YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The five most absurd things slipped into Congress’s latest budget.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Virgin Orbit receives license for U.K. launch.

CRAZY TRAIN: Mike Lindell: I’m Going to Prove That the Elections In Miami/Dade County Were Rigged… By Ron DeSantis. “This is why there will never — N E V E R — be any real wins on voting integrity. Because any time we want to talk about cleaning up voter rolls so that dead people’s names aren’t on them, nor are names of people on them five or six times for their five or six previous addresses, mandatory voter ID, mail-in ballots only on request and with signature verification and a copy of a photo ID, or any of a dozen practical, vital, this-must-happen-now reforms, we have jokers like this screaming about The Kraken.”

FBI RELEASES PATHETIC MOVE-ALONG-NOTHING-TO-SEE-HERE RESPONSE TO #TWITTERFILES IN ATTEMPT TO COVER-UP THEIR COVER-UP. “Here’s the text:”

The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.

Earlier: Are FBI And CIA Agents ‘Sheep Dipped’ At Twitter And Other Tech Companies?

OLD AND BUSTED: Blended Scotch.

The New Hotness? Trans Scotch! J&B Whisky Goes Trans.

Of course, everyone has their favorite drink, and if you prefer something else, it is not my place to judge. And this is the 21st Century and no one is permitted to judge anything or anyone. Anyway, if you are stocking up for your Christmas party and are thinking of adding a bottle of J&B Whisky to your holiday offerings, you may want to watch the new commercial from J&B Spain:

Yes, sir, or madam, J&B Whisky is now trans. They probably wanted to add “Taste the Rainbow” to the campaign, but you know, copyright issues and …stuff. As it turns out, the grandpa in the commercial was studying the art of makeup so he could apply it to his trans grandson. Wisdom passing from one generation to another. And a Merry Christmas was had by all. I don’t know about you, but my grandpa taught me to ride a skateboard and liked to watch Hogan’s Heroes on the kitchen TV while drinking a PBR. I take my grandson to the local Highland Games and I bought him his first set of army men and gave him a sword for his birthday. In each instance, I don’t recall a trip to the makeup counter. I think I would have remembered that.

Look, if I’m forced to drink a woke blended scotch, I’m sticking with Johnnie Walker Black Lives Matter.

THIS IS TROUBLING: People with shingles have an approximately 80 percent higher risk of stroke than those without the disease, and this risk stays elevated for up to a year after the rash has resolved.

REALLY? REALLY? Britons told to avoid “risky activity” as ambulance workers strike.

RIP: NFL legend Franco Harris, known for Immaculate Reception, dead at 72.

UPDATE: The Immaculate Reception: What the Hell Just Happened? (Video.)

COLLLEGE ACTUALLY GETS HELD TO ITS PROMISE TO BE FAIR. Not a great outcome on Title IX grounds, but it’s great to see a circuit court see a college promise “to conduct a fair and thorough investigation” and actually hold the college to it–that’s rare indeed. Bets on a quick settlement?

YES. IT SHOULD BE LOCATED IN THE ALEUTIANS. A New FBI Building Would Cost Billions. Do We Even Need One?

A SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: Wait, an NGO with “peace” and “justice” in its title is just a conduit for graft and bribes? What are the odds?

Plus: “It would be nice to think that both scandals together would cause the EU to seriously address its transparency and democracy deficits, but we all know there’s no chance of that happening. . .”

The graft isn’t an unfortunate side effect. It’s one of the main goals.

COLORADO: Polis, legislature shut off the gas. “As reported last week in The Gazette, obscure new state rules complicate and potentially confound the installation of new natural gas supply lines and the extension of existing ones. The rules likely will limit expanded use of gas by raising the cost of installing gas lines in new construction, as state officials more or less admit. The idea is to price natural gas out of use.”

The actual idea is to price the middle class out of Colorado, just as the Left has done to California.

FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS: Cocktails With VodkaPundit (and Mrs. VodkaPundit, Too): The Thyme-Pear Bellini.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The CDC Caving to Gun Control Groups’ Pressure is the Very Definition of Political Corruption.

ARE WE TRYING TO GOAD XI INTO INVADING TAIWAN? Marine Corps may drop ‘ma’am’ and ‘sir’ over gender-neutral concerns for drill instructors.

EVERYTHING IS ABSURD: The Spending Bill Funds Abortions to Preserve ‘Biodiversity.’

HOLIDAY DEAL: Ninja SF301 Speedi Rapid Cooker & Air Fryer. #CommissionEarned

THAT SUCKS: Intimate Photos by Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online. “Those few images posted privately to contract worker shop talk groups may just be the tip of the privacy iceberg when it comes to robot vacuums and other smart home products that collect a ton of invasive data.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Hate Speech Against African Americans Up 10,000% On Twitter.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to remove cactus needles (including ones stuck in your throat).

DAVID MARCUS: Where’s our progressive hero now? Migrant shelters are overflowing and a border crisis is about to explode — but AOC and her Democratic cohorts are AWOL.

Of course. It’s a crisis by design:

● Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”

● Former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller: Biden’s Immigration Plan Would “Erase America’s Nationhood.”

● “Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ‘truly multicultural’ country, a former Government adviser has revealed.”

Fortunately though, ABC News knows who to blame: Martha Raddatz Blames Border Crisis On Republicans Warning That Border Is Wide Open.

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE WASHINGTON’S JOB: Texas National Guard Secures the Border but Can Only Do so Much.

SPACE: Ukraine to get 10,000 more Starlink antennas; funding problems are “resolved.”

JUST IN TIME FOR JOE BIDEN’S NEXT MASSIVE WAVE OF ILLEGALS: Another Cold Blast Heading To Texas. “I’m not yet seeing single digit forecasts on my phone app yet, but 14°F is damn cold enough.”

Here on the Front Range, our high for Thursday is supposed to be -1.

Stay warm.

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: GTHUNDER Digital Night Vision Goggles Binoculars for Total Darkness. #CommissionEarned.