First-World Problems...

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THEY SHOULD TALK TO EACH OTHER!

In a world that has 24/7/365 connectivity. In a world in which nobody is more than five seconds away from contact with almost literally half the world. In a world in which toasters are connected to the internet.

Clocks don't synchronize?

What the f*ck?

This shall not stand!

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Give Me Liberty; Or Give Me Death Gimme Rags Or Gimme A New Hill To Whine On.

Normally you would see CBD here on Sunday at noon. However, he is on a mission outside of the kitchen. And you are stuck with yours truly.

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This past week Jane D'Oh submitted the following Hat Tip: Local group works to tackle period poverty

Period Poverty Awareness Week starts on Monday, May 20th.

Lacey Gero with the Alliance for Period Supplies is just one person trying to get the word out.

“Period poverty is the lack of access to a sufficient supply of period products that are needed to actually get through a menstrual cycle,” explained Gero.

One of the biggest groups impacted by this are students.

Where is this terrible tragedy taking place? Nigeria? Cambodia? Afghanistan? No this gut wrenching story comes from Savannah State University located in Savannah, Georgia, USA.

Once upon a time yours truly lived in a house with a wife and three teenage daughters. So I’m a little bit familiar with the female species. Which includes the good, the bad and the ugly. So I understand the theme of Girl Power.

And if Ms. Gero were my daughter she would not be welcomed home for quite some time. Because we raised our children to use their intellect instead of emotion. Lessons of personal responsibility were taught. And we attempted to instill in them curiosity and not accept everything on face value.

Ms Gero cannot understand normal thinking. She is intellectually lazy, has the curiosity of a facial tissue and lives in an entitlement bubble. She is surrounded by "adults" who are just as dishonest and lazy as our fearless student rabble-rouser.

Jacqueline Awe is the Director of Student Development at Savannah State University. She says their star program is a safe haven for many students needing period products.

“That’s how our program got started, " said Awe “because students were embarrassed going to class and having body odor and they weren’t going.” “We started by buying them out of our own pockets and keeping them in our offices”.

Students didn't have enough money for a tampon? Are you fucking kidding me? So these adultschildren don't have an extra $20.00 per month for a personal hygiene? I bet they have enough for monthly contraception or their daily Star Bucks concoction. What is discretionary spending for $500.

If a student doesn't have enough common sense to bath/shower on a regular basis, perhaps they aren't college material.

Just look at the Amazon site and you will find oodles and oodles of this precious product for sale. Hell, they even qualify for Mommy & Daddy's HSA account.

The following came right off the Amazon site, first item:

Rael Tampons, Slim Applicator Made with Organic Cotton Core - Tampons Multipack, Regular and Super Absorbency, BPA-Free, Leak Locker Technology, Unscented, Chlorine Free (40 Count, Bundle)
40 Count
4.3 out of 5 stars 7,079
5K+ bought in past month
$18.99 ($0.47/Count) List: $19.99
$18.04 with Subscribe & Save discount

And just think they are also organic. Saaa-weet.

I propose the following cure for these Karens. The Horde can create a Go-Fund-Me account. We can provide free hysterectomies. It would be a win-win-win-win situation. They save $240.00 give or take yearly, aren't embarrassed by body odor, we won't have to listen to them asking us to pay for their abortions and future generations of Karens would never see the light of day. Like I said, it's a win-win-win-win for all of us.

Stupidity should be painful. Very painful.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 05-19-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(not sure if he's even wearing pants--it's from the recent Met Gala.)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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EMT 5/19/24

Happy Sunday.

Note from Pixy: We're on the new server. Had a few hiccups, but it's mostly working except everyone has the same hash. That particular problem is being pretty stubborn.

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Daily Tech News and Migration Thread 19 May 2024

Top Story

• We are on the new server (yay) but the spam filter wants to ban everyone (not so good.
  
  I'm working on it.
• LLMs - large language models, which form the basis for all current commercial "AI" research - are as secure as the telephone network in the 1970s. (Schneier)
  
  And indeed they are secure in exactly the same way as the telephone network in the 1970s.
  
  Which is to say, it's a house of cards with the very finest locks, which are also made out of cards.
  
  
• I'll be starting on moving us to the new server as this thread is posted. I should be able to make everything Just Work (TM) except that comments posted to this thread may or may nor make it across initially. I'll need to come back and clean that up afterwards.
  
  I'll post an all clear once it's complete and back to better than normal.

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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (5/18/25)

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Server Move 4AM Sunday

I'll be moving the entire blog to a new server at 4AM, because as you just saw the old server is having serious problems.

This is expected to take about an hour. The site will stay up throughout, but comments posted starting 4AM until I post an "all clear" may not make it across to the new server.

My apologies to the readers who went without content while the server was taking a dirt nap, and to the bloggers here who couldn't post their content.

Technical details: The virtualisation software we use has gotten corrupted somehow and the automatic startup and monitoring scripts no longer work. The server itself has been up the entire time - it hasn't been rebooted since the datacenter fire was put out three years ago - but things on the server just stop working at random.

The only practical solution is a whole new server - which fortunately I was already in the process of setting up.

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Preparing for the Unexpected

When do "unexpected" things happen?

Walter Kirn is an author and theater guy who currently lives in Montana. He has been doing some things with Matt Taibbi lately because he is worried about the country.

What few people know about me: I drive around with supplies and gear sufficient not only to survive a terrible upheaval, but to endure for weeks afterwards and then restart civilization

No kidding: I carry an emergency library of essential world literature

In my car

Literally

There are questions and answers in the Twitter/X thread about what is included in his emergency supplies, but not much about what prompted him to decide to carry them with him.

Do you have any preparations along these lines? If you had a set of civilization restarting books, would they be different from his?

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5/18/24 Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning. You know the rules and I know who has been naughty, nice or somewhere in between.

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Daily Tech News 18 May 2024

Top Story

• Slack is taking customer data and using it for AI training. (Security Week)
  
  "You can opt out", said Slack, which didn't actually bother to tell anyone it was doing this in the first place. "You just have to call customer support."
  
  "The data is not shared with third parties and never leaves Slack's trust boundary" added a Slack representative, missing the point that Slack's trust boundary is now zero.
  
  
  

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The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is The ONT Itself

Happy Friday Folks! Looks like memes are going mainstream (this is from the court artist at Trump's trial)

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Animal Frenz and/or Undead Castles Cafe

Burg Grimmenstein, Austria
Likely birthplace of Frau Blücher
found at @mobicastle,
Photo by @max_pawlikowsky

"Grimmenstein" is just about the perfect name for that castle. It's such a perfect name that I thought I was being punked and that it's just a dumb fake castle in a video game for NERDS, but it turns out it's real.

I also think this castle was on the short list for a Led Zeppelin album cover.

"Dracula's Castle" in Romania. But you know, like 20 castles claim to be "Dracula's Castle." Let's just agree it's a castle in Romania.

Puppy love.

Sea otters having a nap.

Some next-level precision bike riding through some serious scenery.

Skier attempting to outrace an avalanche right on his heels decides the difficulty factor isn't quite high enough and so does a backflip off a jump.

Dude drives a boat like he's a henchman in a James Bond movie.

Sunset in Madeira.

I sure don't want to advertise for Red China but damn this is some scenery.

Very neat fountain with a chain of whirlpools, each emptying into the next-lower pool.

Bedtime on the farm.

The fish freaks come out at night.

Speaking of freak fish: a grouper pulls the ol' switcheroo on a shark.

Red panda meets a baby chimp.

Whale and calf.

The Girl With the Dogs grooms a shy dog who needs the comfort of his emotional support rat. Two of those words describe Michael Cohen.

Lion waits by a well, waiting to Seize and Pounce upon animals that come to drink from it. An elephant comes up and says get your candy ass out of here, Susan.

How cute is this goldendoodle? Correct answer: Very cute.

Musical mutt.

A dog loves riding on his horse.

Yeeting the workweek like...

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James Varney: Should You Believe Biden's Crank Figures on Crime, Or Your Own Lyin' Eyes?

I think this is a trick question.

Americans can be forgiven for suffering from whiplash regarding law and order.

In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place.

"Right now, with 2023 figures and early 2024, the trends are all pointing down, in a positive direction," Jeff Asher, whose New Orleans-based AH Datalytics is developing his own "Real-Time Crime Index," told RealClearInvestigations.

Conservative outlets, including City Journal and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, assert that minor declines in headline grabbers like homicides fail to capture

From 2017 to 2019, the U.S. had an average of 16,641 homicides a year. In 2021 and 2022, however, the country saw considerably more bloodshed, with an average of more than 22,000 annual homicides. Even if the 2023 number drops slightly, it will still represent a large increase over the recent past, before the pandemic and racial upheaval set in motion in 2020.

Many criminologists say this illlustrates one of the problems with the official numbers that are at the center of public debate: They give a distorted impression of true levels of crime. They note that crime stats have become notoriously incomplete in recent years. In some years many big cities did not report their numbers to the FBI, and there are such wide discrepancies in these tallies that the picture they provide has more blur than clarity.

As Varney will report in a bit, the FBI actually gave cities the go-ahead to not report crime.

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But the FBI statistics aren't what they used to be, according to several criminologists who pointed to gaps in coverage and apparent errors. The problem began in 1988 when the bureau began to move toward a complex new system of reporting -- the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). It promised to provide more comprehensive detail and enable authorities to pinpoint high-crime areas, criminals, and victims more accurately.

But the transition proved to be a herculean task, so much so that the FBI allowed departments to delay their full adherence to the program even after the feds doled out $120 million to agencies to assist with compliance. Still, in 2020, 2021 and 2022, either all or some of the biggest police forces in the U.S. -- New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles -- did not provide data.

There have also been problems with the data that was submitted, including the news in 2022 of major problems with the St. Louis Police Department data, and more recent revelations that figures for sexual crimes provided by the New Orleans Police Department were wrong.

In Baltimore, the Police Department and various news reports put the total for 2022 homicides between 332 and 336, but the FBI's dataset puts the number at 272. Baltimore police officials did not reply to RCI's inquiries about the wide spread in the reported numbers, and if anyone in the city's police department had brought the matter to the FBI's attention.

The Baltimore department acknowledges its numbers may not be the same as those it submits to the FBI, but states on its website that "any comparisons are strictly prohibited."

Similarly, the police departments in Milwaukee and Nashville did not respond to questions about divergences between their stats on robberies and those from the federal bureau. Milwaukee police reported a 7 percent increase in robberies in 2023, but the FBI recorded a 13 percent decline.

An FBI spokesperson told RCI, "It is the responsibility of each state UCR [Uniform Crime Reports] program or contributing law enforcement agency to submit accurate statistics and correct existing data that are in error."

Yes, and I'm sure the blue states which have chosen a deadly decarceration agenda -- setting the criminals free to brutalize the law-abiding -- will get right on correcting their incomplete data.

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Eco Wackos Scheme About How to Make People Eat Bugs

A study -- and don't we all love new "studies" commissioned by the leftwing thought-controllers? -- says that people can be made to eat zee bugz, but virst ve must break down zeir zilly psychological aversion to eating zee "disgusting" bugz.

The "disgust factor" must be overcome if insect-based foods are to become mainstream, according to a study.

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Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are estimated to already eat insects to some degree.

There are hopes Western attitudes could shift over time, perhaps in a similar way that food such as sushi has become mainstream.

"Insects are a potentially rich source of protein and micro-nutrients and could help provide a solution to the double burden of obesity and undernutrition," said study lead Dr Lauren McGale, from Edge Hill University in Lancashire.

It can solve the problems of both overeating and starvation.

You're not being hustled at all. By the way, becoming trans will solve your psychological problems of aggression and shyness. Both of them!

"Some insect proteins, such as ground crickets or freeze-dried mealworms, are cheaper and easier to farm, often lower in fat and have a lower environmental impact than traditional livestock."

We're still on that "fat is bad" talking point? What is this, 1975? Did you hear that on Merv Griffin?

This is being pushed, as usual, by radical vegetarians. Every time you see a "study" attacking meat, it's by a vegetarian extremist group.

They don't care about human health, only animal welfare.

However, most people are still very reluctant due to preconceptions over taste and appearance.

But the study also found they were significantly more likely to give insects a go if they are ground into a powder.

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Only 13% of the 603 people questioned in the UK study said they would be willing to regularly eat insect food.

Some 47% said they wouldn't eat it regularly, and 40% were unsure.

More than 82% of people expected insect food to be crunchy, 64.6% salty, and 62.4% bitter.

Only 24% said they expected to like the flavour, with just 14.1% believing insect food would look appetising.

Younger people also appeared more squeamish - and each year younger was associated with a 2% increase in saying "no" to the idea.

Their plan, I speculate, is to just start using bug powder it as filler in packaged foods and then in ground meats. They will lobby to allow adding it without disclosing to the public that the food contains bug powder. They will claim it's just animal protein -- well, not animal, but protein -- so why should they inform the public that some protein has been added?

That'll help get them over the squeamishness hurdle.

From Beege Welborne.

Apparently, in Germany, they're already adding bug powder without telling customers. People had to set up websites to inform the public of what foods the bug powder is being added to:

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Scenes From Democrat-Controlled America: Illegal Alien Serial Rapist Abducted Women Into His Van, a "Rape Dungeon on Wheels"

We're seeing Cultural Enrichment figures not seen since the expansionary phase of the universe.

An illegal migrant allegedly went on a serial raping spree in Southern California, attacking his victims in a "rape dungeon on wheels" before he was caught in the act by cops.

Eduardo Sarabia, 40, was arrested Monday with a 26-year-old woman inside his decked-out van, which he had driven to a remote area of the San Gabriel Mountains near San Bernadino, sources told Fox 11.

It was the second time in two days that he allegedly took a victim to the secluded spot -- but investigators suspect that Sarabia's twisted spree lasted much longer.
Eduardo Sarabia mugshot.Eduardo Sarabia was allegedly caught assaulting one of the two female victims he drove out to a remote area of the San Gabriel Mountains. Los Angeles County District Attorney

"The horrific and violent sexual assault that these two survivors endured by the alleged suspect is deeply troubling and incomprehensible. Our thoughts are with the victims during this tremendously difficult time," LA County District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday.

According to the LA Sheriff's Department, Sarabia drove both his female victims to a dark turnout in the forest off the highway on May 12 and 13, respectively. Both attacks took place around 10 p.m.

Sarabia's white 2015 Ford Transit van -- described as a "rape dungeon on wheels" -- had no windows and was "disgustingly outfitted for rape," sources told Fox 11.

In further news from the lawless Soros Zones (hey -- that's catchy), a "man" stopped his bike to scream at Orthodox Jewish kids playing on the sidewalk that they're not allowed on the sidewalk -- uh, why? -- and then began beating them, stomping one child when he was on the ground.

Why are they not allowed on the sidewalk? He has an electric bicycle; he's supposed to drive on the street, and was in fact so driving. Is he just the sidewalk vigilante making sure that Jewish kids don't play outside?

There's video of the attack, fortunately. I assume that no hate crime charges will be brought, as usual.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is speeding up the asylum process, to make sure all the illegals who crossed the border have official papers allowing them to stay.

The Biden administration is accelerating the asylum timeline for migrants who enter the US illegally en route to five major cities.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket will swiftly place single adults before immigration judges in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.

Those asylum claims must be resolved within 180 days, though grace periods would be granted in some circumstances for migrants to obtain the necessary legal representation.

More than 3 million asylum cases were being considered in the US as of December, and many have to wait years before their claims are resolved.

As of May of last year, migrants crossing into Texas from Mexico were handed paperwork that put their court dates in Chicago as far in the future as 2032.

In Miami, a an Imam, a Dentist, and a Cultural Enricher -- a real triple threat -- is preaching hatred against Jews, calling them "pigs and monkeys."

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Democrat Megadonors Are Closing Their Wallets to Biden Over His Embrace of Hamas -- and Maybe They'll Even Support Trump

Eli Lake on the sudden rise of the "Never Bidens."

Donors who once worried more about Donald Trump now see the president's bid for a second term as the greater threat to America.

By Eli Lake

Joe Biden's threat last week to freeze arms shipments to Israel along with reports that his administration is withholding intelligence about Hamas leaders' whereabouts has reverberated throughout U.S. politics. Now, some Never Trump donors say the Biden administration's policy toward the Jewish state is such a betrayal they're considering jumping on board the Trump train.

Call it the rise of the Never Bidens, donors who once were more worried about Trump but now see Joe Biden's bid for a second term the greater threat to America. The Free Press spoke with four donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars in the last election cycle. They say they are reconsidering their political giving in light of the president's approach to the Israel-Hamas war.

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Cliff Asness, a Republican donor who says he "spent well over seven figures" to support Trump's primary opponent Nikki Haley, told The Free Press that "My 'Never Again' is trumping my 'Never Trump' these days."

Cliff Asness, of course, funds the "Clifford Asness Chair of Liberty" currently occupied by Jonah Goldberg's immense, well-padded ass at AEI or whatever grifter operation that pays him to write propaganda for the plutocrat class.

"Biden is a huge disappointment, really a moral outrage with this arms embargo being only the latest and greatest outrage," continued Asness, the co-founder of AQR Capital Management. "Despite my long opposition to him, this makes me more likely, though I haven't quite gotten there yet, to see Trump as the better of two bad alternatives."

You may remember that Jonah and several of his chins reported that he was speaking to very serious NeverTrumpers who were all considering ditching Biden in favor of Trump. I assume Asness would be a likely one.

If Asness flips to Trump, does Jonah continue to collect his grifter checks from Asness?

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Billionaire entertainment mogul and major Democratic donor Haim Saban wrote of Biden's policy switch in an email to two senior White House advisers last week: "Let's not forget that there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas."

And after CNN aired Biden's comments on Wednesday, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, a registered Democrat, took to X to call the move "one of the worst acts against an ally of a sitting president ever. Hopefully, this means he won't be sitting for longer."

David Friedman, who served as Trump's ambassador to Israel and has been in touch with many Trump-skeptic Jewish donors though he has no official role on the campaign, told The Free Press that he has seen "more Jewish money coming in" for Trump in the election.

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Michael Granoff, a managing partner of Maniv, a venture fund dedicated to clean transportation technology, told The Free Press that he voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but has lost confidence in the president: "I am not voting for Biden. I'm not saying I'm voting for Trump, but it's a nonzero chance now." Granoff was a staffer on the Clinton-Gore campaign and was a close friend of the late senator Joe Lieberman.

As I snarked before, so now there's no longer an Absolute Moral Necessity to support Biden (and before Biden, Hillary) over Trump?

I guess when your own ox is being gored, airy, vague notions of morality kind of go out the window.

In related news, the Republican Jewish Coalition has announced a big $20 million commitment to elect Trump, citing Biden's betrayal on Israel.

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has announced its largest-ever fundraising campaign, committing $20 million to support former President Trump's 2024 bid, citing President Biden's hostility towards Israel and inaction towards Palestinian, Hamas-sympathizing protests on university campuses.

The RJC is committed to raising a minimum of $5 million through donors and the RJC Victory Fund super PAC.

An additional $15 million independent expenditure is planned, the largest in RJC's history.

The announcement comes amid anti-Israel protests on college campuses and criticism of Biden's stance on Israel.

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The Faculty of Columbia University Votes "No Confidence" In the Dean.
Not For Allowing the Illegal Encampments for Weeks.
But for Calling the Cops to Finally Clear the Camps Out.

Before getting to that, an update to the last post.

If you somehow missed the hot congressional mess, check out this video.

Babylon Bee says what everyone was thinking.

And, in case you missed it, Little Miss Thing is now even having a hissy-fit at John Fetterman. From redridinghood:

Senator John Fetterman
@SenFettermanPA

In the past, I've described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show.

Today, I'm apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.

CNN Article:

"House committee meeting devolves into chaos as Greene and Ocasio-Cortez trade barbs"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a "both sides" issue.

But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.

And to the women of Pennsylvania: I'd stand up for you too.

Enjoy your Friday.

Back to our regularly scheduled post.

Cut. Them. Off.

These are leftwing indoctrination camps -- the public should not be funding these pits of ignorance and hatred. These schools are not for all Americans; they are for a small cadre of Marxist revolutionaries.

Cut the off. Not one more dime. You can agitate for revolution, but when you've got a gun to the taxpayers' head, forcing them to fund your revolution.

Faculty members of Columbia University's School of Arts and Sciences supported a motion of "no confidence" against president Minouche Shafik on Thursday as the university continues to grapple with the fallout of a tumultuous few weeks on campus brought on by anti-Israel protests.

Sixty-five percent of the 709 faculty members who cast a vote supported the motion, which was introduced by faculty who serve on the board of Columbia's chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Twenty-nine percent voted against the motion while another 6 percent abstained, according to the Washington Post.

The motion centers on Shafik's decision to call in the New York Police Department last month to clear out an encampment of anti-Israel protesters at the university without first speaking with the university senate.

"The President's choices to ignore our statutes and our norms of academic freedom and shared governance, to have our students arrested, and to impose a lockdown of our campus with continuing police presence, have gravely undermined our confidence in her," the motion reads. "A vote of no confidence in the President is the first step towards rebuilding our community and reestablishing the University's core values of free speech, the right to peaceful assembly, and shared governance."

I assume the vote carries no actual weight, because no one's talking about her stepping down or the like.

One advantage we have in our struggle against these violent-minded barbaric revolutionaries is that, it turns out, they are all pussies and weaklings. Sam J. at Twitchy brings this delightful tale of the #PrincetonResistance.

The last time we checked in with these valiant revolutionaries, they were doing Fasting Relays, passing the Hunger Strike Baton to the next intermittent faster because they didn't want to risk the LETHAL DANGER of going without food for 10 days.

Now they demonstrate a whole new level of conspicuous bravery:

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Quick Hits

An early quick hits, because we've got some funny videos that can't wait.

Even Democrats have to admit that Michael Cohen "sh*t the bed."

Blanche's questioning zeroed in on Cohen's plea deal in 2018 for campaign finance violations and tax evasion. Cohen admitted that prosecutors threatened to bring an 80-page indictment against his wife if he did not accept the plea deal within 48 hours; contradicting previous testimony that he had not been pressured or induced to accept the deal. " That was a lie?" Blanche asked, to which Cohen eventually responded, "That was not true, correct... that was a lie." Blanche also suggested that Cohen had lied to the judge in the hope of receiving a shorter sentence for his cooperation.

The defense's line of questioning grew increasingly aggressive, particularly over a key phone call in 2016. Cohen claimed the call was made to discuss the Stormy Daniels matter with Trump. However, text messages presented to the court showed Cohen had texted Trump's bodyguard, Keith Schiller, for advice on dealing with prank calls from a teenager.

"That was a lie," Mr. Blanche told Cohen." You were actually talking to Mr. Schiller that you were getting harassing phone calls from a 14-year-old...That. Was. A. Lie. You did not talk to President Trump," Blanche added.

In dealing with the teenager, Cohen also seemingly threatened the 14-year-old who texted Cohen, "Please don't do this." With Cohen responding, "Please have your parent or guardian contact me, before Secret Service reaches out to them."

"That was a lie," Blanche declared, accusing Cohen of lying about the nature of the call. "You did not talk to President Trump."

Cohen insisted that the brief conversation with Trump did touch on the Stormy Daniels issue. However, the defense's strategy focused on portraying Cohen as a vengeful ex-employee seeking to harm Trump. They played excerpts from Cohen's podcast, where he expressed his joy at Trump's indictment and his hope that Trump would go to prison. "I truly f***ing hope he goes to prison," Cohen was recorded saying, emphasizing his personal vendetta.

The defense also brought up Cohen's disappointment at not being offered a White House job, suggesting this was another motive for his cooperation with prosecutors. Cohen maintained that he had no shame in being Trump's personal attorney and had always been clear about his intentions. "I could monetize that -- which I did," he stated.

So "Mr. Fixer" isn't going to be on Bravo, then?

Anderson Cooper melted down on CNN at how "devastating" Cohen's obvious lies were for his credibility, and said that if he were a juror, he would just think that Cohen was "making it up as he goes along."

Elon Musk shows off his big huge rocket.

Of course: Gender transition surgery doesn't decrease suicide attempts. Rather, in increases those attempts by 1,200% (12x as likely).

But we're good people for indoctrinating children to cultivate mental illness, disfigurement, and suicide, right? Right, we're Very Good People.

Some months ago a video went viral. The video showed a college professor employing the Socratic method to ask why a student was asserting that J.K. Rowling was a dangerous homophobe. The teacher just asked what actual facts the student had seen to establish this, eventually leading the student to the conclusion that really, he was just going by what "everyone says" on Twitter.

He showed great skill in teaching critical thinking. And common sense.

So of course the f*cking leftwing school fired him, also telling him that he was not to talk about the firing, with the hint that his severance package will be reduced or zeroed out if he did talk about it.

Not. Another. Dime. If these schools aren't for all Americans -- and they're not, they're only for a cadre of lunatics and violent revolutionaries -- the taxpayers should not be compelled at gunpoint to fund them.

House Republican: Biden has signed an illegal executive order to "weaponize" the federal government into a turn-out machine for the Democrat Party.

An executive order issued by President Joe Biden that directed federal agencies to coordinate with outside groups on sprawling voter turnout is being used as a tool to "weaponize" the federal government, according to a top GOP lawmaker.

"What they have done is weaponize all federal agencies on behalf of President Biden's reelection campaign," House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) said during a Thursday hearing on noncitizen voting and foreign influence in elections.

"Our federal agencies should be focused on serving the American people, not focused on reelecting President Biden," Steil said in the hearing. "As we see the actions taken by this administration to leverage taxpayer dollars for political purposes, that should be concerning to all citizens."

Steil's comments on Thursday come after multiple reports from the Washington Examiner on how groups linked to the planning and implementation of Biden's executive order, which was issued in March 2021, appear to be overwhelmingly of the progressive Left. The order calls for agencies to register voters with the help of "approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and state officials."

A Washington Examiner investigation found that staffers from one group called Vot-ER listed as having been on a 2021 planning call with groups for the executive order is funded by Democratic dark money groups and led by left-wing activists. Some legal experts have raised concerns over whether Vot-ER and its partners in taxpayer-funded public health centers are acting nonpartisan in accordance with federal rules.

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Lying Corrupt Regime Government Finally Admits: You Bet Your Ass We Ordered the Gain-of-Function Code Red in Wuhan

An official at the NIH has admitted the obvious: Fauci and Francis Collins did in fact fund gain-of-function research at Wuhan.

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in the months and years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Dr. Tabak," asked Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, "did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through [Manhattan-based nonprofit] EcoHealth [Alliance]?"

"It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research," Tabak answered. "If you're speaking about the generic term, yes, we did."

The response comes after more than four years of evasions from federal public health officials -- including Tabak himself and former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci -- about the controversial research practice that modifies viruses to make them more infectious.

Tabak added that "this is research, the generic term [gain-of-function], is research that goes on in many, many labs around the country. It is not regulated. And the reason it's not regulated is it poses no threat or harm to anybody."

Dr. Bryce Nickels, a professor of genetics at Rutgers University and co-founder of the pandemic oversight group Biosafety Now, told The Post the exchange "was two people talking past each other."

"Tabak was engaging in the usual obfuscation and semantic manipulation that is so frustrating and pointless," Nickels said, adding that the NIH bigwig was resisting accountability for risky research that can create pathogens of pandemic potential.
Researchers working in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017.

He continues supporting Fauci's nonsense distinction between "general gain-of-function" and gain-of-function specifically designed to make a virus infectious for humans. Fauci always lies and claims there's no "gain of function" being funded, but he's relying on this b***shit distinction. He defines "gain of function" to mean a specific kind of gain of function, and then says he's not funding gain of function.

And please do note, he never says that he is employing a narrow definition of gain of function. He just states with no caveat or narrowing of definition that he's not funding gain of function, period.

Perjuring himself. Repeatedly.

And now this Dr. Tabak says well, sure, if you're talking about "general gain of function, we did do that."

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Whoops! Despite the Left's Never Ending Attack on Justice Thomas for Taking Vacations Paid for By Friends, Joe Biden Just "Accidentally" Forgot to Disclose Vacations Paid for By His Political Cronies

I'm sure it's all just a big mistake.

President Biden failed again to note his free stays at the vacation homes of rich patrons on annual ethics forms made public this week -- making the omission days after ProPublica was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for chronicling Supreme Court justices' non-disclosures under the same transparency rule.

Biden took four vacations at the homes of wealthy supporters in 2023, none of which were listed as gifts on the forms signed by the president. The annual paperwork must be submitted by federal officeholders -- including judges and presidents -- under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

"If there's a deliberate omission of a gift, an intentional lie, that can very well be prosecuted as a criminal offense," said Richard Painter, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush.

"It just seems to me to be stupid to leave it off the form because everyone knows about [presidential] trips and everyone's going to ask who paid," added Painter, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Democrat in 2018 and 2022.

Yes, it's just stupid. It's not deliberate lawbreaking. Just an oopsie.

"So you either have to pay for the house, make sure the owner is present or put it on the form. Those are your three options."

Biden and his family began and ended 2023 with free stays over the New Year's holiday at the beachfront St. Croix home of Bill and Connie Neville, which is typically listed as a VRBO rental.

Bill Neville is the founder of the US Viking software company, which makes an online content platform called ENPS marketed by The Associated Press and used by various news outlets.

Biden also enjoyed a six-day Thanksgiving stay at billionaire hedge fund founder David Rubenstein's Nantucket compound last year and nine days in August at billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer's waterfront Lake Tahoe retreat in Nevada.

Biden's time at Rubenstein's compound is believed to have been unpaid, though neither party has confirmed it.

This is a lame post but I'll put another one up quickly.

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