Quick Hits

Squad member and insurrectionist Jamaal Bowman has been censured over the criminal act of pulling a fire alarm in order to stop a House vote (which is a Constitutional act). Apparently the DOJ will not be prosecuting him.

Only three Democrats voted to censure him. 105 Republicans, on the other hand, voted to expel George Santos. One side is doing this right and one side is doing it wrong and it doesn't matter which -- both sides must act the same way, no matter who is right and who is wrong. We cannot go on perpetrating 2-tier justice on ourselves.

The "journalists" and other "workers" at the Washington Post staged a very, very symbolic one-day walkout.

Why. Even. Bother.

They got me all excited about a strike, but then they all returned to their, and I use this term advisedly, " " " jobs " " " within 24 hours.

The Babylon Bee walked out in solidarity with their fellow fake-news providers:

Speaking of fake news: The hot new concept in " " " journalism " " " is the "duty to not report."

Specifically, to not report on the immigration status of criminals and terrorists. (And race, of course. And transgender status. And affiliation with the Democrat Party or leftwing causes.)

Yes, they've been doing that for over a decade, but now they've made it into an acknowledged and explicit code of Fake Journalism.

We have been discussing the latest Irish law to crackdown on free speech. Yet, even with the criminalization of speech, there is apparently still the danger of citizens reading or hearing facts from reporters that are best kept from them. Thus, Kitty Holland, a correspondent with the Irish Times, is defending the media's decision to suppress stories that would "incite hatred" and undermine journalistic viewpoints.

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Holland... said that they had to be suppressed in the best interests of the public:

"I think elements of them were not good,. They were incitement to hatred, and I think that's why the media left out aspects of them. I think they were right to not include [Casey's full comments in news reports]. I don't think that they were helpful, and this is the kind of thing that the far right latches on to."

What was striking was the ease with which Holland moves directly into the suppression of a story as the guardian of the public good. Some news is simply "not helpful" so the media should not allow the public to be exposed to it.

Holland previously won the Journalist of the Year, News Reporter of the Year, and the Overall winner of the Justice Media Awards.

Holland's view is consistent with many in the media in the United States today.

I have long been a critic of what I called "advocacy journalism" as it began to emerge in journalism schools. These schools encourage students to use their "lived expertise" and to "leave[] neutrality behind." Instead, of neutrality, they are pushing "solidarity [as] 'a commitment to social justice that translates into action.'"

For example, we previously discussed the release of the results of interviews with over 75 media leaders by former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward. They concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle said it plainly: "Objectivity has got to go."

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[A]merican politicians (including Barack Obama) have called upon the media to actively frame news to shape public opinion. This includes support for the widespread censorship of opposing views on social media.

The Holland interview shows how matter-of-fact the cause of censorship has become for reporters. The immediate question is not whether it was news to report (which it certainly was), but whether the news would further the cause or narrative of the media.

There has always been media bias, but it is now openly acknowledged and embraced by reporters. They view themselves now as the guardians protecting citizens from harmful information or news that they cannot put into the proper perspective. Information is treated like sugary drinks under the Big Gulp laws, you are better off having others decide what is healthy for you to consume . . . or to know.

And yet they continue to insist that they are objective, and in fact that they are so objective that they should be the only voices permitted in the public sphere.

Instapundit: Why aren't we talking about the real vectors of disinformation? The real pool of the ignorant easily infected by stupid nonsense?

The "elite," in other words?

In modern America, after all, very few important matters are put to the voters.

They're decided by unelected administrators: government bureaucrats, college administrators, corporate executives.

After George Floyd's death, we didn't have a national election on what to do. Institutions just executed a simultaneous turn to the same policies -- defunding police, for example -- most of which wouldn't have passed muster with voters and have been disastrous.

But everything from TV commercials to civil-rights policies to educational curricula changed all at once, in the same way.

And the armor is thinner.

Educated people, trained in school, tend to believe what they're told.

Working-class people tend to be more cynical about media and "experts."

Our ruling class is a monoculture of people educated in the same schools, in the same ways and with the same values.

Whatever fools one of them will probably fool all of them or enough to make a difference.

And they can be easily bought. Not just our political class but the entire upper stratum is for sale.

You can buy universities with donations, grants and institutes, you can buy politicians with campaign donations and jobs and consulting fees for families (see, e.g., Hunter Biden), you can buy off corporations even more directly.

They're for sale, and they're not even ashamed of it anymore.

Our ruling class mostly believes Israel is an "apartheid state" committing "genocide" -- it's not, and it's not -- capitalism produces poverty (rather the reverse, actually), "Western colonialism" is responsible for the ills of the Third World (nope) and whether one is male or female is purely a matter of social construction (also nope).

It thinks the only way to defeat racism is by being racist and the way to end urban violence is to disarm people in the suburbs.

So we need to look at armoring the top of our society against bad ideas instead of trying to limit what ordinary people can read online.

That would require limits on foreign funding, the cultivation of strong moral and patriotic values in our leadership and the reduction of top-level influence on society as a whole.

Breaking up big businesses and shrinking big universities and big government would make them less appealing targets and take away some of their power.

But doing that would reduce the amount of graft available, and it's hard to imagine our leadership class going along.

One in four people's bodies created unexpected "nonsense proteins" in reaction to the non-vaccine covid vaccines.

They claim that none of the gibberish proteins created by people's bodies were harmful at all. Not a single adverse effect, not one! Not one in all the hundreds of millions of cases!

How they could possibly know that will remain, forever, a mystery. Just more of that Magical Godscience we'll just have to pour all of our Faith into.

More than a quarter of people injected with mRNA Covid jabs suffered an unintended immune response created by a glitch in the way the vaccine was read by the body, a study has found.

No adverse effects were created by the error, data show, but Cambridge scientists found such vaccines were not perfect and sometimes led to nonsense proteins being made instead of the desired Covid "spike", which mimics infection and leads to antibody production.

mRNA jabs, such as the ones created by Moderna and Pfizer, use a string of genetic material to tell the body to create a specific protein that safely imitates an infection.

Research in the field, spanning decades, had been slow work. It often stalled because RNA itself is often attacked by the body as a foreign invader.

But in 2023, the Nobel Prize for Medicine went to the pair of scientists who had spent years working to fix the problem. It was done by taking one of the RNA bases, uridine, and swapping in a very similar synthetic alternative.

This breakthrough allowed scientists to create proteins in the body without the immune system attacking the jab.

It allows for quick and precise vaccines that are highly effective and was the backbone of the Covid vaccine response.
Not a perfect fit

It was thought the minor tweak to uridine caused no problems in cells, but a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge's Medical Research Council (MRC) Toxicology Unit have now found when this partially synthetic code is read, the protein-making machine in the body sometimes struggles with the uridine analogues.

Because it is not a perfect fit for what is expected, there can be a momentary pause which causes the process to stutter and a letter in the code can get skipped, much like a bike slipping a gear.

This process, called frameshifting, throws out the way the code is interpreted as it relies on groups of three bases, known as codons, being read in the right order.

500 Parisians line up to sample the wares at the country's first Krispy Kreme shop. Good. I can't wait till these f***ers all get fat so they can drop the superiority act.

Just kidding, they'll never drop the superiority act.

[T]o succeed in its 39th foreign market, Krispy Kreme's director general for France, Alexandre Maizoue, has pulled out all the stops: home delivery starting early next year, opening a production site in the eastern suburb of Creteil in 2024, and reaching 500 stores within five years.

"I think we have some great years ahead of us," he said. The company has already invested more than two million euros ($2.2 million) in its first store and production facility.

To ensure buzz, Krispy Kreme launched a huge publicity campaign -- with the Paris City Hall even accusing it of illegal postering -- and handed out some 100,000 doughnuts at various places around Paris.

A deejay and a red carpet welcomed clients to the Wednesday opening of the new store in the Halles shopping centre in central Paris.

According to Maizoue, around 400 people were in line at 8 am for the opening, with a total of 3,000 coming the first day.

The chain's first French store is offering 13 varies of doughnuts, or "donut" as it known in France, with clients able to observe the production behind a glass wall -- a hallmark of the brand.

I don't think I've seen it called a "doughnut" in America since I was a wee lad.

This is France24's English language unit. Must be staffed by Britishers.

Microsoft's making deals with Chinese communist party propaganda outlets, naturally. Probably coaching the Chinese communists on how best to censor their political enemies.

Microsoft helped Chinese state-run media outlets disseminate propaganda as part of previously unreported partnership agreements, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The nation's second largest corporation signed collaboration deals with state-run Chinese media outlets including China Daily and People's Daily, the latter of which is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese government. Summaries of the deal state Microsoft would provide China Daily with technology that lets the paper target potential readers and gave the People's Daily access to an artificial intelligence bot specially designed to be controlled and censored by the Chinese Communist Party.

The deals have not been widely reported outside of China, nor have the financial terms been disclosed. A spokeswoman for Microsoft said both agreements "expired years ago and were not renewed." But experts say the fact that Microsoft inked the deals at all is a major win for the Chinese Communist Party.

"These are major propaganda outlets that publish outright falsehoods attacking the ideas of democracy, attacking the very concepts that undergird our society, and yet an American company is working to spread this," said Geoffrey Cain, policy director at the Tech Integrity Project, which fights Chinese Communist Party influence in American tech companies. "The purpose of all this is to show the Chinese Communist Party that it's firmly on the side of China and the Chinese system," Cain added.

"Anti-racist" "scholar" Henry Rogers, who LARPs under the fake name Ibram X. Kendi: White people can't connect with humanity. Please give me more money so I can further develop theories of anti-racism.

Please teach me how to be anti-racist, Absolute Moral Authority

Washington State asked a scientist to evaluate whether its cap and trade scheme would raise gas prices. He concluded that it would, in fact, raise gas prices.

So they demanded he falsify the science, and when he refused, they forced him to quit.

From King5.com:

For the last five years, Scott Smith of Tumwater was a transportation planner for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). He was the primary WSDOT employee tasked with forecasting fuel consumption, pricing and revenues from gas taxes and fees. After 35 years working as a public sector economist, Smith said his career was ruined for his refusal to lie about how a new state policy, according to his mathematical calculations in early 2023, would jack up prices at the pump by 45 to 50 cents per gallon. He said the retaliation and pressure were so great he felt forced to resign.

Remember, when leftists say "Trust the Science," this is what they mean -- they mean "Trust the leftist consensus, which has rigged the science to say whatever the leftist consensus has demanded it say."

This is happening more and more: Child mask mandates were just proven, again, to be ineffective at stopping the spread of covid, or any virus.

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
@MonicaGandhi9

Child mask mandates for COVID-19: a systematic review -"current body of scientific data does not support masking children for protection against COVID". Hope MDs and public health officials will always be willing to change minds with evidence & data

But when Dr. Jay Battacharya told Ron DeSantis that, accurately describing the state of the science, his left-leaning fellow "scientists" banded together to smear him:

Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya

100+ of my medical school colleagues, including the chair of epidemiology @Stanford, circulated a secret petition (leaked to me) asking the president of the university to silence me for the crime of telling @GovRonDeSantis that no good evidence supported child masking.

"The Science" is not science. "The Science" is "elite" leftwing political opinion in a white lab coat.

I missed these two stories:

CNN has demanded "carbon passports," limiting the number of plane trips we can take in our lives. Presumably rich media and governmental liberals would be exempted, because they fucking live on private jets.

The negative impacts of tourism on the environment have become so severe that some are suggesting drastic changes to our travel habits are inevitable. In a report from 2023 that analyzed the future of sustainable travel, tour operator Intrepid Travel proposed that "carbon passports" will soon become a reality if the tourism industry hopes to survive.

The idea of a carbon passport centers on each traveler being assigned a yearly carbon allowance that they cannot exceed. These allowances can then "ration" travel.

This concept may seem extreme. But the idea of personal carbon allowances is not new.

The concept of Naziism may seem extreme. But the idea of an Aryan empire is not new.

A similar concept (called "personal carbon trading") was discussed by UK Parliament in 2008, before being shut down because of to its perceived complexity and the possibility of public resistance.

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Some European countries are beginning to take measures to reduce air travel. As of April 1, 2023, passengers on short-haul flights and older aircraft in Belgium have been subject to increased taxes to encourage alternative forms of travel.

Less than two months later, France banned short-haul domestic flights where the same trip can be made by train in two-and-a-half hours or less. Spain is expected to follow suit.

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It's not just air travel that's being criticized. An investigation by the European Federation for Transport and Environment in 2023 found that cruise ships pump four times as many sulphuric gases (which are proven to cause acid rain and several respiratory conditions) into the atmosphere than all of Europe's 291 million cars combined.

Statistics like these have forced European destinations to take action against the cruise industry. In July, Amsterdam's council banned cruise ships from docking in the city center in a bid to reduce tourism and pollution -- an initiative that has shown success elsewhere.

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Holidaymakers should prepare to change their travel habits now, before this change is forced upon them.

One man who will definitely not be reducing his private aircraft use, or even shifting to commercial airflight, is alleged global envoy for climate change John Kerry, who has declared that it's a "persistent lie" that he owns a private jet.

No, no one ever said you owned it. Your rich bitch meal-ticket wife owns it.

According to flight tracking data obtained by Fox News Digital in July 2022, a Gulfstream GIV-SP jet owned by Kerry's family made a total of 48 trips that lasted more than 60 hours and emitted an estimated 715,886 pounds, or 325 metric tons, of carbon over the course of the Biden administration's first 18 months.

The plane was registered to Flying Squirrel LLC, a charter company owned by Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry.

Kerry has declared that private airflight is the only means of travel that "makes sense for a person like me."

And so last week, our special envoy for practically living on private jets John Kerry signed America up to shut down 20% of our domestic electricity production.

The Biden Administration announced Saturday that the United States is committed to phasing out coal power plants nationwide and not building new ones as it moves ahead with its green agenda.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry announced at the annual United Nations climate change summit in Dubai, called COP28, that America is joining 56 other nations that comprise the Power Past Coal Alliance.

"We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities," Kerry said in a statement.

"The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants."

It's unclear when existing U.S. coal plants would have to shut, but other Biden regulatory actions and international commitments already in play have targeted 2035 as a coal-free deadline.

Biden and Kerry are fond of announcing shut-downs in American energy production, but never announce any start-ups, except for nonsense wind farms.

If John Kerry wants to eliminate toxic atmospheric discharges, he should start by flying commercial for once in his life.

And laying off rich foods.

Comments

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1 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at December 08, 2023 06:32 PM (L4/ui)

2 Off to read the content.

Posted by: Robert at December 08, 2023 06:32 PM (L4/ui)

3 Oh, and thanks for the Godzilla review.

Arigato, Ace-San.

Posted by: Robert at December 08, 2023 06:32 PM (L4/ui)

4 Hello all!
TGIF

Posted by: Jmel at December 08, 2023 06:33 PM (bVhJi)

5 I know I’m getting old but these new LED headlights are bullshit. Unbelievable glare. How did they make it through the approval process?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 08, 2023 06:34 PM (IwwlF)

6 "We will sell no donut before it's time!"


I think this slogan has legs.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2023 06:34 PM (qoGsy)

7 Specifically, to not report on the immigration status of criminals and terrorists. (And race, of course. And transgender status. And affiliation with the Democrat Party or leftwing causes.)
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Big mistake. I'm sure I'm not alone in assuming sight unseen that any malefactors whose demographics go unmentioned belongs to one of those demographics, because if the perp were white, they'd be shouting it from the rooftops.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2023 06:35 PM (UD9kD)

8 Funny juxtaposition:

Spitfire @DogRightGirl 2h
This is who was caught trying to burn down MLK Jr’s home.
Was she trying to create another hoax race crime?
https://tinyurl.com/3rpv9hma

Catturd @catturd2 2h
This pic of Meow Meow I just took - 😂
https://tinyurl.com/ybtk6sez

[photos only in both links]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 08, 2023 06:35 PM (krqg6)

9 Ibram Henry Rogers can fuck off. I say this in the whitest possible way.

Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2023 06:36 PM (Q4KYm)

10 omg

I had to stop myself from reading the Pfizer jab article because I was getting an irresistible urge to gouge my own eyes out

UFB this entire jabb escapade is a slow moving trainwreck

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2023 06:37 PM (bHd6/)

11 I find this elites of today kind of disappointing.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 08, 2023 06:38 PM (hCt6Y)

12 The fart heard around the world. John Kerry lets loose an audible fart during his talk at the recent COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

This is my corner, bitch. Step off!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at December 08, 2023 06:38 PM (CsUN+)

13 "Doe. Nut."
"Doe. Nut."


Why is it that these crazy French words always throw me?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2023 06:39 PM (Gsmsg)

14 Just kidding, they'll never drop the superiority act.

haha

FACT

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2023 06:39 PM (bHd6/)

15 The Kerry fart was a horse fart.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 08, 2023 06:42 PM (hCt6Y)

16 I know I’m getting old but these new LED headlights are bullshit. Unbelievable glare. How did they make it through the approval process?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 08, 2023 06:34 PM (IwwlF)

Get a radiation helmet and wear it, old man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2023 06:42 PM (Gsmsg)

17 I don't understand Parisians lining up to eat Krispy Kreme. Maybe the French Krispy Kreme franchises will put an elegant spin on the product, like foreign Mickey D's actually offer menu items that seem palatable.

French patisserie is a work of art. I'm astonished they're lining up for the American upstart.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2023 06:42 PM (bHd6/)

18 The Kerry fart was a horse fart.

Wait'll you see him twirl his tail to spread his feces like a hippo.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2023 06:42 PM (CsUN+)

19 Spitfire @DogRightGirl 2h
This is who was caught trying to burn down MLK Jr’s home.
Was she trying to create another hoax race crime?
https://tinyurl.com/3rpv9hma
________________

Behold the next president of Harvard.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2023 06:43 PM (UD9kD)

20 Godfather of mRNA vaccines reveals plans to immunize people against CANCER years before tumors strike to 'prevent the disease from ever appearing'

https://mol.im/a/12842657

Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all at December 08, 2023 06:43 PM (qfLjt)

21 One man who will definitely not be reducing his private aircraft use, or even shifting to commercial airflight, is alleged global envoy for climate change John Kerry, who has declared that it's a "persistent lie" that he owns a private jet.

Only a fool owns a private jet.

One leases a private jet.

*sniff*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2023 06:44 PM (Gsmsg)

22 I know I’m getting old but these new LED headlights are bullshit. Unbelievable glare. How did they make it through the approval process?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 08, 2023 06:34 PM (IwwlF)
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This. It's the "dazzle the poor people" approach. They think those headlights make them safer, but not if oncoming traffic is too dazzled to see the road.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2023 06:44 PM (UD9kD)

23 Godfather of mRNA vaccines reveals plans to immunize people against CANCER years before tumors strike to 'prevent the disease from ever appearing'

https://mol.im/a/12842657
Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all at December 08, 2023 06:43 PM (qfLjt)
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We need a vaccine against liberalism. Or stupidity, pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2023 06:45 PM (UD9kD)

24 The Kerry fart was a horse fart.
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Rusty!

Posted by: cosmo kramer at December 08, 2023 06:45 PM (krqg6)

25 Godfather of mRNA vaccines reveals plans to immunize people against CANCER years before tumors strike to 'prevent the disease from ever appearing'

https://mol.im/a/12842657

*Looks at cancer rates since Covid experimental gene therapy shots were rolled out.*

No way this can go wrong, eh?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 08, 2023 06:45 PM (dZVON)

26
Just kidding, they'll never drop the superiority act.

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Stupid Americans.

*sits at greasy café table*
*scowls*
*underpowered little cars creep by*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 06:45 PM (9mNHV)

27 It a a two tier justice system, one for Leftists and the other for everyone else

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2023 06:45 PM (fwDg9)

28 Chris Plante often points out that the most powerful tool the media has is the power to ignore.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2023 06:45 PM (vFG9F)

29 Better yet, one's charitable foundation leases a private jet.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2026 at December 08, 2023 06:46 PM (Gsmsg)

30 >>I know I’m getting old but these new LED headlights are bullshit.

Ford pick-ups are the worst about this issue.

Posted by: DanMan at December 08, 2023 06:48 PM (8uzBS)

31 These schools encourage students to use their "lived expertise"

Because so many 20-year-olds have expertise. In anything.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 08, 2023 06:48 PM (Rbu5d)

32 ace

Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 08, 2023 06:48 PM (u82oZ)

33 *Looks at cancer rates since Covid experimental gene therapy shots were rolled out.*
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Because even people who got hit by trucks were counted as Covid casualties.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2023 06:49 PM (YqDXo)

34
Tomorrow all these ads for Houston mayor will end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 06:49 PM (9mNHV)

35 >>Godfather of mRNA vaccines reveals plans to immunize people against CANCER years before tumors strike to 'prevent the disease from ever appearing'

https://mol.im/a/12842657

Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all at December 08, 2023 06:43 PM

Michael Crichton was not writing how-to manuals.

Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2023 06:49 PM (Q4KYm)

36 I'm a little surprised Hillary hasn't let rip with a loud public fart. There's no doubt she's more flatulent than average.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 08, 2023 06:49 PM (hCt6Y)

37 "We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities," Kerry said in a statement.

We're on a mission to drive modern civilization completely out of existence.

For you nobodies, anyway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2023 06:50 PM (Gsmsg)

38 These schools encourage students to use their "lived expertise"

Because so many 20-year-olds have expertise. In anything.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 08, 2023 06:48 PM (Rbu5d)
_________________

Half of 'em are still trying to figure how to undo a bra clasp.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 08, 2023 06:50 PM (YqDXo)

39 One side is doing this right and one side is doing it wrong and it doesn't matter which -- both sides must act the same way, no matter who is right and who is wrong. We cannot go on perpetrating 2-tier justice on ourselves.

Tit for tat.

Because we need tats for our tits.

Posted by: blaster at December 08, 2023 06:50 PM (ABLHj)

40 Chris Plante often points out that the most powerful tool the media has is the power to ignore.
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Sins of omission.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 08, 2023 06:51 PM (krqg6)

41 Only a fool owns a private jet.

One leases a private jet.

*sniff*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2023 06:44 PM (Gsmsg)

Really smart man marries a woman with a private jet.

Posted by: blaster at December 08, 2023 06:53 PM (ABLHj)

42 The California Commies have enacted permanent water use restrictions. (Emergency measures!!!) We will be limited to the low of 43 when people are using 60-80 now, conserving.

You will be thirsty and you will like it!

Posted by: PJ at December 08, 2023 06:53 PM (G1dq6)

43 Here is an old clip from the 80’s discussing this topic, should a reporter embedded with an enemy that’s planning an ambush of American soldiers does the reporter have a Duty to try and let the Americans know.
Westmoreland, Scowcroft, Jennings, and Wallace discuss

https://tinyurl.com/3ss5mbf7

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at December 08, 2023 06:54 PM (dKiJG)

44 Eat
Ze
Bugs

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2023 06:54 PM (qMklK)

45 Odd coincidence, my gas truck is what does best for me to get around so guess it's ok

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2023 06:54 PM (fwDg9)

46 Oh and Beat Navy.

Because it's about that time.

Posted by: blaster at December 08, 2023 06:55 PM (ABLHj)

47 No adverse effects were created by the error, data show, but Cambridge scientists found



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...that the pair of antlers protruding from the scull are somewhat a peculiar side-effect. At this time Cambridge scientists are unsure whether the condition is permanent.

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2023 06:55 PM (V13WU)

48 Truly the de-populationists have no sense of history at all.
If they did, they'd know the Kings 500 years ago lived less well than a Section8 welfare queen today.
Who do they think is gonna bake their bread, clean their streets... fuel and maintain their jets?

Posted by: MkY at December 08, 2023 06:55 PM (cPGH3)

49 Here is an old clip from the 80’s discussing this topic, should a reporter embedded with an enemy that’s planning an ambush of American soldiers does the reporter have a Duty to try and let the Americans know.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio

I wonder what they would say if the unit being discussed had a habit of wasting the reporters first?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2023 06:55 PM (qoGsy)

50
From everything I've read, Ryan O'Neal has a lot of explaining to do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 06:56 PM (9mNHV)

51 8
Catturd @catturd2 2h
This pic of Meow Meow I just took - 😂
https://tinyurl.com/ybtk6sez

[photos only in both links]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 08, 2023 06:35 PM (krqg6)
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Love it!

Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all at December 08, 2023 06:56 PM (qfLjt)

52 From everything I've read, Ryan O'Neal has a lot of explaining to do.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I thought he was of the "Never having to say you're sorry" school of thought.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2023 06:57 PM (qoGsy)

53 Authentic New Frontier gibberish protein.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2023 06:57 PM (63Dwl)

54 Here is an old clip from the 80’s discussing this topic, should a reporter embedded with an enemy that’s planning an ambush of American soldiers does the reporter have a Duty to try and let the Americans know.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio

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Why is the reporter embedded with enemy soldiers in the first place?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2023 06:57 PM (BpYfr)

55
Why is the reporter embedded with enemy soldiers in the first place?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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Bait

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 06:58 PM (9mNHV)

56 France and Paris in particular are the most overrated places on the planet. It's comical they consider themselves superior to anyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2023 06:58 PM (ZLI7S)

57 I want someone to be able to whisper in Kerry's ear while he is on his deathbed" Big Coal is Back"

Posted by: Ben Had at December 08, 2023 06:59 PM (Vb2T3)

58 I know I’m getting old but these new LED headlights

You may have heard this before: if bright lights cause a lot of glare for you, it can be a sign of developing cataracts. Make sure you mention it at your next eye exam. The doc will take a look.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 08, 2023 07:00 PM (FCs/J)

59 Why is the reporter embedded with enemy soldiers in the first place?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2023 06:57 PM (BpYfr)

It was a hypothetical question and discussion. Their is a longer clip of a Major talking about how if the Reporter was then held or captured he would expect his Soldiers to try save him

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at December 08, 2023 07:02 PM (dKiJG)

60
You may have heard this before: if bright lights cause a lot of glare for you, it can be a sign of developing cataracts.

____________

When I had to have Her Majesty drive because I couldn't see, I had it looked at. Not just cataracts but a large occlusion.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 07:02 PM (9mNHV)

61 Let's all stage a walk out at the same time Chat GPT and other AI platforms have figured out how to do our "jobs" for free.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 08, 2023 07:02 PM (KuFdU)

62 I know I’m getting old but these new LED headlights are bullshit.

They're distracting and obnoxious as hell. Period.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 08, 2023 07:03 PM (V8he0)

63 It has come to our attention that the delightfully witty satirists of The Washington Post are going on strike this week. We here at The Babylon Bee stand in solidarity with our fellow comedians and join them in demanding fair wages. The writers at WP work hard to bring us their daring and uproarious brand of comedy every day, and they deserve compensation for their work.

Where else can we find comedic gems like "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48" or "Does that Jason Aldean song go on a playlist? Or a watchlist?"

ho lee fook

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2023 07:03 PM (lwOKI)

64 new sox

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 08, 2023 07:04 PM (lwOKI)

65 "If they did, they'd know the Kings 500 years ago lived less well than a Section8 welfare queen today."

Just go back 150 years. People dressed spiffier in 1873, but do you know how expensive penicillin was? It actually cost nothing because it didn't exist. Though there was opium.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 08, 2023 07:04 PM (KAi1n)

66
They're distracting and obnoxious as hell. Period.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

__________

Would not surprise me to find out that assholes were installing the brightest ones on the market.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 07:05 PM (9mNHV)

67 Educated people, trained in school, tend to believe what they're told.

Working-class people tend to be more cynical about media and "experts."

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 08, 2023 07:06 PM (lwOKI)

68 65 "If they did, they'd know the Kings 500 years ago lived less well than a Section8 welfare queen today."

Just go back 150 years. People dressed spiffier in 1873, but do you know how expensive penicillin was? It actually cost nothing because it didn't exist. Though there was opium.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 08, 2023 07:04 PM (KAi1n)

Try 1900

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 08, 2023 07:07 PM (lwOKI)

69 The FBI has already had a raid on some actor from the Babylon Bee. Wen do they rest of the employees get raided. There was a guy who had or had a satire site called " The People's Cube" . He did propaganda in the USSR but defected came to the US. I bet he could have some good conversations with the Babylon Bee folks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2023 07:09 PM (RSbhh)

70
Try 1900
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar

_______

No gun laws. No EPA. No income tax. No Fed. It was hell on earth.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2023 07:09 PM (9mNHV)

71 43 Here is an old clip from the 80’s discussing this topic, should a reporter embedded with an enemy that’s planning an ambush of American soldiers does the reporter have a Duty to try and let the Americans know.
Westmoreland, Scowcroft, Jennings, and Wallace discuss

https://tinyurl.com/3ss5mbf7

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at December 08, 2023 06:54 PM (dKiJG)
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An American reporter would never be allowed to embed in a foreign force, by that foreign force. It would be shot. If allowed then we know it's a traitor - Jane Fonda?

Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all.... at December 08, 2023 07:09 PM (qfLjt)

72 This process, called frameshifting, throws out the way the code is interpreted as it relies on groups of three bases, known as codons, being read in the right order.

So in about 3 years I have
afib
Apnea
Chest pains torn rib cartilage
Heel bone spur

Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 08, 2023 07:11 PM (lwOKI)

73 I started having a problem with journalism in the late 80s to early 90s, when they called Journalism 'Communications'.

Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all... at December 08, 2023 07:12 PM (qfLjt)

74 Though there was opium.
Posted by: SFGoth
___________

Maybe too much. Big addiction problem in the 19th century.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 08, 2023 07:13 PM (Dm8we)

75 You may have heard this before: if bright lights cause a lot of glare for you, it can be a sign of developing cataracts. Make sure you mention it at your next eye exam. The doc will take a look.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 08, 2023 07:00 PM (FCs/J)

————

I’ve heard that but in this case it is only when a newer vehicle with the white LED headlights passes by.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 08, 2023 07:13 PM (cMXNt)

76 Yeah, try 1940.

I feel so sorry for all of you. In my country, we don't have a class structure. Nobody who has ever seen the working of a class structure would ever suggest that there is such a thing here.
That's college kid talk, from a few decades back. Snotty.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 08, 2023 07:14 PM (FCs/J)

77 I started having a problem with journalism in the late 80s to early 90s, when they called Journalism 'Communications'.
Posted by: Ciampino - They want to kill us all... at December 08, 2023 07:12 PM (qfLjt)

As former small town reporter I started having a problem when they began calling themselves journalists.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 08, 2023 07:15 PM (hCt6Y)

78 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 08, 2023 07:17 PM (Zz0t1)

79 A king 500 years ago? 1523.

I think I would trade section 8 and food stamps for that.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 08, 2023 07:17 PM (cMXNt)

80 Yep: Those led lights are horrible!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 08, 2023 07:17 PM (RSbhh)

81 Kerry is an embarrassing f*ckbag that knows nothing, yet is galivanting his plastic face around like he's somebody.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 08, 2023 07:18 PM (Zz0t1)

82 the "duty to not report."

Goes well with their duties to lie and push propaganda.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2023 07:20 PM (ynpvh)

83 The French are super uptight about their language because it's the only culture they have left.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 08, 2023 07:20 PM (X+Ku8)

84 Because so many 20-year-olds have expertise. In anything.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 08, 2023 06:48 PM (Rbu5d)
_________________

Half of 'em are still trying to figure how to undo a bra clasp.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I have one of those seat belt cutter emergency tools for that.

Posted by: Miklos was a Boy Scout, and is Prepared at December 08, 2023 07:21 PM (gr6Ub)

85 I just want to say I successfully whined up some fresh chanukah donuts. I love Fresh hot donuts and so do you.
h/t Mrs. F.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2023 07:21 PM (RIvkX)

86 I think Kerry was loaded with gravitas.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 08, 2023 07:21 PM (hCt6Y)

87 Somebody could use a mite o’ canin’.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2023 07:22 PM (iRheJ)

88 The French are super uptight about their language because it's the only culture they have left.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 08, 2023 07:20 PM (X+Ku
===

...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2023 07:22 PM (RIvkX)

89 The French are super uptight about their language because it's the only culture they have left.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

Nice cathedrals you got. Shame if anything happened to any more of them.

Posted by: Mohammed, his brother Mohammed, and his other brother Mohammed at December 08, 2023 07:22 PM (gr6Ub)

90 One in four people's bodies created unexpected "nonsense proteins" in reaction to the non-vaccine covid vaccines.

They claim that none of the gibberish proteins created by people's bodies were harmful at all. Not a single adverse effect, not one! Not one in all the hundreds of millions of cases!

Yet how many folks died from taking certain lots of the VAXX in New Zealand? One lot, the death rate was over 20%...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2023 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

91 A king 500 years ago? 1523.

I think I would trade section 8 and food stamps for that.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
________

Piss boy!

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 08, 2023 07:25 PM (Dm8we)

92 Here's a blast from the past:

Remember the Salvation Army's pamphlet on "Having a discussion on Race" two years ago?

The one that said White folks needs to get on the right side of history?

The one the SA said was not about the whites who were donors but was only for internal use?

The one they said was being "misinterpreted"?

The one that was rescinded after donations went down 30 per cent?

I was looking for their mea culpa, an apology if you will and all they could muster was a "racism is bad, mm- kay."

The pamphlet drew heavily on the anti-racist work of X.Kendi, amongst other woke race baiters, and was very light on the Bible.

I take their attitude about "don't be colorblind" as racist in itself.

SA, like Harvard, MIT, and Penn are still lacking in the "content of character department.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2023 07:25 PM (LaNzR)

93 Somebody could use a mite o’ canin’.
Posted by: Eromero

Or a mite of smitin'.

Posted by: Miklos, being Judgemental at December 08, 2023 07:26 PM (gr6Ub)

94 Worst thing about LED lights, is you can't "sweat" some palooka under the lights, smack 'im around a bit and get some truth outta the schmuck.

No, the goomabh is gonna sit there, all cool, calm and collected.

Sure, he might spit out a tooth or three, but he'll just shrug that off as the cost of doin' bidness.

Sweatin' the lunks used to be the straight path to the truth, and it worked. Worked, I tellya!

Now all the Detective Novels are gonna need some new wordcrafts in their plotlines. And I bet they'll be sweatin' those details, for sure!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 08, 2023 07:27 PM (e6UQI)

95 I have a RL friend who has a French mother and a Vietnamese father. She was accosted by ROPers. She refuses to leave Paris. She is French. Pray for her.

Posted by: Oso at December 08, 2023 07:27 PM (ILafk)

96 They clapped for the fart, didn't they? I mean, who would clap for this lifeless fool's message of crap?

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at December 08, 2023 07:28 PM (okGHj)

97 Now all the Detective Novels are gonna need some new wordcrafts in their plotlines. And I bet they'll be sweatin' those details, for sure!


Jim

Forget it, Jim.

It's GalvesTown.

Posted by: Hard Boiled Miklos at December 08, 2023 07:28 PM (gr6Ub)

98 The fart heard around the world. John Kerry lets loose an audible fart during his talk at the recent COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

He was just showing the world the dangers of warm gasses to the immediate audience.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2023 07:29 PM (ynpvh)

99 83 The French are super uptight about their language because it's the only culture they have left.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 08, 2023 07:20 PM (X+Ku

too bad for them that English is the lingua Franca...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2023 07:29 PM (ynpvh)

100 I have one of those seat belt cutter emergency tools for that.
Posted by: Miklos was a Boy Scout, and is Prepared at December 08, 2023 07:21 PM (gr6Ub)

I would have thought one look at you and she would peel the thing off herself, no?

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at December 08, 2023 07:31 PM (okGHj)

101 85 I just want to say I successfully whined up some fresh chanukah donuts. I love Fresh hot donuts and so do you.
h/t Mrs. F.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2023 07:21 PM (RIvkX)

Is that like Challah bread with cinnamon and cream on top?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2023 07:31 PM (ynpvh)

102 too bad for them that English is the lingua Franca...
Posted by: jim

Pardon my French.....

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at December 08, 2023 07:31 PM (gr6Ub)

103 I would have thought one look at you and she would peel the thing off herself, no?
Posted by: tcn in AK,

If conscious

Posted by: Miklos is no longer a Boy Scout at December 08, 2023 07:32 PM (gr6Ub)

104 NOOD

Last Cafe of the week is up.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 08, 2023 07:32 PM (qPw5n)

105 I had The Golf Channel on earlier this afternoon for background noise.

My ears perked up when I heard the most recent ad for Covid-19 vaccines.

The offending company is Novovax, and they're touting that they, unlike Moderna and Pfizer are "traditional vaccines".

Not only that, but you really should be aware that you can suffer the following issues if you take the Novovax shot: Myocarditis / Pericarditis / Severe Allergic Reactions.

Oh, and even though we're not fully FDA approved, you can take our shot under emergency use authorization, but only if you haven't had reactions to previous shots.

***The balls on these people***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 08, 2023 07:32 PM (TTAGa)

106 nood

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 08, 2023 07:32 PM (sMkAM)

107 Because so many 20-year-olds have expertise. In anything.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 08, 2023 06:48 PM (Rbu5d)

I agree, but when I was 19, my buddy and I drove to Alaska in a little Mazda pickup with a wonky battery (had to push-start it every morning). We were dumb, perhaps, but we had cajones. Most kids today would never do something like that.

I think living away from home made me more equipped for the Army.

Also being a kid in the '70 and '80s.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 08, 2023 07:33 PM (T/Lqj)

108 LAST!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 08, 2023 07:33 PM (T/Lqj)

109 106 nood

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 08, 2023 07:32 PM (sMkAM)

Ya know what would scary?
a NOOD from Admiral Ackbar...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2023 07:33 PM (ynpvh)

110 President Biden on funding high speed rail.

Joe on high-speed rail investments today: "Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!"

-
Small price to pay.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 08, 2023 07:35 PM (FVME7)

111 Kendi's insight notwithstanding...I'd like to be like Mike.

Posted by: JT Smith at December 08, 2023 07:38 PM (FxdZx)

112 More small price.

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is demanding $4,900,000,000,000 in reparations for slavery.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 08, 2023 07:40 PM (FVME7)

113 Journalists are the most biased people on the planet and are not particularly smart. They're propagandists and they know it.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 08, 2023 07:53 PM (z+KLG)

114 Working-class people tend to be more cynical about media and "experts."

Remember, rich people and "the educated" (in the case of this Marxist article) NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER WORK.

You use the phrase "working class"? Congratulations. You are a hate-filled Marxist.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 08, 2023 08:35 PM (8sMut)

115 "Fake news provider"

Because saying "propagandist" or "satirist" is JUST TOO HARD.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 08, 2023 08:36 PM (8sMut)

116 The study actually stated that it was one in four cells would spit out nonsense proteins when the vax 1-methylpsuedouridine caused the transcription process to stutter or "frameshift" as they call it. Not 1 in 4 persons, 1 in 4 cells. Which means it happened in almost everybody to a greater or lesser degree, and is probably still ongoing.

Posted by: Kyle Kiernan at December 09, 2023 01:35 AM (aTzpY)

117 Kinda underlines the theme of this post. Notice MAGA isnt included in McCarthy's description of 'his' party. Notice thhey applauded Xi in dirty SanFran a couple weeks ago.

YOU are directly or indirectly a part of America First, folks, and NOT a part of the Big Club.

https://tinyurl.com/y2yymves

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 09, 2023 09:32 AM (VN2qI)

118 "hate" speech > duckspeak translator > any speech I don't like or which does not coincide with my ideology of the day. you know, like the current thing, or whatever.

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