March 03, 2024
EMT 3 March 24
Happy Sunday.
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Daily Tech News 3 March 2024
Top Story
- There's helium in them there hills: Researchers drilling in northern Minnesota have struck squeaky gold - which is to say, helium. (MSN)
Possibly a lot of helium. They're still confirming the size of the find, but as an indicator, a 0.3% concentration of helium is commercially viable.
This well is yielding 12.4%.
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March 02, 2024
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (3/2/24)
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THE SATURDAY NIGHT JOKE
(H/T KT)
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 03/02/2024 [TheJamesMadison]
Well, I did it. I watched 'em all. It took about a year, but I have seen every Best Picture winner at the Oscars from Sunrise and Wings to Everything Everywhere All At Once. This is the fourth of my posts about the winners, and it's going to end up more of a review of the whole thing rather than a breakdown of what the last twenty years of winners means because the last twenty years of winners don't seem to mean much.
I think the Best Picture winners had some kind of meaning to the Academy for decades. They were mostly dedicated to larger films that made a lot of money, rewarding producers who made big bets and won big. This was rather explicit for the first decade or so until Frank Capra felt like he needed his official recognition and pushed for his films like Lady for a Day and It Happened One Night to receive that recognition over the more traditionally celebrated fare like Cleopatra.
Over the decades, it reflected the changes in the industry to one degree or another, near the front edge of popular taste as the institution and the people went back and forth changing their tastes and mores as the years rolled by, and then The Deer Hunter showed that you could game the system in a particular way to win. Harvey Weinstein became the poster child for producers buying the award through the late 90s (he was still winning Best Picture Oscars by the 2010s), and the idea that it was about great movies that had broad cultural appeal at the same time steadily died out.
We're left with a hollowed-out shell of an institution that prioritizes being wooed by studios rather than discovering movies themselves. The irony is that it was a conscious choice on the part of the Academy's voting body to become more irrelevant.
A Quick Note
I have a new book out, Corstae. If you feel so inclined, do buy a copy. Otherwise, on with the show!
The Best Picture Winners at the Oscars: The Finale
Well, I did it. I watched 'em all. It took about a year, but I have seen every Best Picture winner at the Oscars from Sunrise and Wings to Everything Everywhere All At Once. This is the fourth of my posts about the winners, and it's going to end up more of a review of the whole thing rather than a breakdown of what the last twenty years of winners means because the last twenty years of winners don't seem to mean much.
I think the Best Picture winners had some kind of meaning to the Academy for decades. They were mostly dedicated to larger films that made a lot of money, rewarding producers who made big bets and won big. This was rather explicit for the first decade or so until Frank Capra felt like he needed his official recognition and pushed for his films like Lady for a Day and It Happened One Night to receive that recognition over the more traditionally celebrated fare like Cleopatra.
Over the decades, it reflected the changes in the industry to one degree or another, near the front edge of popular taste as the institution and the people went back and forth changing their tastes and mores as the years rolled by, and then The Deer Hunter showed that you could game the system in a particular way to win. Harvey Weinstein became the poster child for producers buying the award through the late 90s (he was still winning Best Picture Oscars by the 2010s), and the idea that it was about great movies that had broad cultural appeal at the same time steadily died out.
We're left with a hollowed-out shell of an institution that prioritizes being wooed by studios rather than discovering movies themselves. The irony is that it was a conscious choice on the part of the Academy's voting body to become more irrelevant.
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The Weekend Hobby Thread (2/24/24)
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If you are going to spend over $3,000 for your hobby at one time, you better make sure you catch fish and get your significant other something of significance. Just sayin'.
Any way, welcome to The Weekend Hobby Thread. This is the place to discuss hobbies, projects and whatever keeps you busy within reason. There is only one rule here, please no politics/current events discussion.
If you are going to spend over $3,000 for your hobby at one time, you better make sure you catch fish and get your significant other something of significance. Just sayin'.
Any way, welcome to The Weekend Hobby Thread. This is the place to discuss hobbies, projects and whatever keeps you busy within reason. There is only one rule here, please no politics/current events discussion.
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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 2
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread March 2
Veteran plants - Brugmansia: Our Brugmansia gave a strong flower wave once fall weather began. Clementine: I had some good results making clementine marmalade. I took the lime marmalade recipe I've used for some time, with appropriate adjustments. Replaced most of the water with additional juice. Since the juice is sweet, rather than lime tart, significantly reduced the amount of sugar. Finally, towards the end of preparation, I added a good dose of cognac.
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BAD THERAPY: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
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If you want to climb a mountain, don't go two steps and ask, 'How do I feel?'
No matter how profoundly they've failed, their response is always: "Give us more money. Give us more power. Let us do more." Abigail ShrierHow Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation's Schools - Free Press
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
February 29 is the birthday of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, born in 1792. He is mostly known for his operas (both the "Lone Ranger" and "Bambi" themes are from Rossini's "William Tell" Overture), but he also wrote piano works later in life called "Sins of Old Age." Here is one piece called "Ouf! les petits pois!" Rossini died shortly after his 18th birthday in 1868.(H/T Isophorone Blog)
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Daily Tech News 33 February 2023
Top Story
- A tale of two tales: Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over "betrayal" of nonprofit AI mission. (Tech Crunch)
OpenAI was founded specifically as a nonprofit, chartered with a mission to produce AI for the public good.
This was the source of the drama last year when Sam Altman was removed by the board - the board was trying to return OpenAI to something closer to its original mission. But money talked, and Altman was soon restored as chief bullshitter.
Musk's suit hinges on how much of the nonprofit's charter and statements made at the time can be held as legally binding - since he provided much of the original funding.
- Speaking of chief bullshitters here's The Verge's terrible take on the story. (The Verge)
That's not reporting, it's propaganda.
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March 01, 2024
I Was A Lust Slave Of The Volksturm ONT Squad!
Hullo folks! Say, how come we don't have magazines like this anymore?
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Parental Shift Change Cafe
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The Flawless Victory of the LibsofTikTok
More at the link. Keep an eye on #6. But in the meantime, you can wonder what the odds are that a politically extremist Karen AWFL with the state-mandated PURPLE HAIR could have not one but two "transgender" children if not for Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Two out of four! She's batting five hundred! That crushes Ted Williams! That crushes Babe Ruth! I watched Michael Malice talk with the Triggernometry guys. One of the Triggernomety guys -- Konstantine, maybe? -- said that wokeness is starting to end because women will revolt when you come after their children. Malice replied that that severely underestimates how eager AWFLs -- Affluent White Female Liberals -- are to sacrifice their own children for the sake of gaining some transitory social clout. And AWFLs view transgender children as winning lottery tickets. They're eager to program their kids to be gay or trans. Keep this vicious, Murder-Mother mentality in mind as you read this AWFL woman humiliate her own sons for The Cut, exposing them for widespread public hatred for the sake of boosting her Internet Clout by 0.2%.
Trans Rights Activists (sometimes abbreviated to TRA) wish to impose obligations that other people owe to the "transgender" person. Before we accommodate this demand, it would be prudent to take full notice of the fact that people can define themselves into or out of this new legal category called "transgender" for any reason they want. Let me give you some examples of some very different kinds of people who are currently wearing the "transgender" label. 1. The Pretender: a mediocre male athlete who says he's a woman so he can win competitions he could not win against other male athletes. He is not the same sort of "transgender" as 2. The Predator: the convicted rapist who says he's a woman so he can be housed in women's prisons, locked into a cell with his preferred victim. He, in turn, has nothing in common with 3. The Autistic Teen Girl: who says she's a boy because she sees it as a way to fit in with a group of friends who seem to like her better as a trans boy than an ordinary girl. She has something in common, but not much with 4. The Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoric Teen Girl who has spent too much time in internet chat rooms and becomes convinced that becoming a boy will make her happy. She has literally nothing in common with 5. The Adult Man who decides, after years of marriage and perhaps siring children, while secretly cross-dressing because it sexually arouses him (known as "autogynephilia"), that he is, and always has been, a woman. He, in turn has nothing in common with 6. The Victim of Munchausen by Proxy, the boy whose mother has been the center of lots and lots of attention since she decided he was really a girl when he was age 3.
Recently, I walked into my kitchen and the morning light hit my stove's greasy backsplash in just the right way to reveal a finger-traced drawing of a dick 'n' balls spraying a few fingertip-dots of jizz. Who, I wondered, was the artist who chose my stove's grease for their canvas? I asked both of my sons (they are 13 and 10), and they convincingly denied having done the doodle -- I'm a connoisseur of their drawings, and, indeed, the style wasn't one I recognized.Did your editor tell you to pretend your sons didn't draw it so you don't seem like such a Saturnine, child-devouring monster?
Shaming your own children for the delight of strangers strongly suggests you do have this need.
We briefly speculated about which of their friends might be the artist, but I'm more amused than anything, and I don't really care who drew it. I have no need to shame a kid over it.
The drawing did remind me, in all its forward-gesturing glory, that adolescence is creeping into my house, and it's time to look alive, parenting-wise. I've never been much for the "boy-mom" thing. Beyond the obvious gender-politics ick, it's part of what I think of as bumper-sticker culture: the labeling and characterizing of every surface of our lives, for, I guess, fun. Very childish behavior.She means she doesn't want to act as a "boy-mom," because she doesn't want to label her boys "boys." Who knows what genders they might mutate into with the right dose of parental radiation? (Hot damn that was a smooth turn of phrase right there.)
Making my kids' putative gender identities a badge that I wear alongside my own? Why is this cute? Anyway, I've tried to raise my sons in a spirit of loving gender agnosticism if not neutrality, while of course honoring their passion for trucks, the NFL, and bag-tagging each other at every opportunity.She claims she doesn't want to fetishize her sons' "Gender Identities" before proudly announcing she's raising them in a "gender agnostic" way, and only begrudgingly indulges their normal boyhood appreciation of trucks and big machines. She'd much rather if they were painting their toenails, obviously. She only means she doesn't want to fetishize their normal, natural, non-mentally-ill gender identities. If she warps them into sick twisted freaks, then she'll start fetishizing, believe you me. She then discusses the fact that girls are becoming ultraprogressive while boys are growing to be more conservative -- and wails about how horrible a prospect this is.
By refusing to join a rigged non-debate in which they will be shamed no matter what they say, boys are showing "defensiveness" which is its own form of defiance of the Right Way of Thinking.
This did not come as a huge surprise to me or Gray. He teaches humanities at a local college, where I have taught too, and we've often talked about how tricky it can be to keep hetero boys involved in classroom debates. Many of these young men seem very anxious about saying the wrong thing, and will often refuse to participate, sometimes projecting a provocative kind of defensiveness that is its own argument.
As much as I think cancel culture is a fake problem in media...LOL, she thinks "cancel culture" is something Fox News imagined. What a shock.
... it feels very real to young men when they're sitting in a classroom. Whatever they are feeling, it feels real as hell. Insisting that they're imagining their enemies doesn't help. After the study came out, there was a lot of speculation as to what might be causing this ideological schism. Is it capitalism? Men's-rights influencers? Is it the dreaded woke mind virus?I'm just going to spitball here: People naturally reject any ideology that makes them second-class citizens and demand they behave as servants to higher-ranked citizens. But no, you're probably right, it's probably "capitalism" and "men's rights influencers."
Hmmm... could it be that as these feminists become more progressive -- more dogmatic, more shrill, more demanding, more entitled -- that boys will very naturally become firmer in their rejection of this toxic, aggressively denigrating anti-male mindset? Nah. It's probably just capitalism again.
There's no mystery about why young women are becoming more progressive, but it's harder to understand the factors behind the increasingly conservative young men.
My friend Greg sent me a fascinating piece of analysis by Dr. Robin James, who argues that central to the move toward conservatism among young men is a sense that they're an aggrieved party -- that they are being robbed of entitlements.She's talking about her own sons, remember.
.. Applied to people, it maps to feminism and its mirror, misogyny.... ... The appeal of a grievance-based identity makes it hard to convince straight white boys that they in fact have plenty going for them, and that they have no reason to feel aggrieved. Doing this convincing, whether it's in the classroom or at the dinner table, requires a light touch. It's very easy, and very satisfying, to be doctrinaire -- social media encourages and rewards it. ... My own feeling is that we progressive parents of white sons could ease up. It's possible to model and enforce ideological ground rules for your family while also allowing young people to bring up their questions and TikTok-based information without fear of a parental freeze-out. For those of us (like me) very firm in our political beliefs,No shit? You're plotting how to indoctrinate your boys into your cult.
... it feels good to stake your position and defend it well. But as adults, we need to figure out a way to help our young people work through confusion without feeling shunned by their own families.Straight young men are "confused." You know who's not confused at all, right? The NY Post also wrote about this column, though I disagree with it. I think this is about more than "rebelling against your parents." Girls aren't rebelling against AWFLs' woke soydeology, boys are -- because this ideology is essentially racist against boys. It's like adopting a black kid and then teaching him white supremacy. Of course he's going to reject that. By the way, that article has a photo of the woman who wants to pound the male out of her sons. Imagine in your minds what she looks like -- specifically, the set of her face, the cast of her eyes, the line of her mouth.
Jezer-Morton, author of columns headlined Does Anyone Feel Like an Actual Adult? and My Mom Is Selfish. Do I still Have to be a 'Good Daughter'?Wow. She's just a bucket of sunshine isn't she? Her family exists only as fodder for her to publicly bitch about. My old friend steve_in_hb used to (loosely) quote Nietzche: If everyone in your life seems to be hateful, maybe you're the one who's actually hateful. Eh, go back to your boxwine and benzos, Karen. As Malice said: You underestimate the viciousness with which Affluent White Female Liberals will sacrifice their own children, especially their unfashionably masculine children, for the sake of social clout. And as he also said: When you look at the drag shows, it's all vile white liberal women bringing their children to gay sex shows. This one brings a toddler! Hey, the important thing is that she Feels Seen on social media! A "trans woman" has been sentenced to life in prison for a "sex fantasy murder," and trans extremists are demanding this sick murderous pervert be housed with women. By the way, Megyn Kelly has an easy tip for understanding what our deliberately-corrupted and dishonest Newspeak really means: Whenever you see the phrases "trans woman" or "trans man," just substitute the word "fake" for "trans." So "trans woman" is a "fake woman" better known as a man. We have to resort to this kind of decoding to disentangle the knot of self-reinforcing lies of Newspeak. Anyway, this murdering man will probably go to prison with Cis Future Victims.
A trans woman who went by the name Scarlet Blake (born Alice Wang) has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 murder of a man she met at random on the street. Evidence in the case showed Blake was obsessed with murder and killing and found sexual gratification in violence. She had previously killed and dissected a neighbor's cat while filming herself. Naturally, all of the headlines in the UK are about the violent "woman" killer. Here's the Independent:Ladies, you need to stop being homicidal maniacs. Don't follow the example of this "woman." Joanne's not having it:The judge in the case concluded that Blake was partly inspired to the murder, and to the prior killing of a cat by a Netflix show.
A woman who live-streamed the dissection and killing of a cat has been jailed for life for murdering an innocent man by drowning him in a river. Scarlet Blake, 26, walked the streets of Oxford looking for a victim until she encountered Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, during the early hours of 26 July 2021. She persuaded him to accompany her to the secluded Parson's Pleasure area, where she is believed to have hit him with an object, strangled him until he lost consciousness and then drowned him in the River Cherwell. Jurors heard that Blake had a "fixation with violence and with knowing what it would be like to kill someone", and received sexual gratification from the thought of death. After murdering Carreno, she told a new partner that she had done so because "my lover said it would be hot".
The murder came four months after Blake livestreamed the horrific killing of her neighbour's cat. Blake used cat food and a carrier to lure the pet... Blake dissected the animal, decapitated it, removed its fur and skin, and placed its body in a blender. Once she had dissected the cat, she said: "Well, one day, I want to learn how to do this to a person."
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Julie Kelly: The Government's Story on the January 5th Pipe Bombs Doesn't Make Sense
Did I just see the same cat cross the room twice? I think the Matrix is resetting itself.
Boy they're really keen to find this Dangerous Right-Wing Bomber, aren't they?
The newly disclosed video shows a dark SUV pulling up to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., at 9:44 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. It sits for several minutes until a uniformed man with a bomb-sniffing dog enters from the right and steps up to the vehicle. The driver complies with his command, the dog sniffs inside and outside the car which is soon allowed to enter the parking garage. The man and his dog exit back to the right. This scene is unremarkable except for one detail: The uniformed man and his trained canine came within a few feet of where a plainclothes Capitol Police officer would soon discover a pipe bomb that had been planted there the night before. The bomb, which the FBI has described as viable and capable of inflicting serious injury, along with a similar one found at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, would appear to be the most overt act of violence perpetrated on Jan. 6. Responding to the video discovered by this reporter, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Georgia Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee subcommittee now conducting a separate inquiry into Jan. 6, asked, "How could a bomb-sniffing dog miss a pipe bomb at the DNC? We'll add this to our long list of unanswered questions and continue getting to the truth." The failure of the Secret Service detail assigned to Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, who was inside DNC headquarters when the bomb was discovered, to find the device before her visit. The fact that the bomb at RNC headquarters was discovered by a government contractor with ties to the FBI. That law enforcement officials repeatedly described the bombs as "highly dangerous" but also said they couldn't have detonated on their own because of their cheap kitchen timers. That cell phone data that might help locate the perpetrator has been deemed corrupted. That the FBI's geofence warrant to obtain cell phone data from Google gives no indication the warrant included the Capitol Hill neighborhood on the night of Jan. 5 -- the time and location the pipe bombs were apparently planted.
Much more at the link.
That the FBI assistant director leading the stalled investigation had previously been in charge of the investigation into a kidnap plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in which the bureau tried to get alleged conspirators to build bombs. That an FBI whistleblower has testified he was told the bombs were inoperable -- a claim that seems supported by video showing authorities allowing children to cross the street toward the DNC bomb after it was discovered. ... The greatest mystery may be why official Washington has lost interest in this alleged act of domestic terrorism. In the three years since Jan. 6, the DOJ has conducted what Attorney General Merrick Garland describes as a criminal investigation proceeding at an "unprecedented speed and scale" into the protests. Casting a wide dragnet for Capitol protesters across the country, federal and local authorities in Washington have tracked down and prosecuted more than 1,300 defendants, almost all of whom were unarmed, including 62 individuals so far this year. Yet the perpetrator of what could have been the only deadly attack by a civilian that day appears to have vanished without a trace. He or she also seems to have slipped down the official memory hole. Although the Washington FBI field office recently issued a statement saying the "suspect may still pose a danger to the public or themselves" and upped the reward to $500,000, Washington appears to have lost interest in the pipe bomb whodunnit.
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Under Biden, the Sue-and-Settle Scam Is Back, Baby!
"Sue-and-settle" is a tactic used by leftwing groups. The leftwing groups can't get their agenda passed by legislation, so instead they sue government agencies controlled by liberals who they know will play ball with them. The liberal bureaucrats pretend they can't possibly win the suit, and so they settle, implementing the desired leftwing policy through a consent decree stamped into law by a judge.
This is actually even better than a law, because you can repeal a law. It's very hard to get rid of a consent decree. Trump announced the end of this practice. But now, James Varney reports, the era of sue-and-settle is back, baby!When the Biden administration announced in 2022 that it would remove some 4 million acres of federal land in Western states from oil and gas exploration, environmental groups hailed the decision as a milestone in their fight against global warming. "With the oil and gas industry bent on despoiling American's public lands and fueling the climate crisis, this is a critical opportunity for the Biden administration to chart a new path toward clean energy and independence from fossil fuels," said Jeremy Nichols, a director with WildEarth Guardians. But Nichols could just as easily have slapped himself on the back: The administration's move was part of a private settlement of a lawsuit filed by WildEarth and others over the objections of energy consortiums, whose efforts to intervene in the matter were dismissed. A similar thing happened last August, when the Biden administration announced it had agreed to exclude 6 million acres of the energy-rich Gulf of Mexico seabed from exploration to settle a lawsuit brought by environmental groups, including the Sierra Club - an announcement that triggered operational delays for the industry and expensive litigation to overturn. Administration critics say these moves reflect the resurgence of a practice embraced by the Obama administration and rejected during Donald Trump's presidency: "sue and settle." The tactic is simple: An advocacy group sues a federal agency for failing to enforce laws or regulations. Agency officials and the plaintiffs then come to a private agreement and that deal is ratified by the courts via a binding consent decree. The practice is common at every level of government. New York City, for example, is obligated to house and feed tens of thousands of migrants because of a consent decree it entered into to settle a 1979 lawsuit brought by advocates for the homeless. But it is most prevalent in the environmental field, where well-funded groups commonly sue the Environmental Protection Agency or the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior alleging failure to enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act or regulations regarding federal leases for energy production. Although such consent decrees do not have the force of laws passed by Congress or regulations issued by the government that have gone through formal review and allow for public comment, they set the rules of the road. Critics say it has allowed government to advance policy goals that cannot be achieved through normal democratic channels.Read the whole thing.
"It's not really an adversarial lawsuit, and with a settlement agreement and consent decree the case is never really over," said Dave Tryon, director of litigation at the free-market Buckeye Institute. "The EPA is anxious to increase its power and control; it's always happy to expand that."
The legal maneuver represents, according to this view, a return to the proverbial smoked-filled backrooms of politics. Huddled privately, without input from citizens or businesses that may be adversely affected by the decisions -- let alone the public at large -- lawsuits that often involve parties more simpatico than adversarial are settled. The plaintiffs and defendants are familiar to one another from years in the environmental lobbying and litigation world -- and because of the "revolving door" between environmental groups and Democratic administrations. These like-minded players approach the issue seeking similar goals, a process that has only intensified with the Biden administration and leftist environmental groups sharing the belief that global warming is an existential threat. "Overall, it's harkening back to the bad old days -- they do this in order to avoid scrutiny and bypass the regulatory process," said Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, an advocacy arm of the Institute for Energy Research. "It's a way to advance an agenda that may be rejected by voters. It's a nefarious practice in which the agency and the environmental groups get what they want."
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Quiz: Guess The Movie By the Song II
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19. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax Don't Do It (Garret's Theme)" was used as brainwashing stimulus in an assassination film unfortunately released just around September 11, 2001. Hint: "Is this a school for ANTS?!" 20. "Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band was sung by the main male cast to explain love and sexy times in a 2004 workplace comedy set in A Whale's Vagina. It's about what happens when An Old Old Wooden Shoe disrupts the office. Hint: "You're smelly pirate hooker." 21. "You Know My Name" is the title track of a 2006 film about gambling, romance, and secrets. Hint: Bleeding eye. 22. Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" was given a chilling reading when played during a murder in a 2007 cold-case investigation drama. Hint: The streets of San Fransisco. 23. The Spice Girls' "Wannabe" was one of several songs played during a driving sequence in this 2007 film about extreme suntanning and creative antivenins. Hint: It's about meeting the girl of your dreams at the wrong time. 24. Kiss's "Beth" was used in this 2008 expose about the dangers of energy drinks by one character to serenade his estranged girlfriend. Hint: Sometimes we all need Sturdy Wings. 25. "Do Something" by Infant Sorrow was a major part of a 2008 deeply-felt film about a songwriter on holiday. Hint: The music of "Crime Scene -- Scene of the Crime" should be dark and ominous. 26. "The Underdog" by Spoon was featured in a bunch of movies. So there are a bunch of answers. Here are clues to some of the numerous movies it appeared in: 2008 found footage disaster movie; 2009 buddy comedy about a bromance; another Big-style change-of-age comedy in 2009; 2011 workplace vengeance comedy; and 2017 movie about superteen. 27. The theme from Flash Gordon plays in the climax of this 2007 film about the perils of The Iron Lotus and and the power of Twin Dongs. Hint: He's sex on ice. I'll post the answers in half an hour.
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This quiz covers movies from 1964 to around 2010.
For a lot of the questions, the clues I provide are True, But Not Particularly Helpful. Maybe a little misleading. Update: I'm adding more hints. I made the questions too tough. 1. "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn plays over the end credits of this 1964 Peace-On-Earth ensemble piece starring one actor. Hint: "Fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that!" 2. "We Have All the Time in the World" is the love theme from this 1969 movie about people falling in love despite the dangers posed by allergens. Hint: Features one of the best sardonic one-liners of the series: "He had lots of guts," said as an ice-cutting machine sprays a man's guts all over the snow. 3. "Quiero La Noche" is the Spanish-language main credits song of this revolutionary 1971 comedy. Hint: Howard Cosell play-calls an assassination. 4. "You're the Top" -- not this version, but a different one -- plays over the end credits of this 1972 screwball comedy about espionage, jewelry theft, minerology and music theory. Hint: Looney Toons. 5. Music from the opera Carmen plays throughout this controversial 1976 film about a young woman coming into her power. Hint: "Maybe you wouldn't get so much crud if you wiped your nose once in a while." 6. "Get Right Back Where We Started From" by Maxine Nightingale is prominent in this 1977 film mostly about a con artist and his three goons. Hint: the chiefs of Charlestown. 7. "Seems Like Old Times" -- not this version -- is sung by a cast member in this 1977 film about the sex lives of sharks. Hint: Nebbish. 8. "Goodbye Goodbye" played out over the credits on this seminal (ew) movie about surfing, seafood, and scalping Cheap Trick tickets. Note this doesn't sound like the exact version in the movie, but I can't link the version from the movie, or you'll see the title. Hint: If you don't get this, I don't care if you come, stay, lay or pray. My toes are still tapping. 9. "All Time High" by Rita Coolidge was the theme song of this 1983 movie about eggs and clowns. Hint: It also involves a nuclear bomb. 10. Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock-n-Roll" was a major part of this meretricious 1983 house party movie. Hint: Princeton awaits. 11. Frank Stallone was called in by his brother to record "Far From Over" as the lead song of this 1983 sequel about an ambitious, determined, talented man from Brooklyn who makes it all the way to Manhattan. 12. "Oh Yeah" by Yello is a highly memorable song from a 1987 movie about a highly-motivated go-getter conning his way into success. Hint: He's a go-getter, not a school-skipper. 13. "These Boots Are Made For Walking" was a notable song in a 1987 movie about a group of men learning together and then traveling to an exotic destination to meet lovely women. Hint: Animal Mother. 14. The poignant coda of "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes played memorably in a 1990 drama about childhood dreams and getting ahead in a competitive organization. Hint: "I fucked up, Paulie." 15. Kiss' "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" was played as the closing song by the entire cast of this 1991 sequel, a radical movie which explores questions of good and evil and life and death. Hint: Sta-tion. 16. The Carpenters' "Superstar" played in a very funny roadtrip driving scene in a 1995 automotive buddy comedy. Hint: "What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." 17. "Ghetto Superstar," which heavily borrows from the melody of "Islands in the Stream," was the main song used to sell this 1998 attempted political satire. Hint: Politician decides to speak the (liberal Democrat version of) the truth. 18. David Bowie's "Golden Years" played, anachronistically, in a disco dance sequence in this 2001 film about the European championships of equestrian sport. Hint: "You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting." Another hint: They dance a dance of Gelderland.19. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax Don't Do It (Garret's Theme)" was used as brainwashing stimulus in an assassination film unfortunately released just around September 11, 2001. Hint: "Is this a school for ANTS?!" 20. "Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band was sung by the main male cast to explain love and sexy times in a 2004 workplace comedy set in A Whale's Vagina. It's about what happens when An Old Old Wooden Shoe disrupts the office. Hint: "You're smelly pirate hooker." 21. "You Know My Name" is the title track of a 2006 film about gambling, romance, and secrets. Hint: Bleeding eye. 22. Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" was given a chilling reading when played during a murder in a 2007 cold-case investigation drama. Hint: The streets of San Fransisco. 23. The Spice Girls' "Wannabe" was one of several songs played during a driving sequence in this 2007 film about extreme suntanning and creative antivenins. Hint: It's about meeting the girl of your dreams at the wrong time. 24. Kiss's "Beth" was used in this 2008 expose about the dangers of energy drinks by one character to serenade his estranged girlfriend. Hint: Sometimes we all need Sturdy Wings. 25. "Do Something" by Infant Sorrow was a major part of a 2008 deeply-felt film about a songwriter on holiday. Hint: The music of "Crime Scene -- Scene of the Crime" should be dark and ominous. 26. "The Underdog" by Spoon was featured in a bunch of movies. So there are a bunch of answers. Here are clues to some of the numerous movies it appeared in: 2008 found footage disaster movie; 2009 buddy comedy about a bromance; another Big-style change-of-age comedy in 2009; 2011 workplace vengeance comedy; and 2017 movie about superteen. 27. The theme from Flash Gordon plays in the climax of this 2007 film about the perils of The Iron Lotus and and the power of Twin Dongs. Hint: He's sex on ice. I'll post the answers in half an hour.
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Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses to Acknowledge the Murderer of Laken Riley, or Say That He's an Illegal Alien
Before getting to that: Democrats are again panicking about Biden's chances in November. Another round of polls shows Biden losing in all swing states:
First the polls. Starting a week ago, Emerson College and the Hill released a series of swing-state polls, covering Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The polls showed Trump leading Biden in each state: +6 in Georgia, +3 in North Carolina, +6 in Nevada, +3 in Arizona, +2 in Michigan, and +3 in Wisconsin. Perhaps some were inclined to dismiss the results. After all, it was just one poll by one company. But now comes another set of polls, of the same states plus Pennsylvania, conducted by Bloomberg and Morning Consult. And the results are just as bad for Biden: Trump leads in every state. The new results are Trump +6 in Georgia, +9 in North Carolina, +6 in Nevada, +6 in Arizona, +2 in Michigan, +4 in Wisconsin, and +6 in Pennsylvania. Now there have been two polls, by two different organizations, in quick succession, examining the same states. And not just any states -- the states that will play decisive roles in the November election. It is fair to say that if a candidate wins these states, that candidate will be the next president. And Biden is running behind Trump in all of them. It's not like this is the first bad news Biden has gotten from the key states. Four months ago, in November 2023, the party went into a frenzy when a series of New York Times-Siena College polls showed Trump leading Biden in five of six key states. The problem now, with the new polling, is: It hasn't gotten any better.The other part of the Democrats' "Double Freakout," Byron York says, is their growing worry that their political show trials will not debut before the election. A third worry, I'm sure, is that the Democrats' unpopular position on open borders, which the Democrat-Media Party has worked so hard to pretend away and suppress for decades, is now boiling over at exactly the wrong time for the Democrats. Well, the absolute worst time would be, say, July-August. But this is pretty bad timing, too. Biden's Vile Spokesclown refuses to say the murderer's name -- or note his nationality. Or, of course, admit that he's in America only because of Biden's policies. Rebecca Downs:
While the whole interview was pretty terrible, what really stuck out was her response when host John Berman said, with particular phrasing, that "one of the things that some Americans are focused on are crimes that are allegedly being committed by migrants who are in the country illegally. There was the death of Laken Riley in Georgia. There's been an arrest made there," he pointed out as he made it about how Republicans, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), blamed Biden. "What's the White House response to that," Berman asked. "I want to offer our condolences to the family of Laken," as she answered the question that came days after the young woman's death. "I mean, this is a horrific, horrific loss for any family. And obviously, any--if whoever is found guilty we need to make sure that--make sure that happens. And obviously, we don't want to--we don't want to see anything happen like that again," she said to further depersonalize the issue."Whoever is found guilty." Some people did some things.
Jean-Pierre also glossed over the fact that it was an illegal immigrant who was arrested, speaking about Jose Antonio Ibarra, who is here illegally from Venezuela and has a criminal history, in the sense of "if whoever is found guilty we need to make sure that--make sure that happens." It's not even clear what "that" means. Berman gave her considerable time to rant and rave about Republicans before moving on to another topic, and Jean-Pierre did just that. ... Not only did Biden sign an executive order on his first day in office that terminated the emergency at the southern border, but it also put an end to construction of the border wall. Republicans last May also passed legislation to secure the border with HR 2, the Secure the Border Act.The main response offered by the left is to accuse the Republicans of "politicizing" an issue which is obviously political. As in so many cases, the left seeks to make its policy choices above the plane of mere politics --they're Sacred Dogmas forbidden to challenge. Video of the disgusting tenth-wit at the link. Even worse, via Chris Queen, the Athens District Attorney says she won't seek the death penalty for this heinous slaying. She's previously said that she will not enforce state law regarding the death penalty, and also says that her first priority is avoiding "collateral consequences to the undocumented community." Are you KIDDING me? An illegal alien from Venezuela is taking a lesson from Jihadi Muslims and not even waiting for the body to be laid to rest before shrieking about how his kinsman's murder of US citizen may produce some inconvenience for himself and his fellow undocumented lawbreakers.
Is it too soon to be reading these stories meant to pull at your heartstrings for illegal aliens instead of keeping the focus on a college coed murdered by an illegal alien? You're damn right it is. This is nauseating. Klinsman Torres is an illegal alien from Venezuela. He illegally crossed the southern border in August 2022. It was just weeks before Jose Antonio Ibarra did the same, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He currently lives and works in Atlanta. Ibarra murdered Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student last week as she jogged on a popular trail on campus in broad daylight. Torres groused that the spotlight that Laken Riley's murder in Athens has placed a spotlight on border security. He said he has spoken with other illegal aliens from Venezuela living in Georgia. They are worried that inflammatory rhetoric about illegal immigrants and immigration might erase what is described as the gains the illegals have made as low-income workers in the local economy.Legal immigration allows some very minimal vetting of those who would come to our country. Illegal immigration bypasses even that minimal checking of police records and floods our country with criminals who are fleeing their own countries because they've drawn too much heat with the law. You're being persecuted? Let me guess - you're being persecuted by the narcotics and human-trafficking squads of the police, right? And of course the illegals want to claim that actual US citizens must accept this completely unacceptable arrangement for their sake. Do actual US citizens ever get to decide policy based on what is best for actual US citizens, or nah? Nah, right? The White House is panicking. It is even now saying that the woke Democrat mayors it has supported to the hilt up until now should maybe suspend their sanctuary city policy -- in which they refuse to cooperate with ICE when ICE puts a detainer on an criminal illegal alien -- and maybe turn over criminals to ICE, sometimes. Not always, mind you. Just when the criminal "poses a public threat." Which is what 90% of illegal alien criminals pose -- they're not in jail for jaywalking, you know. They're largely street criminals arrested -- and sought by ICE -- for serious crimes against the person like assault, extortion, attempted murder, murder, and of course sexual assault. But I guess the White House means, if ICE wants them for mere drug crimes or looting stores, then the sanctuary city policy should remain in effect. Of course, of course. Of course thieves and drug dealers must be protected from deportation -- they add so much to the economy!
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Scientist: We Have "Smoking Gun" Evidence That Covid-19 Was Created in a Lab by (US-Funded) Scientists
DEFUSE? More like DIFFUSE amirite I am right. The whole point was to make it highly transmissible.
COVID-19 may have been created in a Chinese lab, a British professor told the UN Wednesday, with another expert claiming that evidence of the likelihood has reached "the level of a smoking gun." Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, was quoted saying in a new Wall Street Journal article that the virus that killed millions around the world may actually have been manmade in China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. He cited evidence found in a 2018 document from the lab that talked of making such a virus. "[The document] elevates the evidence provided by the genome sequence from the level of noteworthy to the level of a smoking gun," Ebright said in the piece by former New York Times editor Nicholas Wade. The papers from the lab cited by Ebright contained s and notes regarding a grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, which sought to test engineering bat coronaviruses in a way that would make them more easily transmissible to humans.
Like from EcoHealth and Anthony Fauci, maybe?
The proposal was ultimately rejected and denied funding by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, but Wade suggested that their work could have been carried out by researchers in Wuhan who had secured Chinese government funding.
You know, I shouldn't have said EcoHealth was behind this, as I did a couple of paragraphs ago. That was totally speculative and it's wrong of me to just accuse them with no evidence.
"Viruses made according to the DEFUSE protocol could have been available by the time Covid-19 broke out, sometime between August and November 2019," wrote Wade, a former science editor of the New York Times. "This would account for the otherwise unexplained timing of the pandemic along with its place of origin." Along with the research notes, Wade claimed the specific genetic structure of the coronavirus that allowed it to infect humans served as another strong indication of "the virus's laboratory birth." "Whereas most viruses require repeated tries to switch from an animal host to people, SARS-CoV-2 infected humans out of the box, as if it had been preadapted while growing in the humanized mice called for in the DEFUSE protocol," Wade wrote.
Oh. Nevermind. City Journal discussed these documents a month ago. Researchers write that covid-19 was manufactured using known laboratory procedures for creating new viruses, and definitely not by any known processes:
While scientists continue to debate whether the coronavirus pandemic was a natural occurrence or manmade, Ebright believed there was credibility that the work proposed by the now-controversial EcoHealth Alliance led to the development COVID-19.
New documents may explain why no one has been able to find the SARS2 virus (aka SARS-CoV-2) infesting a colony of bats, from which it might have jumped to people. The reason would be that the virus has never existed in the natural world. Documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know, a health advocacy group, provide a recipe for assembling SARS-type viruses from six synthetic pieces of DNA designed to be a consensus sequence--the genetically most infectious form--of viruses related to SARS1, the bat virus that caused the minor epidemic of 2002. The probative weight of the recipe is that prior independent evidence already pointed to SARS2 having just such a six-section structure.Note that covid-19 is "caused by SARS2."
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus."I feel like a real idiot and poser for not knowing this, but apparently covid-19 is the disease, and SARS-CoV-2 (aka SARS2) is the virus that causes the disease.
The documents unearthed by U.S. Right to Know, and analyzed by its reporter Emily Kopp, include s and planning materials for the already-known DEFUSE proposal, an application to DARPA, a Pentagon research agency, for a $14 million grant to enhance SARS-like bat viruses. The new recipe is in striking accord with a theoretical paper published in 2022 that predicted the SARS2 virus had been generated in exactly this way. Three researchers--Valentin Bruttel, Alex Washburne, and Antonius VanDongen--noted that the virus could be cut into six sections if treated with a pair of agents known as restriction enzymes and so had probably been synthesized and assembled in this way. Restriction enzymes, made naturally by bacteria as a defense against viruses, are an invaluable tool for biologists because they cut DNA at specific points known as recognition sites. These sites occur randomly across the genome, so a natural virus treated with a restriction enzyme will be cut into pieces of different sizes. However, researchers who want to synthesize a virus from scratch in order to manipulate its parts more effectively will often rearrange the recognition sites so that they are evenly spaced. This allows short chunks of DNA, all of roughly equal length, to be synthesized chemically and then strung together in a complete viral genome. Bottom line: if your virus has evenly spaced recognition sites, it's a pretty good bet that it was made in a laboratory. Bruttel and his colleagues guessed that a commonly used pair of restriction enzymes, known as BsaI and BsmBI, might have been used to assemble the SARS2 virus's genome. When they examined the structure of SARS2, they found that the recognition sites used by these enzymes were indeed evenly spaced across the genome, marking it into six sections. "Our findings strongly suggest a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV2," they wrote. Their paper did not receive the attention it deserved, in part because of the difficulty of ruling out a natural explanation for the even spacing. The small group of virologists who adamantly oppose the lab-leak hypothesis attacked the paper as "confected nonsense" (Edward Holmes) and "kindergarten molecular biology" (Kristian Andersen).Kristian Anderson is the "scientist" bankrolled by Anthony Fauci who first warned that covid-19 appeared to be manufactured and then, after some phone calls with Fauci, produced a paper under his direction claiming anyone who thought that covid-19 looked manufactured is a conspiracy theorist. He must go to jail.
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Hunter Biden's Testimony Called "Dishonest" and "Defiant;" Claims You Can't Trust His "My Father Is Sitting Next to Me Here" Because He Was High on a Very-Conveniently-Timed Crack Break
Huntie also used one of his many, many Free Perjuries to claim that Joe Biden wasn't involved in his business:
So, here's what Huntie knows: Huntie has been told he will be pardoned for all federal crimes he's committed his entire life the day after election day, whether his corrupt rapist father "wins" or loses.
These are all free perjuries -- he has been told, and knows for a fact, that he can and should lie to the utmost to protect his scumbag father. By the way: Why doesn't the media demand that Joe Biden pledge not to pardon his criminal get? They sure demanded that Trump affirm and re-affirm he wouldn't fire Mueller. Nancy Mace called his testilying "defiant" and "dishonest."In a recent statement, Representative Nancy Mace provided a critical perspective on Hunter Biden's testimony during a deposition. Mace characterized Biden's demeanor as "defiant" and "dishonest," highlighting that his statements clashed with those of other witnesses interviewed by the oversight committee. Mace's comments followed an impromptu address, spurred by actions from opposing party members. She emphasized the discrepancies in Biden's testimony, particularly noting his recurrent claims of memory lapses. These claims, according to Mace, were neither surprising nor unprecedented.No, they seem to run in the crime family, in fact. When asked whether his father was in fact sitting next to him when he shook down a Chinese government "business" partner by telling him "my father is sitting next to me," Huntie said "nah, I was just drunk or high or something, and I didn't even intend to send that to my Chinese "business" partner who I was threatening.
Weird that the Chinese seemed to think his father was in fact sitting right next to him. I hope everyone remembers he said this... while sitting in his father's house.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, testified in a congressional hearing that he was "high or drunk" when he wrote a text message in 2017 to a Chinese businessman, stating he was "sitting here with my father". This message was sent shortly before a transfer of $5.1 million into Biden-linked accounts.
Yeah, the crackhead whoremonger who is the Oprah of dicpics -- "You get a dickpic! And you get a dicpic! And you get a dickpic!" -- was embarrassed.
Hunter Biden claimed in his testimony that President Biden had no involvement in the shakedown of Chinese state-linked CEFC China Energy. The text message implicating Joe Biden was provided to Congress last year by IRS case agent Joseph Ziegler, who alleged a Justice Department coverup to protect Joe and Hunter Biden. The CEFC deal was one of the most lucrative for the Biden family, with funds flowing to them shortly after Joe Biden met CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming at DC's Four Seasons hotel. Diving Deeper: In a closed-door impeachment inquiry deposition, Hunter Biden admitted to being under the influence when he sent the controversial message. He also claimed that he sent the message to the wrong recipient and expressed embarrassment over the incident.
Despite these claims, photos from Hunter's abandoned laptop show he was at his father's home in Wilmington, Delaware, on the day of the threat. Despite Hunter's claims of his father's non-involvement, the IRS agents who provided the text message to Congress stated they were not allowed by the Justice Department to get cellphone geolocation data that could have established whether Hunter was indeed sitting with his father. They also claimed they were repeatedly blocked from pursuing evidence related to Joe Biden.The DOJ has been using "geofences" to find people who were merely physically present at the Capitol on January 6th -- but they absolutely refuse to deploy the same resources to verify that Joe Biden was sitting next to his bagman son while he was shaking down Chinese "businessmen." Axios, of course, totally believed the testimony and reported it out with a "Take That, Rethuglikkans!" kind of vibe.
Via Twitchy, with more.
Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork That sure is odd. Because just three days after the text "was sent to wrong recipient", on August 2nd, 2017, a new company named Hudson West III was officially formed. CEFC affiliates injected $5,000,000 in capital to the new company. Meanwhile, Hunter contributed no capital to the new venture although he owned 50 percent of the newly established company. The operating agreement of Hudson III stipulated that Hunter would receive a $500,000 retainer and $100,000 per month. James Biden received $65,000 per month. This newly formed entity also made large credit card payments for items purchased by the Biden Family. The total payments made to Hunter's personal company totaled $4.8 million in just over one year. In addition to the $65,000 per month paid to James Biden, payments also flowed to Lion Hall Group, a company James owned.
Huntie also used one of his many, many Free Perjuries to claim that Joe Biden wasn't involved in his business:
JustTheNews says: follow the money. Keep an eye on the James Biden "loan repayments."
Hunter Biden's testimony to Congress is a significant development in the ongoing Republican impeachment inquiry. In his opening statement, he categorically denied any involvement of his father, President Joe Biden, in his business dealings. This includes his time as a practicing lawyer, his domestic and international investments and transactions, his tenure as a board member, and his career as an artist. Interestingly, Hunter Biden's recent comments show a slight shift from his previous statement in December. At that time, he had specified that his father was not financially involved in his business. However, he had not categorically denied his father's involvement in his business in general.
Remember Kathy Chung, the Biden aide who illegally transported his stash of classified documents and drove them up and down through Chinatown? Well, I guess she's not talking, because Biden has rewarded this Security Risk with a nicely-compensated job in the government. Paul Sperry:
When Hunter Biden's closed-door testimony to House impeachment investigators becomes public, Government Accountability Institute Director of Research Seamus Bruner says the bank transfers, Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS), and loan repayments between President Joe Biden and brother James will be the most important parts to focus on. "We've seen Hunter pay Joe's bills, that's a big no-no if not an ethics violation if not a crime. So follow the money, that's the number one thing," says Bruner.
Much more at the link. If you take care of the Biden Crime Family, the Biden Crime Family takes care of you.
While Special Counsel Robert Kyoung Hur has raised the issue of mental deterioration in explaining why he declined to prosecute 81-year-old Joe Biden for illegal retention and sharing of classified documents, the president chose another rationale to declare himself not culpable: He shifted the blame to the staffers who boxed up his records as he left the vice president's office in 2017.
At a press conference hastily assembled after the report's release, Biden said he assumed his aides had shipped "all" the documents to the National Archives in College Park, Md. "I wish I had paid more attention to how the documents were being moved and where," he said. "I thought they were being moved to the Archives. I thought all of it was being moved [there]." The president's explanation does not address how and why he shared classified material with a ghostwriter, but it shines a light on the longtime assistant who was in charge of packing his papers, Kathy Sang-ok Chung. Chung, an old friend of Hunter Biden, began working for Joe Biden in 2012 when he was vice president. She told investigators she oversaw the transfer of the contents of Biden's file cabinets and desk drawers into 15 boxes when he moved out of the West Wing in January 2017. While other office material did go to the National Archives, Hur rebuked Biden for keeping more than 600 pages of classified information -- including military secrets and intelligence sources and methods -- in unlocked and unauthorized containers at multiple locations, including a tattered box in the garage of Biden's Delaware home. The stash included information marked "top secret" involving Iran, China, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Some of the secrets are compartmented by codewords and can only be stored and read in a secure facility known as a SCIF.
The Biden documents that Chung herself packed, unpacked, and repacked "are the most highly classified, sensitive and compartmented materials recovered during our investigation," Hur wrote. Yet the prosecutor let Chung as well as Biden off the hook in also declining to press charges against her, explaining that he found plausible her account that she packed and kept the classified papers "by mistake, "even though she had prior government experience handling and identifying classified information and was told in a Jan. 3, 2017, National Security Council memo to be sure to remove "only unclassified personal records," and despite providing inconsistent answers to investigators.
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THE MORNING RANT: Tennessee Taxpayers to Fund a Startup Company’s Nuclear Fusion (not Fission) Project
“Our administration created the Nuclear Energy Fund in partnership with the Tennessee General Assembly to recruit companies like Type One Energy. Tennessee is ready to secure its place as the top state for energy independence, and we are proud to partner with Type One Energy to further that mission and bring hundreds of high-quality jobs and more reliable energy to Tennesseans.” – Gov. Bill LeeHistory would indicate that it’s an almost certainty that this venture will produce zero fusion energy, “reliable” or otherwise.
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