did the same thing until the 1970s.
I mean, come on, right? You can see why I thought old Uncle Toby was off his rocker. This sounded completely insane. So, naturally, I had to do some digging. And guess what? Uncle Toby was spot on. Up until the 1970s, American schoolboys were swimming in the buff at public schools across the nation.
Now, the burning question is, “Why?” Let’s dive in, shall we?
I stumbled upon this fascinating article titled “When boys swam nude in gym class” from the Democrat and Chronicle:
“When you got into high school, and you used the pool for gym, they had these rules and everybody had to follow them,” Reeves recalled of his days at Charlotte High School.
No running on the deck. No horseplay. No diving in the shallow end. Take a shower before swimming. Swim naked. No chewing gum…
It may be inconceivable to anyone under 50, but nude swimming was standard for high school boys in Rochester and in many American cities and states until at least 1970.
Yes, to a Millennial like me, this concept sounds completely whacko.
But that still didn’t answer the burning question: Why were young boys forced to swim in the buff around each other and, more importantly, around their adult male teachers? I had to get some insight from Uncle Toby. So, I asked him, “Why were schools enforcing naked swimming?” He dug into his dusty memory archives and tentatively suggested it might have been about maintaining cleanliness.
“Cleanliness?” I shot back. “Then why were the girls wearing swimsuits? If it was about hygiene, shouldn’t everyone have been suitless?” I felt like Jessica B. Fletcher, ready to crack open a “Murder She Wrote” mystery. But I could sense Uncle Toby’s growing frustration. He flatly said, “Bella, don’t ask me to make sense of this nonsense. When the government tells me to wear a seatbelt, I just do it without questioning.”
“Fair enough, Uncle Toby,” I replied, “but if they ever ask you to wear a seatbelt without your clothes on, I hope you ask why.” With that, I ended the call and dived into my investigation, determined to uncover the “why” behind this peculiar practice.
It turns out I wasn’t the only one baffled by the naked swimming. Just like Uncle Toby, the boys forced to swim naked were also totally confused. The Democrat and Chronicle piece took a deeper dive into this bizarre chapter of school history.
“It was the weirdest thing in the world,” recalled Chuck Napieralski, 67, who graduated with Reeves from Charlotte in 1968. “You can just imagine standing there in a line with your hands across the front hiding yourself. Once you got to the pool you just jumped in.”
Well, upon closer inspection, I was starting to realize that once again, old Uncle Toby might have been onto something.
It turns out that this rather bizarre tradition of boys doing the breast stroke in their birthday suits can be traced all the way back to 1885, when it began at an all-male indoor pool in Brooklyn’s YMCA. The kicker is that this decision to introduce nude swimming was driven by concerns surrounding the wool swimsuits and how the fibers collected dirt and bacteria, posing a potential threat to health and the pool’s filtration system. After that, the rest is basically “history,” as the Democrat and Chronicle piece explains:
In 1926, the American Public Health Association published the first guide for swimming pool management. It recommended men swim nude and women wear suits “of the simplest type.” Those guidelines remained until 1962.After that, it was a matter of custom. Andrew Saul, a nutritionist and author from Rochester, wrote of swimming nude at Charlotte High School as late as 1970.“Back dives were especially revealing,” Saul wrote in his 2003 book, Doctor Yourself.Perhaps school administrators thought nude swimming built cohesion between young men. Maybe it did. Few activities foster solidarity like man-to-man defense in a naked water polo game.
And if young boys were looking for some comfort and support from advice gurus like Ann Landers, they were outta luck. Back in 1974, a 15-year-old boy wrote to Ann about how uncomfortable he was taking showers in front of others, and her advice was not exactly “comforting.”
“You need to talk to a school counselor and learn why you are so uptight about being seen naked. If you look around you’ll find the vast majority of the guys who are showering are not in the least bit self-conscious.”
Apparently, Ann was into tough love and some other weird stuff. However, based on his age and the time frame, this kid probably didn’t have to swim in his birthday suit, but if Ann’s response was at all symbolic of the time, clearly, there was not a lot of sympathy or concern about these kids being forced to swim around like “Free Willy.” It might make for some rather strange dinner conversation, but if the topic comes up, find out if anybody in your family had to swim around like a frat boy after a wild kegger.
Needless to say, this was a very strange time in US public schools.
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“I mean, we certainly have a wonderful country, and we do wonderful things, but we also are in the middle of all this woke bullshit,” he declared. “All this other stuff that there is absolutely no point to, as far as I can see, other than to undermine people’s beliefs in the country. That’s very bad.” Don McLean
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Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases
Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside – and a bigger bill than ever
A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and officially marking himself as deceased.
The US Department of Justice on Tuesday detailed the case of Jesse Kipf, 39, who was sent down for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.
In January 2023, Kipf used the credentials of a physician to access Hawaii's Death Registry System and create a "case" that recorded his own death.
"Kipf then completed a State of Hawaii Death Certificate Worksheet, assigned himself as the medical certifier for the case and certified his death, using the digital signature of the doctor," the DoJ wrote. The paperwork was all correct, so many government databases listed Kipf as deceased.
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Kennedy's vice presidential pick, some leftwinger, is raging in anger at the Democrats for blocking their ballot access.
Shanahan, a 38-year-old attorney and tech entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay Area, told Bilyeu that she did not "put in tens of millions of dollars to be a spoiler candidate."
"We wanted to win. We wanted a fair shot. The DNC made that impossible for us," Shanahan lamented, before detailing all the ways Democrats sabotaged their campaign.
"They have banned us, shadow-banned us, kept us off stages, manipulated polls, used lawfare against us, sued us in every possible state," Shanahan told Bilyeu during the sit down interview. "They've even planted insiders into our campaign to disrupt it and create actual legal issues for us."
She added: "The extent of the sabotage they have unleashed upon us--it's mind-blowing."
More at the article by Deb Heine. She says Republicans haven't blocked them -- only Democrats. And she says she's disappointed to see America turn into this kind of thug-state.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sounding similar notes, assailing the Democrats' lawfare against them:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr
My father and my uncle were members of a Democratic Party that was at the forefront of making sure that every American could vote for the candidate they wanted to.
Today's Democratic Party is doing the opposite.
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The gap that I still see in all these speeches, as good as they were, is that she's in the White House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. And for all of the talk about division and the problems in the country and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country.
Trump had it for four. The Obamas and Biden had it for the rest of the time. And somehow, it's still all Trump's fault, and somehow she hasn't been at the center of it. So to me, that's still the glaring hole in this campaign that hasn't yet been solved at the convention. How do you explain all of the problems that will be solved by the person who is currently in there for the last three and a half years who is supposed to already be working on solving it?
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It's just a well-oiled machine, and Disney's efforts to "inject gayness into everything" (as one of its executives said) is just nothing but upside.
What's remarkable is not that the barely-viewed, savagely reviewed Acolyte was canceled. It cost $180 million plus and was yet another corporate embarrassment. Bob Iger can't put the blame on Kaffeine Kennedy when he's the guy who refuses to fire her or at least take away her power to greenlight woke trash shows.
What's remarkable is that Disney is admitting -- or bragging -- that they're cancelling it. What they usually do is claim that sequels to unpopular money-losers are "in development," perpetually. Disney still claims, for example, that the Rian Johnson Star Wars trilogy is still a go... one day, when they get all their ducks in a row.
So what made Disney rush out word that no, no Acolyte sequel series is in perpetual development, but is in fact fully, officially canceled?
Could be that shareholders are getting antsy about Iger's apparent credo that "Failure is Job One" and would like some reassurance that Iger doesn't intend to burn their money in a pit forever.
"The Acolyte" will not return for Season 2.
Lucasfilm has elected not to continue with the "Star Wars" Disney+ series following its first season, which depicted the rise of the Sith roughly 100 years before the events of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace."
The news comes at once as a shock, given how much of the Season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger and teased several plotlines for a Season 2, and not much of a surprise, given the wildly opposing reception from fans and the less-than-robust viewership that appeared to drop off after the series premiere in June.
The "wildly opposing reception" comes from two different camps. First, actual Star Wars fans, who tend to be male and straight, who hated the show (or simply didn't bother watching it, as Disney has done what a thousand bullies failed to accomplish, convincing them that Star Wars is Stupid and Fucking Gay).
Second, non-Star-Wars-fan feminist and gay political agitators on Twitter, who do not watch these things, because they don't like boys' adventure stories, but are constantly demanding that people fill boys' adventure stories with women and gays, who promise that they will like Star Wars if only they can "see themselves in it."
But when you make shows and movies expressly for them, they don't show up, and the shows and movies fail. Disastrously.
So who does Hollywood and the corporate media keep courting?
The non-fans, of course. They're not actually interested in the shows and you'll go bankrupt chasing "the phantom audience that does not and never will exist," but at least they're not icky like those straight male geeks.
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Other fans, however, felt those creative choices were antithetical to the good-vs-evil nature of "Star Wars" storytelling, and strongly objected to the show's expansion of the mythology of the Force. "The Acolyte" was also review-bombed, an insidious practice most often employed as a form of digital protest against inclusive casts centered around actors of color and LGBTQ characters, like Osha and Mae's mothers played by Jodie Turner-Smith and Margarita Levieva. (The 2017 film "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was an early recipient of this kind of trolling.)
Oh, blow me. The most insidious form of review bombing is the habit of all the leftwing sheep "critics" who only judge a movie based on its leftwing politics and "representation" of allegedly "marginalized" groups. They pretend that every movie or show that "teaches the CHUDs a lesson" is brilliant.
Amusingly, Deadline reported the cancellation on August 19th -- and Disney's stock shot up a full dollar that day.
Coincidence?
Or is it The Will of the Force?
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Meanwhile, there's the former producer of the revived X-Men cartoon, the very, very gay Beau DeMayo.
DeMayo was suddenly fired from the show on the eve of its debut for no given reason. He was dis-invited to the premier, and later even had his credits stripped off the second season.
Which hasn't been shown yet. Cartoons are usually bought in two season deals, to amortize the costs in making them over two seasons. So when you hear "Velma is so good they've ordered another season!," that's yet another corporate media lie. Velma was terrible. But they had already made the entire "second season." All they're really saying is that Velma's already-finished second-season will be shown, and not dumped in a pit, set aflame, and have the melted remnants of the hard-drives it is stored on covered with concrete of Strategic Missile Command Bunker durability.
The firing of a Privileged Homosexual like DeMayo from such a high-profile project on the eve of its debut was first thought to be due to the cartoon being yet another Disney/Marvel flop. But people who've seen it (I haven't) say it was good and a worthy successor to the old 90s X-Men cartoon.
So what was it?
Well, DeMayo was known to maintain an OnlyFans account, and posted pictures of himself in various states of undress.
DeMayo says his firing was due only to him posting this sexualized picture of himself as an X-Man.
Marvel Studios has issued an official statement saying that "X-Men '97" creator and head writer Beau DeMayo was fired from the series in March 2024 for "egregious" misconduct. The studio released the statement shortly after DeMayo posted on several social media accounts, claiming that he was stripped of writing credits for the show's second season because of a gay pride post he shared to social media.
"Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an internal investigation," the studio said in a statement. "Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him immediately and he has no further affiliation with Marvel."
A source with knowledge of the investigation said evidence was discovered of sexual misconduct, and that DeMayo repeatedly violated his termination agreement, which led to the removal of his credits for Season 2.
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This week, citizens will gather in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to voice their support for Israel and protest the abuses of Hamas.
However, this largely Jewish gathering will not be marching. Instead, they will gather on a small private lot blocks away from the convention as thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march through the streets.
The reason is that Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson has refused to grant their request for a permit.
While pro-Palestinian protesters have been given an array of accommodations by the city (and received a shoutout from President Joe Biden in his convention address), the Jewish protesters are only able to gather due to the donation of a private lot by an owner for their use.
Even as pro-Palestinian protesters veered off approved routes and tore down security fencing, it will be the Jewish protesters who will reportedly remain confined to this private lot under the watchful eye of the Chicago Police Department.
Besides pro-Palestinian protesters, pro-abortion protesters have been allowed to march, and Planned Parenthood is celebrating the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris with free abortions.
So Jewish protesters get to watch as favored groups parade in abortion pill outfits, but they cannot march with the images of the Hamas hostages in Gaza.
Josh Weiner, co-founder of Chicago Jewish Alliance, confirmed that the group was not granted permits, so all they could do is walk around such approved protests to "make our presence felt."
He added that "pro-Palestine protesters have gotten multiple permits, including a march, which seems to be a little bit weighted on one side."
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California's Hydrogen Highway. (The Verge)
Now with 100% less hydrogen:
As of publication, there is no estimate for when the hydrogen supply shortage in Southern California will be resolved, leaving stations like this one offline indefinitely. The shortage will hit the one-year mark in September.
Hydrogen only comprises 90% of the universe. Of course California would run out of it.
The federal judge who put a temporary stay on the FTC's ban on non-compete clauses has now put a full stay in place pending trial. (Reuters) (archive site)
Just because it's arguably a good idea doesn't mean you have authority to do it.Why televisions suck. (Ars Technica)
And why you can't find good dumb screens.
Vizio reported $88 million in profit for the first quarter... For its advertising division. The company lost $7 million selling televisions.
Disclaimer: Because fuck you, that's why.
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‘They Kept Pieces of Her Heart’: Woman’s Sister In Shock After She Dies During Butt Lift Surgery and Body Is Returned Missing Organs
The body of a 38-year-old British woman who died during cosmetic surgery in Turkey was reportedly returned to her home, missing parts of some vital organs.
Kaydell Brown died on the operating table at the Clinic Expert in Istanbul on March 26.
She paid 5,400 pounds to travel to Istanbul for a “mummy MOT,” which is an all-in-one operation that involves getting a Brazilian butt lift, a tummy tuck, and a boob job in one day.
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AUBURN, Maine —
A Maine man faces multiple charges after police said he attacked a 15-year-old over a prior drug deal.
Ryan Jolicoeur, 38, of Auburn, was arrested Sunday after the Auburn Police Department's Proactive Community Enforcement Unit obtained and executed a search warrant at his Fifth Street home, according to authorities.
Police said they have been conducting a long-term investigation into alleged drug trafficking at 92 Fifth Street in Auburn. Investigators said they developed information that suggested Jolicoeur was selling large quantities of marijuana out of the home, and that his customer base included local children.
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An Open Letter to Robert Kennedy Jr – Challenge the Constitutional Eligibility to be POTUS and CinC of ‘Anchor Baby’ Kamala Harris
8/21/2024, 8:20:20 PM · by CDR Kerchner · 1 replies
The Post & Email Newspaper ^ | 21 Aug 2024 | CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)
Dear Mr. Kennedy: I have heard rumors you might be suspending your campaign. You should not suspend your campaign; but instead file federal and/or state lawsuits challenging Kamala Harris’ constitutional eligibility for the office of President (POTUS) and Commander in Chief (CinC). As a candidate for the same office as Harris, you have legal standing (to which many others have not been granted) to legally challenge Kamala Harris in the federal and state courts; and thus force SCOTUS to take up the issue once and for all on the merits; and decide who is a “natural born Citizen” (“nbC”) of...
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IN CALGARY, ALBERTA A PASTOR WHO PROTESTED DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME EVENTS FOUND GUILTY OF FOUR CHARGES OF CRIMINAL HARASSMENT AND A BREACH OF BAIL CONDITIONS.
THE JUDGE IN THE CASE ACQUITTED DEREK REIMER OF THE CHARGE OF CAUSING A DISTURBANCE.
A SENTENCING DATE TO BE SET LATER THIS WEEK...CBC NEWS CANADA
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Late tonight more than a dozen Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon following attacks on northern Israel including the Golan Heights earlier today...OSINTdefender "X"
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Word tonight that the "USS Abraham Lincoln" aircraft carrier and escort warships have arrived in the Central Command area of operations in the Middle East...US Central Command "X"...
US Central Command also reporting destruction of a surface to air missile system and radar system in Yemen in the last 24 hours...US Central Command "X"
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Five bodies found on that superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily.
Among the missing tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch who was celebrating a not guilty verdict at a federal fraud trial in the United States.
Lynch's lawyer was also on the yacht that is said to have been sunk by a waterspout early Monday morning...BBC News...
A co-defendant in that fraud case Stephen Chamberlain killed when struck by a car in England last Saturday.
Both Chamberlain and Lynch with ties to British and American intelligence agencies...Politico EU
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(UPDATED) A SECOND ATTACK ON A MERCHANT VESSEL IN THE LAST 24 HOURS REPORTED OFF THE COAST OF YEMEN.
INITIALLY TWO EXPLOSIONS NEAR THE SHIP OFF THE SOUTHERN COAST. THE VESSEL AND CREW SAFE...TASS RUSSIA...
A LATER REPORT OF A THIRD EXPLOSION THE CREW STILL REPORTED SAFE...UK MARITIME TRADE OPERATIONS "X"...
AND THE LATEST WORD IS THAT A FOURTH AND FIFTH EXPLOSION WERE SEEN NEAR THE VESSEL STILL NO DAMAGE CAUSED.
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A disturbance in Jerusalem this morning as Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested draft notices aimed at them.
One of the protesters attacked by a passerby.
Israel's Attorney General and Supreme Court forcing the draft on the "Haredim" against the wishes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose government depends on religious parties to maintain its parliamentary majority...Israel National News
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(UPDATED) POLICE IN ROMANIA RAIDING THE HOME OF INTERNET INFLUENCER ANDREW TATE.
AUTHORITIES OPENING UP A NEW PROBE INTO TATE WITH YET MORE ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MONEY LAUNDERING ON THE TABLE...REUTERS-ASIA ONE SINGAPORE...
TATE BEING HELD OVERNIGHT BY ROMANIAN AUTHORITIES...(BBC News)
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IN THE RED SEA A MERCHANT VESSEL ATTACKED WITH THREE MISSILES IN AN APPARENT HOUTHI ATTACK FROM YEMEN.
THE SHIP IS NOW UNABLE TO OPERATE DUE TO THE ATTACK.
ITS IDENTIFIED AS A GREEK OIL TANKER ON FIRE AND DRIFTING...ASSOCIATED PRESS-VOICE OF AMERICA...ASSOCIATED PRESS-CBS NEWS
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US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN HOPES THAT AN EMERGING DEAL ON HUMANITARIAN AID FOR SUDAN WILL LED TO PROGRESS ON ENDING HOSTILITIES.
A PLAN TO OPEN THREE HUMANITARIAN ROUTES BEING FINALIZED IN SWITZERLAND.
A CONFLICT NOW UNDERWAY IN SUDAN BETWEEN THE SUDANESE ARMY AND THE PARAMILITARY RAPID SUPPORT FORCES...NEWS AGENCIES-THE NEW ARAB
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FRANCE SET TO DONATE 100,000 MPOX VACCINE DOSES.
PRIME MINISTER GABRIEL ATTAL SAID THE DONATION WOULD GO THROUGH THE EUROPEAN UNION TO COUNTRIES AFFECTED BY MPOX.
A SURGE OF MPOX CASES REPORTED IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES...AFP FRANCE-MALAY MAIL
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Pro-life leaders express disgust with ‘fully booked’ mobile Planned Parenthood unit at DNC
8/21/2024, 6:29:32 PM · by ebb tide · 18 replies
LifeSite News ^ | August 21, 2024 | Emily Mangiaracina
Pro-life leaders express disgust with ‘fully booked’ mobile Planned Parenthood unit at DNCLila Rose lamented that the lives of ‘25 innocent human beings’ have been killed at the Democratic National Convention after abortion pills were freely dispensed.A Planned Parenthood mobile unit is stationed outside the Democratic National Convention to distribute abortion pills.Planned Parenthood was “fully booked” with 25 appointments to dispense abortion pills at a mobile center on Monday and Tuesday during the Democratic National Convention (DNC).“Twenty-five innocent human beings whose lives are being ended at the DNC. And this is done as a political statement,” pro-life activist Lila Rose...
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Zelensky: Ukraine hopes billions in promised funds will materialize
8/21/2024, 6:22:23 PM · by Mariner · 11 replies
DPA International (Germany) via Yahoo ^ | August 21st, 2024 | Unattributed
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine hopes that that billions of dollars that have been earmarked for the war effort will materialize.Some of the funds in question are to be financed from the proceeds of frozen Russian state assets.There have been many political declarations from Kiev's partners and many more are to be expected, Zelensky said in his evening video address on Wednesday. "But we need a real mechanism," he insisted.snipThe seven major Western industrialized nations (G7) agreed on new financial aid for Kiev at their summit in June. A generous loan totalling $50 billion is to be secured by...
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Border officials confiscate 92K rounds of high-caliber ammo on tour bus bound for Mexico
8/21/2024, 5:55:38 PM · by Libloather · 27 replies
UPI ^ | 8/21/24 | Clyde Hughes
Aug. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Wednesday that its officers at the El Paso port of entry confiscated 92,000 rounds of large-caliber ammunition leaving the United States over the weekend. The seized ammunition nearly tripled the amount of ammunition agents seized in outward bound inspections at the El Paso field office over the past three fiscal years combined, CBP said. Border Patrol said the ammunition was found on a commercial bus leaving the United States for Mexico at the Bridge of America port of entry in El Paso. "CBP's primary mission is to inspect all...
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Top US oilfield firm Halliburton hit by cyberattack, source says
8/21/2024, 5:45:17 PM · by dynachrome · 6 replies
Reuters ^ | 8-21-24 | Liz Hampton
U.S. oilfield services firm Halliburton (HAL.N), opens new tab on Wednesday was hit by a cyberattack, according to a person familiar with the matter. Halliburton said it was aware of an issue affecting certain systems at the company and was working to determine the cause and impact of the problem. The company was also working with "leading external experts" to fix the issue, a spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The attack appeared to impact business operations at the company's north Houston campus, as well as some global connectivity networks, the person said, who declined to be identified because they...
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Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan 114 comment bubble on white
8/21/2024, 5:10:59 PM · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
The Register ^ | Tue 20 Aug 2024 | Simon Sharwood
Plus a further 200 delays, rockstars knocked off stage … all on a holiday weekendThirty-six flights were cancelled at Japan's New Chitose airport on Saturday after a pair of scissors went missing. Japanese media report that retail outlets at the airport – which serves the regional city of Chitose on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido – are required to store scissors in a locker. When staff need to cut something, they withdraw the scissors and then replace them after they're done snipping. But last Saturday, an unnamed retailer at the airport was unable to find a pair of scissors. A...
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US concerned for Ukraine's Kursk assault as Russia prepares counterattack
8/21/2024, 5:06:45 PM · by Mariner · 23 replies
ABC via Yahoo ^ | August 21st, 2024 | MATT SEYLER
Ukrainian forces have yet to set up defensive lines as they continue their operation into the Kursk region of Russia, a U.S. official told ABC News on Wednesday.While this might reflect Ukrainian confidence in further success for the offensive, there is concern among some American officials that failure to dig in soon could leave its troops vulnerable to a coming Russian counterattack."Russia didn't take it very serious at first," the U.S. official said. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said the U.S. had seen only a "small number" of Russian forces heading to Kursk.But the U.S. now sees...
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Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand
8/21/2024, 4:46:50 PM · by thegagline · 43 replies
The New York Post ^ | 08/21/2024 | Josh Christenson
Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives.” “Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but...
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Taxpayer-Funded Group Offers $30,000 To New Homebuyers — As Long As They Aren’t US Citizens
8/21/2024, 4:42:07 PM · by CFW · 6 replies
Daily Caller ^ | 8/21/24 | Mary Rooke
Hacienda Community Development Corp. is participating in a taxpayer-funded down payment assistance program that gives money to non-citizens to buy homes in Oregon while excluding American citizens from eligibility, according to records provided to the Daily Caller. Hacienda CDC is reportedly offering $30,000 for down payment assistance for eligible new homebuyers through their Camino a Casa program, according to a screenshot first reported by X user Oregon Citizen. “Clients work closely with financial coaches and HUD-certified housing counselors throughout the entirety of the homebuying process. In addition to mortgage readiness and financial fitness workshops, we provide various opportunities for down-payment...
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A few other cracks appeared in the Democrats’ color revolution. For instance, the AP ran a story yesterday headlined, “Democrats approve a platform that mentions Biden's 'second term' despite his making way for Harris.” Last night, Democrat delegates unanimously approved the 2024 party platform. The problem was, nobody edited it since early July, before they yeeted Joe. So the official 2024 Democrat Party Platform describes Joe Biden, not Kamala Harris, as the nominee.
In fact, the 92-page document mentions Biden nearly 300 times, compared to only a couple dozen references to Harris. Walz’s name is entirely missing.
It’s almost like the platform doesn’t matter, and it was all just for show. Or maybe they’re leaving room for a last-minute replacement.
Does this seem like merely a minor oversight, a forgotten formality? Or is it more serious evidence of a lack of attention to detail, Democrats moving too fast, and a leadership vacuum? What else might they be forgetting?
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This could be the wildest weird weather story yet. Yesterday, AP ran a mysterious, submersive story headlined, “Search continues for British tech magnate and 5 others after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily.”
The Bayesian was a $30 million, 184-foot superyacht owned by Mike Lynch, often described as “the British Bill Gates.” In 2011, Lynch sold his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion. The Bayesian spared no expense, offering guests comfort and performance, opulent staterooms, sophisticated social spaces, and cutting-edge technology, all powered by robust engines for long-distance cruising.
Yesterday, according to survivors and passengers on a nearby yacht, just after 4am local time, with the Bayesian quietly moored off Palermo, Sicily, it suddenly and unexpectedly sank. They don’t know why.
A wild thunderstorm hit Palermo around the same time, so the going theory is a freak waterspout appeared out of nowhere and swamped the massive ship. Just like that. A yacht moored nearby was unaffected, and helped with rescuing the 15 survivors taking an unanticipated night swim in the Mediterranean Sea.
Six people, including Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, didn’t make it. They’ve only recovered one body so far.
Marco Tilotta, a specialist diver from Palermo's fire and rescue service, told Italian newspaper Il Messaggero that the superyacht was “practically intact” on the seabed, 48 meters below the surface. "It is resting on its starboard side. It has no gashes, no signs of impact," he reported.
I did a little digging and found nothing comparable to this story. In 2015, another superyacht, the M.Y. Yogi, sank in the Aegean, but it was at sea amidst a terrible storm and took hours to sink. Before this, superyachters never needed to worry about freak waterspouts striking in the middle of the night while they were sleeping and minding their own business.
Fueling online conspiracy theories, Lynn’s cruise was meant to celebrate winning his criminal fraud trial. In June, a San Fransisco jury found Lynch not guilty of inflating his company’s value when he sold it to HP back in 2011. But in even more news of the weird, Lynn’s co-defendant, Autonomy’s former vice-president, also died mysteriously, two days earlier on Saturday morning. A still-unidentified driver ran him over while he was minding his own business jogging in England.
I don’t know what the odds are, but it is queer. Ironically, the Bayesian Theory, after which the yacht was presumably named, is a famous statistical device for calculating the probability of very improbable events. Despite the yacht’s advanced technology and safety features, it apparently fell victim to an extremely improbable weather event, and even more implausibly wasn’t even damaged. Weird.
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Yesterday, CNN ran an even more encouraging story headlined, “Harley-Davidson is dropping diversity initiatives after right-wing anti-DEI campaign.” It’s been a tough summer for woke termites infesting historically red corporations. First Tractor Supply and now this.
Harley Davidson was sad, just like Leslye Headland. “We are saddened by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks, designed to divide the Harley-Davidson community,” the company wrote in its mea culpa posted on Twitter/X.
The motorbike company growled, “we have not operated a DEI function since April 2024, and we do not have a DEI function today. We do not have hiring quotas and we no longer have supplier diversity spend goals.” The classic American brand promised to focus only on motorcycles and to avoid getting involved in other shiny, distracting virtue signals, like its now-defunct relationship with the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ activist group.
One person created change. Influencer and conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck went to war with Harley Davidson at the beginning of July. “It’s time to expose Harley Davidson,” Starbuck’s July 23rd post said. He listed twenty examples of how the company has “gone totally woke.” Such as Harley-Davidson’s ‘bootcamp’ for LGBTQ entrepreneurs, its donations to the United Way, and its public promise to increase employee diversity.
Just this year, Starbuck also successfully challenged Tractor Supply and John Deere, causing them both to publicly repent and ditch DEI. It’s a story of how just one persistent person can push back the battle lines in the culture war. I’m not saying Starbuck is like homemaker Phyllis Schlafly, who single-handedly derailed the awful 1972 Equal Rights Amendment, but it’s encouragingly similar.
Progress! Keep pushing.
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The Democrats’ pitch can be distilled into two elements: First, and most important, they’re not Trump, and Trump is worse than a planet-killing asteroid. Porcine Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker bragged in his speech, “Take it from an actual billionaire! Trump is rich in only one thing: Stupidity!”
A classic self-own. I’m sorry, Illinois. I feel your pain.
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Media may have forgotten, but we haven’t, that President Trump was recently shot in Butler County and narrowly escaped death by miraculously avoiding an assassin’s eight bullets. Many questions have arisen, and few answers. But last week we got a few answers and a few new questions.
Louisiana Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) is a former law enforcement officer and a member of the House Freedom Caucus. While serving as a public information officer with the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office, Captain Higgins published a popular ‘Crime Stoppers’ YouTube series (for example, here).
Higgins serves on the House Bi-Partisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump. The Task Force assigned Higgins to visit the scene in Butler and provide a preliminary report, which he did last week on August 12th. You can read Congressman Higgins’ full report here.
Rather than summarize the six-page report, let’s look at a few issues of great public interest. Read the whole thing for a full briefing.
🔥 The Water Tower. Many people have suspected a second shooter on top of the nearby water tower, which is a natural sniper perch and enjoys a clear line of sight to both Trump and Crooks’ positions.
But after visiting the site and inspecting the tower, Higgins has cooled to the idea of a tower sniper. He noticed the water tower had a retractable safety ladder that, on the day of the shooting, was raised 25 feet off the ground. Higgins opined that, if a sniper did get up on the tower, it must have been some next-level work “beyond anything I’ve ever actually seen.”
A geared sniper would have had to somehow scale the first 25 feet without a ladder, scurry up the next 75 feet on the ladder, and then clamber up a tiny and precarious dome ladder to the tippy top. Higgins was doubtful.
Still, Higgins plans to return and climb the water tower himself (it wasn’t possible on the day he was there) to make sure.
🔥 Signs of FBI Cover Up. Higgins is very suspicious about the way the FBI handled the investigation.
Representative Higgins identified several way the FBI deviated from normal procedure, not to mention the procedures they should have followed in a top-level case that would surely receive microscopic scrutiny.
Yet, for still unexplained reasons, the FBI made some inexplicable and unexplained decisions seemingly designed to shut down the investigation:
— On the night of the shooting, the FBI released all the first responders (EMS, cops, and so forth) without taking their statements.
— The FBI released the entire crime scene after only three days. Higgins reported that local law enforcement expressed “everything from surprise to dismay to suspicion” at how quickly the feds cleared the crime scene. This meant the evidence was not preserved to allow agencies to do their work.
— On-scene FBI agents “cleaned up biological evidence” from the crime scene, instead of following normal protocol and letting a specialized evidence unit handle the cleanup. Higgins said this was unheard of.
— The FBI released Crooks’ body for cremation just ten days after the shooting, surprising all the locals, and even though legally, Butler County had jurisdiction over the body. Now, we are stuck with the initial examination report, whatever it is, which still hadn’t been published as of the date of Higgin’s report.
Higgins described the FBI’s “pattern of investigative scorched earth” as reasonably calculated to be “an obstruction to any following investigative effort.” So.
🔥 Secret Service Questions. Higgins found even more questions about how the Secret Service responded at the event, including one huge, previously unknown problem.
Representative Higgins found that:
— Butler County had provided radios for the Secret Service, so they could stay connected with local security efforts. But for some reason, Secret Service never picked up the radios.
— It appears the Butler event was the first time Secret Service counter-sniper teams were ever assigned to Trump’s detail. Why?
— Most astonishingly, the Secret Service’s sniper was not the first to shoot back. Crooks was shot twice. A Butler County SWAT officer took the first shot. It was a very difficult shot, taken on the move while clearing cover and putting the officer into the line of fire. He hit and disabled Crooks’ gun, injuring Crooks with shrapnel. Only then, only after Crooks’ weapon was disabled, did the southern Secret Service sniper shoot and kill Crooks (a headshot).
Maybe the oddest fact of all was that, until now, neither the FBI nor the Secret Service ever mentioned the heroic Butler SWAT officer who disabled Crooks, allowing the assassin to be terminated by the Secret Service sniper. Weirdly, local SWAT guys ended the threat before the Secret Service snipers did.
There were several other fascinating and unanswered questions in Higgins’ report. Read the whole thing.
☕️ SANCTUARIANISM ☙ Wednesday, August 21, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠 (coffeeandcovid.com)
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Two can play at the sanctuary state game. Late last week, President Putin issued a decree making Russia into a sanctuary country for people with traditional Christian values. You cannot make this stuff up; it could only happen in 2024.
In short, Putin’s decree waived certain Russian immigration requirements, such as demonstrating Russian language proficiency and passing a history test, for people applying for temporary residence permits. Applicants must come from countries “imposing destructive neoliberal ideological guidelines that contradict traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
Traditional Russian spiritual and moral values are anti-LGBTQ+, orthodox Christian values.
Even more entertaining, Putin ordered the Russian government to compile a list of approved countries with “destructive neoliberal values.”
Who wants to bet the United States appears prominently at the top of that list?
In classic Putin fashion, the move was not just virtue signaling. The overheated Russian economy is thirsty for skilled workers. The category of only ‘neoliberal’ countries ensures temporary workers will come from preferred, higher-income areas. The ideological character of the test causes applicants to self-select for conservatism; liberals won’t bother applying.
I wish we could do the same thing for Florida residency.
Putin has thrown down the bearskin glove and challenged the West to vote with their feet. As for me, I plan to stay and fight to the bitter end. How about you?
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Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Has No Idea Labor Dept Revised Jobs Report to Remove 818,000 Jobs
August 21, 2024 | Sundance | 174 Comments
Earlier today the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) revised the annual jobs report to remove 818,000 previously recorded jobs.
[…] “The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised down its total tally of jobs created in the year through March by 818,000 as part of its preliminary annual benchmark review of payroll data. That suggests the economy added an average of 174,000 jobs per month during that time period — below the previous 242,000 estimate. On a monthly basis, that amounts to about 68,000 fewer jobs. It marks the largest downward revision since 2009.” (read more)
When asked about the troubling indicator of this revision, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo had no idea the BLS had made this announcement. WATCH:
Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Has No Idea Labor Dept Revised Jobs Report to Remove 818,000 Jobs - The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
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Republicans Concerned Trump Assassin Used Encrypted Messaging Accounts
August 21, 2024 | Sundance | 175 Comments
It started with Senator Lindsey Graham previously saying that perhaps electronic encryption programs needed a legislative ban as an outcome of the Trump assassination attempt.
The “never let a crisis go to waste” narrative continues advancing today with Congressman Mike Waltz.
CHICAGO — Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives.”
“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked Waltz. (read more)
If you do not choose to give up some private communication tools in order to make the USA a safer place, then you don’t care about the security of President Trump or something. That’s the rapidly approaching talking point from the professionally republican.
The Deep State loves unilateral transparency where We The People are transparent, and they remain opaque. Sorry, but look where we are now. We never should have agreed to start taking off our shoes at the airport.
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Fredo
August 21, 2024 | Sundance | 593 Comments
Every time I gently send the warning signal about Donald Trump Jr, I get blasted with hate mail that essentially says Trump Jr must not be criticized because he is the heir apparent to the MAGA empire – or something similar. The anger generally comes from the grifting enterprises who make money from Donald Trump’s political gravity.
To those voices, let me be as clear as I can be. If you want me to hide the reality of how insanely naive Donald Trump Jr is about politics, then write him letters telling him to shut up, and don’t waste your typeset energy on me. As long as Donald Trump Jr continues doing and saying stupid stuff because he believes he is politically smart (insert Fredo comparison here), I am going to continue sending warning flares about his naiveté.
I have been gentle and considerate of the ego and familial relationships.
I have avoided direct criticism around his gullibility taking Natalia Vladimirovna Veselnitskaya into Trump Tower in 2016 as part of the Fusion GPS operation to frame the Trump-Russia narrative. I have avoided open criticism of his gullibility with Peter Thiel, Palantir Technologies (who, by the way, just had their CEO endorse Kamala Harris) and the JD Vance promotion.
I was kind and diplomatic in my attempts to point out that Donald “Fredo” Trump Jr, might just not possess the correct assembly of brain matter needed to see through counterintelligence operations. After all, there is a reason why Eric was picked to run the Trump organization. However, if those voices are going to paint me into a corner with stuff like this:…
… Then you are going to discover, I have no more tongue to bite.
Putting RFK Jr in any position inside the IC network is akin to giving Mary McCord and Andrew Weissman control of President Donald Trump’s teleprompter. The Intelligence Community would relish, absolutely relish the opportunity to work with RFK Jr as the CIA director.
Amaryllis Fox is a former CIA undercover officer who transitioned into the political realm as the campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr after she met his son, Robert F Kennedy III at the ‘Burning Man’ event. Do you remember the guy who leaked the recording of Donald Trump and RFK Jr speaking just before the RNC Convention? Yeah, that was RFK III who leaked it (Amaryllis’s husband).
As the story is being told, Donald “Fredo” Trump Jr, is now negotiating the terms and conditions for the RFK JR endorsement of his father, possibly later this week. If Fredo’s commentary about putting RFK Jr in charge of the CIA is accurate, and given the fact Fredo is part of the official transition team, and given the fact that Fredo was a big impetus for the JD Vance selection, and given the fact that everyone in the close orbit of Donald Trump keeps saying that Fredo wants to make federal politics his life and career after Dad; well, you can see where this is going.
I support Donald Trump because there is no alternative – no other viable option. It’s the same reason I supported him in 2015 and every moment from then through now. I have never regretted my support of Donald Trump, ever, not for a moment.
However, that said, I do not support anything that undermines the likelihood of success.
I do not care if Alex Jones or anyone else is the advocate in support of this stupid idea.
There is no way that Robert F Kennedy Jr should have any significant role in the Trump administration outside of Health and Human Services Director or Food and Drug Commissioner…. and even that is a stretch considering that RFK JR might proclaim firearms as a national health crisis and institute regulations.
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