September 30, 2024
Quick Hits
Elon Musk is running the US's only functional space program right now.
Good Trump ad about Kamala the Dick-riding Ding-a-Ling's "Nonsense."
The ground invasion of Lebanon has begun, just as the Harris-Biden Administration leaked to the terrorists and the press (that "and" is doing little work there). A French report says that the IDF has warned three neighborhoods in a suburb of Beirut to evacuate.
Faytuks NewsObama's patron? Oh no!
@Faytuks BREAKING: Israel is preparing for a significant expansion of the war - including an "exchange of blows" with Iran soon, Israel's Channel 13 correspondent Moriah Ashraf reports
Elon Musk is running the US's only functional space program right now.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon arrived at the International Space Station to rescue two Boeing astronauts who have been stranded for months after a malfunction grounded their Starliner capsule. Key Details: SpaceX's Crew Dragon docked at the ISS on Sunday, carrying NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.Meanwhile Boeing is a world leader in DEI technologies, and NASA is making exciting new discoveries in the field of Hypothetical Pronouns every single day. Good, more like this:
Boeing astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stranded since June 5 due to a Starliner malfunction.
The return trip for Wilmore and Williams is scheduled for February, marking the end of their extended mission. Diving Deeper: SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule successfully arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, marking the start of a critical mission to rescue two Boeing astronauts who have been stranded since June. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov led the five-month mission, which will bring Boeing's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth after their Starliner capsule malfunctioned. The Crew Dragon docked with the ISS at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, and at 7:04 p.m., the astronauts entered the station, reuniting with Wilmore, Williams, and the rest of the ISS crew. Wilmore and Williams had been trapped on the ISS for months due to thruster failures and helium leaks in their Starliner capsule, forcing NASA to return the spacecraft to Earth without them.
Netflix experienced a significant surge in cancellations after co-founder Reed Hastings endorsed Kamala Harris for president, donating millions to her campaign. Conservative backlash, amplified by Trump supporters, contributed to the spike in account closures. Key Details: Netflix's cancellation rate nearly tripled after Hastings' endorsement of Harris.
July 26 marked the single worst day for Netflix cancellations in 2024.
The backlash mirrors previous conservative-led boycotts, including against Bud Light and Disney.
Democrat Representative Elissa Slotkin warns Kamala that she is going down in Michigan, and not in the way that gets you promotions.
Daily Caller
@DailyCaller NO BUENO: Harris' polling advantage among Latino voters is the lowest of any Democrat candidate in the past four presidential elections, according to recent poll. Harris is leading former President Donald Trump among Latino voters by 14 points. Biden led by 36 points in 2020 while Clinton led by 50 points in 2016, according to past NBC/Telemundo/CNBC polls. Obama led by 39 points in 2012.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) cautioned that internal polling indicates Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling with voter support in Michigan. The warning raises concerns about Democrats' chances in the crucial battleground state ahead of 2024. Key Details: Slotkin shared concerns about Harris' standing in Michigan during a virtual fundraiser with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).Counterpoint:
Internal polling for Slotkin's Senate campaign reportedly shows Harris "underwater" in the state.
Michigan is seen as a key battleground, with Democrats facing challenges in both the presidential and Senate races.
Elissa Slotkin is a bloated CIA employed Karen whose only current campaign screech is that Republicans will force women with entropic pregnancies to carry to term and die. Posted by: Auspex
Good Trump ad about Kamala the Dick-riding Ding-a-Ling's "Nonsense."
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Israel Plans a Surprise Invasion of Hezballah's Fortresses in South Lebanon Tonight.
How Do We Know? Because the Harris-Biden Administration Leaked Their Warplans to the World.
Meanwhile, the US is preparing to "ward off" a terrorist strike on us by our Partner in Peace (TM), Iran.
Note that the Harris-Biden Administration doesn't promise punishment against Iran for a terrorist attack against us. They only say that we will "defend" against it, and try to "ward off" such an attack. Terrorist cowards don't worry about you "defending" against an attack. They only fear retaliation. But these are our Partners in Peace (TM), so, we give them some wiggle-room with killing American citizens or their heroes serving overseas. Netanyahu is warning Iran: If you want a war, you'll have yourselves a war.
How Do We Know? Because the Harris-Biden Administration Leaked Their Warplans to the World.
Update: Whoops! Whoopsie!
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid Breaking: Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Iran's Secret Service had established a unit to target Mossad agents within Iran. However, the head of this unit turned out to be a Mossad operative himself, along with 20 other agents."
Noam Blum
@neontaster If you were wondering why other countries don't tell the Biden admin about their plans, this is why. I said on this week's @ambXover that leaking stuff like this is their best tactic to disrupting operations they don't like.
Meanwhile, the US is preparing to "ward off" a terrorist strike on us by our Partner in Peace (TM), Iran.
Fear of an attack from Iran is rising among Biden administration officials after Israel's killing of Hezbollah militant leader Hassan Nasrallah, said a top U.S official on Sunday. According to a CNN report, "joint defenses are being prepared to ward off an attack with changes in U.S. military posture." The U.S. official did not elaborate on the type of attack the U.S. is preparing for with Israel. ... "Should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every necessary measure to defend our people," the Pentagon said in a statement on Sunday night.
Note that the Harris-Biden Administration doesn't promise punishment against Iran for a terrorist attack against us. They only say that we will "defend" against it, and try to "ward off" such an attack. Terrorist cowards don't worry about you "defending" against an attack. They only fear retaliation. But these are our Partners in Peace (TM), so, we give them some wiggle-room with killing American citizens or their heroes serving overseas. Netanyahu is warning Iran: If you want a war, you'll have yourselves a war.
Stephen Green makes a safe prediction: If Israel does strike Iran, it will strike its nukes first. Jared Kushner think that only the threat of a Hezballah war stayed Israel's hand in the past. But now that threat is of a much-diminished nature.
The Islamic Republic will collapse sooner than people think and the Iranian people will be free, paving the way for relations between these two ancient cultures, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. "When Iran is finally free -- and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think -- everything will be different," he said. "When that day comes, the terror network that the regime built in five continents will be bankrupt, dismantled," Netanyahu explained, adding that Iran will "thrive as never before." He spoke two weeks into a series of IDF strikes that has eliminated Hezbollah's command structure, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The intense IDF bombardment of Hezbollah targets has been viewed as a veiled warning to Iran. Netanyahu, himself, has issued a number of very public threats against Iran.
"There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach," Netanyahu said on Monday. "There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country." On Monday, he released a statement in English aimed at the Iranian people, explaining that "at this pivotal moment, I want to address you -- the people of Iran. I want to do so directly, without filters, without middlemen. "Every day, you see a regime that subjugates you, makes fiery speeches about defending Lebanon, defending Gaza. "Yet every day, that regime plunges our region deeper into darkness and deeper into war," he said. "With every passing moment, the regime is bringing you -- the noble Persian people -- closer to the abyss," he stated.
How chaotic is the situation for the Islamists, really? Iranian cleric, Mostafa Karami, who regularly serves as a mouthpiece for the mullahs' regime, said on Iranian state television this weekend, "Considering the Zionists' history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their missions through this means, and demons are their secret army." Nasrallah was killed by Jewish genies? OK, boss. Tehran is torn over how to respond. The New York Times reported on Sunday that "fissures have opened within the Iranian government over how to respond to [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah's killing, with conservatives arguing for a forceful response and the moderates, led by Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, calling for restraint... state television, run by [his opponent in the election] Jalili's affiliates, called for Iran to strike Israel, in open defiance of Ayatollah Khamenei's caution. " Jared Kushner -- one of the two peacemakers behind the Trump administration's historic Abraham Accords -- posted a thoughtful essay to X on Saturday urging Israel to "finish the job." He explained that "The reason why [Iran's] nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel."Netanyahu is in a Michael Corleone Baptism frame of mind. The Iran-backed Houtis launched missiles at the main Israeli airport. He did not merely "ward off" that attack. He blew up their port and power plants.
The Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes Sunday against infrastructure in western Yemen that the military said was used by the Houthis, in a response to recent ballistic missile attacks on the Jewish state carried out by the Iran-backed group. It was only the second-ever Israeli strike in Yemen, after in July, the IAF conducted an attack on Yemen's Hodeidah port after a drone hit Tel Aviv, killing a man in his apartment. Four people were killed and 29 wounded in the attack, the Houthi-run health ministry said in a statement.Don't worry, though: "President" Biden's on top of this. Here's how the Sage of Scranton answered a question about the strikes in Yemen:
The strike in Yemen on Sunday was more extensive than the one in July. It also came as the IAF had struck targets in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and allegedly in Syria during the day, amid a multifront war. On Saturday, a missile fired by the Houthis at central Israel was shot down without causing injuries. The terror group said it was aimed at Ben Gurion Airport, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plane had just landed, bringing him home from New York.
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US Dockworkers Set to Strike Tomorrow; Biden Refuses to Intervene
If you think food is expensive now, wait until the cities experience shortages.
Dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen's Association are set to strike at midnight Tuesday, demanding a 77% wage increase after stalled negotiations with port employers. The strike threatens to disrupt U.S. trade, with major retailers like Walmart and Target warning of price increases and supply shortages. Key Details: The strike is set to begin Tuesday night into Wednesday, with dockworkers halting trade at ports from Maine to Texas. Workers, represented by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), are demanding a 77% wage increase over six years, frustrated by the skyrocketing profits of ocean carriers during the pandemic. President Biden has stated he will not intervene using the Taft-Hartley Act, despite concerns from major retailers about the economic fallout.Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years. Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Raimondo, last seen calling for the "elimination" of Trump, says she has no f***s to give about the impending disruption of supply lines.
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Nearly 100 Dead as Hurricane Helene Ravages North Carolina and Florida; Asheville, NC Sees "Apocalyptic" Damage
I asked in a comment, but let me ask here: If you're a reader in the path of the hurricane, please check in and let us know if you're safe.
At least 99 people have died from Hurricane Helene. FOX Weather correspondent Robert Ray reports the latest on the devastation from Asheville, North Carolina. One Asheville, North Carolina resident sounded the alarm as his community battles the devastation left by Hurricane Helene, detailing the "apocalyptic weekend" as the death toll continues to rise while millions are left without power and water. "It's been an incredibly apocalyptic weekend for all of us here," Asheville resident Gregory Harrison said. "Almost no gas. There is almost no cell service. There's limited power. There is limited food. There are people who are trying to find potable water to feed their families, to have water for their kids." Officials in Asheville are still trying to rescue residents who have been trapped by the historic flooding over the weekend, which has left many without access to power, running water and cell service. ... Buncombe County communications director Lillian Govus urged people in surrounding areas to avoid coming to the affected communities to maximize search and rescue efforts. "Right now, we need people to not come here," Govus told Lawrence Jones. "We are still in an active search and rescue phase. We have active flooding now. Like you said, it will take just a little bit of rain and we'll have more landslides, more mudslides."
placeholder ... Govus said her community is no longer recognizable after the deadly storm. "I live out in Black Mountain. What is there now does not resemble anything of the community where I lived before," Govus said. "Homes are completely gone. Power lines are destroyed. The poles are snapped in half and dangling on other places."
30 dead in Asheville, NC area after Hurricane Helene Video "Houses are completely washed away. We don't have running water, and so that's a really big public health crisis for us right now," she continued. ... Another Asheville resident, who owns an art studio that was luckily spared, said she moved to North Carolina after Hurricane Ian in hopes of evading another catastrophic storm. "I came from Florida after Hurricane Ian. I thought this is the area to be safe and this is not safe," she said. "They said this... could happen, but it was hard to believe," she continued.
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AP Calls Terrorist Leader Nasrallah "Charismatic and Shrewd;" The Washington Post Calls Him "A Moral Compass"
Here is just a partial list of the murders perpetrated by one of history's most prolific serial killers:
He died as he lived: Fiery.
Associated Press called out for headline on death of terror leader: 'Charismatic and shrewd'
X users contrasted to the headline for the death of a GOP senator: 'Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a 'hoax,' dies at 89' Social media users blasted the Associated Press for its recent obituary headline for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, describing it as kinder to the terror leader than the outlet's obituary for late U.S. senator Jim Inhofe. The AP News headline marking Nasrallah's death this week referred to the Hezbollah boss as "charismatic and shrewd," while the outlet's headline for Inhofe's death in July painted the late lawmaker in a bad light, reminding readers he "called human-caused climate change a 'hoax.'" Observant X users noticed the difference in tone between the two obituaries. Prominent conservative account @AGHamilton29 remarked, "This is actual enemy of the people stuff." He also noted that the article left out Hezbollah's "entire history of terrorism, describes their mass starvation and murder as 'taken part in the conflict in neighboring Syria', and tries to paint him as a 'moderate.'"
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that Nasrallah was killed in its strike against the group's headquarters in Lebanon on Friday. According to the military group, Nasrallah was responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, as well as the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities around the world. The IDF said Nasrallah was one of Hezbollah's co-founders as well as its central decision-maker and the strategic leader. The terror group confirmed his death following the IDF's announcement. The Associated Press published its obituary on Friday for Nasrallah, with the original headline, "Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah." An updated version of the piece featured a new headline, stating, "Who was longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?" But an Internet Archive search confirmed the existence of the more generous title. In addition to the controversial headline, the outlet waited before referring Hezbollah as a terror group, only referring to the organization's terrorist designation by the U.S. at around the 14th paragraph of the article. Rather, the outlet referred to Hezbollah as a "Lebanese militant group," and "one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East." The report also described the Nasrallah as a "fiery, charismatic leader."
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THE MORNING RANT: Starbucks Should Not Have Alienated Conservatives as It Now Battles the NLRB and the Anti-Carbon Left 
The company’s rationale for suspending the district manager, who was not responsible for the store where the arrests took place, was an allegation that Black store managers were being paid less than white managers, according to the lawsuit. Phillips said that argument made no sense since district managers had no input on employee salaries.There’s a clear pattern here about Starbucks’ woke behavior. While the company is reliably far-left in its stated politics, it treats its front-line employees terribly. One might even think that Starbucks’ radical wokeness serves as cover for being abusive to its employees. But it’s been my observation that denizens of corporate C-Suites nowadays are genuinely hard-left in their politics, at least culturally, while simultaneously feeling contemptuous of their labor force, whom they perceive as being lower-status deplorables whose compensation reduces the bottom line. Unsurprisingly, where there is bad management that mistreats employees, unionization starts to have appeal for the employees. In late 2021, a Starbucks in Buffalo, NY voted to unionize. The movement has grown since then. Less than two years later, “more than 360 of Starbucks’ roughly 9,000 company-owned locations have voted to unionize, according to National Labor Relations Board data.” Starbucks executives retaliated by closing 23 unionized coffee houses. A quarter-century ago I would have been allied with Starbucks in this battle against unionization, but that was before companies like Starbucks allied with radical leftists in declaring culture war on half of the country.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
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The Morning Report — 9/30/24
It should be noted that the "religion" in question seeks to annihilate the State of Israel and every single Jew on the planet, on its way to enslaving everyone else left standing. Something it has been preaching and practicing the world over for about 1,500 years now. Speaking of an evil force that seeks to cut out the tongues and blot out the eyes of anyone and everyone who stand in their way of creating their own version of paradise on earth. I give you none other than loping, lying heiress-boffer John Kerry:
The Associated Press previewed the likely death of Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah with a lengthy biographical article that rivaled The Washington Post — which famously referred to Al Qaeda terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar — in its effort to frame the Islamic extremist in a positive light. The original headline was posted on Friday, and it read, “Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.” But Saturday morning, the headline had already been edited to read simply, “Who is longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?”
It should be noted that the "religion" in question seeks to annihilate the State of Israel and every single Jew on the planet, on its way to enslaving everyone else left standing. Something it has been preaching and practicing the world over for about 1,500 years now. Speaking of an evil force that seeks to cut out the tongues and blot out the eyes of anyone and everyone who stand in their way of creating their own version of paradise on earth. I give you none other than loping, lying heiress-boffer John Kerry:
Viscerally repulsive Deep State goon John Kerry took a break from his main job of promoting Climate Change™ terror porn to tend to another pet project of his and his ilk: decrying the right to free speech at, appropriately — you’ll be shocked to learn — the World Economic Forum. He goes on to cite this election as a deciding factor in whether the government will ever be able to snuff out free speech in America once and for all.This proclamation. And that is exactly what it was, not merely a musing or a what-if. As we all know all too well the Leftist/globalists are well on the way to ending freedom of expression here and in what's left of the west via a governmental/corporatist axis of evil that will crush anyone who dares blaspheme their false gods and shibboleths. How positively Islamic, no? And just the other week, Kerry's predecessor emitted this flatus:
It’s 2016 all over again! Eight years later, having learned nothing from the epic public humiliation she suffered when her fact-free Russiagate hoax collapsed into itself with the Mueller Report, Rachel Maddow is still asserting “election interference.” Hillary Clinton is eager to assist her in her Red Scare propaganda efforts.Ironically, Hillary is now demanding criminal prosecutions for her opponents’ alleged propaganda — and not just foreign state actors, but explicitly “Americans,” presumably private citizens who post loosely defined “misinformation” on social media.Funny how neither Donald Trump, nor a grandmother silently praying in front of an abortion mill are not considered austere religious scholars, but mortal dangers to our precious democracy. Ditto, a parent who refuses to hand over his child to have its genitals sawn off in the name of, what exactly?! Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The next time they try to do this to us, I hope not one of us will be in line to comply.
Our loved ones died over Zoom calls while Covid experts had drug-fueled sex parties
- Viscerally repulsive Deep State goon John Kerry took a break from his main job of promoting Climate Change™ terror porn to another pet project of his and his ilk: decrying the right to free speech at, appropriately — you’ll be shocked to learn — the World Economic Forum.
WATCH: John Kerry at WEF Literally Calls For End of First Amendment Speech Rights
- The classic leftist view not only makes violence endemic to society; it makes violence acceptable when wielded in pursuit of what the left sees as the inevitable revolution. Marxist rhetoric reflects this acceptance. As Mao Zedong said, “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” The godfather of the American left’s professional provocateurs, Saul Alinsky, in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals, summarizes Lenin’s approach to violence when the Bolsheviks still lacked the means to carry it out: “They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.”
Trump Assassination Attempts Are The Logical Result Of The Left’s Marxist ‘Oppression’ Narrative
- Chambers said the weapons were “of possible Iranian origin” and that his group received the information through “two separate reporting streams” on Sunday evening, September 22. One of the reports allegedly came from a confidential informant in New Mexico who has been able to infiltrate “nefarious networks” on the border.
Report: Nine Surface to Air Missiles Have Entered the U.S. Through New Mexico Border; Target is Trump’s Plane
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Daily Tech News 30 September 2024
Top Story
- California governor Gavin Newsome has vetoed SB 1047, the "AI safety" bill that did nothing for AI or safety. (Tech Crunch)
Well, good, I guess.
- He has however signed into law 18 other bills involving AI. (Tech Crunch)
These range from common sense regulations on the use of AI when interacting with customers, to blatant violations of the First Amendment.
Mostly the latter.
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September 29, 2024
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/29/24)
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The Quote of The Day
Quote I Today and tomorrow are the last days of 70 degree weather until April or May 2025. The fish were biting today. That is all. Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Gun Thread: Adios September Edition!
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Food Thread: Nice Buns, But Don't Try To Curry Favor Here!
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First-World Problems...
Wall it off, with your nemesis inside. Posted by: E. A. Poe at September 29, 2024 02:33 PM
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The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid...
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Gee, what's the downside to an unprotected border?
647K Noncitizens Convicted Or Suspected Of Homicide, Other Crimes Are Not In ICE Custody That is an incredible number, and an explosion of crime is here, although under-reported for odd reasons. Like overwhelming support of the Democrat junta among our media! But crime will just get worse as these dregs from prisons across the world become entrenched in our cities and towns. Look for South American style gangs, complete with road blocks and highway murders and wholesale open criminality in their backyards. And maybe America will finally fight. The 2nd Amendment is designed to allow us to fight tyranny, and how else does one describe what is coming?
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Is there anything more embarrassing than a leftist spouting her hatred of America and Americans? This one is a doozy! Mother Jones Editor Makes a Fool of Herself Sadly, her attitude toward American's religion is shared by far too many blue-state denizens. They look down upon the heartland exactly because of its traditional religion, and their smug and condescending attitudes emerge with every word.
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Some old white guy named Thomas Sowell once pointed out that slavery is far more common in world history than freedom. He's part of the cis-het-white patriarchy, so the bien pensants ignore his wisdom, but it is the reality of human history. That's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were such great men...they freed five hundred million people from the slavery of communism. Is the default of the human condition the desire for security over freedom? I think we will be finding out the answer to that question in the next fifty years.
Israel has changed the paradigm; the quaint but naive idea that there can be some sort of cold peace with terrorist organizations has fallen to "Events, My Dear Boy, Events," as Harold Macmillan put it.
The robust response to Hezbollah has sent a clear signal to its benefactors in Tehran, and that signal is: "We can find you too!" Iran's supreme leader taken to secure location, sources say Israel has finally taken one glove off, and the Arab-terrorist world is reeling. Hamas is on the run, and Hezbollah has lost a good portion of its command structure, including its head terrorist, in just a few weeks. No longer will Israel tolerate a terrorist army on its borders, and while the rumored ground operation has not yet occurred, There is a good chance that it will happen so that Israel's 60,000 displaced citizens can finally return home. It is unconscionable that any Western government supports anything other than this return to a peaceful Northern Israel, but the usual clamoring for "de-escalation" and "restraint" are spouting out from the usual suspects. Israel has ignored them, and hopefully will continue to act in its own interest until Hezbollah is driven out of Southern Lebanon. The sad thing is that it is the world and the United Nations that has allowed the destruction of what once was a vibrant country. Lebanon deserves better.Gee, what's the downside to an unprotected border?
647K Noncitizens Convicted Or Suspected Of Homicide, Other Crimes Are Not In ICE Custody That is an incredible number, and an explosion of crime is here, although under-reported for odd reasons. Like overwhelming support of the Democrat junta among our media! But crime will just get worse as these dregs from prisons across the world become entrenched in our cities and towns. Look for South American style gangs, complete with road blocks and highway murders and wholesale open criminality in their backyards. And maybe America will finally fight. The 2nd Amendment is designed to allow us to fight tyranny, and how else does one describe what is coming?
Is there anything more embarrassing than a leftist spouting her hatred of America and Americans? This one is a doozy! Mother Jones Editor Makes a Fool of Herself Sadly, her attitude toward American's religion is shared by far too many blue-state denizens. They look down upon the heartland exactly because of its traditional religion, and their smug and condescending attitudes emerge with every word.
Some old white guy named Thomas Sowell once pointed out that slavery is far more common in world history than freedom. He's part of the cis-het-white patriarchy, so the bien pensants ignore his wisdom, but it is the reality of human history. That's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were such great men...they freed five hundred million people from the slavery of communism. Is the default of the human condition the desire for security over freedom? I think we will be finding out the answer to that question in the next fifty years.
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 09-29-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Daily Tech News 29 September 2024
Top Story
- In the ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games over Apple's theft of 30% of everything, Apple was ordered to produce a million documents relating to changes to the App Store.
Apple asked for an extension to that deadline, following its habit of dragging out unfavourable cases forever. (Tech Crunch)
The judge was not having it.As Epic constantly points out, this document production is all downside for Apple because it relates to Apple's alleged lack of compliance with the Court's injunction. It is not in Apple's interest to do any of this quickly. This is a classic moral hazard, and the way Apple announced out of the blue four days before the substantial completion deadline that it would not make that deadline because of a document count that it had surely been aware of for weeks hardly creates the impression that Apple is behaving responsibly.
Good to see. I have no particular love for Epic Games, but Apple acts like a classic monopolist, constantly skirting the edge of open illegality.
Apple's request for an extension of time is DENIED. The deadline for the substantial completion of document production is Monday, September 30. It's up to Apple to figure out how to meet that deadline, but Monday is indeed the deadline.
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September 28, 2024
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (9/28/24)
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It is National Drink Beer Day.*****
The Saturday Night Joke
2500 years ago a slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee (pronounced Get-offa'-me) was attending the first athletic festival in Greece.
This festival had no name at that time. In those days the athletes performed naked and to prevent unwanted arousal while competing, the men imbibed freely on a drink containing saltpeter. At the opening ceremonial parade of this first great event, Gedophamee observed the first wave of naked athletic males marching toward her and she exclaimed: "Oh! Limp pricks!".
Over the next two and a half millennium that expression morphed into the word:"Olympics." (H/T AZ deplorable moron)
It is National Drink Beer Day.
This festival had no name at that time. In those days the athletes performed naked and to prevent unwanted arousal while competing, the men imbibed freely on a drink containing saltpeter. At the opening ceremonial parade of this first great event, Gedophamee observed the first wave of naked athletic males marching toward her and she exclaimed: "Oh! Limp pricks!".
Over the next two and a half millennium that expression morphed into the word:"Olympics." (H/T AZ deplorable moron)
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [9/28/2024]
Tony Scott is synonymous with 1980s and 1990s big-budget action cinema. Mostly through his partnership with Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, he made a series of high-profile movies like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and Crimson Tide, meeting success for the most part as his career flourished. He was well known for his work with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood like Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, and Bruce Willis. He directed the biggest movies of the year in 1986 and 1987 at the box office, and he had a top ten movie in 1996 (Crimson Tide). His films never broke $100 million at the box office from the 90s on, but they did regularly make good investments for the studios that he worked with.
It seems obvious to me that his relationship to his elder brother Ridley really helped him get started. Together, they formed Scott Free Productions in the early 70s, and it was Ridley who got started making features first in 1977 with The Duellists, Tony not starting his feature film directing career until 1983 with The Hunger (unless you really want to count Loving Memory, essentially a student film made in 1971). He ended up with a fairly narrow band of films that he could direct well, though.
So, what do you make of a career like Tony Scotts? Of a career ended early when he committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles? I liked a good amount of what I saw, more than I thought, but I also saw this pattern of derivativeness that made him feel like a vessel for other people's visions, especially Don Simpson's. That's not to take away from his successes, just that he was much more of a chameleon than people seem to think of him. They think of his frenetic editing and camera work as his defining feature, but considering the stories of Don Simpson on set and how controlling he was, Simpson ends up feeling like a coked-up David O. Selznick.
So, when I look over the career of Tony Scott, I see three main sources of influence. I see Don Simpson. I see his elder brother Ridley Scott. And, I see himself.
Tony Scott
Tony Scott is synonymous with 1980s and 1990s big-budget action cinema. Mostly through his partnership with Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, he made a series of high-profile movies like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and Crimson Tide, meeting success for the most part as his career flourished. He was well known for his work with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood like Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, and Bruce Willis. He directed the biggest movies of the year in 1986 and 1987 at the box office, and he had a top ten movie in 1996 (Crimson Tide). His films never broke $100 million at the box office from the 90s on, but they did regularly make good investments for the studios that he worked with.
It seems obvious to me that his relationship to his elder brother Ridley really helped him get started. Together, they formed Scott Free Productions in the early 70s, and it was Ridley who got started making features first in 1977 with The Duellists, Tony not starting his feature film directing career until 1983 with The Hunger (unless you really want to count Loving Memory, essentially a student film made in 1971). He ended up with a fairly narrow band of films that he could direct well, though.
So, what do you make of a career like Tony Scotts? Of a career ended early when he committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles? I liked a good amount of what I saw, more than I thought, but I also saw this pattern of derivativeness that made him feel like a vessel for other people's visions, especially Don Simpson's. That's not to take away from his successes, just that he was much more of a chameleon than people seem to think of him. They think of his frenetic editing and camera work as his defining feature, but considering the stories of Don Simpson on set and how controlling he was, Simpson ends up feeling like a coked-up David O. Selznick.
So, when I look over the career of Tony Scott, I see three main sources of influence. I see Don Simpson. I see his elder brother Ridley Scott. And, I see himself.
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Hobby Thread - Sept 28, 2024 [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. By popular demand, a spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of BEER for this week.
We enjoy drinking beer, we enjoy trying different kinds of beer made by different people, we travel to interesting places and events to drink beer, we collect beer, and we collect beer glassware in different shapes. Some homebrew our own beer. Beer is universal. Oktoberfest is in full swing which makes beer a timely topic.
Are you a beer lover? Are you a connoisseur of beer? Are you a beerologist? Do you have stories of finding or discovering good beer? Do you have favorite seasonal beers or Oktoberfest beers? Are you among those that chase limited editions or beer made in low volumes? Have you traveled to drink beer? Do you collect beer or beer-related glassware? Have you brewed your own beer? Have you walked fields of barley or hops? Do you grow your own hops? Lets talk suds.Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (225) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 28
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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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