Hezb'allah Terrorist Arrested at Southern Border; Admits He Entered US to Build a Bomb

Migrant crime is out of control.

Illegal migrant admits terror group affiliation after crossing into U.S., "I'm going to try to make a bomb"

Sun Mar 17 2024
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Quick Hit:

A Lebanese illegal migrant captured along the U.S. southern border has admitted to being a member of Hezbollah and expressed intentions to make a bomb in New York. Basel Bassel Ebbadi was apprehended by border patrol on March 9th near El Paso, Texas, and is now facing deportation.

Key Details:

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by border patrol on March 9th near El Paso, Texas.

Ebbadi admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, having trained with them for seven years and served as an active member for another four years.

He was placed into isolation and marked for deportation after making "terroristic threats to personnel."

Diving Deeper:

First reported by the New York Post, Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a 22-year-old Lebanese migrant, was apprehended by border patrol near El Paso, Texas, on March 9th. During his custody, Ebbadi admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, a militant group and political party based in Lebanon. He revealed that he had trained with the group for seven years and served as an active member for another four years, guarding weapons locations.

According to internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents and images obtained by the New York Post, Ebbadi's training focused on "jihad" and killing people "that were not Muslim."

Upon his capture, Ebbadi was found without any documents, claiming they were stolen "with a knife" while he was in Costa Rica. He also admitted to using a fake birthday and name in Sweden, Ecuador, and Panama. His initial plan was to go to New York and then move around the country.

In more migrant crime news: a man wanted by Interpol in connection with four murders was allowed to move to the US and settle here.

It's unknown if he's an illegal alien or merely an alien that no real country ever would have allowed to visit.

Aderbis Segundo Pirela Pirela, a top fugitive on Interpol and Colombian National Police lists, was apprehended in New Braunfels. He faces serious charges for multiple crimes, including murder, drug trafficking, and extortion in Colombia.

Key Details:

Aderbis Segundo Pirela Pirela, listed as a most wanted fugitive by Interpol and Colombian authorities, was captured in New Braunfels.Pirela Pirela is implicated in at least four murders and faces charges in Bogota, Colombia, for homicide, drug trafficking, and extortion.

Details regarding his entry into the U.S. and his stay in New Braunfels remain unknown.

The arrest of Aderbis Segundo Pirela Pirela in New Braunfels highlights a glaring gap in the Biden administration's border security and immigration policies. The fact that a highly dangerous individual, wanted internationally for grave crimes, could enter and reside in the United States undetected poses serious questions about the effectiveness of border control and immigration vetting processes. Pirela Pirela's presence in the U.S., linked to at least four murders, drug trafficking, and extortion, underlines a critical lapse in national security measures. This incident not only exposes the vulnerabilities in monitoring and tracking individuals who pose a potential threat but also reflects a broader issue of inadequate enforcement and oversight within the current immigration system.

Further complicating the matter is the lack of transparency regarding how Pirela Pirela managed to enter the United States and the duration of his stay before being apprehended.

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Inflation Rises "Much More" than Expected; Media Hails Joe Biden's Genius In Finally Curing Americans of Consumerism

Hail the great leader! He brings us political prosperity!

Wholesale inflation rose 0.6% in February, much more than expected

The producer price index, which measures pipeline costs for raw, intermediate and finished goods, jumped 0.6% on the month, double the Dow Jones estimate.

On a year-over-year basis, the headline index increased 1.6%, the biggest move since September 2023.

Two-thirds of the rise in headline PPI came from a 1.2% surge in goods prices, the biggest increase since August 2023, thanks to a 4.4% jump in energy.

Retail sales increased 0.6%, less than expected, while weekly jobless claim filings nudged lower to 209,000.

Wholesale prices accelerated at a faster-than-expected pace in February, another reminder that inflation remains a troublesome issue for the U.S. economy.

This will complicate the Feds' agenda of reducing interest rates to stimulate the economy in order to rig the election for Joe Biden.

Fortune: America hit with one-two punch of bad economic news.

The mighty American consumer has shrugged off months, even years of recession predictions from top economists and Wall Street CEOs. Facing the hottest inflation in 40 years, and aggressive interest rate hikes meant to tame it, consumers have managed to continue spending, enabling the economy to remain on solid footing. But this week, a one-two punch of bad economic data has some experts waiting for another uppercut.

The second straight weak retail sales report, which included a downward revision of January's sales data, has sparked concerns that consumers are finally showing signs of wear and tear after powering through price increases and rising borrowing costs for roughly two years....

At the same time, producer price inflation, which tends to lead consumer price inflation, also came in above Wall Street's expectations for the second straight month on Thursday. It's another piece of data that could put investors' dreams of swift, economy-boosting interest rate cuts on hold, particularly with Fed officials being very clear that they don't plan on cutting rates until inflation is well under control. As Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist for LPL Financial, put it: "For the data dependent Fed, this report isn't helpful."

Or for Biden.

Related: Despite President Confabulation's claims, the company did not reduce the size of Snickers bar because of corporate greed and artificial "shrinkflation."

No, the size of the Snickers bar was reduced because the company was attempting to obey Michelle Obama's "Eat Less, Move More" campaign. They tried to deliver a lower-calorie candy by making it smaller, as Michelle Obama demanded.

CNN states that the 2 to Go Snickers resealable package includes two smaller snickers bars containing 220 calories each. The move from King size to the 2 to Go package was officially announced in 2012, explaining that the new language and resealable packaging was meant to encourage consumers to share or save the second Snickers bar to eat later. The outlet stated that the confectionery company also said they planned to replace or eliminate all candy bar sizes which contained over 250 calories by the end of 2013. According to NPR, downsizing from the then standard two ounce and 280 calorie Snicker bars to a 250 calorie bar represented an 11 percent shrink.
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Reason stated that Mars' decision to only sell lower calorie portions of their products was, in part, inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, which was designed to help combat childhood obesity.

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THE MORNING RANT - EV Death Pool Update: Rivian Puts Halt to Georgia Plant; Fisker Circling the Drain

Governor Brian Kemp’s Parkway to Nowhere

As I’ve been documenting over the past few years, there has been no easier mark for electric vehicle hustlers than Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R). He has repeatedly thrown outrageous amounts of taxpayer money at pie-in-the-sky EV and battery ventures. He embraced the eco-communists’ vision of a world without gasoline-powered cars, and to paraphrase Nikita Khrushchev, Brian Kemp wanted Georgia to become the premier manufacturer of the electric ropes with which western civilization would be hung.

Rivian has been Gov. Kemp’s largest and most visibly bad communist public-private investment – a boondoggle for which he pledged $1.5 billion of Georgia taxpayer money. The state has already condemned the land, graded it, turned the land over to Rivian, and spent tens of millions of dollars on roadways for the project. Rivian is a start-up with neither a customer base, nor any historical manufacturing experience. It not only hemorrhages cash, but it suffers a gross loss of tens of thousands of dollars on every vehicle it sells. There is no pathway to profitability for it. Like a dot-com company from 25 years ago, its financial performance is measured in its cash-burn rate. Rivian already has a plant in Illinois with a manufacturing capacity of 150,000 units per year, but it can only sell about a third of that.

This announcement has been inevitable for quite some time:

“Automaker Rivian pauses construction of its $5 billion electric truck plant in Georgia” [AP – 3/07/2024]

The CEO of Rivian Automotive announced Thursday that the electric truck maker is pausing construction of its $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia to speed production and save money.

It would also save $2.25 billion in capital spending for now, Rivian said in a news release. The company has been burning through accumulated cash quickly, even as it hasn’t met production targets at its Illinois plant.

Rivian did not give a timetable for restarting work on the Georgia plant, saying in a statement: “The timing for resuming construction is expected to be later.”

I can help out here regarding the timetable for Rivian’s Georgia plant - it will never be built.

Like a degenerate gambler who has just put the deed to his house on the table because he knows his luck is about to turn around, Gov. Kemp is still confident about this awful EV gamble.

“Kemp: Rivian and Georgia remain 'committed' to $5B manufacturing plant” [Fox5 Atlanta – 3/13/2024]

At a press conference on Tuesday, Kemp addressed the automaker's announcement for the first time, saying that Rivian's decision was "disappointing" but that the state was still optimistic about the deal. "What they've relayed to me is that there is no doubt here. We're under contract with them. The state is in a really good place," he said.

To be fair, the state is in a better place than it would have been had construction started before Rivian goes out of business. This way, there will not be any demolition required for whatever future purpose is found for this land.

Still, Kemp remained positive that construction would continue on schedule. "They can still meet the metrics that they have to under our contract obligations by 2030," Kemp said, "We honor our commitments in our state, and we're going to do that in regards to the site, and we're expecting the company to honor their commitments as well."

This last sentence (below) made me smile. Someone at the state’s highway department understands better than the Governor himself that the Rivian misadventure is now winding down.

The state also has completed most of the $50 million in roadwork that it pledged. But signs for Rivian Parkway at a new traffic signal on U.S. 278 had been removed as of last week.

I might suggest that Rivian Parkway be renamed “Governor Kemp’s Parkway to Nowhere.”

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Fisker Is Going Bankrupt – Again

While Rivian is the most prominent of the failing EV start-ups, it looks like Fisker is going to go out of business before Rivian does.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Passage de l’Opéra
Conroy Maddox

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The Morning Report — 3/18/24

Good morning, kids. This latest bit of meshugas is so patently ridiculous, so idiotic and such obvious bullshit that it just reeks of desperation. Or am I just too sane enough and set in my ways to understand or appreciate that the general public has the collective attention span of an amoeba and ditto (more crucially) its critical thinking skills – both due to the combined dumbing down by a media that does nothing but pump out pure leftist propaganda 25/8 and the cumulative effect of at least three generations of what the American educational system has wrought – and that this gigantic lie will swamp the past three years of actual lived experience of pain, misery, angst and suffering?

Anyone reading the headlines published by a number of mainstream outlets might believe that Trump was not just predicting, but calling for, political violence if he were to lose another election.

The New York Times: Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

The Guardian: Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses election and claims ‘Biden beat Obama’

NBC News: Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election

Politico: Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November

Rolling Stone: Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected

. . . But while those outlets and others were only too happy to share that one cherry-picked line — Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses in November — they were equally happy to leave out the fact that at the time, he was specifically talking about the automobile industry and the economic impact of a company owned by Communist China building cars in Mexico to avoid U.S. tariffs.

Here’s the full context of the “bloodbath” comment, which he said was addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping:

Those big monster car manufacturing plants you are building in Mexico right now and you think you are going to get that — not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the car to us, no.

We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.

Grabien media founder Tom Elliott followed with a video supercut of liberal media pundits using the term “bloodbath” to describe everything from economic issues and Taylor Swift ticket snafus to midterm election results and the recent shake-up in leadership at the Republican National Committee.

As we know all too well by now, to even attempt to point out the chutzpocrisy of the Democrat-Left is pissing into the wind. That is, of course, their standard operating procedure in terms of how they function socially and politically and, via one of Saul Alinsky's infamous "Rules" what they will beat us over the head with every single chance they get, the accuracy of the charge be damned.

It's why I get so exercised about language insofar as what is and is not appropriate and more crucially who gets to be the arbiter of it. Of course, that has been the sole purview of the left since the went full tilt boogie in undermining our society since the sexual revolution, the women's movement and the complete undermining of the legitimate civil rights movement, going on 60 years. All of it aimed at seizing absolute power. And the control of language is a, if not the prime super weapon in the Democrat-Left's drive to dominate us. There are quite a few people who get irked at Trump for "shooting his mouth off."

I get irked at him for other reasons, mostly in terms of staff and past policy. But if, because of this, we're going to suddenly demand that he somehow forces himself to literally think before uttering every word at every single rally and interview going forward, then it's over. Love him or hate him, Trump's greatest asset is what some perceive as his Achilles heel: his mouth. And it's only an Achilles heel insofar as we allow the Democrat-Left to make it so. His ability to connect with an audience speaking off the cuff is something the other side cannot do. Especially the demented vegetable presidential poseur whose brain is melting by the hour and can't put two coherent sentences together even with a teleprompter, idiot cards and a media that is covering for him and covering it all up, with lesser and lesser effectiveness the closer we get to November.

Unfortunately, we do not have a political party to tell the Democrats and their propagandists to go fuck themselves. Instead, we have the GOP: Grifting Oleaginous Parasites:

Anchor Kristen Welker said, “I want to start by getting your reaction to Donald Trump’s comments about a bloodbath. Do you think those comments were appropriate?”

Cassidy said, “The general tone of the speech is why many Americans continue to wonder should President Trump should be president? That kind of rhetoric is on the edge, and maybe it doesn’t cross, maybe it does, depending on your perspective.”

He added, “He always walks up to the edge on the rhetoric, and again, that’s why people are concerned."

This was after Welker actually, and surprisingly, played the entire soundbite of Trump. It was in complete context. Even if she didn't, you'd think Cassidy would've listened to it beforehand. And yet, he's agreeing with this lying bint that what he said as voters "concerned." Why is this schmuck even appearing on Press the Meat in the first place? The only reason to do so would be to blast her and her colleagues for being the lying sacks of shit that they are. Voters indeed are concerned. Mostly about an economy on the verge of collapse, an intentional invasion of foreign peasants, criminals and terrorists, a foreign policy that is lighting the fuse on World War 3 and the persecution of anyone even slightly to the right of Che Guevara.

Thank you and fuck you, Bill Cassidy.

In any case, remember they tried to pull this crap years ago with the Charlottesville "good people" bromide. Despite that being a somewhat easier situation for the propagandists to obfuscate, considering the rather touchy issue of the Confederate flag, what it represents and the parties involved in that situation, there was absolutely zero ambiguity in this instance.

Isn't it amazing how both Trump and Biden see "the end of democracy" if the other wins? If Biden can say it, why not Trump? 

Frankly, I don't think either man can "end democracy" or prevent a "meaningful" election in 2028. Neither do I believe that democracy is "teetering" or in any great danger.  The U.S. republic has withstood far worse threats to its existence than anyone running for president in 2024. 

“He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” the Biden campaign statement reads.

"Affection" for violence? Wow. Just wow.Biden and the left fall into Trump's briar patch every time. Don't they ever look at the polls? No one is listening to their "warnings." No one is paying attention to their predictable attacks. 

They're writing and speaking for an audience already predisposed to hate Donald Trump and to fear him. They're not making any converts. They're only driving people out of the political process altogether or into the arms of Trump.

Exactly as Trump knew they would.

I am not a fan of PJ Media's Rick Moran, and his assertion that the republic will withstand anything that will be thrown at it flies in the face of the facts since Trump came down the escalator 9 years ago, if not before, and the trajectory we are on. But that said, I do think his conclusion is dead on. Like Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' Nuremberg Rally disguised as a State of the Union Speech, all of this dreck will not move the needle in influencing "independent" voters, if such creatures even exist.

Meanwhile, speaking of "bloodbaths," I give you this horrid piece of shit impersonating a civilized human being and American:

State Sen. Charlane Oliver, who represents Nashville, said the Republicans’ pro-police legislation is “rooted in racism,” and will force those in her district to “fight like hell.” The bill was sponsored by Republican state Sen. Brent Taylor after Memphis passed an ordinance that banned traffic stops for issues such as expired registrations, a single inoperable headlight or brake light, and loose bumpers, News Channel 3 reported.

The Memphis city council passed the ordinance following the death of Tyre Nichols, a black man, who was fatally injured during a confrontation with five black Memphis police officers on January 7, 2023, after he was pulled over.

“It is a slap in the face and you might as well stomp on the grave of Tyre Nichols,” Oliver said after the state Senate passed Taylor’s bill by a vote of 26-6. “Yes, we are emotionally charged. Why? Because it’s personal for us. Taylor made this personal the minute he introduced this legislation to target one family and one life that was lost.”

“So yeah, we gonna fight,” Oliver added. “Dr. King said that riots are the language of the unheard. You ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our district is going to do? We have had it up here. Gloves are off. Like, we gonna fight like hell. You don’t expect us to respond when you gaslight us every single day with these bills?”

This animal with a "D" after her name gets to threaten actual, real violence in the form of "riots." You can bet your ass the propagandists are going to invoke the word "context" out the wazoo. But, as Ace always says, "Our speech is violence, but their violence is speech." More than that, Democrat Leftists are allowed to say whatever the hell they want, regardless of consequences real or imagined because they get to control the language.

And in another part of the forest, this Skeletor Doppelgänger opened his maw and spewed this delightful turd:

Democrat strategist James Carville said during an interview over the weekend that if Democrats lose in the upcoming November elections that Israel will be to blame.

“This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people,” he said. “This is a problem all across the country. And I hope the president and Blinken can get this thing calmed down because if it doesn’t get calmed down before the Democratic convention, it’s going to be a very ugly time in Chicago. I promise you that. . .

. . . And they’re gonna have to tell Bibi Netanyahu, ‘Hey, dude, we are not going to lose our election because you stand to go to jail. You have to think of something else.'”

Carville demonized Netanyahu, claiming that he showed “negligence” and that the U.S. “should be putting pressure on him every way we can to de-escalate this thing, and quickly.”

There it is folks. Carville says if Biden loses, blame the Jews. How many synagogues will burn this summer in Chicago? Only Brandon – Johnson and Joey – know for sure.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• “A Holocaust survivor is coming to speak to my son’s 7th grade History class on Monday. Wonderful. What’s less than wonderful, though, is the opt-out for this lesson because ‘We understand that all students have different experiences.'”
  Fairfax County Public School System Provides ‘Opt-Out’ Option for Students on Holocaust Presentation
  
• "The former Defense Intelligence Agency head, retired General Michael Flynn, said the House should immediately move to halt funding for both the CIA and FBI and start subpoenaing the January 6 Commission members to find out what they know about the CIA activities leading up to an on January 6. . . And when they get a chance, I have a couple special request questions for House members to ask the J 6 Committee:  Where was Antifa that day or are you expecting us to believe this was the only riot in years they missed?  Is this the same CIA that started the Russia Collusion frame up against Trump to help Hillary in the 2016 election?"
  What Was the CIA Doing at the January 6 Riot? (Mostly orchestrating and fomenting it - jjs)
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses."
  Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "And how the WOBOs took over from them."
  HIBOs: How the Hipster Left Took Over the Democrats
  
• "If my home state’s abortion laws had been different in 1963, I would not be alive today." (Hat tip to Buck Throckmorton - jjs)
  A Life Spared by Abortion Law: Reflecting on the [spurious] VP's Historic Planned Parenthood Visit

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Daily Tech News 18 March 2024

Top Story

• Microsoft really, really wants you to use its Etch browser and Thing search engine. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If you use Chrome, you will get a popup ad begging you to come back. Please, they won't spam you with ads anymore.
  
  Only problem is the popup ad is so poorly rendered that users reported it as a virus.
  
  Well, not the only problem.
  
  
  

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread(3/17/24) I'm Not Irish Edition But My K9s Are

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“He’s easily pushed around by the woke-left lunatics who renamed his family’s baseball team. “My attitude is anybody that changes the name of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians should not be a senator, should not be in government.” President Donald J. Trump
Considering who Ohioans vote for Katshit, DeWine, etc. I expect the RINO to win.

Quote II

“This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe, a winner. A winner,” Nancy Pelosi

Quote III

"For the last 100 years, Sam Ash Music has successfully adapted to meet the challenge of changing business conditions. As we look towards the next 100 years, the company must continue to adapt to ensure its continued success." Statement from Sam Ash Music

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The Comments of The Week

Astute. Clever. Witty. Snarky. The commenters here are the very best.

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Gun Thread: St. Patrick's Day Edition!

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 Flaming Green Shitballs! It's St. Patrick's Day! OK, enough celebrating. Have you been practicing your fundamentals?

Q: Weasel, when are you ever going to shut up about fundamentals?
A: Never.

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

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Food Thread: Thar She Blows! Fish Is Good! And So Is Beef...Don't Think I Am Getting Soft!

There are all sorts of interesting food fish, and any good fish store will carry at least several. Sure, most people know salmon and cod and flounder and swordfish and tuna, but there are dozens of less well known fish that can be delicious. Even if they look weird! Like the Mahi Mahi in the photo. Or the Patagonian Toothfish, otherwise known as Chilean Seabass.

Mahi Mahi is mighty tasty. It is used a lot in fish tacos, but I made it a few days ago, simply sauteed and then finished with a butter and lemon pan sauce. It was delicious and easy, and it is meaty and fatty enough to be relatively easy to cook.

Chilean Seabass is a milder fish that is sort of like the piscine equivalent of chicken breast. The cook can make it taste any way he wants. But it's pushing $30/lb, so unless the preparation looks absolutely spectacular, I'm not springing for it at a restaurant, and I certainly won't buy it for home cooking when Cod is one third the price!

If you have a halfway decent fish store near you, give it a try! There are reasonably priced fish that are delicious, and while many people are intimidated by the relative difficulty of cooking fish as opposed to a big old chunk of cow, with a bit of attention it is manageable, and the payoff is a new food in the rotation.

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First-World Problems...

I found this damned thing rooting through my garbage this morning. And then it started squawking about shelves and intermittent fasting and hobo jerky.

What the hell!

Do we have to move?

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Judenrat

We all know that Scheming Chuckie Schumer is a scummy prick with delusions of grandeur and an insatiable desire for self-aggrandizement. As the joke goes; the most dangerous place in D.C. is between Schumer and a camera.

Oddly, he represents a state with a huge Jewish population, so one would assume that he would be more sensitive to the safety, security, and autonomy of the Jewish homeland. And of course, he's Jewish! But his progressive politics swamp any cultural or religious loyalty, and his only loyalty is to the reflexive liberalism of most American Jews. But that liberalism is being challenged by the naked anti-Semitism and virulent hatred of Israel that has come to the fore in the wake of the October 7th pogrom and the Israeli response. Large swathes of the Democrat party base have gone public with their hate, and have expressed it violently on the street and vilely in the halls of power.

This is the Democrat party!

And they are the ones that Schumer is placating and courting with his attacks on Israel and his disgusting interference in the domestic politics of a sovereign nation with a democratically elected government.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls for new elections in Israel

During his speech, the New York Democrat reiterated his strong support for Israel but also heavily criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his repeated rejections of a two-state solution, saying at one point Israel’s leader has “lost his way.”

“At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government,” Schumer said, noting the United States should not try to dictate the outcome of another country’s elections.

That decision, Schumer added, is up to the Israeli public, “a public that I believe understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”

Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in U.S. politics, also called out other Israeli officials for what he said was “extremist” rhetoric. He cited Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and its National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as examples for this. Smotrich, Schumer said, has openly called for the forced displacement of all Palestinians in the West Bank, and Ben-Gvir facilitated the “mass distributions of guns” to far-right settlers.

He is bringing the politics of division and hatred from America to Israel, via the conflation of defense of country and culture with extremism and racism.

Netanyahu was deeply disliked by many Israelis, but he is conducting the defensive war against Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north the way most Israelis want. The country was shaken to the core by the savagery of the October 7th pogrom, and is coalescing around love of country, pride in its armed forces, and a quiet and cold resolve that "Never Again" will never again be a mere catchphrase.

Every time an American politician deigns to tell Israel how to conduct itself, the country becomes more unified. If it were up to many American and world politicians, Israel would have been overrun by the 7th century savages massed on its borders, with appropriately somber statements made after the fact.

Schumer (and his fat-f*ck sidekick Jerry Nadler) is an insult to Judaism, an insult to the many Americans who are cheering Israel on in its existential fight against the barbarians, and an insult to the very concept of Western culture.

And lest we forget, those barbarians have said time and time again that we are next! "First comes little Satan, then comes Great Satan!"

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 03-17-2024 ["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...(Irish kittens sold separately)

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

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Daily Tech News 17 March 2024

Top Story

• As many as 5.8 million US children could be suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, a.k.a your mom should take up day drinking and leave you alone. (CBS)
  
  "Long COVID" does not exist. There is such a thing as post-viral syndrome, where vague symptoms persists long after the specific symptoms of the disease, because viruses mess you up.
  
  But COVID is no different there from the flu, or indeed from a cold. What this "study" is measuring is that 5.8 million US children either (a) don't want to go to school, (b) have mothers who seriously need a hobby, or (c) both.

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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (3/16/24)

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The Saturday Night Joke

Donald Trump, George Bush, and Joe Biden were set to face a firing squad in a Central American country.

Donald Trump was the first one placed against the wall and just before the order was given, he yelled out, "Earthquake!"

The firing squad fell into a panic and Donald Trump jumped over the wall and escaped during the confusion.

George Bush was the second one placed against the wall.

The squad was reassembled, and George pondered what he had just witnessed.

Again, before the order was given George yelled out, "Tornado!"

Again, the squad fell apart and George slipped over the wall.

The last person, Joe Biden, was placed against the wall.

He was thinking, I see the pattern here, just scream out something about a disaster and hop over the wall.

He confidently refused the blindfold as the firing squad was reassembled

As the rifles were raised in his direction, he grinned from ear to ear and yelled, "Fire!"

And this story my friends reflects the true intelligence of the guy now living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Drive Away Dolls

Drive, don't walk, away from Drive-Away Dolls. Ha!

That's my best Jay Sherman impression, right there. Unfortunately, it also reflets my feelings about the freshman effort from newly brotherless Ethan Coen. The brothers split for no clear reason, and Joel's first solo project was the golf-clapped The Tragedy of MacBeth, which I didn't see, but which featured Joel's wife, the very talented if unlikely star Frances McDormand.

Turns out Ethan wanted to partner with his wife, editor Tricia Cooke, to make movies and she co-wrote the script for the film, which actually displays its title as "Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes". (Henry James is a theme of this film, but more on that in a moment.)

We got a Yoko situation goin' on, is what I'm sayin'. Or maybe even a Linda.

Ethan Coen wearing a mask in 2023

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The Weekend Hobby Thread (3/16/24)

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Hello Hordelings and welcome to The Weekend Hobby Thread. This is not an open thread, so leave the politics and current events out at the curb. Thank you.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 16

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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, March 16

Happy Saturday! Has everybody adjusted to Daylight Savings Time? Taking advantage of those evening gardening hours? Above, a great photo of Clivia from Neal in Israel. I love it.

It's time for many of us to shop for plants:

What's on your plant shopping list?

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Immediate Gratification

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Thread & Prayer Revival

(It also halts my desire to strangle the living bejeebers out of certain people)

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Good morning Horde. Hope you are all well this 6th Saturday of the week. Before we enter KT's Prayer Revival, there are a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Cazenovia)

A. This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
B. Be nice to one another, even the trolls have feelings
C. If you must run with sharp objects stay away from others.
4. Have a great weekend.

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