The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/25/23

Good morning, kids, and a very Merry Christmas to you all. I thought about just shining it today but the news never sleeps so I'll try to keep it light in terms of volume, if not, sadly in tone. So now the "Einsatz-groupies" who support the butchery and genocide of Jews first in Israel and ultimately the entire world are going after "the Sunday people," for daring to celebrate Christmas while Gaza is about to be plowed under.

Several revolting examples took place over the weekend in a number of blue shit-hole cities and as far away as Australia, as you can see in the links. Meanwhile, an autistic Jewish kid in Vegas comes home with a swastika carved in his back, and all you can hear are crickets from the usual suspects in and out of government who perpetually shriek "Islamophobia!" at a volume to make a dead man's ears bleed.

Speaking of the usual suspects, in the wake of the 10/7 slaughter in Israel, the Dept. of Injustice is growing alarmed at the potential for attacks here in the US. Of course, given both the wide open border where several million people from not just Latin America but all over the globe, including many Islamic countries who aren't exactly coming here because they're moved by Emma Lazarus' poem, and the fact that the DOJ's Public Enemy #1 is the American public (that is, those who are not down for the Leftist takeover) the words of DOJ apparatchik Lisa Monaco do not inspire confidence.

The complete politicization and weaponization of that department, and every agency, bureau and office of the federal government, as well as far too many segments of what we used to call the private sector, means their singular focus on ideological goals and shibboleths precludes them from performing their actual duties competently. When it comes to our national security and ultimately our personal safety, this all but guarantees disaster.

How the hell did we sink so low? A big clue is in the tenure of the supposedly embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay, and the fact that so many people are circling the wagons of at best a manifestly incompetent nebbish, who now faces massive charges of not just plagiarism but making shit up out of whole cloth. That she should've been shit-canned immediately goes without saying, but how the hell was she even hired in the first place? And now, the worst radioactive, chest-burster herpes of the American body politic has emerged to come to her aid.

One explanation for Obama backing Gay is he shares her tolerance for the pro-Palestinian Israel-haters and their woke comrades on the radical left, with whom he may well feel a kinship.
It’s easy to conceive of a college-age Obama marching in solidarity with these students as a onetime campus radical himself who would graduate to the pews of rabid “anti-Zionist” and anti-American Rev. Jeremiah Wright; pal around with the like-minded Louis Farrakhan, Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi; and spend eight years as president empowering Islamic supremacists Sunni and Shia while putting the screws to Israel.
Jewish Insider’s reporting suggests a more mundane explanation: Obama aimed to “keep the broader administration stable” — an administration governed by a board helmed by former Obama administration Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, who led and championed Gay’s selection as Harvard’s president.
But Obama’s defense of Gay almost assuredly transcends sympathy for her remarks and the students for whom she spoke, concern about Harvard’s stability or a desire to effectively defend a political ally, given Pritzker’s responsibility for Gay’s presidency.
Like l’affaire Gay broadly, Obama’s intervention should be seen as a major salvo in the broader war over diversity, equity and inclusion in America’s most influential institutions. Obama is making a play to protect the DEI regime itself — a regime, already roiled by the backlash against wokeism and the Supreme Court’s strike against affirmative action in schools, critical to maintaining political power . . .
. . . DEI, in short, is a tool of power and control — engendering political and ideological conformity and the mobilization and weaponization of its cadres — the left has wielded to maximum effect as it’s taken over every influential institution. If Claudine Gay were to fall, it could topple the entire house of cards the left, led by Barack Obama, helped build.
To fire her would be to acknowledge the evil hatred of the West at DEI’s core; admit DEI elevates politics over merit, given Gay has proven to be something of an academic fraud; and therefore delegitimize the movement as a whole given Gay’s and Harvard’s symbolic and substantive prominence in it.
The DEI project falling in the academy would be cataclysmic for the left given these institutions are pivotal for indoctrinating and credentialing the next generation of leftist leaders atop society’s commanding heights. Elite schools are the left’s center of gravity, feeding power centers from Washington to Wall Street to Silicon Valley. That Obama stepped in to support Gay suggests he believes it to be a political imperative of the highest order. . .
. . . The triumph of DEI would spell death for our republic.

Bingo. We goof on Obama as a failure, but has he really failed? His intention was to destroy us by "fundamentally transforming" the nation and he succeeded. At least, he was the figurehead who was the face of that transformation, the roots of which go back decades. Obama is as intellectually vapid as Claudine Gay. The lack of any transcripts or even record of his attendance at Columbia IIRC, is quite telling. He's black, glib and has the hatred of 10,000 suns for everything American, western and Judeo-Christian. And he'll stop at nothing to see his dream of destroying us realized.

In this regard, I can't recommend friend and friend of the blog Scott McKay's new book Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's ALL Obama highly enough. It's a very fast read but it's excruciatingly painful to relive this record of disaster – a record that continues to this day since Obama, or whoever is pulling his strings, is the one pulling Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants'. You can also listen to our conversation with Scott on a recent podcast.

All of that said, as pessimistic or at best realistic as I am, I will say that where there is life there is hope. We cannot know the future, and as implacable as our enemies surely are, they are not infallible. So hang in there and keep the faith.

Again, here's wishing all of you a blessed and joyous Christmas!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"If Claudine Gay were to fall, it could topple the entire house of cards the left, led by Barack Obama, helped build. To fire her would be to acknowledge the evil hatred of the West at DEI’s core; admit DEI elevates politics over merit, given Gay has proven to be something of an academic fraud; and therefore delegitimize the movement as a whole given Gay’s and Harvard’s symbolic and substantive prominence in it."
Here’s Why Obama Stepped In to Save Harvard Prez Claudine Gay
Roger Kimball: "We watch the unfolding of an unedifying spectacle."
Will the Guardians of the Narrative Win?

ISRAEL AT WAR

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant: Hamas’ Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar “will soon meet the barrels of our guns.”
IDF Eliminated Over 8,000 Gaza Terrorists Since October 7
"Israeli military forces (IDF) cannot allow Hamas safe haven in any hospital or clinic in Gaza."
Hostages, Hospitals, and War
"Israel’s best-case scenario."
Turning Wadi Gaza into an Armistice Line
"Sewer systems for the living."
Waste Treatment
"The eerie discoveries were revealed just a day after the IDF announced that it had found another weapons cache inside a kindergarten."
Israel Finds Explosive Belts for Kids, Toy Chests with Warheads in Gaza

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"The Union Square protest is only the latest attempt by pro-'Palestinian' protesters to disrupt Christmas across the nation. Past efforts have included disrupting the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting in New York City, and forcing California’s state Christmas tree lighting to be moved indoors, to a 'virtual' format."
Pro-"Palestinian" Protest Disrupts Christmas in San Francisco: "No Xmas as Usual"
"But Christmas carolers, while annoyed, remained in the holiday spirit. 'They disrupted, we sang louder.'”
Pro-"Palestinian" Scum in Car Caravan Disrupt Christmas Caroling in Washington Square Park
"News.com.au reports children performing were rushed from the Sidney Myer Music Bowl stage to safety after several protesters carrying 'Palestinian' flags appeared from nowhere to interrupt the show."
Video: Pro-"Palestinian" Protesters Yell Abuse, Storm Live TV Christmas Celebrations
"Claudine Gay, the university’s president, lifted language from a 1981 article without using quotation marks."
Harvard Itself Unearthed New Case of Plagiarism Not Included In Previous Allegations — After Threatening To Sue New York Post Alleging Allegations Were "Demonstrably False"
William Jacobson: "The corruption and rot caused by DEI is on full display, and Claudine Gay has become its poster child. While on substance she should be gone, having her stay in place serves the function of keeping the focus on the DEI farce. The Harvard brand may have to fall so that a better academia can rise."
It’s important to Harvard that its brand survive Claudine Gay. It’s important to America that it doesn’t.
"It’s increasingly possible that all her black-centric 'scholarship' is a Potemkin Village."
Claudine Gay May Have Done More Than Just Plagiarize Her Work

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“During 9/11 our focus was on sophisticated plots driven by foreign terrorist organizations with catastrophic effect. Today I think we’re in a unique moment where what we’re most worried about are individuals or small groups who are often radicalized online and who are motivated by and influenced by a range of ideologies from foreign terrorism and foreign terrorist organizations to domestic grievances.” (Want to bet no Islamic or Leftist groups are being targeted? The focus is on us - jjs)
100+ Federal Investigations Opened In U.S. Stemming From October 7 Attack: DOJ Official
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Daniel Greenfield: "People have been killed for merely drawing cartoons of Mohammed, but Muslims feel empowered to shout down Christian hymns before Christmas a few miles from Ground Zero."
Hamas Supporters Declare War on Christmas
Robert Spencer: "Every paradise has its downside."
Christmas in the New Europe: Jihad Massacre Foiled at Germany’s Cologne Cathedral
Robert Spencer Part Deux: " . . . it’s jarring to see a Muslim cleric in the United States wish for it so openly. Nor is there any indication that anyone at the Bayonne Mosque and Community Center uttered any words of dissent. The multiculturalism and diversity agenda was not sold to Americans with this sort of thing in mind. But this is what has been its result."
New Jersey: Islamic Cleric Prays That Non-Muslims’ Children Become ‘Booty’ for Muslims
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"This horrific act against a defenseless Jewish student is a stark reminder of the deeply rooted issue of antisemitism that persists in our society," the group added. "Furthermore, the failure of the Clark County School District to conduct a proper investigation into this incident is evidence of the systemic apathy that exists towards Jews who are targeted by hate-crimes."
Jewish Group Files Complaint After Autistic Kid Comes Home With Swastika Cut Into His Back
COLORADO'S DISGUSTING REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM 2024 BALLOT
"If they get away with it, we’ll have democracy as it is in Iran or Russia, where only regime-approved candidates can appear on the ballot."
By Trying to Keep Trump Off the Ballot, Democrats are Staging a Coup in Broad Daylight
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Instead of answering directly, Wolf parroted several DOJ talking points insisting that partisanship did not affect investigation and claimed she was 'not able to answer questions about this particular search warrant or this particular draft.'”
With Help From DOJ, Lesley Wolf Dodged GOP Questions About Her Obstruction of Biden Probe
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Clarice Feldman: "Those hoping that lawfare would give [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden his best chance at reelection and pinned their hopes on Merrick Garland and Jack Smith making the magic happen, this has been a no good, awful, terrible week."
Jack (Smith) Not So Nimble
Trump has “absolute immunity from prosecution for his official acts” as president, including him seeking to “advocate for and defend the integrity of the federal election, in accord with his view that it was tainted by fraud and irregularity,” Trump’s lawyers argued in a 71-page filing.
Trump Asks Federal Appeals Court To Dismiss 2020 Election Case
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Manny Ellis died in custody. His death is a tragedy. His mom and family weep at their loss. We understand the questions by black citizens and community members. Cops shouldn't be given a pass just because they're cops. They need to be accountable and questions must be answered. After three years, three investigations, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses by each cop, overcharging, months in court and hour after hour of depositions, and a unanimous jury, those questions have been answered. This is what justice looks like."
Politicians Grumble After Three Cops in Wash. State George Floyd 2.0 Case are Completely Exonerated
Lloyd Billingsley: "The new FBI motto should be 'here’s looking at you, kid.'”
Christmas Comes Early for Government Snoops
"How we can help Dr. Kendi become an 'antiracist' himself." (Brass knuckles should do it - jjs)
Ibram X. "Krement" Kendi: Whiteness Prevents White People From Connecting to Humanity
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"There’s a reason why most Americans don’t consider the likes of PBS or NPR to be objective."
PBS Frontline "Completely for Sale"
"We should not feel safe."
Journalism, a Reckoning
"It turns out that fomenting racial divisions, hyping up a worrisome pandemic, and perpetuating the Russia-collusion fake out was just a short-term business strategy. Who could’ve known?!"
Washington Post Shedding Hundreds of Staff From Payroll After Trump Presidency And Covid is the Reason for the Season
The essay, titled “The Trump generation problem: MAGA family values are corrupting children,” was penned by Salon politics staff writer Chauncey DeVega, who warns that “Trumpism and American neofascism” are corrupting societal norms and endangering democracy, thereby constituting a “national emergency.”
[Nail] Salon Magazine: ‘Dictator’ Trump Has ‘Hitlerian’ Plans, ‘Dangerous’ MAGA Culture ‘Corrupting’ Kids
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Four words: Biden.In.Flay.Shun."
Dear Santa: Why Is Christmas So $@#*% Expensive This Year?
"U.S. Steel has agreed to be acquired by the Tokyo-based Nippon Steel, but will political pressure prevent this deal from going through?"
Stop the Steel
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Cummins Inc. violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by installing “emissions defeat devices on hundreds of thousands of engines,” the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs said in a Friday press statement on the agreement with the engine manufacturer. Attorney General Merrick Garland commented on the settlement, stating it was the “second largest penalty ever secured.” (Threaten to move the company overseas unless the judgement is vacated - jjs)
Major Manufacturer Hit With Second-Largest Environmental Fine Ever
"No — but the people cynically using climate change for their own devices sure can."
Can Climate Change Cause the New Economic World Order?
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. - jjs
Al Gore: Without Climate Action, ‘We Could Lose Our Capacity for Self-Governance’
"16th-century tech as far as the eye can see."
Delusions of "Green" Grandeur
". . . oil and gas from Western Canada is subsidizing this eastern province's bad decisions. The P.C.s would rather their province become a welfare queen than contribute to the well-being of the nation. Some conservatives!"
Nova Scotia Offs Offshore Natural Gas
"It is not just cars and leaf blowers, stoves, or even air conditioning. What is at stake is much deeper: human dignity."
We Can’t Let Fossil Fuels Die Because They Keep Us Alive
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Blinken, together with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, will visit Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Wednesday to discuss “unprecedented irregular migration” and “border security challenges,” according to a statement by the U.S. Department of State. (Nuke Mexico - jjs)
Sprawling Migrant Caravan Surges Toward U.S. Border Days Before Secretary Blinken’s Scheduled Trip To Mexico
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
One of the friends who was with Smith at the time told WSXY the group was “trying to pick on whoever they could.” (Name that Melanin Content. Watch the media ignore this one - jjs)
Father of 3 Killed in Grocery Store Beating — 3 Teens Arrested After "Laughing and Enjoying Themselves"
"Hans Schmidt was standing at the corner of a major intersection on November 15, telling people about a church service being held that evening, Fox 10 reported. At around 6:00 p.m., a person shot the street preacher before fleeing the scene. Schmidt, a military veteran and father of two young children — including a two-month-old baby — was rushed to hospital."
"A Living Miracle": Wife Gives Update After Husband Shot in the Head While Preaching on Street Corner
"On Friday, December 22, the Oval Office issued a full federal pardon to all Americans who have ever used marijuana. Sounds reasonable?"
Pardons for Pot Users Leave Dangers in Their Wake
"Be skeptical about media reports that rates of lawlessness are declining in cities."
Urban Crime Wave
SECOND AMENDMENT
"San Juan County [NM] Sheriff R. Shane Ferrari announced in a statement posted to Facebook last week that he is looking into New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence (NMPGV) over the possibility that the group violated a state law mandating a background check for most firearm transfers."
Gun Control Group Under Investigation For Possibly Breaking Law With Buyback Program
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The book, called Gender Queer, includes illustrations of sex between two males with a sex toy, oral sex, masturbation, and other sexually explicit content. . . Healey presumably believes there is not a single book that should be off-limits to children in publicly-funded schools."
After Police Are Alerted About Graphic Homo-Tranny Pervert Book, MA Governor Rails Against "Book Banning"
"WMU’s efforts to cancel Mattson ran afoul of both recent and longstanding Supreme Court precedent guaranteeing the right to religious free speech."
When a Christian Professor Spoke About His Struggle With Homosexuality, the Homo-Tranny Pervert Mob Came for Him
ABORTION
"Christian witness to the truth matters in every season, but especially among those we love."
Defending the Preborn at Christmas
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"A nation sinking – with the Left in charge."
Making Porn for "Democrat" Democracy
POLITICS
"Haley is telling voters to support her because ‘rightly or wrongly, chaos follows’ Trump, but it’s absurd to think a different GOP president won’t also face an utterly lawless and well-coordinated attack on his legitimate use of power."
Nikki Haley Makes the Worst Possible Argument Against Trump
". . . former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have poured water on the notion that they are campaigning for second place. former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have poured water on the notion that they are campaigning for second place."
Are GOP Presidential Candidates Leaving the Door Open to Be Trump’s Pick for VP?
"The Brandon entity and its wife, Lady Dr. Jill, visited a D.C. children’s hospital yesterday, and, as one would expect, things got weird fast."
WATCH: Biden Visits Children’s Hospital For Xmas Storytime, Gets Weird
Scott McKay: "The Right must break out of the defensive-conservative mindset."
Five Quick Things: Spitballing Some Controversial Solutions
"The latest Monmouth University poll revealed that 61 percent of respondents across all age groups disapproved of Biden’s job performance."
‘Lacking Cognitive Ability’: Gen Z Voters’ Concern over Biden’s Mental Fitness Grows
David Marcus: "The key factor here is that DeSantis remains very popular with wide swaths of Trump supporters in a way that Haley simply doesn’t, he has not yet ceded his claim to be heir to Trump’s populist throne. Today, if he could get a keynote speech at next year’s Republican convention in exchange for backing Trump it would be a pretty good deal, and a real opportunity. . . Speaking of Haley, the case for her to drop out is entirely different, because her approach to the race has been entirely different."
For His Own Sake, DeSantis Should Drop Out
". . . you'll have to forgive me if I'm not over here with a pile of gold stars ready to hand them all out for taking the obviously correct moral stance on a couple of issues that, frankly, shouldn't be up for debate in the first place. And I sure as heck won't be handing out the label of "conservative" to anyone whose track record falls solidly on the left about 99% of the day."
Why are Today’s Politics So Awful?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The Pentagon was notably silent about whether the coalition would attack Houthi missile launch sites, or whether it would try to disable Houthi pirate ships in their harbor." (Competent leadership would blockade every Iranian port and sink every Iranian ship. Meh, if we had competent leadership, this would not be happening - jjs)
Biden Fails to Respond as Houthis Attack U.S. Destroyer, Commercial Shipping
Geographically speaking, Iran does not have direct access to the Mediterranean Sea as it is located hundreds of miles away. The closest point of entry to the Mediterranean Sea for Iran is to take the Red Sea to the Suez Canal, where Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen are launching numerous attacks against commercial shipping vessels.
Iran Threatens To Close Off Mediterranean Sea
The tanker M/V Chem Pluto was struck by what the Pentagon described as a “one-way attack drone” about 200 nautical miles off the coast of India Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported. It is the first time that the U.S. has accused Iran of launching an attack on a merchant ship since Hamas carried out a deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attack on multiple locations in southern Israel that killed over 1,400 people.
Pentagon Says Drone That Hit Tanker Near India Was Launched From Iran
"Egypt’s Suez Canal and economy is threatened, and African ports are becoming overwhelmed by diverted ships."
Houthi Attacks on Red Sea Shipping Causing Ripple in Global Economy
"Fears of arrest?"
The "Butcher of Tehran" Forced to Abandon Geneva Trip
"Tehran is only days from a nuclear breakout, not weeks or months. Iran already possesses sufficient mass of 60% highly enriched uranium to assemble nuclear bombs, and readily has the centrifuge capacity needed to reach 90% enrichment — the level required to sustain a nuclear chain reaction."
Iran’s Nuclear Breakout: 'Twas the Night Before Armageddon
“. . . I don’t want to live in fear, because I know this is the goal of those who are trying to kill us. These, you know, killers in Iran trying to put the fear inside us and to push us behind the curtain. I’m not going to let them win. That’s why. And I learned from my heroes within the country, Iranian women, mothers whose children got killed.”
Iranian Dissident Activist Masih Alinejad Reveals Her Source of Courage
"As we gather with our friends and family this Christmas, let us remember all those Christians in countries like Iran who are locked in dark cells, all because they believe that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem to be the Savior of the world."
Christians in Iran Spend Christmas in Jail
"More than 400 million eligible voters will be able to cast ballots in the next European Union election in June 2024, one of the largest elections on earth. While the European Parliament isn’t the sole deciding factor in the direction of travel of the Union — it remains dominated by the Commission, after all — veteran Spanish socialist politician Josep Borrell is evidently concerned. Speaking to Britain’s The Guardian newspaper following a speech on the challenges faced by Europe, Borrell felt motivated to launch an apparently ill-natured attack on right-wing politics, accusing them of being base and primitive in nature."
European Commission ‘Afraid’ of Populist Surge in 2024 Euro Elections, Accuses Right of Preying on Fear
"Europe’s bad boy gambles on greater eurasia."
Hungary May Side With China Instead of the West
"An estimated 2,600 Airbus Atlantic staffers gathered for a gourmet Christmas dinner Dec. 14 organized by the company’s restaurant at Montoir-de-Bretagne in the Loire-Atlantique region of France, The Guardian reported. Following the dinner, 700 employees reported feeling ill, causing the health authorities to launch an investigation into the source of the alleged mass outbreak of gastroenteritis, according to the outlet."
"Worse Than Giving Birth":Hundreds Fall Ill After Company Christmas Party Dinner
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Modern warfare is just a series of proxy wars."
This Is Why Putin Thinks Victory in Ukraine is Inevitable
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“This year, I am highlighting a whopping ~$900,000,000,000 of waste, including an NIH grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill, Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds, $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and $200 million to ‘struggling artists’ like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne. No matter how much money the government has already wasted, politicians keep demanding even more,” the report reads.
Rand Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ Report Highlighting $900,000,000,000 Of Government Waste
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"UW researchers claimed in their hypothesis, however, that they believe 'pubertal leuprolide treatment followed with CSHT (cross-sex hormone treatment)/GAHs (gender-affirming hormones) will result in sex-affirming brain and peripheral organ development and behavior.'”
University With Gender Clinic Funds Study to See if Puberty Blockers Cause ‘Lasting’ Brain Changes for Kids
"At a campaign event in Iowa on Friday night, Vivek Ramaswamy was confronted by a voter who demanded to know his position on LGBTQ issues. If she thought she'd had a gotcha question, she was in for a real surprise."
WATCH: Ramaswamy Schools Iowa Voter on LGBTQ Issues, and It’s Glorious
"Surrogacy presents an amalgamation of the biggest culture war battles."
Trans Motherhood is Here
"Rolling back evil sexual ideologies will be a long, difficult fight, but defunding their champions is a good and easy place to start."
Defunding Child Sexualizers Like fhe Kinsey Institute Should Be a No-Brainer for Republicans
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Father Vitaliano Della Sala, the pastor of the parish of Saints Peter and Paul in the southern province of Avellino, said he created the provocative crèche scene to underscore the changing shape of families and the need for a more inclusive Church." (He should be defrocked and excommunicated - jjs)
Italian Parish Erects Nativity Scene with Lesbian Virgin Mary
In essence, Cardinal Müller, believes Fiducia supplicans creates a new category of blessing, which he notes “are a novelty”, with “…no basis for this new usage in the biblical texts cited… .” The influential German cardinal ultimately concludes, in what can only be read as a direct challenge to the document: “There is no blessing, not only in public but also in private, for sinful living conditions that objectively contradict God’s holy will.”
Vatican Cardinal Blasts Pope for Allowing Clerical Blessings for Gay Couples
"The cable channel Christmas movies are a refuge from pervasive political correctness and greyness."
Beauty’s Last Stand – TV Christmas Movies
"We do have the right to freedom of religion. But this does not equate to the right to equal government showcasing of religion."
Constitution Does Not Dictate That Satanic Displays Must Get Equal Time in Public Square
Christian Toto: "Comedians under fire for telling the 'wrong' jokes in Netflix specials."
Why the Left Wants to Silence Ricky Gervais, Matt Rife
". . . the reason those monuments’ building was permitted was because the trauma of the Civil War, and the necessity of North and South living together, required that the South be given some measure of honor in defeat, even as that defeat justly destroyed an unjust system."
When Hurt Feeling Trumps History, We are Doomed to Repeat It
John Stossel: “The closer people live to marketplaces, the more generous they are,” Explains Norberg. “If they constantly buy and sell and negotiate, they begin to take other people’s interests into consideration. That’s what markets do. They do affect our character, but not in this way that the critics say. They don’t make us more divisive and aggressive. They make us more generous.”
How Capitalism Makes Us Less Lonely and More Generous
"Keep the thing defunded, until it is possible to do so. Otherwise, the Mall will have to be renamed Grievances Row."
Defund the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum — A Woke Indoctrination Factory
"The recent three queens of America’s finest universities testifying to their ethical flexibility about rhetorical calls for 'genocide of the Jews' are a crystal-clear reminder of how dangerous false knowledge is and how it grounds the deadly genocides of any age we care to look at."
Jesus’ Birth and Christian Nationalism
HITHER & YON
"The film is directed by George Clooney, but don't let that keep you from seeing the film, reading the book, or listening to the audiobook. The story of the 1936 University of Washington eight-man rowing crew is the story America needs right now to remind us of how there is such a thing as pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps. Sorry, not sorry, lefties."
The Boys in the Boat Movie Debuts Christmas Day and It's the Story America Needs Right Now
"A preliminary report indicates [Laura] Lynch was driving eastbound on U.S. 62 when another driver traveling westbound attempted to pass another vehicle on a “two-way undivided portion” of the highway, according to the press release."
Founding Member of Dixie Chicks Killed
Robert Zimmerman: "This difference in perspective is to me the real meaning of this picture. On one hand we see the perspective of the past. On the other we see the perspective the future, for as long humanity can remain alive."
The Real Meaning of the Apollo 8 Earthrise Image
"Capra's masterpiece captures the Christmas spirit for the everyday American."
It’s a Wonderful Film — Yes, the Best Ever

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Hello?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 07:29 AM (x0n13)

2 Morning, JJ! Do you mean to say I'm the only one up this early to appreciate your reporting! Say it's not so!

Posted by: Doug of Liberty Mutual at December 25, 2023 07:31 AM (omVj0)

3 Hah! Top of the morning and Merry Christmas!

4 deg F here. No snow. Light dusting of frost No wind. In a couple of hours, I'm gonna fire up the 327 and take a 100 mile cruise for a family Christmas get together. My mother is pushing 90 yrs old so these moments are becoming rare.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 25, 2023 07:32 AM (9v1kn)

4 Yonder Horde

Merry Christmas

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2023 07:33 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Morning and evening to all the satellites in space, including cyberspace, as I like to say on the Tech Thread. Merry Christmas to everybody! The Killer Kittens From Outer Space flick their tails in greeting (well, it might be only reflex, but let's be charitable) to you too.

Posted by: Doug of Liberty Mutual at December 25, 2023 07:33 AM (omVj0)

6 Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 07:33 AM (Eeb9P)

7 55 and cloudy in South Jamaica.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 07:33 AM (Eeb9P)

8 Merry Christmas, Patriots!

Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2023 07:34 AM (NxC5+)

9 Merry Christmas

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 07:34 AM (lwOKI)

10 An hour of medieval Christmas music
youtube.com/watch?v=IZMMDO7l-rQ

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 07:34 AM (MvF+J)

11 A belated recommendation for next Sunday's book thread:

http://tinyurl.com/3vwhx92z

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 07:36 AM (ch/kO)

12 Good morning JJ and horde
Merry Christmas to all

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2023 07:36 AM (fwDg9)

13 Republicans should start a movement to outlaw the Democrat Party.

Posted by: vic at December 25, 2023 07:36 AM (A5THL)

14 My mom and daughter are playing two person Ultimate Goose game. The wife is asleep. I am watching Bills Chargers.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 07:36 AM (Eeb9P)

15 'Tis 61 F. here but feels chillier because of the damp left by yesterday's dreary rain. I got home about 12:30 am from church with Miss Linda and to bed about one, after locking the kittens (who love to wake mat about three a.m.) out in the living room. It worked: five hours' sleep, which is not ideal but I feel good. Breakfast awaits!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2023 07:37 AM (omVj0)

16 Merry Christmas, Horde. May the gifts of love, peace and happiness be yours.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 07:37 AM (ju2Fy)

17 Republicans should start a movement to outlaw the Democrat Party.
Posted by: vic at December 25, 2023 07:36 AM (A5THL)

Normal people should start a movement to make both parties so impotent and irrelevant that they wither and die spontaneously without legal intervention.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:38 AM (9UlRk)

18 I find it very interesting that Obama and Friends think a strong Iran makes the Middle East a better place.

It is the same group think that thought the Soviet Union would stabilize Europe after WWII.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 07:38 AM (lwOKI)

19 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !!!

You're the hardest working man in Show Business !

Merry Christmas !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 07:40 AM (T4tVD)

20 They hate The West, and all it stands for. Whatever political entity that has ever inhabited the chunk of land we now call Iran has been the sworn enemy of the West since before the invention of the map. Of course the civiliophobes and traitors in our midst would gravitate towards them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:41 AM (9UlRk)

21 Saudi's and Jews are the wrong minorities so they have to go.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 07:41 AM (Eeb9P)

22 >>How the hell did we sink so low?

Well, fast, and now faster.

It really seems things are accelerating at breakneck pace.

And at this point, Gay should stay, and be an albatross around the neck of the Ivy's.

A shining exemplar of their decrepit and hollow husk of an institution.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:41 AM (XV/Pl)

23 If you didn’t start the day by playing “6:00” by Dream Theater starting at exactly 5:59:15, you’re wrong. Or just not a true Dream Theater fan.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 07:42 AM (e0dkU)

24 The Ivory Tower is leaning.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:42 AM (9UlRk)

25 Good morning again dear morons and Merry Christmas.

Thanks for nooding JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2023 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

26 Or just not a true Dream Theater fan.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 07:42 AM (e0dkU)

B.

Final answer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:43 AM (9UlRk)

27 but the news never sleeps so I'll try to keep it light in terms of volume, if not, sadly in tone

4 hours of relaxing Christmas music to read JJ's links by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr7iqsAEsXk

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 07:43 AM (ju2Fy)

28 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2023 07:44 AM (BpYfr)

29 Trigger Warning: Dr. Jill Biden at a children's hospital for story time link has been taken down. Did Gropey Joe tag along for a feel-you / feel-me session with the youngsters?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (9v1kn)

30 Oh, and Feliz Navidad, Prospero Ano Y Felizidad, a todos los senores y senoras de la Ace Of Spades.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (XV/Pl)

31 According to Sinwar, Izz-al-whatever is crushing the IDF at every turn. They are just on step away from total victory.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (dec0Z)

32 I find it very interesting that Obama and Friends think a strong Iran makes the Middle East a better place.

It is the same group think that thought the Soviet Union would stabilize Europe after WWII.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 07:38 AM (lwOKI)

I don’t think they do believe that. They’re hoping a stronger Iran will eventually destroy the colonial state is Israel and neutralize American influence in the region.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (VloHh)

33 I forgot to turn off my work alarm, and it being a Monday... does my phone even know it's Christmas at all? Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (9UlRk)

34 @23

>>Or just not a true Dream Theater fan.

Pull Me Under is peak Dream Theater everything after that is literally musical masturbation.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:46 AM (XV/Pl)

35 22
We need to start a meme "How Gay are you?
A1. Wait let me look it up.
A2. Wait let me ask BHO.
A3. ..... etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - The same father who named the other one Chickenshit! at December 25, 2023 07:47 AM (qfLjt)

36 From Pixy's thread

This could be a FWP right?

"He left me because I said I don't like electric cars.
He just grabbed his man-purse, pulled his hair up in a bun, and said that when the car was charged in an hour he'd be gone."

Posted by: Ciampino - The same father who named the other one Chickenshit? at December 25, 2023 07:48 AM (qfLjt)

37 @22

>>We need to start a meme "How Gay are you?

Yes, but in the style of John McLaughlin, from the eponymous McLaughlin Group.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:48 AM (XV/Pl)

38 Low volume he said...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! ✝️✨

Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2023 07:49 AM (/IaHq)

39 Merry Christmas Vic !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 07:49 AM (T4tVD)

40 31 According to Sinwar, Izz-al-whatever is crushing the IDF at every turn. They are just on step away from total victory.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (dec0Z)

Reminds me of the headline of the Nazi newspaper "Day by Day, We Are Inflicting Bloody Losses on the Soviets."

That was right after Kursk.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)

41 lin-duh, how's Buc-ee this morning?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2023 07:51 AM (dec0Z)

42 Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2023 07:49 AM (/IaHq)
39 Merry Christmas Vic !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 07:49 AM (T4tVD)

Merry Christmas back at you.

Posted by: vic at December 25, 2023 07:51 AM (A5THL)

43 mornin yall. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2023 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

44 Harvard having a fraud for a leader is actually a good thing because the mask is off for that over rated over priced crap degree.

So the entire place will be stunk up with clone hiring.
And we can hope that it will end up like that college Bernie's wife DESTROYED. Dead.

Posted by: torabora at December 25, 2023 07:52 AM (eyiBZ)

45
Speaking of DEI crap, how dismayed I was entering REI (I know, I know) seeing a screed posted near the front door touting among other things their “anti-racism”. Never mind that such always becomes racism. I’m just there to replace sandals.

More propaganda on the way to the register about how access to the outdoors needs to be “equitable” (eh? WTF does THAT mean?)

Behind the counter, up above, they helpfully advertise different activities. Points for that. But when I saw signage for “Black outdoor enthusiasts” and “Latino outdoor enthusiasts” or something to that effect, what I suspected became clear: REI is pro-segregation and firmly set against everything fought for in the 50s and 60s.

It will be a long time before I drop money in there again. If ever. Which is too bad. Their merino wool socks are awesome.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 07:52 AM (e0dkU)

46 Iran Threatens To Close Off Mediterranean Sea
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I admit to being a little curious how Iran thinks it will pull this off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2023 07:53 AM (BpYfr)

47 Ah, Barack Obongo. All the fools who voted for him just wanted free shit from Uncle Shugga. Never mind that he hates YT and is a worthless sack of dog doo.

Hope and change and Merry Christmas!

More coffee…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 25, 2023 07:53 AM (6FtXF)

48 Merry Christmas Horde!

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at December 25, 2023 07:54 AM (URIv5)

49 Merry Christmas, dear Horde!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 25, 2023 07:54 AM (zfiQI)

50 Pull Me Under is peak Dream Theater everything after that is literally musical masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:46 AM (XV/Pl)

Translation: it’s a lot of a lot and they do things just to do them (h/t, Lost in Vegas).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 07:54 AM (e0dkU)

51
I still think Gay is toast. Like the way Bud Light has taken a hit they may never recover from, Harvard is in the same boat.

Who would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education to a university with a bad reputation?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 07:54 AM (enJYY)

52 Catch, herd wear store out your way has the best socks.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2023 07:55 AM (dec0Z)

53 31 According to Sinwar, Izz-al-whatever is crushing the IDF at every turn. They are just on step away from total victory.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2023 07:45 AM (dec0Z)
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That sounds like every youtube video that has Uke supermen and super weapons crushing Russians. I never see the opposite, yet ..... Ukraine is toast.

Posted by: Ciampino - Dr Goebbels, you've got to see this .... at December 25, 2023 07:55 AM (qfLjt)

54 “Latino outdoor enthusiasts”

It's a huge market. We get about 10,000 per day.

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2023 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

55 Ben Had,
Feistier and bolder. Much less clingy. wanting to chew on cords and presents but not the appropriate chew toys/bones etc. Just took a half mile walk so he's tired again.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2023 07:55 AM (/IaHq)

56 The people who infest leadership positions have no idea how to actually lead. They see "leaders" on TV and in movies, and think "well I'm great, so obviously i can do that too". It's like people who think "dude how hard is it to coach a football team" or "any idiot can make a rocket get into orbit, you just press the Launch button". They're too stupid to know that they're stupid. They can't understand why everything is going to shit around them, because they're in charge and they are awesome. So if anything is wrong, it has to be some nefarious external plot, and not just them shitting the bed with the lights on. I suppose it's just dunning-krueger writ large.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:55 AM (9UlRk)

57 admit to being a little curious how Iran thinks it will pull this off.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2023 07:53 AM (BpYfr)

Perhaps geography isn’t taught in Iranian schools?

The same way economics is forbidden to be taught in places like Canada.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 07:56 AM (e0dkU)

58 Merry Christmas, dear Horde!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Backatcha VMom !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

59 Merry Christmas. He is born!

Peace on Earth and Goodwill to men.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2023 07:56 AM (4I/2K)

60 Merry Christmas everyone!

Thank you J.J. for your dispatches.

Big Noise from Winnetka!

http://tinyurl.com/rd573c4e

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 25, 2023 07:56 AM (+RQPJ)

61 The rain has started again . Good thing Santa got the presents moved in from the shop during the lull.

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2023 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

62 @50

>>Translation: it’s a lot of a lot and they do things just to do them (h/t, Lost in Vegas).

I respect the hell out of their musicianship but as Emperor Joe Said in Amadeus, There Are Too Many Notes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:57 AM (XV/Pl)

63 I still think Gay is toast. Like the way Bud Light has taken a hit they may never recover from, Harvard is in the same boat.

Who would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education to a university with a bad reputation?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 07:54 AM (enJYY)

We don't give a dang about our bad reputation.
Oh no!
Not we!

Posted by: Havahrd Brain Trust covering Joan Jett at December 25, 2023 07:58 AM (4I/2K)

64 I admit to being a little curious how Iran thinks it will pull this off.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2023 07:53 AM (BpYfr)

Who can stop them? The US navy is too busy finding creative new ways to scuttle ships in active service. China will just bribe their way through. Nobody else comes even close to having a navy worth a damn.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:58 AM (9UlRk)

65 56 The people who infest leadership positions have no idea how to actually lead. They see "leaders" on TV and in movies, and think "well I'm great, so obviously i can do that too". It's like people who think "dude how hard is it to coach a football team" or "any idiot can make a rocket get into orbit, you just press the Launch button". They're too stupid to know that they're stupid. They can't understand why everything is going to shit around them, because they're in charge and they are awesome. So if anything is wrong, it has to be some nefarious external plot, and not just them shitting the bed with the lights on. I suppose it's just dunning-krueger writ large.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:55 AM (9UlRk)

This is the end result of a society that rejects merit in favor of corruption. Americans cheerfully chirp “It’s not what you know but WHO you know!!!” and then wonders why so many things in so many places are going to shit.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 07:59 AM (e0dkU)

66 @51

>>I still think Gay is toast.

Well, then it's the best of both worlds, if she stays then she's an albatross around their necks, if she's fired, she sues and then we get to watch that spectacle with bags of popcorn.

It's the rare, heads we win, tails we win, scenarios.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 07:59 AM (XV/Pl)

67 >>>Iran Threatens To Close Off Mediterranean Sea
---
I admit to being a little curious how Iran thinks it will pull this off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

>These fools can't even hijack tankers off the coast of Yemen or Somalia or Madagascar. They will have their arses handed to them.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (9v1kn)

68 Merry Christmas to you all.

Posted by: UGAdawg at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (tRd71)

69 > Iran Threatens To Close Off Mediterranean Sea
____________

Between Iran's belligerence and the junta's incompetence WWIII is likely going to start in Middle East.

It's only a matter of time. Or so it seems.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)

70 Begun the Christmas Feast preps have. Will glance in later.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (4I/2K)

71 Who can stop them? The US navy is too busy finding creative new ways to scuttle ships in active service. China will just bribe their way through. Nobody else comes even close to having a navy worth a damn.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:58 AM (9UlRk)

You kinda have to get to the Med first. Then you may need (just speculating) logistical support.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 08:01 AM (e0dkU)

72 NYC Mayor Eric Adams blames rats as a big reason for New Yorkers fleeing state in droves

https://is.gd/TcenBR

Yes, rats that look like Eric Adams, with Room Temperature (in Celsius) I.Qs.

Posted by: Ciampino - Dr Goebbels, you've got to see this ... at December 25, 2023 08:02 AM (qfLjt)

73 67 >These fools can't even hijack tankers off the coast of Yemen or Somalia or Madagascar. They will have their arses handed to them.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (9v1kn)

Don't forget what we a cursed with as President.

Posted by: vic at December 25, 2023 08:02 AM (A5THL)

74 Big Noise from Winnetka!

http://tinyurl.com/rd573c4e
Posted by: All Hail Eris

You're just trying to trick me into asking where that is.

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

75 She has gone on to publish a total of eleven research papers and no books — a record that a professor told me was easily in the bottom 5th percentile of all professors employed at peer institutions. Seven of those papers have been shown to have violated Harvard’s rules on academic citation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 08:03 AM (lwOKI)

76 Reading a book on Barky, be it safe to say anything he did or does is out to destroy the country

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2023 08:04 AM (fwDg9)

77 "what I suspected became clear: REI is pro-segregation and firmly set against everything fought for in the 50s and 60s.

It will be a long time before I drop money in there again. If ever. Which is too bad. Their merino wool socks are awesome."

Remember back in the day.

REI was the company that forced YETI to disassociate from the NRA, and stop production of the NRA labeled YETI products.

Oh, and Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 25, 2023 08:04 AM (hH3Px)

78 Since I made mention of Burlington College demise hoping that Harvard heads the same way, I checked up on the 225 acre Burlington College campus and am pleased to report the copper has been pulled out of the walls and property has been burned.
Nobody wanted to buy anything so it was left to the squatters and vandals to arson and thieve. I really thought those Northeast types gave a rip about their community but apparently not.

Posted by: torabora at December 25, 2023 08:04 AM (eyiBZ)

79 Shitpants would surrender an entire carrier group to two goatfuckers in a dinghy with empty AKs and a baggie full of hash.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 08:05 AM (9UlRk)

80 Gay is an enforcer. Her credentials lie elsewhere

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 08:06 AM (Eeb9P)

81 Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

IT is near Chicago and is full of rich people.

Posted by: vic at December 25, 2023 08:06 AM (A5THL)

82 Shitpants would surrender an entire carrier group to two goatfuckers in a dinghy with empty AKs and a baggie full of hash.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 08:05 AM (9UlRk)
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C'mon, man! The Big Guy would be happy to settle for just 10% of that.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:07 AM (ch/kO)

83 . I really thought those Northeast types gave a rip about their community but apparently not.
Posted by: torabora at December 25, 2023 08:04 AM (eyiBZ)

Burlington is just Camden with more flannel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 08:07 AM (9UlRk)

84 46
But we were told that Blacks didn't like the woods, too many trees and trees are bad because nasty White people hanged Black people from trees - so nooses and trees are right out.

Posted by: Ciampino - For ever & ever? at December 25, 2023 08:08 AM (qfLjt)

85 @84

>>and trees are bad because nasty White people hanged Black people from trees

Fun Fact: The largest lynching the US was of a bunch of Italians.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 08:10 AM (XV/Pl)

86 Our troops are still being attacked over there and not one thing has happened to deter it.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2023 08:11 AM (dec0Z)

87 83 . I really thought those Northeast types gave a rip about their community but apparently not.
Posted by: torabora at December 25, 2023 08:04 AM (eyiBZ)

Burlington is just Camden with more flannel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 08:07 AM (9UlRk)
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Yes but do they have leather elbow patches?

Posted by: Ciampino - English snobs at December 25, 2023 08:11 AM (qfLjt)

88 Fun Fact: The largest lynching the US was of a bunch of Italians.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2023 08:10 AM (XV/Pl)
-

The Cosa Noosetra?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:11 AM (ch/kO)

89 Merry Christmas.
Lord have mercy!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at December 25, 2023 08:13 AM (gxokI)

90 I'm close friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don't know Y.

Posted by: Ciampino - English snobs, etc.... at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (qfLjt)

91 69 > Iran Threatens To Close Off Mediterranean Sea
____________

Between Iran's belligerence and the junta's incompetence WWIII is likely going to start in Middle East.

It's only a matter of time. Or so it seems.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)

Iran seems to be on the verge or approaching nuclear breakout. Israel has vowed never to allow that to happen.

Makes you wonder if 10/7 was cover to keep Israel distracted.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)

92 My one, and only experience with REI was in California. A new shopping center went in and REI had a store. Staffed with the most conceited asshats I'd ever come across.

This was back when "eco-terrorism" was "good." I guess it still is, but the terrorists now glue themselves to various roadways.

Progress?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (Q4IgG)

93 Morning everyone and a very Merry Christmas to one and all. Thx JJ your morning report is a gift every day. I hate to be a gloomy Gus but enjoy this holy day , because I think 2024 is going to be a real sh*t show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (iYJk7)

94 I'm close friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don't know Y.
Posted by: Ciampino - English snobs, etc.... at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (qfLjt)
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22. You forgot about your X.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:16 AM (ch/kO)

95 Since the humor is puny again ...
To measure puns properly one must use a sighsmograph.

Posted by: Ciampino - English snobs, etc... at December 25, 2023 08:18 AM (qfLjt)

96 Makes you wonder if 10/7 was cover to keep Israel distracted.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)

Makes sense that the palis were hung out to dry, if so.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 08:20 AM (9UlRk)

97 94 I'm close friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don't know Y.
Posted by: Ciampino - English snobs, etc.... at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (qfLjt)
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22. You forgot about your X.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:16 AM (ch/kO)
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All my Xs are in TX

Posted by: Ciampino - English weekendsnobs, etc... at December 25, 2023 08:20 AM (qfLjt)

98 The Junta does things for multiple reasons. Each reason is a screen for the others as some people can't embrace the power of And.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 08:21 AM (Eeb9P)

99 Good morning all and Merry Christmas!! Had brother and his family over last night. It was nice to see them all but I'm still worn out. My grandpup Moose has a swollen paw from licking it constantly. Daughter thinks it's a yeast infection, which he's had before.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 25, 2023 08:22 AM (iF0sF)

100 So, 10/7 was conceived for reasons and executed at that time for reasons and subsequent opportunities were forecasted giving more reasons.

Posted by: Jamaica at December 25, 2023 08:23 AM (Eeb9P)

101 Remember Obama's Church?

One of their principle "tenents" was
"Disavowal of middleclassness"

Big blazing red flag right there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2023 08:24 AM (cOq4q)

102 In case you missed it, a parishioner at nec's church got their temporary heating fixed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2023 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

103 Morning, Horde and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!

That story on the "lesbian" Virgin Mary creche is perhaps the most vile and repugnant thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I am utterly speechless.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 25, 2023 08:26 AM (/y7Ab)

104
One of their principle "tenents" was
"Disavowal of middleclassness"

Big blazing red flag right there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2023 08:24 AM

O'bama learned the lesson well and went straight to wealthy. Somehow.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 08:26 AM (enJYY)

105 Merry Christmas to you all

Posted by: It's me donna at December 25, 2023 08:27 AM (n2vyf)

106 Merry Christmas, everyone!!

All of this anti Jewish, anti Christian, anti America crap will not stop until it is made to stop. And it won't be made to stop until Americans wake up, find their collective backbone and resolve to make it stop. The "other side" never sleeps, never ceases in their efforts to destroy this country. Our side, it seems, is at the mall. Let us pray that the new year brings a new resolve to prevent the enemy from succeeding.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at December 25, 2023 08:28 AM (iODuv)

107 Iran seems to be on the verge or approaching nuclear breakout. Israel has vowed never to allow that to happen.

Makes you wonder if 10/7 was cover to keep Israel distracted.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)

I understand the thought, but if so, then it was a colossal blunder on the part of Iran; now that it is mobilized, the IDF is larger, more powerful, and more ready to go from one war to the next than it has ever been in Israel's history. On that note, Israeli sources keep hinting, strongly, that as soon as ground operations are over in Gaza, much of the army will move into southern Lebanon, to create a buffer zone up to the Litani River. (about 40 miles, I believe)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

108 I couldn't fathom how many billions Cummins/Scania are out trying to meet Bullshit EPA standards. When I was doing Diesel schools for those engines it was was nearing 20 and that was 8 ish years ago.
Now they're getting fined too.
I personally think the tech is stupid. Diesel Oxidation Catylist. Every manufacturer uses it and will eventually be fined because it is shit.
I quit the industry because I got sick of that garbage.

Posted by: Reforger at December 25, 2023 08:31 AM (DNLtc)

109 Another eco myth? Study finds plant-based utensils do NOT break down in the environment like activists claim

https://mol.im/a/12885865

Posted by: Ciampino - More ecoBullshit at December 25, 2023 08:32 AM (qfLjt)

110 The anti-intellectual left has killed higher education in the United States, and is wearing the skin suit.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 25, 2023 08:32 AM (CecP5)

111 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)
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Who is feeding you this wishful thinking?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:32 AM (ch/kO)

112
.. And Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Reforger at December 25, 2023 08:32 AM (DNLtc)

113 In case you missed it, a parishioner at nec's church got their temporary heating fixed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Good to know. I hope the poinsettia's made it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 08:33 AM (ju2Fy)

114 Between Iran's belligerence and the junta's incompetence WWIII is likely going to start in Middle East.

It's only a matter of time. Or so it seems.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2023 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)

Like that's a new idea? I read a book that's a couple thousand years old that said that's what's gonna happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:33 AM (S6gqv)

115 Iran seems to be on the verge or approaching nuclear breakout. Israel has vowed never to allow that to happen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)
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Netanyahu lied.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:33 AM (ch/kO)

116 ...On that note, Israeli sources keep hinting, strongly, that as soon as ground operations are over in Gaza, much of the army will move into southern Lebanon, to create a buffer zone up to the Litani River. (about 40 miles, I believe)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)
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Tried and failed 40 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2023 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

117 In case you missed it, a parishioner at nec's church got their temporary heating fixed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Good to know. I hope the poinsettia's made it.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 08:33 AM (ju2Fy)

They didn't become dullsettias ?

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 08:37 AM (T4tVD)

118 I wonder why the anti-gun gun buying group chose San Juan County to try their scheme. It's one of the most conservative counties in NM. It would be more conservative if the Navajo reservation wasn't all of the western part. Navajos mostly vote for democrats.

Posted by: huerfano at December 25, 2023 08:37 AM (Q4KYm)

119 As that Benjamin Weingarten piece makes clear, not only does Obama hate Israel and wish it harm, but Obama also wishes to normalize Jew hatred in the USA, and he is fighting to hang on to the Harvard beachhead as a flagship of "respectable" anti semitism.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 25, 2023 08:38 AM (d9Cw3)

120 Also, Christmas blessings to you, JJ!

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 25, 2023 08:38 AM (d9Cw3)

121 Today is a day that we celebrate, and are thankful for, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus, the Messiah. Every prophecy in the Old Testament, and there are many, concerning His birth, life, death and resurrection were literally fulfilled.
It will be the same when He returns in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and every eye shall se Him. 12K from each of the 12 tribes will be sealed (for their protection), His elect will be gathered, the 7th seal broken and His wrath on a wicked and unrepentant world begin to be poured out.

Come quickly Lord

Posted by: Teej at December 25, 2023 08:39 AM (spJU8)

122 Tried and failed 40 years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2023 08:36 AM (RIvkX)
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Inaccurate. The greater failure was Ehud Barak's and the left's retreat and abandonment of S. Lebanon.

And here we are today!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:40 AM (ch/kO)

123 The Naming Commission has fully discharged its duties as required by the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. As such, the Commission officially disbands October 1, 2022, after which time this website and associated e-mail addresses will no longer be actively monitored. Our work will eventually be catalogued with the National Archives.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 08:41 AM (lwOKI)

124 Merry Christmas ya filthy animals! 😉

Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2023 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

125 ". . .precludes them from performing their actual duties competently."

You're assuming they even COULD? How magnanimous!

Merry Christmas!

Posted by: ahem at December 25, 2023 08:42 AM (GLMhk)

126 As of 9:30 last evening the poinsettias were thriving. Not sure if the temp heat ran during the night, hopefully it did since it's currently 10 degrees.
It's amazing to me that the parishioner was able to talk to someone from the rental company and together they resolved the issue. On a Sunday during the Christmas season. It's a different world in small towns. One I'm glad I found in my later 29 years.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 25, 2023 08:43 AM (2NHgQ)

127 Merry Christmas ya filthy animals! 😉
Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2023 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 08:44 AM (T4tVD)

128 Gay will go, but the longer it plays out the better. It's a Kafka Trap turned on the Left for once and they have no way out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 25, 2023 08:44 AM (qBd5a)

129 “It’s the complete opposite of what people expect,” Norberg says. “In less market-based societies, 20% to 40% say they have no one to count on if they need help. In the richest and most individualist societies, it’s in the low single digits.”

Because Socialist are taught that the Big Govt will fix it. Look at the tragedy of the commons called Public Housing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 08:45 AM (lwOKI)

130 Defund the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum

Desfinanciar el Museo Latino del Smithsonian

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2023 08:46 AM (lwOKI)

131 111 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)
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Who is feeding you this wishful thinking?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:32 AM (ch/kO)

sources on X (twitter) that over the last 2 months have been relaying info that can only come from the IDF. They may not be of the government themselves, but they're closely linked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)

132 "It's amazing to me that the parishioner was able to talk to someone from the rental company and together they resolved the issue. On a Sunday during the Christmas season. It's a different world in small towns. One I'm glad I found in my later 29 years.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine"

From today's NY Post:

DEAR ABBY: I moved to a smaller city from a larger one seven years ago. There are fewer businesses here. I often struggle to get home repairs done because people here operate on “regional time,” meaning they get to stuff when they feel like it, if they feel like doing it at all.

Abby says maybe she should move back to the big city.

Posted by: fd at December 25, 2023 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

133 Merry Christmas all!

Posted by: AnnaS at December 25, 2023 08:48 AM (FnSbk)

134 sources on X (twitter) that over the last 2 months have been relaying info that can only come from the IDF. They may not be of the government themselves, but they're closely linked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)
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That's what I was hoping. Wishful thinking.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:48 AM (ch/kO)

135 One of the very best Have Gun -- Will Travel episodes, "The Waiting Room" from 1962, is on H & I. Almost invariably, when you see the name "Harry Julian Fink" on a script, you are in for good TV and at least one fascinating character. This one is no exception. James Griffith plays a poncho-clad, murderous outlaw with a deceptively mild manner, who freely admits he kills for pleasure. Paladin asks him how many men he's killed.

"I don't rightly know. Except for the Indians . . . and I never counted them."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2023 08:49 AM (omVj0)

136 63 I still think Gay is toast. Like the way Bud Light has taken a hit they may never recover from, Harvard is in the same boat.

Who would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education to a university with a bad reputation?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 07:54 AM (enJYY)

Bill Ackerman, the wealthy Harvard alumnus who has been lighting a fire under the Harvard Boards ass over this, reported on X yesterday that 2 members of that Board, personal friends of his, have told him that the Harvard Board has now asked Gay to resign - and that Gay has said "hell no I won't, you're gonna have to fire me and then I'll sue you and make a huge stink and drag the entire schools reputation down into the dirt with me."

Ha Ha Harvard, you really picked a winner with her!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:50 AM (S6gqv)

137 Is Claudine Gay the Democrat's solution to the Kamala Harris problem? Replace Harris with Gay and you can duck Harris's claims of Racism. Parroting someone else's words might be frowned on in Academia but it is perfect for politics. Hell, half the problem with Harris is she uses her own words and makes a hash of it. Lastly, Gay will sit in her office, do exactly what she is told and collect her check as long as the money keeps coming. Perfect!

Posted by: JB1000 at December 25, 2023 08:50 AM (TO8pt)

138 It's unfortunate that commentariat such as Kimball continue to employ the anachronisms "partisan" and "partisanship" to describe the Democrat/Left's lies and stratagems.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 25, 2023 08:52 AM (qBd5a)

139 Replace Harris with Gay and you can duck Harris's claims of Racism. Parroting someone else's words might be frowned on in Academia but it is perfect for politics.
Posted by: JB1000 at December 25, 2023 08:50 AM (TO8pt)
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Kamala is the best parrot I know. Repeats the exact same words over and over again for years already.

She's a keeper!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:53 AM (ch/kO)

140 A big clue is in the tenure of the supposedly embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay, and the fact that so many people are circling the wagons of at best a manifestly incompetent nebbish, who now faces massive charges of not just plagiarism but making shit up out of whole cloth.

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If Harvard ever shitcans her then, she's already got a guaranteed gig as Biden's next Press Spokeshole and/or tenure as an MD-LSD anchor.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 08:55 AM (6xb5i)

141 *MS-LSD anchor

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 08:55 AM (6xb5i)

142 WH Quietly Makes Border Promise to Hispanic Lawmakers

https://is.gd/s1rula

Posted by: Ciampino - Avoid cliches like the plague at December 25, 2023 08:56 AM (qfLjt)

143 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
/Isaiah 9:6

Blessed Christmas wishes all.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 25, 2023 08:56 AM (991eG)

144 134 sources on X (twitter) that over the last 2 months have been relaying info that can only come from the IDF. They may not be of the government themselves, but they're closely linked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)
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That's what I was hoping. Wishful thinking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 08:48 AM (ch/kO)

3 to 4 days ago, those sources were saying expect something new in Lebanon soon. over the last 2 days, the number of airstrikes in Southern Lebanon has dramatically increased. Is that a prelude to a ground invasion, or just some brush back pitching? No way to know yet, but certainly a spot to watch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:56 AM (S6gqv)

145 Merry Christmas to one and all.

Been keeping an eye on the shipping traffic that is now going around the southern tip of Africa, and having to buy fuel in one of the more expensive fuel stops, South Africa. This is not going to help the EU - Germany, Austria and France are all officially in recession and the rest of the group are net drags on the edifice.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2023 08:56 AM (lTGtQ)

146 and that Gay has said "hell no I won't, you're gonna have to fire me and then I'll sue you and make a huge stink and drag the entire schools reputation down into the dirt with me."

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No honor among thieves?

Posted by: davidt at December 25, 2023 08:56 AM (SYTee)

147 "Sen. D’Amato Drops Bomb: Hillary Allowed Russia to Take Ownership of US Uranium to Sell to Iran (Video)"

Google that to find the 2016 story on Gatrway Pundit.

Posted by: Phil N Blank at December 25, 2023 08:57 AM (SV2Xx)

148 Yelp Review:

The Inn at Bethlehem - NOT recommended

We arrived for the census after a long, tiring journey and they didn't have room ready for us. They put us into a smelly stable, and honestly I don't the would've done even that if my wife wasn't pregnant. ONE STAR.

To be fair, it was a pretty impressive star.

(h/t Twitchy)

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 08:57 AM (ju2Fy)

149 If Harvard were smart, bold and brave, they'd replace Gay with Carol Swain (highly qualified female POC and one of the victims of Gay's plagiarism). But of course if pigs could fly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 25, 2023 08:57 AM (qBd5a)

150 Christmas Lawyer’ faces disbarment after calling judge ‘corrupt’ for banning his holiday display, which featured a camel, during HOA fight

http://tinyurl.com/549985fw

Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2023 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

151 don't the = don't think they

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 08:59 AM (ju2Fy)

152 . . . The triumph of DEI would spell death for our republic.

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With all due respect, Mr. Weingarten: too late.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 08:59 AM (6xb5i)

153
A handy little checklist for President Gay:
☑ Denial
☑ Anger
☐ Bargaining
☐ Depression
☐ Acceptance

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 08:59 AM (enJYY)

154 Not sure it's Israel failing to check Iran as much as the US funding Iran's nuclear ambition

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2023 09:00 AM (fwDg9)

155 Well, Claudine Gay already dragged Harvard's reputation through the mud/- besides being one nasty woman- so if she is fired by the school and sues them they will deserve it. Maybe they should have hired Dr. Carol Swain, ?who would have been much better qualified except for- to them- her horrid political points of view.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2023 09:00 AM (VTtnq)

156 Merry Christmas Muldoon !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 09:01 AM (T4tVD)

157 IMHO, if Gay's PhD thesis contains plagiarized work, then her PhD should be rescinded.

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:01 AM (MvF+J)

158 I see that Ordinary American in post 149 and I think alike.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2023 09:02 AM (VTtnq)

159 I see that Ordinary American in post 149 and I think alike.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2023 09:02 AM (VTtnq)

160 Sorry for the double post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2023 09:03 AM (RSbhh)

161 Good morning, all, thanks, J.J. Merry Christmas!

"Makes you wonder if 10/7 was cover to keep Israel distracted." Yes, doesn't it?

Aljazeera, today: Ukraine secures desperately needed funds from World Bank
With US and EU funding delayed, Kyiv said the money would stabilise its economy as it continues to repel Russian attacks.

In part: "Ukraine has received a vital $1.34bn in funds from the World Bank."
"In a statement, the ministry noted that the financing, which is the Sixth Additional Financing under its Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance in Ukraine (PEACE) project, consisted of a $1.086bn loan from the World Bank, a $190m grant from Norway, a $50m grant from the United States and a $20m grant from Switzerland."
"The funds are expected to be used to partially compensate for non-security and defence-related expenditures of the Ukrainian state budget, including old-age social payments and payments to employees of the state emergency service, the ministry added."

After the holidays, I must reread the Political Geography of 1984.

I stand w/ Israel & pray for the IDF. Demand return of ALL Hamas hostages & the turnover the 10/7 leaders.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 25, 2023 09:03 AM (GshMh)

162 150 Christmas Lawyer’ faces disbarment after calling judge ‘corrupt’ for banning his holiday display, which featured a camel, during HOA fight

http://tinyurl.com/549985fw
Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2023 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

Do you know the biggest difference between a Federal Judge and God?
God doesn't think he's a Federal Judge.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 09:03 AM (S6gqv)

163 The average person isn't paying attention and knows nothing about the Gay/Harvard situation. Ask them about it and they'll think you are talking about people being mean to homosexuals on campus.

Posted by: davidt at December 25, 2023 09:04 AM (SYTee)

164 163 Right now, Harvard and Gay are hoping the scandal is forgotten in the long slow holiday news cycle.

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:06 AM (MvF+J)

165 Do you know the biggest difference between a Federal Judge and God?
God doesn't think he's a Federal Judge.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 09:03 AM (S6gqv)

That's funny !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 09:06 AM (T4tVD)

166
The average person didn't know anything about Bud Light either. Until everyone did.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 09:06 AM (enJYY)

167 Ha Ha Harvard, you really picked a winner with her!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 08:50 AM (S6gqv)

Good. More Please.

More coffee…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 25, 2023 09:07 AM (6FtXF)

168 Do you know the biggest difference between a Federal Judge and God?
God doesn't think he's a Federal Judge.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 09:03 AM (S6gqv)

That's funny !
Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 09:06 AM (T4tVD)
******
And very true.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2023 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

169 Today is also Isaac Newton's 380th birthday.

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:09 AM (MvF+J)

170 REI CEO Sarah Jewell was Obama's Secretary of The Interior.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 25, 2023 09:09 AM (FCs/J)

171 Not sure it's Israel failing to check Iran as much as the US funding Iran's nuclear ambition
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2023 09:00 AM (fwDg9)
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Both plus Netanyahu's assumption that the US would eventually intervene militarily, either directly or by providing Israel with necessary "tools."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2023 09:15 AM (ch/kO)

172 And very true.
Posted by: redridinghood

Merry Christmas !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2023 09:17 AM (T4tVD)

173 Blessed Christmas wishes all.
Posted by: Muldoon

Amen amen

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 25, 2023 09:18 AM (zfiQI)

174 171 I feel that Israel will nuke Iran if it learns that the mullahs are about to launch nukes against it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Avoid cliches like the plague ... at December 25, 2023 09:18 AM (qfLjt)

175 Merry Christmas, JT.
Hopefully, tonight, you'll be enjoying a family feast of Spam.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2023 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

176 Merry Christmas from me as well! Looks like much of today will be traveling, at least weather turned nice. Have fun!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2023 09:22 AM (S6gqv)

177 We're having spam, spam, spam, eggs, and spam.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2023 09:22 AM (RIvkX)

178 Equity was only going to get them incompetent personal, if your not looking for anything other than the person's category in Intersectionaly

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2023 09:23 AM (fwDg9)

179 Today is also Isaac Newton's 380th birthday.
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023

***
And I say to thee, he does not look as much as one day over ten score and ten!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2023 09:24 AM (omVj0)

180 Dr. Carol Swain has advice for Harvard. Also, weighing options taking actions against Gay.

https://is.gd/NDFuEG

(Twitchy)

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2023 09:24 AM (ju2Fy)

181 That was quick.

Still sitting in the corner watching.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2023 09:25 AM (Angsy)

182 “Merry Christmas! Let’s talk about anti-Semitism!”

Posted by: Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at December 25, 2023 09:25 AM (cDbti)

183 A very Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2023 09:26 AM (oaGWv)

184 "Today is also Isaac Newton's 380th birthday.
Posted by: gp

If that racist white man had not discovered gravity we would have flying cars today.

Posted by: Pawl at December 25, 2023 09:26 AM (vFG9F)

185 [From the Roger Kimball link:] "It would be interesting to know what Johan Huizinga would think of this brutal carnival in which one man [Trump] is turned into a scapegoat in order to satisfy the blood lust of a barbaric vendetta."

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On Christmas Day, Mr. Kimball?

/REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 09:26 AM (6xb5i)

186 Having some orange herbal tea to round out my breakfast. Im not used to tea. My usual is to pour the coffee, add sweetener, and sip away. But this stuff is supposed to sit and steep for four minutes.

Patience, you say? I reply with the immortal words of one buzzard on the T-shirt to another: "Patience my ass, I'm gonna kill something!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2023 09:27 AM (omVj0)

187 Today is also Isaac Newton's 380th birthday.
Posted by: gp

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Meh. Nobody really gives a fig!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 25, 2023 09:27 AM (991eG)

188 Meh. Nobody really gives a fig!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 25, 2023 09:27 AM (991eG)

Even if you frame it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2023 09:29 AM (Angsy)

189 Merry Christms to The Horder[tm].

If Claudine Gay were to fall, it could topple the entire house of cards the left, led by Barack Obama, helped build. To fire her would be to acknowledge the evil hatred of the West at DEI’s core; admit DEI elevates politics over merit, given Gay has proven to be something of an academic fraud; and therefore delegitimize the movement as a whole given Gay’s and Harvard’s symbolic and substantive prominence in it."
Here’s Why Obama Stepped In to Save Harvard Prez Claudine Gay

I think Barry's real idenity is wrapped up in this debacle, too.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 25, 2023 09:31 AM (Rbu5d)

190 Or it could be 381st birthday, depending on how confusing the old-style vs new-style calendaring is. It was a while ago.

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:31 AM (MvF+J)

191 Today is also Isaac Newton's 380th birthday.

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:09 AM (MvF+J)

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I was told there would be no calculus (otherwise)!

/It is amazing how discoveries and inventions often occur fairly simultaneously throughout history as with Newton and Leibniz.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 09:31 AM (6xb5i)

192 nood

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

193 Normal people should start a movement to make both parties so impotent and irrelevant that they wither and die spontaneously without legal intervention.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2023 07:38 AM (9UlRk)

Too many so called "normal people" still lead lives that are not only very comfortable, but they are totally detached from the chaos that is occurring outside their little bubble. When are THEY going to wake up? Probably when this "chaos" is knocking at their front door. Not before.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at December 25, 2023 09:32 AM (iODuv)

194 Steal other peoples' ideas and/or completely makes things up?

Claudine Gay sounds like Joey Bidet with boobs and a tan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2023 09:33 AM (HFJUU)

195 174 171 I feel that Israel will nuke Iran if it learns that the mullahs are about to launch nukes against it.
Posted by: Ciampino - Avoid cliches like the plague ... at December 25, 2023 09:18 AM (qfLjt)

I fear they won't. But something will be done.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2023 09:34 AM (x0n13)

196 All of that said, as pessimistic or at best realistic as I am, I will say that where there is life there is hope. We cannot know the future, and as implacable as our enemies surely are, they are not infallible. So hang in there and keep the faith.

^^^

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 25, 2023 09:34 AM (Rbu5d)

197 Has Iran put that oil refinery fire out yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2023 09:35 AM (HFJUU)

198 Or it could be 381st birthday, depending on how confusing the old-style vs new-style calendaring is. It was a while ago.

Posted by: gp at December 25, 2023 09:31 AM (MvF+J)

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Wondered if 381 was a prime number (so I could say "Now THAT'S a prime number"), but when the sum of adding each digit is divisible by 3 (in this case 3 + 8 + 1 = 12), then that number is also divisible by 3.

[One of a number of mathematical tricks a great substitute math teacher taught us back in Jr. High School.]

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 09:36 AM (6xb5i)

199 Has Iran put that oil refinery fire out yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2023 09:35 AM (HFJUU)

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Israel should drop some EV battery bombs on it to keep it burning a lot longer.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 25, 2023 09:38 AM (6xb5i)

200 Legal Insurrection

Israeli military forces discover in a north Gaza 'hospital' child sized suicide vests.

Hamas delenda est.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2023 09:38 AM (HFJUU)

201 From the perspective of the apple, when it lost connection to the tree, the apple's gravitational force upon the Earth was no longer restrained. As a result, the Earth lurched upward, causing Sir Isaac's head to strike the apple. This impact, along with the effort needed to postulate that the apple had exerted a gravitational force of its own, caused Sir Isaac a massive headache.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 25, 2023 09:40 AM (991eG)

202
Anna:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A massive fire that broke out at an oil refinery near Iran’s capital and sent a huge plume of black smoke into the sky over Tehran was extinguished on Thursday, after more than 20 hours, a news agency reported.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 25, 2023 09:41 AM (enJYY)

203 I can't open my stuff until the Grands get here.

Doing a new Subaru Forrester for the wife, it's time.
I swore to never buy new again but with the cost of repairs on anything 2010 and newer I want the warrantee.
Might just lease one. Find out tomorrow when we make some salesmans day.

I bought myself an Xbox for the grands. Papa's Xbox. I can hardly play one as I get vertigo watching but the strategy games I can do. Anything FPS or like that I can't.

Posted by: Reforger at December 25, 2023 09:42 AM (nT1pI)

204 It was extinguished?

Darn, so much for a colder winter in Tehran.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2023 09:42 AM (HFJUU)

205 202: that, what, the only refinery Iran has?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 10:24 AM (e0dkU)

206 92 My one, and only experience with REI was in California. A new shopping center went in and REI had a store. Staffed with the most conceited asshats I'd ever come across.

This was back when "eco-terrorism" was "good." I guess it still is, but the terrorists now glue themselves to various roadways.

Progress?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2023 08:14 AM (Q4IgG)

Through ads, I have also found that at REI, to be employed there, you must not know what a federal government is, what a unitary government is, the difference between the two, and which the United States has.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 10:32 AM (e0dkU)

207 119 As that Benjamin Weingarten piece makes clear, not only does Obama hate Israel and wish it harm, but Obama also wishes to normalize Jew hatred in the USA, and he is fighting to hang on to the Harvard beachhead as a flagship of "respectable" anti semitism.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 25, 2023 08:38 AM (d9Cw3)

I’m surprised He didn’t order our entire nuclear arsenal unloaded on Israel on the morning of January 20, 2017.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 25, 2023 10:38 AM (e0dkU)

208 Late but wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Mick at December 25, 2023 11:14 AM (sVc11)

209 Free Gaza!
From Hamas.

Posted by: SamIam at December 25, 2023 11:25 AM (oasF3)

210 Vic: I am very happy you are able to post here again despite your problems with your health and computer. Very Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at December 25, 2023 01:10 PM (6TzTY)

211 Merry Christmas to all the horde and specially for all the writers God bless you all and your families. Please continue with your amazing work.

Posted by: kilroy at December 25, 2023 01:27 PM (gPGIC)

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