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April 02, 2024

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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20 years ago many of us would laugh at the idea of a separate American foreign policy and surveillance state being run by the apparatchiks in the intelligence establishment. "Of course that isn't happening! And of course the Patriot Act is necessary! Our government wouldn't abuse its power!"

That's just conspiracy theorist blather...right?

I cringe at my naivete.

Is a Larger Conflict Brewing in Eastern Europe?

Ukraine has long been rumored to be a country containing multiple CIA black sites. I have an independent source telling me the same. This source is also telling me that the same type of black sites are active and operating in Poland. This claim caused me to take a deeper look at Poland and what the defense temperament there was. What I found was disturbing and leads me to believe that my source is accurate in their claim.

Poland has substantial military goals and appears to be planning to use US resources to achieve those goals.


While I do not subscribe to the theory that Poland will become expansionist, the existence of CIA black sites in Poland is troubling because the record of our intelligence services is one of almost perfect failure over the last 75 years.

Are they trying to export American control (and graft) from Ukraine to Poland? Are they trying to integrate themselves into the Polish political establishment and create a second front in their insane war against Russia?

Would anyone be surprised if those suppositions turned out to be accurate?

This goes hand in hand with the shadow government doing everything in its power to handcuff Israel in its justified war against Islam, in the form of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. Oh...some of those weapons Hamas uses against Israel? They come from Afghanistan; they are American weapons left in our scramble to leave. Or left purposefully? At this point, that insane conspiracy theory wouldn't surprise me at all!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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Old Ferry Slip
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The Morning Report — 4/2/24

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Good morning, kids. With Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' having a brain that's just that, and between the massive doses of cholinesterase inhibitors, adderall and kaopectate with viagra and teeny-bopper hair scent, he doesn't know whether he's coming or going. Now, with the justified (and in my opinion mild), backlash for his, or his handlers', defiling of the sanctity of Easter with this "Trans Day of Visibility" abomination – put down as an official Presidential proclamation/communiqué from the White House on Easter – suddenly "I did that!" becomes "I didn't do that!" in a nanosecond.

"I didn’t do that," Biden said when asked about proclaiming Easter Sunday 'trans day of visibility." Asked about Speaker Johnson's claim otherwise, the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] replied, "he’s thoroughly uninformed."

Which is funny because as the beeping sound a truck makes in reverse still reverberates, mop-topped imbecile mouthpiece Karine Jean Pierre is blaming Republicans, conservatives, Christians and anyone with even an iota of sanity stating, get this. . .

[It's] unsurprising that politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, and dishonest rhetoric."

Holy Funk & Wagnalls, Batman! That's about as close to the most perfect definition of Leftist projection as I've ever heard. Everything these evil bastards have done has done nothing but demonize the American founding, its people, culture, history and heritage for the purpose of dividing and conquering. Until my dying day, every problem and catastrophe, all the bloodshed, violence, misery and strife we have experienced almost since the founding is either directly the fault of or has been exacerbated by Leftists, socialists, progressives and their official home, the Democrat Party. Period, full stop.

Transsexualism is a psychotic disorder affecting perhaps a statistical handful of twisted individuals. What has the Left done? Turned them into a persecuted minority of significant numbers and equated them to Elie Wiesel dressed up in full drag regalia as Rosa Parks. Anyone who objects to that, or calls a spade a spade so to speak is viewed as the moral equivalent of Hitler. Or Donald Trump. And what Hitler did to the Jews, which the inhabitants of Dearbornistan and Mogadishappolis on alternate days claim either never happened or didn't go far enough, is what Trump and his white Christian nationalist insurrectionists will do to these poor helpless transexuals.

So, if one is told that one is in imminent danger of being loaded onto a cattle car and taken to a gas chamber, then all bets are off, right? Er, Left?

A former student at the school, Audrey Hale carefully planned the attack for months. She compiled a massive “manifesto,” which police, the FBI, and trans activists sought to keep suppressed. According to the Trans Resistance Network (TRN), Audrey Hale had “no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the lives of others.” That evokes the deadly dynamics behind the Nashville murder spree.

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained, the line between good and evil runs straight down the middle of the human heart, and all human hearts. For the left, that line runs between social classes, nobles and peasants, workers and bosses, rich and poor, blacks and whites, and so forth. Trans ideology, the anti-scientific belief that woman can become men and vice versa, takes this division to another level.

“Homosexuality and transgenderism are two utterly different phenomena,” explains Bruce Bawer, author of A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, but both groups are now enlisted in “the LGBTQ+ family.” That construct makes about as much sense as VBTPTA, the Vegetarian Butcher Terrorist Pacifist Teetotaler Alcoholic “family” or “community.”

Bawer outs the trans movement as a “revolution against reality itself,” a division that pits those who recognize reality against those who don’t. The trans types believe they are under attack from those who recognize reality. Those people, the trans types have convinced themselves, are guilty of “genocide.” They thus qualify for deadly violence, fueled by another dynamic.

“Nothing is more dangerous than a general idea in narrow, empty minds,” explains Hippolyte Taine, historian of the French Revolution. “As they are empty, it finds no knowledge there to interfere with it; as they are narrow it is not long before it occupies the place entirely. Henceforth they no longer belong to themselves but are mastered by it; it works in them and through them, the man, in the true sense of the word, being possessed.”

. . . Even in Washington, it’s hard to think of anybody with a narrower or emptier mind than Joe Biden, in Conrad Black’s phrase a wax-works effigy of a president. Biden is all-in with the general idea, the killer construct, and the revolt against reality. In that cause, the Delaware Democrat is hardly alone.

Last year, two months after the Nashville massacre, the Biden White House marked the anniversary of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Kamala Harris named all the Uvalde victims but last year failed to name the Nashville victims or condemn Audrey Hale. An online search reveals no statement by Harris on the anniversary of Audrey Hale’s attack.

The estimable Lloyd Billingsley nails it. The mass psychosis of demanding we recognize that men can be women and vice versa goes hand in had with the concept of "woke" algebra, "woke" engineering, "woke" chemistry and on and on and on. At some point, merely declaring the emperor has no clothes will not be enough since uttering those very words could lead to quite literally a death sentence, either carried out by a tyrannical State or by street thugs and terrorists that are nod-and-a-wink approved by said State.

Declaring Good Friday to be "Trans Day of Visibility" is the moral equivalent of burning a cross on a black man's lawn. Something that Democrats and Democrats alone are very good at. And yet, "Trans Day of Vengeance" got short shrift in the media, as did this brain damaged Leftist Audrey Hale who took it quite seriously, and slaughtered innocent children. But, being Christian means to be guilty of 2,000 years of crimes against colored people of color, homosexuals, Muslims, indigenous persons and the spirit of John Lennon's "Imagine." Jews not included, of course. Unless they're already dead and their deaths can be blamed on Hitler or literal Hitler Donald Trump and his supporters.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, the RINOs have got a fever and the only cure is to surrender Congress before November and burn the country down in the process:

A handful of RINO members of Congress have either resigned or announced their intentions to do so in the coming weeks to months. They claim this is in protest to the now all but certain nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate. . .

. . . Nature abhors a vacuum, and the absence of serious Republican candidates or leaders since Reagan served up Donald Trump. Love or hate his personality, he teed up conservative policies that benefited America and her people, in an “America First” manner.

Now we have Joe Biden and his {junta] doing everything to hurt America and her people in an “America Last” agenda. If not Trump, then the GOP might as well resign itself to being an irrelevant permanent minority party on the national stage.

It’s not only Senator Murkowski throwing in the towel, but recently Rep. Ken Buck and soon, Rep. Mike Gallagher. I wrote about the Colorado Congressman’s abrupt exit in these pages a few weeks ago.

Was it a carrot or stick? Did someone offer him treasures or was kompromat held over his head? Or was it a middle-fingered gesture to the party of Trump? As he is in a solid red district, his departure won’t tip the balance of power in the U.S. House. Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, serving his fourth term in Congress, is also leaving Congress abruptly for reasons unknown, other than a likely gesture to the GOP that mirrors Buck’s sentiments. And his exit may tip the balance of power. . .

. . . As the uniparty cannot beat Trump at the ballot box, they are taking another approach. By ceding power to the Democrats, NeverTrump Republicans can with allegedly clean hands, destroy the leader of their party. And the party itself for daring to vote for Trump. In similar fashion, Jesus was betrayed or handed over like a hot potato to his eventual crucifiers, each contributing person or party telling themselves they had clean hands, deceitfully playing their small role in the process. . .

. . . SCOTUS teed up the solution to getting rid of Trump to Congress. In other words, states can’t keep Trump off the ballot, but Congress can offer legislation that Trump is an insurrectionist and should be kept off the ballot. This would occur on day one of Democrat control of the House, and with Democrat control of the Senate and White House, would be signed into law immediately. What about “judicial review”? Judging from the SCOTUS decision, such review would not favor Trump.

How convenient. Reps. Buck, Gallagher, and others can maintain innocence, like Pilate, “washing their hands” of this scheme to end Trump’s quest for a second term, by simply resigning “over principles” or “to spend more time with the family.”

. . . Will it work? Who knows? Trump is not naïve and doesn’t like losing, so I am sure he has gamed this out. But it’s clear that the Washington D.C. establishment, the ruling class, the deep state, the blob, or whatever you want to call it, views Donald Trump as an existential threat to their perks, power, and survival and is pulling out all the stops to stop him.

They forget that “We the People” are Constitutionally supposed to be in charge. When governments actively defy the will of the people, it never ends well, either in dictatorship and tyranny or in revolution.

Indeed. I'd say, there will be blood. But there already has been blood – OURS, from Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland, to the innocents at the Covenant School in Nashville, to Laken Riley and on and on. I abhor violence, but I'm sick and tired of it being our hair getting mussed to the exclusion of those doing the mussing.

PRIMARY DAY REMINDER: Wisconsinites, get out and vote YES, that is FOR, on the two election integrity/dark money ballot initiatives. And for any non-leftist running locally! Ditto to all other state elections with similar candidates/inititavies.

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April 01, 2024

Overnight Open Thread (4/1/2024) [J. Edgar Phallenburger IV]

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What an honor! I've known Ace for many years...we went to prep school together and were D&D partners for a few years in college (not the same school, but it was just down the street). I could tell you stories about his characters! What a perv!

But never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be offered a chance to host an Overnight Thread! I had to promise that I wouldn't tell the story about why he is called an Ewok, and no stories about school, or afterwards. Not even the one about him crapping his pants in public. Well...his assless chaps to be precise. But he didn't mention any of his girlfriends being off limits, so I dug up a photo of the best looking one.

I embedded his favorite group's best song (according to Ace) behind his sophomore year photo up above....

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On a Lighter Note: Noted Philosopher LeBron James Suddenly Has Thoughts About the Importance of Property Rights


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NEW: LeBron James appears to suddenly care about the pitfalls of progressive policies as he has reportedly become "very concerned" about squatters in his neighborhood.

Two-doors down from James' Beverly Hills property, squatters have taken over a home.

The home is used for "cocaine orgy parties" by the squatters.

According to news outlet @Curbed, James is "very concerned."

"One of the neighbors got in touch with LeBron James's house manager. They were told James was very concerned," the outlet reported.

James purchased his property for $36.8 million in 2022 and tore down the home that was on it to build his dream home.

The squatter home throws frequent parties that usually don't start until 2am.

The squatters are even impacting James' pockets. The NBA star reportedly needs 24/7 security guards because of the frequent parties.

Police are not able to evict the squatters because they produced a fake lease agreement and obtained drivers licenses with the address of the property.

The neighborhood also belongs to celebrities like John Legend and Seth McFarlane.

Via AndyCanuck.

Pretty soon we'll see him reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

He'll be on page 1, obviously.

Oh, by the way, if you're looking for a gift for David French, may I suggest this new boardgame Gay Sauna?

And here's a review from the profane British reviewer "Bollocks Games:"

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Comic Artist Commits Suicide After Being Cancelled by Fellow Comics SJWs and the Media

Ed Piskor is -- was -- a comics artist and a cohost of a comics YouTube show called Cartoonist Kayfabe.

He's apparently a leftwing guy. When Ethan Van Sciver's brother Noah -- who is also a cartoonist -- attempted to take a picture with him, Piskor refused and said he would not be photographed with any Van Scivers.

He's not any kind of hero but I guess can be counted as a martyr for the leftwing cause.

Last week, a woman alleged that Piskor had flirted with her inappropriately when she was then 17 (and Piskor knew that).

The woman withheld all of the tweets, which I suspect she did to conceal the fact that she was flirting herself.

Yes, I know it's still wrong. Not illegal, technically, as the age of consent in Pennsylvania (where both were located) is 16.

And the DMs were not horrible. But he did call her a "naughty girl" and offer her a couch to sleep on if she ever traveled to his city.

Later, an adult woman, who apparently Piskor had been sleeping with on and off for years, decided to jump on the #MeToo cancellation train and allege that Piskor had offered to get her in touch with his own agent, but only if she gave him oral sex.

At this point all of the predictable #cancelers in the comics industry demanded that all of his friends turn away from him. Some people went to a local gallery that was to exhibit his work and demanded they cancel his show; they did.

Local media went to his elderly parents' home and demanded they answer questions about his son sending inappropriate but not illegal DMs three years ago.

His co-host on Cartoonist Kayfabe announced that he was ending his "professional association" with Piskor.

Well, earlier today, Piskor posted a suicide note to FaceBook:


I'm so sorry for being so stupid. I definitely should never have talked with Molly D. The language and optics look real dumb at best but I promise my innocence. Especially out of context it looks terrible. It was the height of Covid with no end in sight and I was alone through most of it . I was just happy to have the internet to talk to people with common interests.

He further explains some of the inappropriate DMs. You can read the whole thing here.

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Then seeing these dms even further out of context on other news outlets and media sites. Matt P at the [Pittsburgh] city paper, you know what you did to skew your narrative. Fuck you. But they surely gave themselves their own plausible deniability by asking me for comments right as I'm trying not to jump off a bridge or something.

Molly Wright [the woman who emerged to claim he'd said he'd give her his agent's number if she gave him oral sex] is a conundrum to me and her actions border criminal. He said/ she said never looks good but none of what she said happened and I can't believe she'd be so malicious and pile on like this... I never was interested in a relationship with her. We had sex twice and she initiated both times....

More like that, which I'll leave you to read, if you want to.

He then talks about how nothing was more important to him than comics, which he's now been canceled from.

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Now it's all gone. Art show evaporated. Was about to sign a $75k deal for Switchblade Shorties with Abrams, Cartoonist Kayfabe ends with Jimmy's "shocking revelations" statement (those words hurt).

That's the co-host of the show, Jim Rugg, who announced he was ending his "professional association" with Ed Piskor over these "shocking revelations."


I have no friends in this life any longer. I'm a disappointment to everybody who liked me. I'm a pariah. News organizations at my door and hassling my elderly parents. It's too much. Putting our addresses on tv and the internet.

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Some good people reached out and tried to help me through this whole thing but I'm just not strong enough. The instinctual part of my brain knows that I'm no longer part of the tribe. I'm exiled and banished. I'm giving into my instincts and fighting them at the same time. Self preservation has lost out.

People are social animals and when they're cast out of pack, they often think of just walking into the woods.

He continues like that. I don't want to quote more of his suicide note.

Except, at the end, he blasts the #Cancelers who drove him to suicide, by name. These are the same people who join in every single cancel mob and who work to gatekeep conservatives out of comics:


There were so many out there waiting in the wings for something like this to emerge. Daryl Ayo Braithwait called it a kill shot. You all got your wish. You were waiting for something to blow out of proportion and it got served to you on a silver platter. Ramon Villalobos, Cam Del Rosario, JB Roe, Molly Wright, congratulations.

Ramon Villalobos is a gigantically fat piece-of-shit last seen trying to cancel that Boston comic book shop owner for saying that comic writers should write Iron Man as Iron Man and not as if he's 21-year-old social-media addicted progressive.

You got your pound of flesh. Evan Dorkin, I hope skeletons from your closet get revealed someday. Alex DeCampi, may you continue to have zero success no matter how hard you continuously leverage other people's business from your bully pulpit.

Alex DeCampi is involved in every comics cancellation and is always, as Piskor says, attempting to leverage her way into jobs she shouldn't have by just letting it be known that if you're on her s*** list, she can and will destroy you.

Fake comic book "journalist" Heidi McDonald had her shit leftwing website join in.

In case you're wondering why lefties would try to get another lefty to kill himself: This is just sport for them. Plus, every white male removed from the hierarchy creates another space for a leftwing woman or minority to move into!

The accusations began this past weekend, when a young female-presenting cartoonist, whose name we are not publishing here, shared screenshots of DMs with Piskor via Instagram Stories.

Female presenting. Heidi McDonald doesn't want to commit the grave sin of Assuming a Woman Is In Fact a Woman, but she will beckon someone to the grave.


The rest of the letter is concerned with telling his parents how to dispose of his property and things like that.

His sister has confirmed that he is dead.

Ethan Van Sciver said that his idea he'd get vengeance on his tormentors with his suicide is just wrong; they're evil people who routinely do this in hopes that their targets will commit suicide. They're proud of this. They're counting this as a big win.

Cancellation has consequences. Everyone I know who's been cancelled, and has talked about it, has reported having suicidal thoughts.

But the cancelers will continue cancelling. As I said: This is the goal they are seeking. They don't want anyone coming back from a cancellation. They hate when people come back, even if just a little, from a cancellation.

They want the cancellation to be PERMANENT.

And that means: They want the suicide. They want the body.

And they can't say they didn't know cancellation often results in suicide. This is not the first known cancellation suicide. Grungy whore Zoe Quinn cancelled a game developer into suicide.

She was, of course, welcomed into comics. Her resume was impeccable: She had no talent but was vicious, promiscuous, and lethal.

Suicide isn't really ever vengeance. Living well is the best revenge. Every setback is the first stage of a comeback.

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No Big Deal, Just the FBI Interrogating Citizens About Their Social Media Posts

Just your government checking up on you, nothing to worry about.

Just think of the FBI as a big, friendly "big brother" looking out for you, making sure you don't get into trouble.

FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts

"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.

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The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.

Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.

Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.

"Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.

"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.

"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."

The report says it's unclear whether Meta, FaceBook's parent company, reported the posts to the FBI or if the FBI's teams of surveillance operatives found them themselves.


For the past week, she has made multiple angry posts per day about the war in Gaza, referring to Israel as "Israhell." But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.

I know this person is on the other side of the aisle but the left often stages "test cases" where, for example, they'll prosecute a black killer for a hate crime, just to prove that the right is lying when they say hate crime laws will be used to target white people. Then, after the case survives judicial review, they use the law for what it was always intended for, to increase jail sentences for white people exclusively.

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CalPERS -- California's Enormous Pension System for State Employees -- Backs Peltz and Jay Rasulo in Disney Proxy Fight

They've got a lot of Disney shares to vote.

The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) said on Friday it voted to elect activist investment firm Trian Fund Management's two director candidates to Walt Disney's board, in one of the most closely watched and expensive battles for corporate control.

"CalPERS believes Walt Disney Co will benefit from fresh eyes on its board of directors and voted its company shares in favor of candidates Nelson Peltz and Jay Rasulo," the U.S. pension fund, which owned 6.65 million shares in the entertainment giant at the end of December, told Reuters.

CalPERS, which ranks among Walt Disney's top 30 investors, according to LSEG data, said its "established voting guidelines focus on the need for independent corporate boards, a say in setting executive pay, and increased transparency. Two new directors who are qualified and capable of leading needed change in corporate governance will serve the Disney board well."

On Friday I posted that among the votes already cast, about 22%, Peltz was beating the board member he was running against. (Rasulo was losing.)

I don't know if that leaked tally of votes included CalPERS' pile of votes or not.

The shareholder meeting will be held on Wedenesday. We'll see the vote tally then.

Something they should keep in mind: Bob Iger's decision to fight for homosexual grooming in grades K through 3rd resulted in the loss of the Reedy Creek district, at a cost of one trillion dollars.

That's one trillion dollars over 100 years, to be fair, but corporations do tend to last that long. (Unless they're being run by Bob Iger and his gang of woke wealth-destroyers, I mean.)

Disney's corrupt management is using its cartoon characters to propagandize its shareholders to vote them back into power.

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Bob Iger is running a real Mickey Mouse operation and not in a good way.

In related news of healthy industries consigning themselves to bankruptcy to appease the mentally-ill: video game developers got together for a mass scream.

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Israel Reports Killing Top Iranian Terror-Master

Israel launched a strike at a building next to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, the capital of Iran's catspaw Syria.

That's a very provocative action they would not take unless they had a big fat target in mind.


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Pro-Iranian Sources are now claiming that the Building in the Syrian Capital of Damascus which was just Struck by an Israeli Airstrike, contained one of the Top Commanders of the IRGC’s Quds Force, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi as well as several other High-Ranking Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who were there for Meetings with Iranian-Backed Groups in Syria and Lebanon.

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Iranian State Media have now begun to Confirm the Death of Mohammad Reza Zahedi as well as 5 other Officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that were Eliminated in today's Israeli Airstrike against the Iranian Embassy Compound in the City of Damascus.

Meanwhile, captured Hamas terrorists say that the terror group is "collapsing from within."

The Times of Israel reports this statement from Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:

"In the last week or two, hundreds of terrorists have been captured and what they say about what happened to them tells the whole story. They say that Hamas is collapsing from within, the price they are paying is very heavy," Gallant said following an assessment at the 98th Division's headquarters.

"We're going to eliminate everyone who was involved in the events of October 7, the junior [officials], the senior ones and the very senior ones; those who were inside [Israel] or who gave instructions," he said, referring to the date of Palestinian terror group Hamas's massive attack on Israel that started the ongoing war.

Expect Biden to really ratchet up the pressure on Israel to spare Biden's proxy army Hamas.


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Is the West In a Societal Death Spiral?

David Strom came across a paper by a sociologist arguing that yes, indeed, the West is in a societal death spiral.

The paper is written by Michaela C. Schippers, John Ioannidis and Matthias Luijks. Strom underlines the contributions of Ioannidis, who he says is one of the world's most-cited scientists "and one of the best." He wrote a paper called Why Most Published Scientific Results Are False, which I think I've seen quoted. The basic idea, if my memory serves, is that there are great rewards for positive scientific results -- "interesting" findings, unexpected correlations, and hypotheses verified -- and almost no rewards for what should be the most common result in scientific experiments. Things like "No result" or "no evidence supporting" a hypothesis.

He argues this incentive structure creates an insidious pressure to... massage findings. Puff up null findings into something that the media will quote.

At any rate, Strom quotes from his paper. I've borrowed some quotes. I've stripped out the voluminous citations to other papers.

My bold. Well, Strom bolded some too. I'm endorsing his boldings.


While the period before the COVID-19 crisis may have been characterized by relative policy underreaction to complex social problems, also referred to as "wicked problems," such as hunger and poverty, the current times may be characterized by overreaction to certain problems. The COVID-19 crisis seemed to be characterized by groupthink and escalation of commitment to one course of action, at the expense of other possible solutions. Initial low-quality decision-making was followed by decisions that made things worse. The sheer scale and severe disruption caused by these policies has increased inequalities, an important marker of societal decline.

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Unnecessary crisis response as a form of policy overreaction may sometimes occur as a way to shape voters perceptions of a decisive and active government. Excessive action and exercise of control over societal structures, e.g., public health, may enhance centralization of power and decision-making, and authoritarianism. When governments make use of mass media to spread negative information, a self-reinforcing cycle of nocebo effects, "mass hysteria" and policy errors can ensue. This effect is exacerbated when the information comes from authoritative sources, the media are politicized, social networks make the information omnipresent, and dissenting voices are silenced. This may lead to a vicious cycle of ineffective dealing with crises, low-quality decision-making and dysfunctional behavior, intensifying the current crises and leading to new ones, and eventually societal decline and even collapse.

Indeed. I think these "overreactions" are occurring precisely because the "experts" have made so many mistakes recently, and are now loathe to confess to any more. So they double down and double down on what are clearly mistakes, hoping that if they just shout loud enough, and enlist enough government operators to silence the people speaking the truth, they'll get away with lying. Again.

When really, they would not be doubted very much if they just forthrightly admitted their errors. You know, like scientists and professional "experts" are expected to do.

People who admit errors are usually assumed to be generally right about the things they're not confessing error over. The fact that they confess error makes them more trustworthy, not less.

On the other hand -- you have our Failure Factories of the media, the universities, almost the entirety of the cowardly and competence-challenged Professional Managerial Class. They have made so many enormous blunders -- including going all-in on RussiaGate and Hunter Biden's laptop being a Russian fake -- that the public has turned against them decisively, and their brittle little egos can't take that.

So they just puff themselves up more and double down on past errors. And past lies -- they lie an awful lot for people "defending democracy" and physically incarnating Science Itself.

Reminder: The "experts" telling the public that a lab leak was ruled out as impossible (and the theory was RACIST to boot!) were actually telling each other, in secret Slack chats, that a lab leak seemed plausible or even likely, but they should lie about it for political reasons.

Trust your experts, trust your media class's choice of experts.

Nobody, but nobody, wants to even think about, much less cover, the chaos of the early COVID period.


Those of us who didn't gaslight the public want to think about it, and cover it.

Do you feel compromised on the issue, Semafor:

But to revisit that horrorshow: An extraordinary set of Slack messages was accidentally released by a congressional committee last summer. They reveal top evolutionary virologists telling one another that they find the "lab leak" theory of the coronavirus's genesis plausible, but that, for reasons of politics -- they didn't want to give ammunition to people they saw as alarmist about some virus research -- they should steer journalists away from it. The messages also include specific discussion about how to manage then-New York Times public health reporter Donald McNeil.

McNeil, with those scientists' encouragement, became an early skeptic of the lab leak theory, before concluding it was in fact a possible explanation of COVID's origin. He addresses the Slacks in his new book, The Wisdom of Plagues, writing that the scientists "clearly misled me early on." McNeil is "disappointed, both in them and in myself, that I was so easily taken in."

But he muses on the challenge: "It's one thing to be lied to by a politician and fail to check it out. But on viral evolution, to whom do you go for a second opinion? ... If Albert Einstein assured you that nuclear fission is harmless, whom would you trust to quote saying, 'Einstein's dead wrong?'"

There were experts who said the lab leak hypothesis was not only plausible, but likely. But you didn't report on those people.

As usual, the media is plugged in only to left-leaning "experts" and chooses to report according to what socio-political narrative they wish to advance.


Now the substantive debate is a "stalemate," he writes, with both sides "hurling mud," and editors demanding answers "so they can assign analyses of which political candidates benefit."

What does this mean? My guess: He's complaining that after having pushed so many lies to the public, the public is demanding accountability for his dishonesty or gullibility (or both), and he wants to portray this as pointless score-settling.

Well, buddy, you "journalists" presume to dictate who can and cannot speak in public based on their accuracy and reliability. You can't just just hand-wave away your own mistakes and lies.

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NYC Firemen Forced to Take Down Flag Honoring Their Six Brothers Killed on 9/11 Because the American Flag is Fascist or Something

For those of you too young to remember -- 9/11 was the January 6th of the 2000s. Some people did some things.

And progressives have been fighting for 9/11 Erasure ever since. They've been fighting for a 9/11 Day of No Visibility.

This decision was reversed after considerable backlash.

Fire Department brass ordered an East Village ladder company to remove its "red line" American flag honoring the squad's six brothers killed on 9/11 -- after a neighborhood resident complained it was "fascist" and a local lefty pol questioned whether it was a "politically charged symbol."


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The color red is fascist except when a leftist uses it
in which case it stands for freedom from want

The shocking order came March 22 after a man claiming he was a staffer for Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera confronted firefighters at Ladder Co. 11, sources said.

The man pedaled up to the East 2nd Street firehouse on a bicycle and told firefighters he worked for Rivera and that the councilwoman's office "complained" to the FDNY three days earlier about the flag -- which features a red stripe in tribute of firefighters injured or killed in the line of duty.

He called it a "fascist symbol" and demanded to know why it was still up, sources said.

In a March 19 email to FDNY Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator Madison Hernandez, Rivera staffer Lisander Rosario said the councilwoman's office was contacted by the "constituent" twice about the ladder company's flag and asked if it's violating department rules.

NeverTrump just began agitating for Lisander Rosario to move to Florida and run against the evil fascist Ron DeSantis.


The shocking order came March 22 after a man claiming he was a staffer for Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera confronted firefighters at Ladder Co. 11, sources said.

The man pedaled up to the East 2nd Street firehouse on a bicycle and told firefighters he worked for Rivera and that the councilwoman's office "complained" to the FDNY three days earlier about the flag -- which features a red stripe in tribute of firefighters injured or killed in the line of duty.

He called it a "fascist symbol" and demanded to know why it was still up, sources said.

"[FDNY staff] claimed it was to honor deceased firefighters, however, [the constituent] brought up that they could've used an FDNY flag rather than a politically charged symbol," Rosario wrote.

"It is to both his and our understanding that private political symbols aren't permitted to be displayed on public vehicles."

"Can you confirm if there are any violating flags/symbols on Ladder 11?" added the email, which was obtained by The Post.

Apparently New York City passed a rule during the BLM riots that no city employee was permitted to fly an "altered" US flag -- because, I assume, BLM demanded that the pro-cop "thin blue line" flags be outlawed.

So cowards did what cowards do and bent the knee.

Now you have them demanding a thin red line flag be taken down.

This order has been reversed. But that's no victory.

We are ruled by two groups: fanatically aggressive mentally-ill freaks filled with omnidirectional hate based on how inadequate and stupid they are, and incompetent, ignorant cowards who obey and implement every order given to them by the first group.


Update: I forgot to mention -- NY Governess Batty Katty Hochul was jeered and heckled and demanded to leave a wake for the most recent slain NYC police officer.

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Biden, the Man Hailed by NeverTrump as a True Conservative, Declares The Holiest Day on the Christian Calendar to be the "Trans Day of Visibility"

A good and decent Christian alternative to Trump, NeverTrump continues insisting.

A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024

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I am proud that my Administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that the LGBTQI+ community can live openly, in safety, with dignity and respect. I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my Administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military....

Transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our Nation. Whether serving their communities or in the military, raising families or running businesses, they help America thrive. They deserve, and are entitled to, the same rights and freedoms as every other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves. But extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families -- silencing teachers; banning books; and even threatening parents, doctors, and nurses with prison for helping parents get care for their children. These bills attack our most basic American values: the freedom to be yourself, the freedom to make your own health care decisions, and even the right to raise your own child....

At the same time, my Administration is working to stop the bullying and harassment of transgender children and their families. ...

Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024 [formerly known as Easter Sunday] as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

Obviously Democrats -- the conservative-leaning ones supported by NeverTrump -- chose to celebrate Trans Visibility Day rather than the day of Christ's resurrection.

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THE MORNING RANT: Update on the Climate Cult and its Green Energy Follies – 4/01/2024

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If only this green energy nonsense was just a big April Fool’s prank…but it’s not, so let’s check in on what is going on in the world of unreliable solar and wind energy. [With a tip of the hat to Terry, Alan, Brendan, and others who kindly send me links to stories I might otherwise miss.]

The worst aspect of “clean energy” isn’t that it’s not clean, green, or affordable. The greatest problem is that it cannot produce the amount electricity needed, and that it often provides none. The baseline amount of energy that solar and wind can reliably produce is zero kw. Meanwhile, the climate cultists have embraced destroying the planet in order to save the planet.

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I’ve heard that the Canadian prairie provinces get a little chilly in the short, dark days of winter. Any reliance on wind and solar seems preposterous, and potentially deadly:

“Zero. Zip. Nada: Wind power in Saskatchewan for over an hour on Friday, March 22 flatlines, again” [Pipeline Online – 3/24/2024]

On March 22, Saskatchewan’s fleet of grid-scale wind power generation produced next to nothing for half the day, and zero power at all for just over an hour.

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Speaking of wind power on the western prairies, the header picture up above is from this renewable event that happened recently on the Colorado/Nebraska border.

“Turbine at Colorado wind farm collapses, burns” [CBS – 01/15/2024]

A wind turbine at a northern Colorado wind farm folded in half and caught fire Thursday morning, startling neighbors who heard banging noises prior to the collapse.

Caught fire?

The incident was reported at 8 a.m. No injuries were reported. Oil and grease from the generator caught fire after the tower's collapse.

I have been reliably informed by Democrats, the WEF, and all the other evangelists of The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse that wind turbines are a necessary part of a net zero world without petroleum. Yet these giant bird cuisinarts require petroleum products, and lots of it. You know, there just might be a possibility that the hustlers getting rich from the wind energy scam haven’t been completely honest with us.

That said, a turbine collapsing like this must be an extremely rare event, right? Uh, no.

A tower in Fleming, about a dozen miles southwest of Peetz, collapsed in 2022.

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A favorite old fishing pier of mine on the Texas coast used to provide little red wagons onto which visitors could load their coolers and fishing gear. Because of the salt air, those wagons rapidly corroded and rusted, and the moving parts didn’t move very well unless the wagons were new.

It is comical to think that we are now putting wind turbines, with all their complicated electrical parts and moving pieces, directly into the ocean where they get washed in salt water spray…

…if the rough seas even allow installation in the first place.

“World’s largest offshore wind farm delayed by bad weather” {Independent – 02/08/2024]

The plant is expected to be powering around six million homes per year by 2026 - but has been hit by bad weather.

Bad weather in the North Sea? What an unexpected event. It must be climate change.

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A massive solar farm outside of Houston was destroyed by hail. Not only was that valuable farm and ranch land already diverted from productive agricultural use, but it is now at risk of being poisoned by the chemicals in the solar panels that were destroyed.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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Hounds Bringing down a Boar

Frans Snyders

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The Morning Report — 4/1/24

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Good morning, kids. You'd think the stories over this weekend were just one big April Fool's joke, and if you are of a certain age and more crucially of a certain mindset – that is, sane – the headlines would certainly come across that way. But, they're not. And not just from this past weekend but really they've become more and more insane going back years.

This past weekend was the holiest on the Christian calendar. Easter. And yet the leadership of this nation, it's figurehead being a senescent near-vegetable and criminal pervert, proved for all to see that there is indeed a war on Christianity and Judaism, and those who adhere to those twin pillars of real civilizational development. Or at the very least, those who reject the undeniable insanity of those who view themselves as gods and the absolute moral authority over this nation.

Example number one: Easter Sunday being transmogrified from the traditional recognition of the meaning of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection into something that would be as enraging to Jesus as that of the moneychangers in the Temple 2,000 years ago.

If you thought March 31 was Easter Sunday, think again, heretic. And no, I’m not referring to the fact that for, Orthodox Christians, Easter falls this year on May 5. Those who celebrate Easter on March 31 are heretics from the standpoint of the Biden regime’s favored religion, which is worlds away from Old Joe’s ostentatious and hollow Roman Catholicism. March 31, you see, is the Transgender Day of Visibility.

. . . And speaking of invisibility, that’s a good description of Old Joe Biden’s Christianity, except when he hauls it out in pursuit of votes. “Each year on March 31,” GLAAD asserts, “the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people.” Well, no. “The world” doesn’t celebrate the Transgender Day of Visibility. The government and a small minority of the people of the United States and some Western European countries do, and Canada tags along as always, and that’s about it. In many areas of the world, the idea of celebrating this particular mental illness would be greeted with amusement and disgust. . .

. . . it is also virtually certain that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ will continue to be celebrated many, many years after the Transgender Day of Visibility has been relegated to the dustbin of history and is generally regarded as what it really is: a symptom of the twenty-first century West’s cultural, spiritual and moral decline.

In the meantime, the fact that the Transgender Day of Visibility falls on Easter Sunday, and is the subject of a presidential proclamation while Easter remains unmentioned, is yet another indication of the real religion of Old Joe Biden and those around him. Although Biden and some others are professing Christians, they actually bow down and worship the gods of this age: libertinism, self-indulgence, and raw power.

Upon nailing his 95-year-old feces to the door of the church, the backlash against Biden's apostasy was immediate, forcing whoever is changing his Depends and loading his teleprompter to issue a more or less traditional Good Friday greeting, albeit two days late.

No apologies or backtracking on this insult, though.

In yet another casual insult to the vast majority of Americans, the Biden White House has banned all religious imagery and themes in its annual Easter art contest. Apparently, they are still calling Easter, Easter, but this move is just outrageous. Obviously, they are saying “religious,” but they mean Christian.

The Biden [junta] banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 “Celebrating National Guard Families” art contest.

The competition, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll, explicitly stipulated that egg designs not feature any “religious symbols” on the Christian holiday.

“The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes,” a flyer with instructions from the White House stated.

. . . . Other restrictions include depictions promoting “bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual based on race, gender, religion, nationality disability, sexual orientation or age,” the White House stated. Child participants were also told not to depict “illegal drugs or firearms” or to include “material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.”

Scenes from the popular Democrat kiddie porn library are probably fine, though.

Or how about this wonderful book in your toddler's school library?

"This is My Vulva." Made me think of the song I learned at that age nearly 60 years ago, "This is My Country." That and the scene from Full Metal Jacket with the men parading around the barracks in their skivvies chanting "This is my rifle, this is my gun." You may substitute the words as you wish.

So, no imagery of Jesus or Christianity on its holiest day. Why even have this event in the first place? The answer is simple: a display of raw power.

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain observed. Joe Biden's rebranding of Easter Sunday as the Transgender Day of Visibility can be understood as part of a long line of efforts to replace a religious observance with state-sponsored ersatz. These ersatz systems could take the form of state-sponsored atheism, state-mandated religion or even a completely invented replacement cult, like the French Revolution's Cult of Reason. What explains this secular obsession with religion? Henry Kissinger pointed out that the two most powerful forces in history are the Conqueror and the Prophet. . .

. . . Conquerors and Prophets are among the two most powerful forces in history. The principle difference between the two is the time scale of their message. Conquerors live the lifespan of empires while Prophets exist on the scale of civilizations.Two thousand years later the Conqueror still fears the empty tomb.

They fear it, hence their desperate need to destroy it, and failing that, transform it into an image that reflects their wants and desires. "Trans" being quite appropriate here. I have no quarrel with homosexuals or transexuals. My thoughts on their "condition," shall we say, aside, my objection is their lifestyle being used as a weapon to upend and destroy the established order of society and human development, which has brought us down from the trees, out of the darkness and to a summit of achievement, again the main pillar and driver being the precepts of Judeo-Christianity.

History moves in fits and starts. Humanity is of course far from perfect, because of human nature itself. Yet despite the false narratives and smears, it's not Jews and Christians hurling gays and trannies off of rooftops or stoning them to death. Tolerance does not mean acceptance, but let's put things in perspective. Of course, we cannot do that because that would expose the hypocrisy and outright lies of those who seek our destruction and subjugation via moral rot and decay, the promotion of homosexuality and transexuals being a part of that. The tell is that it's no longer about forcing us to "accept" them and their lifestyles as normal. It's about persecuting those with traditional views of family and sexuality as evil. Where's the tolerance let alone the acceptance there?

Focusing just on transsexualism alone, it's a psychosis that is conveniently being glommed onto as both a weapon to physically and mentally destroy children, as well as to create a whole group of new "victims" with which to accuse us of persecuting.

“Jesus centered the marginalized. he sent it the poor and in a moment like this, we need voices, particularly voices of faith, who would use our faith, not as a weapon to beat other people down, but as a bridge to bring all of us together. That is what Martin Luther King Junior said. I’m honored to preach from that pulpit every single day.”

That was Raphael Warlock, er, Warnock, an alleged senator from Georgia who pimps himself as a man of the cloth despite being a confirmed wife/girlfriend/concubine beater as well as a slumlord. He does wear the skin suit of righteousness well, despite the stench and trail of flesh-engorged maggots trailing behind him.

Meanwhile, on the heels of debasing Christianity on its holiest day, the occupants of the White House had this to say about where they were taking whatever the hell is left of our nation. And it is indeed hell.

[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden on Monday reiterated his commitment to increasing the diversity of the United States Supreme Court.

"If given the opportunity to nominate another justice to our nation's highest court, or if I change my mind about expanding the court, my next nominee will be the first illegal immigrant ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court," Biden told reporters outside the White House, in a rare back-and-forth with the media. "Sorry. I meant to say undocumented. The next Supreme Court justice on my watch will be an undocumented immigrant of color. Oops."

. . . "Undocumented representation on the Supreme Court is long overdue," said Cordelia Campos-Patterson, assistant professor of Latinx studies at Yale University. "How can we call ourselves a nation of laws when millions of non-citizens are denied the opportunity to assess the constitutionality of those laws?"

Because, Cordelia, non-citizens are exactly that. They're NOT CITIZENS and as such have zero right to have any voice in what is and what is not Constitutional in a country where, yet again, they are not citizens.

Senior White House adviser Ian Sams defended Biden's pledge, noting that the U.S. Constitution does not specify whether an individual must be a natural-born citizen to serve on the Supreme Court. "If an Uncle Tom like Clarence Thomas can sit on the court promoting white supremacy for more than three decades, I think it's only fair to let an undocumented immigrant have a turn," he said.

Editor's Note: Today is April 1, 2024.

Note to Ian Sams. You are an insect, nay a paramecium, compared to Justice Thomas, intellectually, morally and in every way shape and form possible as a human being. Speaking of having a turn, your mother's like a doorknob; everyone gets one.

The Free Beacon's editors are right to note the date. But this is no April Fool's joke.

UPDATE: The above article is noted by the Free Beacon as "SATIRE." My mistake for taking it seriously, and I apologize. And yet, given everything going on, this kind of satire is probably closer to being accurate than a joke.

Sheesh.

    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • Roger Kimball: "George Washington’s exhortations and admonitions are residues of a lost and probably unrecoverable past. What that means for us now and in the future is sobering to contemplate."
    Easter Reflections: George Washington’s Farewell Address in Today’s America
  • Victor Davis Hanson: "In Obrador’s view any country that would open wide its border, welcome in 10 million foreign nationals, without legal sanction, without audit, without even processing, deserves the contempt he extends."
    With ‘Friends’ Like Mexico’s Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un and the Ayatollahs?
  • No one is accusing Hunter of anything nearly as bad (the first son’s far more pathetic than he is fearsome; and make no mistake that Bulger was feared).  But there are ugly similarities.  Crimes let pass that would ruin ordinary people’s lives; FBI agents deeply invested in making bad stories go away; high political connections.  But the chiefest similarity, of course, is that every instance of special treatment, every corrupt favor done for any connected perp, erodes everyone’s faith in the justice system. And that is the biggest crime here — and it does harm almost impossible to repair."
    FBI Pulls a "Hunter Biden: to Shield ex-Informant Whitey Bulger
  • Richard Fernandez: "Conquerors and Prophets are among the two most powerful forces in history. The principle difference between the two is the time scale of their message. Conquerors live the lifespan of empires while Prophets exist on the scale of civilizations.Two thousand years later the Conqueror still fears the empty tomb. Happy Easter."
    The Ghost Problem

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Daily Tech News 1 April 2024

Top Story

  • New York city is installing expensive security scanners to protect passengers on its plague-ridden subway system. Scanners that may not actually work. (MSN)

    The "AI enabled" (because of course) scanners cost around $3000... Per month. Each.

    And the company behind them, Evolv, is currently under investigation by the SEC and FTC and being sued by its own shareholders.

    The BBC had its own article on Evolv two years ago.
    "Metallic composition, shape, fragmentation - we have tens of thousands of these signatures, for all the weapons that are out there," chief executive Peter George said last year, "all the guns, all the bombs and all the large tactical knives."

    "Can we test it?" asked research firm IPVM.

    "No way, get fucked, fuck off" came the reply.
    Further:
    Asked why Evolv had been able to edit what was labelled an independent report, NCS4 told BBC News it "did not allow Evolv to directly edit the report".
     

    "The 'track changes' feature was used as a means to collect feedback," an official said. "And to change inconvenient findings. Don't print that."



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March 31, 2024

Sunday Overnight Open Thread (3/31/24) Happy Easter Edition

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Matthew 28:5-6 NIV


Quote II

“We have a ship that has nearly the size of the Eiffel Tower that is now stuck within the channel that has the Key Bridge sitting on top of it,” Governor of Maryland Wes Moore (D)


Quote III

“There’s probably the rebel part of me that enjoys the, ‘Sir, you’re not supposed to smoke here…’ ‘Yeah, I know!’” he added. “It’s an expression of freedom for myself. It’s not for everybody, and that’s fine. It’s just a connection I enjoy with some people.” James Hetfield

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Gun Thread: Easter Edition!

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There's a hare in my scope!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Jumping Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be Easter Sunday? Happy Easter! Once again, we go deep into the Gun Thread photo vault and dust off the hare in scope pic. I hope the day is a special one for you and you get to bite the head off of lots of chocolate bunnies!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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