January 19, 2025
Senile Octogenarian Molestation Suspect Begins New Career As Constitutional Scholar
This is of course the typical Democrat disdain for the law. If they FEEL it should be a law, then presto! It's the law of the land. But the text of the amendment might be problematic for the psychotic, sexuality-obsessed Democrat/Progressive cabal. The first paragraph says:
"SEX!" What's that? Care to define that? Is it biological sex? Is it the declared sex of the hopelessly insane? Is it defined by the presence or absence of external sexual characteristics? Sex hormone levels? Phase of the moon? Inquiring minds want to know!
Yes, Biden is doing damage with his last-minute, baying at the moon insanity, but on the bright side, he is tarnishing the reputation of the Democrat party, and further exposing it as a clown show and a party in existential crisis.
But this one is a head scratcher! The clear language of the amendment is that it would fail if it weren't ratified by...1982! Biden Declared the Equal Rights Amendment RatifiedPresident Joe Biden announced on Jan. 17 that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which was first proposed more than a century ago, is now the "law of the land." The legal effect of Biden's statement is disputed. Biden said in a statement three days before his presidency ends that he has supported the ERA for more than 50 years and that "we as a nation, must affirm and protect women's full equality once and for all." The president said the final hurdle to the formal adoption of the ERA as part of the U.S. Constitution was overcome in January 2020 when the Virginia General Assembly voted to ratify the amendment.
This is of course the typical Democrat disdain for the law. If they FEEL it should be a law, then presto! It's the law of the land. But the text of the amendment might be problematic for the psychotic, sexuality-obsessed Democrat/Progressive cabal. The first paragraph says:
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
"SEX!" What's that? Care to define that? Is it biological sex? Is it the declared sex of the hopelessly insane? Is it defined by the presence or absence of external sexual characteristics? Sex hormone levels? Phase of the moon? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 1-19-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Daily Tech News 19 January 2025
Top Story
- Intel's eagerly-awaited fix for its latest Arrow Lake desktop CPUs is here, and makes them perform up to 2%... Slower. (Tom's Hardware)
Ouch.
Also, nice chart of AMD's latest 9800X3D being 36% faster on average than the best Arrow Lake performance - which was measured before applying these firmware fixes.
- Is Intel going to be taken over by a consortium led by Elon Musk? (WCCFTech)
Probably not, no. Intel is undervalued compared to its revenues and rivals, though, so something could well be on the cards.
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January 18, 2025
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (1/18/25) Mystery Click Kind of Night.........[H/T Mrs. JTB]
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Don't Touch That Dial, There's Music.....[Soon Hordelings. Soon.......]
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Good evening boys and girls and everything in between. Your normal cordial and hospitable host, CBD, is out on assignment or something to that effect.
So Garrett will be free from Croc memes for another month. Perhaps.
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Hobby Thread - January 18, 2025 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread and we are rolling out the red carpet.
We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and the result shows the Wheel pays attention to current events. It said PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY. Hail to the chief!Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (256) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 18
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 18
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California Cruisin'
Cruisin' in California on a calmer day
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California is the land of dreams, and one of the government's dreams is to eliminate fossil fuels not too many years hence. I don't think the name "Moss" in the link above has anything to do with the following story from yesterday:
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Also: And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims
A lithium battery fire that erupted at a Moss Landing power plant continues to smolder and Monterey County residents are asking public officials and the facility's leaders what health risks they now face. The fire erupted around 3 p.m. on Thursday at the Moss Landing Power Plant. The facility is a natural gas-powered electricity generation plant operated by Texas-based Vistra Energy. The facility also has two battery storage stations owned by PG&E and Vistra. On Friday morning, Monterey County officials and Vistra Energy executives, who operate the power plant, gave an update on the fire at a press conference. Supervisor Glenn Church said the incident could “best be described as a worse case scenario.” He went on to say that the “disaster” is more than just a fire. “This is a wake-up call for this industry,” he said. “If we’re going to be moving ahead with sustainable energy, we need to have a safe battery system in place.”Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier.
Even now, the homeless LA gliteratti, who soon may be allowed to sift through the ashes of their homes in hopes of finding the gold coins that looters haven't dug up yet, wonder how they could have been so gullible. They bought Newsom's climate change diktats hook, line, and gas can, and now their electric car doesn't work. Their beloved Tesla and their neighbor's Nissan Leaf are charred carbon hulks considered by the environment police to be portable toxic waste dumps. I'm sorry, sir, and you can't move it until we've studied the environmental externalities of your charred car. Grab a number. And no mocking these poor folks, America, because this Caltastrophe may have bought more time for the rest of the country to shout down the climate cultists in state houses across the country. California's proof of concept showed that climate nirvana doesn't protect the environment for humans. Indeed, though less important, it's now dawning on Angelenos, more than a week after the fires started, that they're witnessing the incineration of all the "greenhouse emissions reductions" promised in Newsom's 2035 gas car ban.Even without the fires, the ban looks pretty dumb to people suffering through normal power outages due to weather, road blockages and gridlock, etc.
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. So while California burns the Frozen Tundra has some frozen weather - finally!
Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Chetek.)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. And no flying drop kicks from the couch.
3) Running with sharp objects? Sure if you are feeling lucky. Well do you Moron?
4) Have a great weekend!
2) Be kind. Be nice. And no flying drop kicks from the couch.
3) Running with sharp objects? Sure if you are feeling lucky. Well do you Moron?
4) Have a great weekend!
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Daily Tech News 18 January 2025
Top Story
- In a groundbreaking decision that will have lasting consequences for Chinese spyware apps, the Supreme Court said "yeah, whatever" and waved the TikTok divest-or-die law through the gate. (CNN)
The law is due to go into effect tomorrow, but since the Biden Administration is currently busy looting the treasury and fleeing the country, will be left to Trump to enforce.
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January 17, 2025
The ONT Tolls For Thee
Good evening Horde. Welcome to Friday meme madness. Say, anyone know what Alex the Chick's been up to lately?
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Winter Sports Cafe
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The CIA Analyst and Traitor Who Leaked Israel's Military Plans to Iran Pleads Guilty in Court
A former CIA analyst pleaded guilty Friday to leaking information on a planned Israeli attack on Iran. Asif Rahman, 34, was arrested by the FBI in November weeks after classified documents appeared on the Telegram messaging app. He entered guilty pleas in federal court in Virginia to two counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to the national defense, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Prosecutors say Rahman, a CIA employee since 2016, abused his access to top-secret information by printing out documents related to Israel so that he could take them home. He reproduced them and altered them as a way to cover his tracks, prosecutors say, then leaked top-secret documents to people not authorized to receive them. Two documents that surfaced on Telegram in October, attributed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, noted that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran's blistering ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1. Israel carried out a retaliatory attack on air defense systems and missile manufacturing facilities in Iran in late October. In court papers, the government has said the leak caused Israel to delay its attack plans.I bet the feds agreed to a sweetheart deal. In related Deep State News: the Very Special Agent who announced that the obvious terrorist attack was not a terrorist attack has been "reassigned." She's being detailed to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Nose-Rings.
The FBI assistant special agent in charge who told the media and the public the New Orleans attack was "not a terrorist event" has been reassigned, Fox News has learned. Multiple sources tell Fox News that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan has been temporarily reassigned following her initial press conference in which she stated: "This is not a terrorist event." It was terrorism. After the original presser, the FBI put out a statement using the word "terrorism." Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Biden also used the word "terrorism" in their statements. No other details were offered about Duncan's new position, but she is still with the FBI. The FBI declined to comment.Although I think the nose-ring is disqualifying -- what happened to the professional men in Brooks Brothers' suits? -- and of course she obviously Didn't Earn It, I think she's getting a bad rap. This is the FBI's claim in every obvious case of terrorism, at least when the terrorism is committed by an Islamist or leftist. They immediately declare it "workplace violence" or, as in the case of Congress softball shooter, just an attempt at "suicide by cop" that happened to coincidentally involve shooting seven Republican congressmen. She is following the corrupt, criminal FBI's policy of gaslighting the American people about terrorism. This isn't her policy (though doubtless she supports it). This is James Comey's policy. This is Christopher Wray's policy. She just lied and gaslit like they instructed her to do. #FreetheNoseRing
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The Left is Now at Its Most Unpopular at Any Time Since the the Cold War
Update: CNN Has Settled With Young
Update: CNN Has Settled With Young
Leftism is now more unpopular than when the Soviet Union was still kicking around.
Good job, Donkey-Chompers.Update: Settled. Before I mentioned that the lawyer excused himself "to call my client." (AlextheChick pointed this out.) I thought maybe he was calling CNN to tell them, "We have to settle, what's the most you can offer?" Unfortunately, this means that the size of the award will be protected by an NDA and we won't know how much they paid out. I guess maybe we can take guesses about it based on corporate filings, but they'll hide the amount in general "legal expenses" sums. Unless it's like a half billion dollars, I doubt we'll ever be able to have a good idea of how big the settlement is. The stone of the settlement will be hidden under too much general legal expenses sand.
Lefty political parties across the world are now more unpopular than any time since the Cold War, a staggering analysis of recent elections shows. The Left suffered a record-low average of just 45% of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections, conducted by the Telegraph. In the United States and Western Europe, progressives were even more unpopular -- with the left-leaning parties securing only 42% of their respective votes. The Right, meanwhile, won 57% of the average votes -- representing the widest gap since 1990, the analysis found. Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday, secured the popular vote with 77 million votes compared to the 75 million his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, raked in. The Left's declining popularity is only expected to continue, too, experts say. In the wake of Harris' defeat, leftist parties in Canada, Australia, and Germany are already predicted to suffer similar losses in upcoming ballots. "The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon," Prof. Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, told the outlet.
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In a "Huge Win," the Woke Corporate Cartel "Net Zero" Stops Operations as Corporations Back Away from Toxic Wokeness
Oh you mean Larry Fink, who's been using financial power to pressure companies and entire nations to follow the Global Socialist Movement's line? Like an... oligarch, almost? Alternative energy continues to dazzle.
The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) coalition -- a United Nations--sponsored collection of financial services companies that have pledged to negate their portfolio's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner -- suspended activities after investment firm BlackRock announced its departure from the group, according to a press release. BlackRock, which manages over $10 trillion and has been a leader in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, announced its exit from NZAM Thursday, with its vice-chair Philipp Hildebrand saying the firm's involvement in the environmental coalition "caused confusion regarding BlackRock's practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials." Now, NZAM has pressed pause altogether, halting operations while it conducts a review of its activities, an NZAM press release published Monday stated. "Recent developments in the U.S. and different regulatory and client expectations in investors' respective jurisdictions have led to NZAM launching a review of the initiative to ensure NZAM remains fit for purpose in the new global context," NZAM reportedly wrote in the letter. "As the initiative undergoes this review, it is suspending activities to track signatory implementation and reporting. NZAM will also remove the commitment statement and list of NZAM signatories from its website, as well as their targets and related case studies, pending the outcome of the review." A slew of other financial services had left NZAM prior to BlackRock's Thursday exit, including Goldman Sachs Group, Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co. BlackRock's exit came amid a broader corporate strategy shift away from environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, with the firm only supporting about 4% of the 493 environmental and social investment proposals shareholders put forward between the end of June 2023 and the end of June 2024, down from a rate of 47% in 2021. BlackRock was a major supporter of ESG investing in years prior, with CEO Larry Fink claiming in 2020 that "climate risk is investment risk" and that climate change would lead to a "fundamental reallocation of capital."
- A fire broke out at Vistra Corp.'s Moss Landing complex in California, one of the world's biggest battery storage facilities, prompting evacuations. Local officials said a fire suppressant system failed. Every rack of batteries at the facility has a fire suppressant system fed by an on-site system, and this system failed, Chief Joel Mendoza with the North County Fire District, said during a press briefing Friday. The county declared a local emergency. Vistra executives acknowledged the system failure at the briefing. Pete Ziegler, who manages the facility, added, "We don't know what started this event yet."Related:
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Trump Bashing WaPo Cartoonist -- the First Black American to Win a Pulitzer for Cartooning -- Arrested for Possession of Child S*x Exploitation Materials
You don't say.
A leftwinger? And a cartoonist?
Likes looking at naked children?
You don't say, you don't say, you don't say.
From the "How Could We Have Known?" Department:
A Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist -- whose illustrations have been published by the Washington Post, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times -- was arrested for possession of child pornography. Darrin Bell, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, was busted Wednesday and booked in California's Sacramento County after detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, law enforcement officials said. In a search of Bell's home, detectives found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by the 49-year-old married father of four as well as computer-generated artificial intelligence child pornography, authorities said Thursday.
Bell's more well-known illustrations have touched on politics, culture and race, and have been syndicated to major outlets around the country.Oh really? The black guy in media talked a lot about race? You don't say, you don't say, you don't say.
The Pulitzer Prize committee hailed Bell for "beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration" in honoring him with the venerable award in 2019.
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Demented Tyrant Biden Now Presumes to Change the Constitiution By His Kingly Pronouncement, Adding an Amendment to the Constitution Via a Tweet
The Equal Rights Amendment or ERA had a provision requiring the amendment to pass, or not pass, by 1982. It did not pass.
Some states have since ratified it. But others have reversed their initial ratification. The left takes the position that the states which reversed their ratification had no power to do so, and that once you ratify, it's forever. Strangely, they do not take the position that the states that refused to ratify it are stuck with their non-ratification forever. It's all immaterial anyway, as the ERA amendment process expired forty-two years ago. To pass it, people would have to submit a new amendment. Biden just announced that he was using his Kingly Authority to recognize the amendment as "ratified." He made this pronouncement two days before he's to be booted out of office, and via a Twitter post.
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator It's all projection. Declaring *a constitutional amendment ratified* based on a wish is the kind of tyranny team blue has been warning about for eight years, but then they go and do it.
Auron MacIntyreI always consider presidencies to be defined by two different baskets: One, the basket of general Goods which everyone accepts are good, like managing the economy well and keeping the peace (or winning wars). It's hard to put eggs in this basket. This is the basket that makes presidents great, or failed. The other basket is just all the partisan shit a president can do, like invoking or canceling the Mexico City policy. I'm not saying these partisan initiatives aren't important. I'm saying they're relatively easy. They take no effort it they're just executive orders, and legislation is easy enough if you control the Congress. Biden obviously is a huge failure. He drove the economy into the ground, locked people in their homes for a year, mandated a dangerous experimental non-vaccine, set the government to prosecuting citizens for their political beliefs, and set the government to censoring citizens and making them afraid to speak their minds. He also botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, resulting in 13 servicemen's deaths and countless Afghan allies left to be killed by the Taliban, and his senile weakness provoked two wars, one begun by his political donor Putin, the other one by Hamas, who knew Biden was too weak to defy the Michigan Arab vote. So he is a failure by the real measure -- he has nothing in the basket of general goods. But he's a vain, egotistical and extremely stupid man who craves a legacy. So what does he do as the lights fade on his miserable usurped presidency? He just starts shitting out partisan declarations, declaring an amendment shall be Deemed Passed on his authority, or rewriting Title IX to not protect women, or once again usurping the power of Congress to make the laws, declaring that people don't have to pay back student loans because he says so. All of this to generate some kind of "legacy" for himself. The rest of the country will continue to hate him and rank him among the worst presidents in US history, but he wants to at least create a base on the far, far left who will recognize him, favorably, as the most extremist leftwing president the country ever had.
@AuronMacintyre "I can change the Constitution on Twitter" is a fun precedent to set right before Trump takes office
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Convicted Disinformation Outfit CNN: Our Finances Are In Tough Shape and If You Hit Us With Major Punitive Damages We Won't Be Able to Cover Hurricanes and Earthquakes for You
CNN's own lawyer says that CNN is in "a subtle decline" so that the jury doesn't crush them.
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CNN Moves Superstar Jim Acosta to a Hot New Time Slot More Worthy of His Towering Stature
BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE
BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE
Having a show at midnight is a high-status thing, right?
It's like the hospice of television. CNN will just try to "make Jim comfortable" as he prepares for his departure.
CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta -- a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump -- to the "Siberia of television news" in a bid to "throw a bone" to the incoming commander-in-chief, according to a former colleague. The network's boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, "CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta," from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter. "The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news," Darcy wrote.
LOL, sure. The spin is that this move is necessary so that... Wolf Blitzer can be moved to mornings. That makes no sense. Blitzer is on in the afternoon. Why do they have to move Acosta's ten p.m. show to move Blitzer from 5pm to 8am?
Acosta was caught "off guard," Darcy said -- with the anchor later using his airtime for some self-promotion to send a message to Trump to go easier on journalists. "He had no reason to believe that his current show would be on the chopping block. In fact, his ratings have historically been some of the network's strongest," Darcy pointed out.
Acosta was told his possible move was to accommodate moving veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer from primetime evenings to a morning show -- and nothing to do with his ratings or editorial style, Darcy said. ... "They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump," an unnamed media executive told the newsletter. "Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network."UPDATE: The Jury reached a verdict -- CNN is liable for defamation. They are now Convicted Defamers. I think that's what we say now, right? Even better -- They requested a calculator for determining damages. You'll have so much winning you'll be tired of winning. Update: The jury awarded five million in compensatory (that is, real) damages. But it's the punitive damages where the big money can come in.
Sean DavisI think that there's probably some limit to how much a jury can award in punitive damages, limited by compensatory damages. Maybe 10-to-1? So the five million in real damages may point to a much-smaller-than-we'd-hope punitive damages award. Punitive damages are damages intended to punish the wrongdoer, not compensate the victim.
@seanmdav
JUST NOW: A jury has found CNN liable for defamation against Zachary Young for lying about his efforts to rescue people from Afghanistan. The jury has awarded Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages. The jury will next decide how much CNN must pay in punitive damages.
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