November 08, 2026
Food Thread: Luscious Thighs And Dry Butts?
*Stuff Jefferson Said, Volume 2. 1938
*Stuff Jefferson Said, Volume 2. 1938
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First World Problems...
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Mushy-Brained Moderates Got Us Into This Mess...They Won't Get Us Out
This flaccid-thinking child has no historical perspective, and no understanding of the true face of socialism. And it isn't her fault...yet. She went to a liberal prep school, leftist universities, and was hired for reasons beyond my understanding as a columnist at an age where she should be learning how to do research into the topics she pretends to have mastered. The stupidity and ignorance inherent in her perspective is unfortunately quite common among the chattering classes that pretend to understand our political system. And yes, some of these fools are in the Senate and House. It is long past the time in American politics that we shed the leftist-supported nonsense that collaboration and "reaching across the aisle" is anything other than a recipe for capitulation and loss. Our political system is now a "zero-sum game," and the sooner the craven cowards in the corporate wing of the Republican Party realize it, the better. But they won't, and they will continue to obstruct any movement toward a coherent political philosophy, instead of their acquisitive, amoral games.
George Santayana famously wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The corollary, which applies perfectly to this mid-wit columnist is: "Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it...first!"
Rikki Schlott is a 26-year-old columnist for the NY Post who seems never to have taken a history class that taught anything about the inexorable slide from soft socialism to wholesale murder. Or the uncomfortable fact that "One man, one vote, one time" has been the default in socialist countries for a very long time. It doesn't matter that Abdul El-Sayed underperformed. It doesn't matter that the obviously retarded Nithya Raman barely won in Los Angeles. It doesn't matter that Twelver Mamdani only got 22% of registered voters. They won. They are in power, and they will do what socialists always do...consolidate power, manipulate the electoral system, use the power of the purse to support their policies, and marginalize their opposition in every way possible. DSA's shoddy midterm performance is proof voters want moderation, not socialismDemocrats just had a resounding midterm victory across the nation. But they’d be remiss to believe that the election results are an endorsement of the party’s creep to the far-left. Analysis of Tuesday’s results shows that progressive and DSA-adjacent Democrats actually underperformed relative to their more moderate peers. That’s true across the country, with no major exceptions. Voters who came out for Democrats in the midterms are sending a very specific message: they want moderation, not radical DSA craziness. Hopefully Mamdani and AOC won’t take the “blue tsunami” as permission to pursue their most extreme political dreams.
This flaccid-thinking child has no historical perspective, and no understanding of the true face of socialism. And it isn't her fault...yet. She went to a liberal prep school, leftist universities, and was hired for reasons beyond my understanding as a columnist at an age where she should be learning how to do research into the topics she pretends to have mastered. The stupidity and ignorance inherent in her perspective is unfortunately quite common among the chattering classes that pretend to understand our political system. And yes, some of these fools are in the Senate and House. It is long past the time in American politics that we shed the leftist-supported nonsense that collaboration and "reaching across the aisle" is anything other than a recipe for capitulation and loss. Our political system is now a "zero-sum game," and the sooner the craven cowards in the corporate wing of the Republican Party realize it, the better. But they won't, and they will continue to obstruct any movement toward a coherent political philosophy, instead of their acquisitive, amoral games.
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Sunday Morning Book Thread 11-08-2026 [Sabrina Chase]In Praise of Librarians
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Daily Tech News 8 November 2026
Top Story
- AMD's Zen 6 cores aren't quite here yet but benchmarks of engineering samples are leaking out and it looks like what we hoped to see with Zen 5. (WCCFTech)
Compared with a 12-core Zen 5 Ryzen 370, the unnamed 10-core sample is 32% faster on single-threaded tasks - a huge jump for a single generation - and 21% faster multi-threaded despite having two fewer cores.
If the leaks that Zen 6 will have 50% more cores are true and its per-core performance is 30% faster, that will put desktop parts at nearly twice the performance of Zen 5.
We don't know how many graphics cores will ship in the laptop parts, but benchmarks of the same engineering sample's four-core integrated GPU placed it a little ahead of the current 860M's eight cores thanks to an update to the newer RDNA4 architecture used in AMD's 9000-series graphics cards.
All in all a solid advance arriving at a time when nobody can afford the hardware to go with it. Good for people running on older AMD hardware - or even those sitting on Intel systems with DDR5 memory.
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November 07, 2026
Saturday Night Club ONT - November 7, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
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Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: You Can See Everything
I had no real knowledge of Elizabeth Holmes or Theranos going into this movie. Just a vague sense that she had scammed people with a ridiculous medical device that purported to do all kinds of things and didn't.
Do I know any more now?
I don't know.
"Why would I deceive you?"
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Hobby Thread - November 7, 2026 [TRex] 
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling round and decided on a marble theme for this Hobby Thread.
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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, November 7
Courtesy Kentuckiana HumorHow are your cats adjusting to Standard Time?
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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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Courtesy Kentuckiana Humor
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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Nov. 7
All the rain that we didn't get this summer fell during the past three weeks, 8.5 inches worth. The clematis that had gone dormant during the hot, dry weather woke up and is blooming again.
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It's getting hard to keep all the streams of messaging straight now
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"Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin (November 1789)Courtesy Statues: The People They Salute
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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Please submit any prayer requests to “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests: 9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support. 8/14 Update – Random Dave needs continued prayers for his job situation, that God would guide him to the right one soon, and also for prayers for M’s grandmother, who fell the other day and tore a ligament. 10/22 Update – M’s grandmother is healing well. She is mostly mobile now (on crutches), and occasionally has bouts of bad pain. They praise God for the healing and humbly request additional healing. Random Dave reports no real change on his job situation. He continues to pray for God to make the path known as he applies, and periodically deal with “good” interviews that end up going nowhere. 9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers. 10/17 – Bother Tim posted that he has been in the hospital for 3 weeks. 10/10 – Just Some Guy asked for prayers for his former work colleague, who had a heart attack and stroke. 10/10 – Mile, okravangelist, requested prayers for Mama Publius, for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. Mama Publius is in home hospice care. 10/24 Update – Mama Publius passed away this past week. 10/14 – NR Pax requested prayers for a friend, whose husband died on 10/10 after a long illness. 10/17 – Pooky’s Girl posted that she is in the hospital, because Wee Pooky is threatening to come early at 30 weeks. 10/24 Update – Pooky’s Girl’s contractions have been stopped. She is at 31 weeks along, so every week that Wee Pooky stays put is less time in the NICU. 10/31 – Annie’s Stew (and, I assume, all the Horde) ask for God’s blessings on Misanthropic Humanitarian as he steps away from the blog. We thank him for his service to the Horde and to Christ’s Kingdom. 10/31 – ChristyBlinkyTheGreat requested prayers that her mother’s eventual passing into heaven be in peace as she sleeps, without any pain or fear. She thinks it will be in the next few weeks or months, as she is approaching 96 years old. 11/4 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update that she is not feeling well. Every muscle and bone hurts, on top of the fatigue and weakness she was already experiencing. The nurse at UTSW thinks it may be due to receiving chemo on top of radiation, on the same day. The good news is that the CA19-9 number is 4.9, below the threshold of 37. This was her twelfth chemo treatment, marking a year since she started this protocol. She is worried that it may be a preview of how she will feel when the cancer starts to take over.For submission guidelines, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at: apaslo at hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
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Daily Tech News 7 November 2026
Tech News
- With the end of support of Intel Macinti, the number of MacOS-like varieties of Linux is rapidly increasing. (The Register)
Because it coincided with the rise of AI development tools and independent creators working on the "they can't sue all of us" philosophy quickly reskinning Linux to look and feel like MacOS but without the flaws. (Replacing them with different flaws, I'm sure.)
- And while the Hackintosh - running MacOS on regular PC hardware - died with Apple's move to its own Arm-based architecture that too is making a return now that regular PCs are available running Arm chips. (Yoon's Blog)
Less appealing now though with the memory plague making comparable hardware just as expensive as an actual Macintosh.
- Though if you're more of a classicist you can run something that looks and feels like the original MacOS on a Raspberry Pi Pico. (Free Hackers)
Not the now expensive Raspberry Pi 5, but the tiny $5 microcontroller.
And on the "they can't sue all of us" it includes the classic Apple menu icon. That's just asking for trouble.
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November 06, 2026
Alas, Poor ONT. I Knew Him Horatio
Hello everyone! Well, blue tsunami this week. Half of America needs these stickers.
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Rough Week Cafe
by Juan Solis
Obligatory
or the remake, if you like
by Juan Solis
Obligatory
or the remake, if you like
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The Last Good Generation: Gen X
That's completely true. It's provably true -- the Boomers were such a big generation that the media continued to push Boomer-era bands and Boomer-era bullshit (hippie liberalism, Woodstock) even when we became adults. We all naively believed that when we became adults the culture would reflect our preferences, but no, it was all Boomer Crap all the time. Until the Millennials came of age -- and then the culture shifted from Boomer-dominated to Millennial-dominated. Not a day of Gen X dominated.
Last week a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans of every generation shifted to the left over the last two years -- except for one: Generation X. Liberal Boomers, Millennials and Gen Zers were gobsmacked. "What's wrong with Gen X?" they demanded. As a member of that generation I'm here to tell you: Absolutely nothing. In fact, we're the only thing standing between this country and communism -- the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency generation. In the '90s they called us slackers. Now we're middle-aged, menopausal and holding the door at the Alamo. Have you even said "thank you"? No mystery why we're like this: It's because we were neglected -- latchkey kids who ate saltines for dinner. Many of our parents got divorced and forgot they had children, which was fine because we were busy getting blackout drunk in hayfields and smoking weed in garages. We also bullied each other -- and it made us resilient. I'm only half kidding when I say the anti-bullying movement launched this country's decline. Nobody came to save us, so we never expected the government to, either. Our whole political philosophy could fit on a bumper sticker: Leave us alone. And we vote on the basis of which party is more likely to do so. ... You can't shame us into voting the way you want; we're immune to that emotional manipulation and bullying. Generationally, we're the middle child. We've got Boomers on one side going "just get a good job at the factory," Millennials on the other asking "what if the factory were a co-op?" and Zoomers off filming TikTok dances on the factory floor. We're the ones who remember the Cold War and the internet before it ate everyone's brain, so we don't fall for every Russian psy-op that gets injected into the discourse. Thank you, "Red Dawn." And yes, I know Gen X is irritatingly obsessed with itself. In our defense, nobody else was paying attention to us.
...Unrelated: Unexpectedly, October's job creation numbers smashed expectations. Wages went up, too.
So leave it to us, the slackers. The latchkey kids raised on divorce, hose water and indifference, now caring for four sets of aging boomers, paying for everyone's benefits and mowing the lawn on Saturday. We didn't ask for the job. We never ask for anything. That's kind of the point. Give a guy a 30-year mortgage and a backyard, and he won't want revolution. He'll want a Traeger grill.
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in October, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, in health care, and in transportation and warehousing. ... In October, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 14 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $38.00. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.1 percent. In October, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 12 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $32.75.
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Trump vs. the Bureaucracy
Reagan tried. Reagan failed. Trump actually delivered. He also worked assiduously to make the President the boss of his underling bureaucrats, instead of the bureaucrats being the President's boss. What a concept. The boss sets policy and tells the subordinate paper-pushers what to do? That's a #ThreatToDemocracy. Ben Weingarten:
Trump is the first president in living memory to actually cut the federal work force.
Reagan tried. Reagan failed. Trump actually delivered. He also worked assiduously to make the President the boss of his underling bureaucrats, instead of the bureaucrats being the President's boss. What a concept. The boss sets policy and tells the subordinate paper-pushers what to do? That's a #ThreatToDemocracy. Ben Weingarten:
Of course, the Democrats want to undo all this. They want to rehire all the unneeded clock-watching do-nothings and of course all the unqualified DEI make-work check-cashers and they want to pour American tax dollars into US AID and all the other corrupt communist NGOs.
Although Trump is often described as an impulsive, undisciplined leader, he has remained sharply focused on advancing reforms aimed at increasing presidential power over the unelected federal bureaucracy. RealClearInvestigations' review of dozens of executive actions and agency regulations found that the Trump administration has taken historic steps to shrink the branch of government he runs, make agencies more accountable to elected officials, and reduce Washington's regulatory control over the private sector.,,, These efforts have reduced the federal workforce to levels unseen since the 1960s and generated hundreds of billions of dollars in cost savings. They have also produced Supreme Court rulings affirming presidential authority to remove subordinates and rein in independent agencies, along with deregulatory savings estimated at trillions of dollars.
"[F]rom almost the first day of the president's second term, the administration has been at work in the most extensive project since the New Deal to recapture for the elected branches what has been given away over many decades to the permanent bureaucratic class," Hillsdale College professor Ronald J. Pestritto wrote in a monograph lauding the president's initiatives late last year.
"We have a massive reconstruction task ahead of us," Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has warned. "We will have to go department by department, subject by subject, and public purpose by public purpose to determine what we salvage and what we re-create." Although Democrats will control both chambers of Congress next year, the center of gravity of their resistance will likely continue to be in the courthouses where they have challenged the president's agenda, alleging unconstitutional overreach and procedural ham-handedness. Through hundreds of lawsuits, many still pending, they have opposed everything from firing employees and eliminating offices to withholding appropriated funds. Legal scholars say these battles over the scope and contours of presidential authority and the Constitution's separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches may have significant long-term ramifications. They also note that litigation moves slowly; many cases are not likely to be resolved until Trump leaves office. As a practical matter, often buoyed by a Supreme Court that has blocked lower court injunctions thwarting Trump's orders, the president has meaningfully reshaped the bureaucracy.... Shrinking the workforce From the start of his second term, President Trump vowed to "dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people." Through a series of executive orders, he froze federal hiring across most agencies, directed the Department of Government Efficiency to help cut the federal workforce through deferred resignation programs and reductions in force (RIFs), and required agencies to hire no more than one employee for every four departing employees. During its first year, the administration has shrunk the workforce by 220,000 to 250,000 workers -- a 10% decline. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a critic of the cuts, described them as "the largest one-year reduction in the federal workforce in over 75 years, dating back to the demobilization following World War II." The decline has not been evenly distributed. The Center's analysis indicates that Trump has targeted executive branch departments whose work he questions. These include the Department of Education (down 39%), the State Department and associated agencies (down 37%), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (down 23%). His policies have also sparked mass exoduses from specific areas like the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Conservatives have long considered the division a bastion of progressive activism. Up to 80% of its staff reportedly left. The administration has replaced those 300 departing employees with 130 hires of its own. The workforce continued to decline modestly in 2026. In all, about one in five federal workers has left through resignation, retirement, or dismissal during Trump's second term -- though about half that number has been replaced. At roughly 2.7 million employees, the federal workforce has fallen to its lowest level since 1966.Read the whole thing. We're down, but we did a lot of damage. We have to pick ourselves up from the floor, knock the dust off our shoulders, and defend our achievements.
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The Week In Woke
Democrats celebrate "the gayest Congress in American history."
This may shock you, but the thing they said would never happen is not only happening but it is happening with the encouragement of the Democrat political establishment.
NY Post: Ilhan Nur Said Elmi has two "secret siblings" in London, who I imagine she's keeping secret so that her very sketchy family background can be concealed.
#Accurate:
Ayatollah Mojtaba KhameneiFeminists exult: "Abortion is so back, baby!" That's a direct threat to the babies they intend to kill. Speaking of mass abortions, hag-faced whore Jennifer Welch giggles over the murder of Charlie Kirk.
@MKhamenei_ir The process of the US's collapse has accelerated.
Democrats celebrate "the gayest Congress in American history."
"The American people have made their voices heard," the Equality Caucus said on social media, Thursday, with a photo of a rainbow behind the U.S. Capitol Dome. "The 120th Congress will officially be the GAYEST Congress in history! (that we know of)," it announced. "Let's get to work ️️⚧️," the leftists added, adding emojis of the American flag, LGBT flag, and transgender flag. This coincides with excitement from Queer News Tonight, which predicted that the first act of a Democrat-controlled Congress would be changing the rules so a biological man who believes he is a woman -- Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), formerly known as Tim -- can use the women's restrooms in the halls of Congress.
This may shock you, but the thing they said would never happen is not only happening but it is happening with the encouragement of the Democrat political establishment.
Mark HemingwayCalifornia city allows throuples and polyamorous gangbang cells to register as domestic partners.
@Heminator Every critic of gay marriage said this was the logical outcome; virtually every mainstream proponent of gay marriage assured us it would never happen. And here we are.
They're totally focused on affordability. Well, I guess they're all done lying about this never happening now.
Throuples, foursomes and other multi-partner relationships can now register as domestic partners in a Los Angeles County city after its city council unanimously approved new legal protections for polyamorous couples. West Hollywood passed the ordinance Tuesday after it was introduced by Mayor John Heilman. The measure allows people in relationships involving multiple partners to officially register with the city, granting them certain rights, including hospital visitation and additional tenant protections. ... These barriers, they say, often arise in housing, healthcare, education and other services, where existing policies largely cater to two-person partnerships or traditional family households. Christina Fialho, an attorney and founder of the bisexual media representation advocacy group Rewrite the BiLine, first proposed the idea of polyamory protections to West Hollywood Councilmember Chelsea Lee Byers in early 2025. Fialho told the Los Angeles Times that "this law is just the beginning." "I think it makes it possible for people to dream about a future they once thought was out of reach," she said.
A teenage girl who was raped by a trans-identified male former police officer in Germany faced questioning from his lawyer after "accidentally misgendering" him in court. The disturbing new detail emerges just weeks after Maja Schmid, a 55-year-old former federal officer from Rosenheim, was sentenced for the heinous crime. As previously reported by Reduxx, Schmid was sentenced to three years and three months at the Traunstein Regional Court earlier in October after a three day trial. Schmid was found guilty of raping the girl when she was just 15 years old. He was also found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse materials. During the trial, it was learned that the crime occurred in August of 2025 during a roadtrip between Schmid and the young girl, who was the daughter of one of Schmid's friends. After stopping at a roadside restaurant, Schmid approached the girl in the women's toilets, pushed her against a wall, and raped her. According to reports, the teenage victim was in shock after the assault, unable to respond until Schmid left the area, at which point the girl had a "serious anxiety attack" in the bathroom. It was also learned that at the time of the assault, Schmid was already under investigation by cybercrime specialists for possessing extreme pornography on his phone. After seizing his devices during the course of the investigation, police found thousands of child sex abuse images, some of which depicting toddlers, along with a video of Schmid sexually abusing a dog. The bestiality media was not taken into consideration in the verdict. According to the presiding judge, bestiality pornography is punishable in Germany only if it is intended for distribution.Rape a teenage girl, pay a little fine. I wonder if Russell Brand will just pay a little fine...?
Earlier this month, Schmid was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for his crimes. In explaining the verdict, the presiding judge took into account a letter of apology Schmid had written and his commitment to pay the victim 11,000 [euros] in compensation.
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Andreas Bartschmid oddly declared that despite his rape of a child and extremely large collection of child pornography, Schmid was "not a pedophile."He has "thousands" of child porn photos on his computer, including with toddlers, and raped a child. But the judge wants you to know he's definitely NOT a pedophile. That could be used as an accurate statement in political writings made by Racists.
His gender transition was "not a fetish," Bartschmid added, but simply "rotted in an inner inclination within the defendant." He also said that his teenage victim had suffered "no long lasting effects" from the attack at the motorway service station, only physical pain during it.types deletes This is not the first child he has sexually assaulted, either.
... In 2024, Schmid had invited the teenage victim to his home to use his installed whirlpool system. According to the girl, Schmid gave her alcohol, but after five minutes felt dizzy and then immediately lost consciousness. She then awoke hours later when it was dark on Schmid's sofa, wearing a t-shirt without her bathing suit on. Schmid claimed she was at risk of drowning and changed her out of her bathing suit to ensure his couch stayed dry. The prosecution determined there was not enough evidence to charge Schmid for this incident, and most concerningly, Judge Bartschmid in the sentencing remarks further claimed that the minor "shared responsibility" for what happened because she had consumed alcohol. However, even more disturbing new details from the case emerged this week and sent a furor through German social media. According to Die Welt, before the trial finished, Schmid's lawyer, Peter Durr, sent an official letter from his office questioning the teenage rape victim over her usage of male pronouns for her rapist during her testimony. Durr said he was looking to "politely inquire whether it is correct that you referred to Ms. Schmid as 'he' on the last day of proceedings."Germany has a law that imposes a fine of up to 10,000 Euros for misgendering a tranny. Which is, you will note, a mere 10% less than the fine the tranny rapist has to pay his victim for raping her. For some reason, Racists in Germany took this as an attempt to intimidate the 15-year-old rape victim.
... Outraged at the new revelation, a number of German women's rights campaigners began a digital chain with the message: "We live in a country where a raped girl is issued a cease-and-desist order if she refers to her rapist as a man. I despise everyone who enacted this humiliating, misogynistic law." German media reports throughout the trial had often described Schmid as a "police woman," or "female police officer," with Suddeutsche Zeitung even giving the case as an example of "female" sex crimes.
NY Post: Ilhan Nur Said Elmi has two "secret siblings" in London, who I imagine she's keeping secret so that her very sketchy family background can be concealed.
Ilhan Omar has been hiding links to two of her siblings in London in an alleged bid to create further distance between her and rumored brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi -- whom she married in 2009. Multiple sources told The Post that Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, a political activist for the Puntland cause in Somalia, and Leila Nur Said Elmi, 53, are Omar's siblings who live in London. Ahmed Elmi, 41 -- to whom Omar was married for eight years, and who described himself as "a gay man" in a recent academic paper -- is also believed to have lived with Leila while growing up. The congresswoman, 44, arrived in the US as a refugee from Somalia in 1995, while the other branch of her family made their way to London via Ukraine. "They are all one family," a friend of the Omar family claimed in an interview with The Post. "The siblings have the same mum and the same dad and within the Somali community acknowledge each other as brothers and sisters. "But they keep it quiet to the rest of the world because Ilhan is now in politics. They do not want people to find the link between her and Ahmed [Elmi]." The family spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp after fleeing Somalia when war broke out. But the family, which originally had the surname Elmi, made the decision to seek safety abroad as soon as they could, according to a family friend in Minnesota. "It's what people in the community did when they were desperate," the source told The Post. "There was obviously a lot of danger and once people knew they could get into another country, they'd help take on as many others as possible to keep them safe." Omar, her sister Sahra and late father Nur Omar Mohamed first settled in Arlington, Virginia, before making their way to Minnesota. Her alleged brother, Mohamed, now appears to be heavily involved in Puntland politics, regularly traveling to the region from London, according to his posts on social media. He and his sister Leila have ties with war criminal Mohamed Said Hersi "Morgan" who led a brutal state-sponsored massacre against the Isaaq clan in 1988 under dictator Siad Barre. As a picture obtained by The Post shows, the pair proudly smiled alongside the warlord for a picture in January 2024. Mohamed also paid tribute to him on social media after he died a year later, noting that their families shared a bond of friendship and that Gen. Morgan was close with their father. Gen. Morgan, known as the "butcher of Hargeisa," orchestrated a campaign that saw cities flattened due to aerial bombardment, wells poisoned and up to 200,000 civilians killed in what many scholars refer to as a genocide. Omar's late father also went by the name Nur Said Elmi and was also a prominent military commander in the Somali dictatorship, which millions fled from. Leila, Mohamed and Sahra are all linked on Facebook, proudly leaving "hearts" on each other's photos and all are friends with alleged father Nur, who went by Nur Said, which means "light of happiness" in Arabic, which Omar has previously claimed is just a nickname for her father, although Somali sources dispute this. Omar, Sahra, Leila, Mohamed and Elmi did not respond to The Post's requests for comment. Omar's alleged sister Leila married a Somali man 11 years her senior in 1997 in Camden, London. The British marriage certificate, obtained by the Post, lists her father as Nur Said Elmi, a military officer from Somalia. Multiple sources have claimed the person listed on the British legal document is Nur, Omar's father, and that all of the siblings in the US and UK also share the same mother -- Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, who the Congresswoman says died when she was around two years old. "We are a small community, and everybody talks, nothing is hidden," a friend of the Omar family told The Post.
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WaPo Sob Story: DEI Layabouts Fired by the Federal Government Can't Get Hired by Other Corporations Because They Know They're DEI Layabouts
There is no "DEI for white people."
Sad!
Nightmare VisionThis was published late last week but I couldn't find an archived copy until now. (It's paywalled.)
@GodCloseMyEyes please read this piece, it was so good. it's about dei officers in the federal government being cleaned out and many being unable to find new jobs because they were put on "dei watchlists" that come up in google searches in the exact same way it did for right wingers who had their lives ruined by journalists. then he starts applying for dei jobs in the private sector but can't get one because no one wants to hire someone with dei shit all over their resume. then they find a conservative activist and ask him if he's happy with all of this and his response is "these people are all anti-white, of course I'm glad they can't find jobs."
Trump fired him. The 'DEI Watchlist' shamed him. Then came 500 job rejections.Because you produced nothing. You earn nothing, you just cost a company money to push for more DEI layabouts to be hired and cost the company more money. It's absurd you even had this "dream job" in the first place.
Efforts to purge the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs have taken a major toll on Black workers who now struggle to find comparable jobs.
What are your qualifications, Buddy?
On his 368th day without a job, Dia Harris woke at 8:30, slipped a coffee pod into his Keurig and checked his iPad to see how many more rejections had come in overnight.
There were two automated messages from "Meta Careers," thanking him for applying to be a program manager. "Our recruiting team will contact you if your qualifications are a strong match," Harris read. By his count, those were the 560th and 561st roles he'd sought since getting fired from the federal government.
Probably because they only hire gay people. Live by identity-based hiring, die by identity-based hiring.
After he showered, he found another message waiting: this one from the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that combats suicide among LGBTQ+ youth. Harris, 53, recalled thinking that the Trevor Project's "chief people officer" was the rare posting that felt like something he would be good at and actually wanted to do. "While your qualifications and experience are truly impressive, they don't fully align ...," Harris read now, and he deleted the latest rejection unfinished.
Wow, this pointless novelistic detail of the mundanities of simply getting dressed and eating really makes me identify with this unemployed grifter.
He grabbed a bottle of frozen water and a zip-top bag of granola. He pulled on a maroon polo and matching baseball cap embroidered in white thread with the logo of the store where he worked part-time.
Sliding into his car, he drove in the opposite direction from the nation's capital and the limestone-and-brick federal building where he'd once found his purpose and had hoped to remain until he retired. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, nearly 426,000 of the nation's 2.2 million civilian federal employees have left the government.Beautiful.
.... Of the hundreds of thousands who left, 85 percent resigned or retired early through incentive programs offered by the Trump administration, a Washington Post analysis found. Thirty-two thousand full-time workers were fired. Harris was one of them.You know that claim that government workers make when their unions press for even higher wages than the already-inflated wages they're currently receiving? That you have to pay them more because they can just walk out the door and get much higher rates of pay in the private sector? Any thoughts about that perennial claims, WaPo?
I enjoy the fact that the WaPo treats this as some kind of conspiracy theory or contested claim, when in fact the entire point of DEI is to push for the hiring of non-whites, non-males, and non-straights only.
Harris was the first chief equity officer for the Administration for Children and Families, or ACF, a large agency in the Department of Health and Human Services that helps vulnerable Americans with foster care, home energy needs and early education. He was among more than 200 employees targeted for dismissal by DOGE after Trump issued an order to rid the government of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which he declared were divisive and destructive and "would have ruined our country." Diversity programs and initiatives have been around for decades but became much more common after the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Businesses and federal and local governments adopted antibias trainings, employee resource groups and recruiting programs and created new jobs, including Harris's federal position. The mass embrace of DEI programs felt to Harris like the capstone of his professional life, despite growing opposition from many on the political right who portrayed DEI efforts as reverse racism that disadvantaged White people.
There is no "DEI for white people."
The president's order accelerated that opposition, triggering a rapid retreat from DEI policies throughout government and the corporate world -- and, Harris feared, devastating the field in which he built his career.It's not a career, it's a make-work welfare program for people who are otherwise unemployalbe. ... Harris's job search was made harder by his membership in an even smaller group: He'd been named, with 92 others -- two-thirds of them Black -- on a public website called the "DEI Watchlist." Run by a little-known conservative group with ties to the Heritage Foundation, the site claimed to expose "behind-the-scenes bureaucrats who push divisive DEI agendas that undermine merit, fairness, and accountability." A full page devoted to Harris shared his federal salary and employment history alongside a smiling photo of him wearing a blue button-down. Harris had been out of government for more than a year, but the site was still the first result when anyone Googled his name. One prospective employer confided to him that the watch list made him unhirable. Harris often checked with friends and colleagues also named on the list, and most of them were still out of work, ... Harris received no severance. Now, his $16-an-hour paycheck was barely enough to cover utilities. It was supplemented by a second part-time job and help from his 71-year-old mother, who'd recently picked up extra hours at the Hallmark shop where she'd worked for the past two years. But he was also using his 401(k) to pay the mortgage and his credit card bills, and that would be empty by next year. Pulling into a long, low strip mall, he parked and closed his eyes. He didn't have to clock in for another 15 minutes. He told himself to forget the Dia Harris who'd earned two degrees; the sought-after HR expert who'd drawn six-figure salaries from Fortune 500 companies; the little boy who grew up in North Philadelphia eating blocks of yellow cheese from the government and who swore he'd never work part-time jobs like his mother. ... IN THE LAST DAYS OF 2024, as his colleagues swapped rumors that the incoming president was going to delete DEI from the government, Harris and his boss came up with a plan to save his job. As chief equity officer, Harris was tasked with ensuring that the workforce of the ACF resembled the Americans it served. Before Trump's inauguration, he switched to become a "senior advisor" in the Office of Community Services, which distributes funds, diapers and legal services to the poor. He saw it as more or less the same worthy mission: bringing in good people and helping them help the neediest Americans. Who, he wondered, could find fault with that? Obviously this is the same scam we've seen throughout government and universities where they just create a vague fake new title and assign that title to DEI officers, who continue doing DEI bullshit and getting paid six figures for it.
Seems like Trump foresaw your next grifter maneuver and preemptively blocked it.
Then, a few hours after Trump was sworn in, Harris was scanning one of 26 first-day executive orders -- "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing" -- when he noticed a date in the eighth paragraph. The president was ordering the termination of all DEI positions "in existence on November 4, 2024." Uh-oh, he thought.
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Despite the Blue Wave, Blue States Voted to Restrict Girls' Sports for Girls
Plus: The Coming Democrat "Civil War"?
This is the NYT so prepare yourself for some grumbling.
Below: Leftists complain about "girls having to show their genitals" and trans extremists whine about being "betrayed" by their leftwing allies.
Plus: The Coming Democrat "Civil War"?
And the angry trans extremists are, get this, angry about it.
This is the NYT so prepare yourself for some grumbling.
Despite the fact that this issue was put to the people and the people voted to keep girls' sports for actual girls, the incoming Democrat governor of Colorado says to hell with what the people voted for, Men In Girls' Changing Rooms is a Sacred Right.
In the same election that brought strong showings for Democratic candidates around the country, voters in three states chose to bar transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams. The results, including in at least one state where Democrats are dominant, suggested that many voters do not view accommodations for trans athletes as part of a broad Democratic agenda. The results also appeared likely to inspire similar campaigns in future elections on an issue that has rarely been tested at the ballot box. Since 2020, lawmakers in Republican-led states across the country have enacted laws limiting how transgender people can participate in public life. But this election was the first time voters were asked to consider new restrictions through statewide ballot measures, and they approved many of them. The margins were large in Arizona and Nebraska, and narrower in Washington, where Democrats dominate. In Colorado, votes were still being counted on Thursday in a ballot measure over the same issue. Supporters of the initiatives said they hoped the sports issue would be put directly to voters in other Democrat-led states. The results could also mean that decisions around broader rights for transgender people will be put before voters, political strategists said. "To every female athlete who wondered whether her voice mattered: tonight, Washington heard you,'' Brian Heywood, the Seattle-area hedge fund founder who financed the Washington initiative, said in a statement. For supporters of the restrictions, the results felt like vindication. Polls have shown that a solid majority of Americans, including roughly half of Democrats, think that transgender girls and women should not play on girls' and women's sports teams. Many believe that trans athletes hold a physical edge, and that their participation prevents others from having a fair chance to win, the polls indicate. Over the past six years, 27 states enacted laws restricting the participation of transgender students in sports starting in kindergarten or middle school, extending in many cases to college. The Supreme Court upheld such laws last June. But in nearly two dozen Democrat-led states, including Colorado and Washington, legislatures have taken no such action. That is why Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, a parent advocacy group sponsoring the initiative, wanted to put the question on the ballot in Colorado. By Thursday afternoon, with more than 80 percent of ballots counted, the vote in Colorado on a ban on trans athletes in girls sports was close, with about 53 percent of voters favoring the measure. A second Colorado ballot measure that would ban gender-transition-related surgeries for minors, was also close, with 52 percent of voters in favor as the vote counting continued.
"My hope is that we can be the example of a blue state where your legislature is not following the will of the people," she said. "Where we, the people, can do it ourselves, and hopefully encourage others to follow suit."
Well, that didn't take long. Less than 24-hours after Colorado elected a new Democrat governor, he's already suggesting he wants to thumb his nose at the voters who passed several ballot initiatives progressives don't like.In other words, he tends to carefully scan the very clear statement of the people to conjure up ambiguities, and then claim those invented ambiguities render the people's judgement completely void.
... [Incoming Democrat governor] Weiser said today that these initiatives will need a long, hard look once he takes office.
Prop 134 would bar young transgender athletes from participating on K-12 or collegiate sports teams that match their gender identities. And Prop 135 would bar people under 18 from receiving gender-affirming surgeries... Weiser, who was elected Tuesday by a wide margin in the governor's race, said officials would need to work "to understand the will of the voters."
This is the standard lie pushed by Trans Extremists -- that there's no way we could possibly tell who is really a girl and who is really a boy unless we "force girls to drop their pants in front of state genital inspectors." Except... there are paper records of children's sexes. Even if a student "really believes he's a girl," doctors still have to know if he's more likely to suffer from testicular cancer or ovarian cancer. Or does cancer Respecc the Pronouns of Its Victims? And, of course: The notion that transgenders' real sex cannot be determined by simply looking at them or hearing their voices is preposterous cope."It's important that we recognize that sometimes, something is passed and it is incomplete. It is not administrable," Weiser said during a post-election news conference Wednesday at the Capitol in Denver. "... Anytime you have a ballot measure that is statutory, it is a natural and, I believe, appropriate role for the legislature to say, 'What are the adjustments that need to be added?' " For the proposal to bar young people from playing on sports teams that don't match their biological sex, for example, Weiser said: "I don't believe it would be acceptable to Colorado to have every student athlete to have to go through full-body examinations or other invasions of privacy."
Below: Leftists complain about "girls having to show their genitals" and trans extremists whine about being "betrayed" by their leftwing allies.
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