SO THIS IS HOW THE ‘IMPEACH JOE BIDEN’ INQUIRY IS GOING FOR THE DEMOCRATS:

Nancy Pelosi on Impeachment of Joe Biden: “If you have a difference of opinion, you just can’t be impeaching … This is a fake distraction”

Nancy Pelosi must’ve been too tipsy to remember she tried to impeach Trump TWICE…
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 26, 2023

OPEN THREAD: Hang on baby, Friday’s coming.

SPACE: FAA closes investigation of Blue Origin launch failure: But that doesn’t mean the company’s New Shepard rocket is ready to start flying again.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China Is Putting Serious Thought Into Building Bases in Moon Caves.

READER FAVORITE: Midland Handheld Portable FRS Business Overlanding Gear Two Way Radio. #CommissionEarned

CASSIDY WHO? Cassidy Hutchinson’s Book Claims Fall Apart After Man in Story Speaks Out. I’m hearing similar things from other people mentioned in her book.

HIGHER EDUCATION’S BLOODY HISTORY: Oxford Was The Murder Capital of Late Medieval England, And It Was All Because of Students. “A deep dive into historical documents reveals that during the late medieval period in the 14th century CE, Oxford had a per capita murder rate four to five times higher than other high-population hubs like York and London. And the reason? Bloody students.”

OLD AND BUSTED: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

The New Hotness at the WaPo? The rise of ‘Chinese Communist Party’ as a pejorative.

A TRIUMPH FOR DIVERSITY, BUT PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY: “My Ancestors Rolling In They Graves:” White Woman Wins 2023 Miss Universe Zimbabwe Over ‘Melanated’ Candidates. “The country boasts a population of more than 14 million, with non-Black people making up roughly two percent.”

YOLO: British Pilot Snorts Coke Off Topless Woman, Parties & Gets Fired Before Flying Home To UK: Report.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Mohamad al Bared guilty of terror offence after designing ‘kamikaze’ drone for ISIS.

FASTER, PLEASE: Gene therapy may restore mobility after spinal cord injury, animal study finds.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-PROMOTION: Instagram personality ‘Meatball’ arrested after live-streaming participation in Philadelphia looting spree. “Pro-tip: Don’t actively film and publish videos of yourself mid-crime. Because apparently that needs to be said.”

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Trans-identified male violently beats female student in Oregon middle school: video.

Trans male attacks female student in Oregon high school. This was certainly planned given multiple people were filming. All involved should be suspended and he should be charged with assault as a male

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— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) September 28, 2023

ACE OF SPADES: Fox News Again Rigs A GOP Debate, Asking Questions That Leftwing Voters (and Fox “Journalists”) Care About But Which Actual Republicans Do Not.

SHOCK VIDEOS [VIP]: Trans Student Assaults Three Girls at Oregon Middle School.

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at airport: Sam Curry says a grand jury subpoena ordering him to testify was later canceled.

GREAT MOMENTS IN CRIMINAL GENIUS: Thief Returns to Scene of Crime to Demand Return of Dropped Cell Phone.

READER FAVORITE: Men’s Wrist Watch, Automatic Mechanical Stainless Steel Sports Diving Watch. #CommissionEarned

RIP: Michael Gambon was so much more than Professor Dumbledore.

Gambon was predominantly a stage actor until middle age, working in a mixture of classical roles and with contemporary writers such as Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn — with whom he collaborated frequently. But then around the early Nineties, his inimitably craggy looks saw him cast in a range of parts in both television and film as everything from dissolute aristocrats to crime bosses. The parts were often beneath him, but Gambon, who was a keen collector of everything from antique weapons to complex timepieces, was indiscriminate about the work he took on, working for everyone from Tim Burton to Wes Anderson. He also voiced the character of Great Uncle Pastuzo in the Paddington films; his inimitably rich tones, which had hints of his Irish and working-class London ancestry, meant that he was always in demand for voiceover work.

Gambon was often an outrageously untruthful interviewee, making up absurd stories about everything from his past homosexuality (he claimed to give it up because “it made my eyes water”) to his former career as a ballet dancer: abandoned, in his telling, because one evening, during a particularly complicated move, he overbalanced and fell into the orchestra pit. Few took him over-seriously, but he was a remarkably successful actor who made a very consistent living in a difficult profession and whose death leaves us all considerably poorer as a result.

So many great roles, but for me, this will always be his finest moment:

BUT HEY, AT LEAST YOU HAVE HIS WORD “AS A BIDEN:” Breaking: Scale of Alleged Biden Foreign Influence Peddling Unprecedented in History of D.C. Corruption, Impeachment Witness Testifies.

SHOCKER: Instead of Enforcing Current Laws, California Passes New Ones Aimed at Law-Abiding Gun Owners.

UM, NO: Fake belly buttons sold as quick fix for women who want legs to look longer.

KRUISER: Senate Forces Fetterman to Wear Big Boy Pants, Passing a Formal Dress Code.

LOTS OF PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW: What the Heck Was Fox News Thinking? “Not to say some candidates didn’t acquit themselves very well, including Ron DeSantis, Doug Burgum, and Vivek Ramaswamy (in my opinion), but it is to say that the overall production hovered somewhere between a dumpster fire and testicle cancer. All of that can be traced back to the moderators. As was mentioned in my post-debate article about Univision’s Ilia Calderón, who was inexplicably allowed to be a moderator by Fox News and the Ronna McDaniel-led RNC, it felt like you were watching an MSNBC primetime show at points.”