FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HARDCOVER, SHIPPING TOMORROW: FROM SARAH A. HOYT: DARKSHIP THIEVES.  #CommissionEarned  (Link fixed.)

Athena Hera Sinistra never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. She never had any interest in finding out the truth about the Darkships.
You always get what you don’t ask for. Which must have been why she woke up in the dark of shipnight, within the greater night of space in her father’s space cruiser, knowing that there was a stranger in her room. In a short time, after taking out the stranger—who turned out to be one of her father’s bodyguards up to no good, she was hurtling away from the ship in a lifeboat to get help.
But what she got instead would be the adventure of a lifetime and perhaps a whole new world—if she managed to survive….
A Prometheus Award Winning Novel, written by a USA Today Bestseller.

THIS SHOULD BE BARRED NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE’S DEFILING A SITE HOLY TO US AMERICANS, BUT ALSO BECAUSE NEITHER HE NOR HIS ASSOCIATES HAVE A SOUL:  Biden will be speaking on Thursday about “the soul of the nation”.

Therefore, the subject is quite outside of his expertise.

Mark my words, they have no idea how angry the people are. This is going to get a out of control and a lot of people are going to get hurt, but the idiots just can’t stop pushing and pushing and pushing.

SURE. THAT MAKES US FEEL BETTER:  “Two US officials” now saying Thibault wasn’t fired.

Is that helicopters I hear in the distance?

HE HATES US SO MUCH HE’S IMPORTING TERRORISTS:  Biden is Paying Osama bin Laden’s Old Airline to Fly Out Afghans.

And funding the Taliban.
Aren’t there some old statutes? Something about treason? Yes?

BENEDICT ARNOLD WAS BETTER LOOKING. ALSO SMARTER:  Bill Barr – All-In With the Mar-a-Lago Raid.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE. AND WE’RE NOT ALONE: The Short Life (And Amazingly Fast Death) Of The FBI’s Mar-A-Lago Play.

IT SEEMS PRETTY D*MN BIG FROM THIS SIDE OF THE SCREEN:  Zuckerberg’s Admission Of FBI Meddling In 2020 Election Is Even Bigger Than It Seems.

WELL, HE’S WAY MORE SUBTLE THAN I AM:  Meat Eating Man Owns Screaming Vegans.

FELLOW USAIANS (LOOK, IT’S A REFERENCE) WE NEED TO STOP THIS CREATURE DESECRATING OUR HOLY SITES:  Primetime Speech On Soul Of Our Nation For Biden.

All his speeches should be given from Obama’s guest room, or the urinal atop Marx’s grave*. Let’s start the petitions.

*You mean there’s no urinal there? Well, let’s start that too. A pissoir for Karl!

BEHOLD THE POWER OF STUPIDITY AND DENIAL:  Jean-Pierre Tells Fox’s Doocy No One Just Walks Across the Border.

WE’VE NOTICED:  ‘Radical Shift’: Majority of People Traveling to the Border Come From Outside Mexico, Northern Triangle.

BEHOLD WHAT DESPERATION LOOKS LIKE:  Biden Promotes ‘Safer America Plan’ With Lies and Threats to Ban ‘Assault Weapons’.

IF YOU HAVE YOUR KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, FIND OUT WHAT THEY’RE LEARNING AND REMEMBER TO DEPROGRAM THEM:  CRT is “so widespread that it’s harder to find places where it’s not being taught” than places “where it is being taught”.

I mean, or not. Only deprogram those kids you mean to keep in the family. (Yes, that’s sarcasm. It’s also true.)

A WIN FOR THE GOOD GUYS:  Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal.

WHEN DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS TALK ABOUT GUNS, THEY ALL HAVE DEMENTIA:

"Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels 5 times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun."

🐂💩 pic.twitter.com/cTS1B84wtS

— Rob Doar (@robdoar) August 30, 2022

Related: 5.56mm Muzzle Velocity > 16,000 FPS. You’d really expect more of an earth-shattering kaboom.

Related: Who Fact-Checks a Democrat?

MEET THE PARENTS: Trust linked to Gavin Newsom’s in-laws made contribution to DeSantis PAC. A family trust run by Kenneth Siebel made a $5,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC, records show.

OPEN THREAD: Set forth your best.

SO STAYING WITH MY CURRENT THEME OF WWII NAVAL FICTION, I’ve been reading the Lt. Tom Ingram books by John Gobbell. Pretty good, though perhaps a bit too realistic — the first book’s extended chapters on Corregidor before it fell, with all the sick-and-emaciated realism, were a bit beyond what most people would consider entertainment. (Bumped).

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV’S BODY CATCHES UP THREE DECADES LATER TO HIS DREAM:

“The Soviet collapse was not Mr. Gorbachev’s goal, but it may be his greatest legacy,” reads the Washington Post’s obituary. “It brought to an end a seven-decade experiment born of Utopian idealism that led to some of the bloodiest human suffering of the century. A costly global confrontation between East and West abruptly ceased to exist. The division of Europe fell away. The tense superpower hair-trigger nuclear standoff was eased, short of Armageddon.”

That all reads unobjectionably. The obit writer then claims, “None of it could have happened but for Mr. Gorbachev.”

As the paragraph preceding indicates, Mikhail Gorbachev drifted helplessly in the currents, despite massive efforts to swim against them, of the 1980s. He did not propel them. Ronald Reagan did.

So did Václav Havel. So did Lech Wałęsa. So did Andrei Sakharov. So did Pope John Paul II. So did Margaret Thatcher. So did Helmut Kohl.

“I trusted him then and I still do,” Gorbachev explained of Vladimir Lenin. The people living behind the Iron Curtain repudiated Lenin. Mikhail Gorbachev never did.

For an unrepentant commie, he could sure sell pizza: ‘Hail to Gorbachev:’ Old Pizza Hut commercial resurfaces after former Soviet leader dies.

IF THEY DON’T BOTHER TO SEND AN INFORMANT, ARE YOU EVEN DOING ANYTHING? “When the Monkees launched their inaugural tour in 1967, they played to throngs of screaming teenagers – and at least one FBI informant.”

JENIFER SEY: Holding power to account. We went from ‘if you want schools to open you are a racist murderer!’ to ‘what a terrible thing schools were closed for so long, such a shame that happened!’ We skipped a very important step.

Last week, on Friday August 26, at a Women’s Equality Day celebration in Albany, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said:

“We’re going to peel back every dynamic and let’s look at not just in the workplace, but what happened to women when the decisions were made to have all the kids go home and learn remotely. Wow. Wow. What a mistake that was. What a mistake that was.”

She’s right. It was detrimental for women in the workplace, not to mention the kids cast aside into remote schooling for a year and a half. The  learning loss and mental health impact on children is well documented at this point. Reality is now accepted. But where is the accountability?

Did she push back on these policies made by then Governor Cuomo? No.

She had this to say in May 2020:

“NY Governor Cuomo announces K-12, colleges will remain closed for the remainder of the academic year. Distance learning will continue with a decision on summer school expected at end of May. This is the best course of action to keep students, staff and NY families safe.”

Read the whole thing.

ANOTHER WIN FOR THE NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE: Colorado Landowner’s Takings Claim Against EPA Advances After Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss.

Today, Judge Armando Bonilla of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a decision from the bench in favor of NCLA’s client and denying a motion to dismiss in Todd Hennis v. The United States of America. Mr. Hennis filed a lawsuit against the United States for the physical taking of his property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) caused an environmental catastrophe that preceded and culminated in the invasion, occupation, taking, and confiscation of Mr. Hennis’s downstream property, an action for which he has been seeking redress ever since. This ruling means the U.S. Court of Federal Claims is allowing Mr. Hennis’s lawsuit to go forward to discovery, and ultimately to trial.

On August 5, 2015, EPA destroyed the portal to the Gold King Mine, located in Silverton, Colorado. Upon doing so, the agency released a toxic sludge of over 3,000,000 gallons of acid mine drainage and 880,000 pounds of heavy metals into the Animas River watershed. EPA was entirely unprepared to prevent or control the contaminated flows that gushed out once it breached the Gold King Mine portal. EPA eventually mobilized supplies and equipment onto Mr. Hennis’s downstream property to address the immediate after-effects of its actions. Ignoring Mr. Hennis’s explicit instructions and the scope of the access that was granted, EPA constructed a multimillion-dollar water treatment facility on his land. The U.S. Government has never paid Mr. Hennis any compensation for either flooding or appropriating his property for public use. It has instead squatted on his lands for seven years and counting.

Mr. Hennis did not voluntarily give EPA permission to construct and operate a water treatment facility on his property. EPA built the facility without his knowledge or consent, and it later coerced him into allowing access to his lands by threatening him with extortionate fines (over $59,000 per day) should he exercise his property rights. Mr. Hennis eventually refused to sign an access document, so EPA is currently occupying his property by operation of the agency’s own administrative order—and threatening him with fines if he challenges it.

The United States has incurred well over $44,500,000 in past response costs related to the environmental disaster that it created when it destroyed the Gold King Mine portal. It has estimated that it will incur an additional $20.7 million in future response costs at this site. None of those costs include compensating Mr. Hennis for the physical taking of his property. So long as EPA operates the water treatment facility, stores the waste from such operations, conducts other investigative and remedial activities, and otherwise accesses and occupies Mr. Hennis’s property, he cannot use or take any substantial steps toward development of it. By denying the U.S. Government’s motion to dismiss, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has finally given Mr. Hennis his day in court to challenge the EPA’s violation of his constitutional rights.

Reminder: I am on the NCLA’s Board of Advisors.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China plans to make aging Long March rocket reusable and non-toxic.

HOW IT STARTED: Biden approval rating jumps to its highest level in two months in Reuters-Ipsos poll.

—The Hill, August 10th.

How it’s going: Biden approval falls, holding near low end of his presidency, Reuters/Ipsos finds.

—Reuters, today.

Say, what was going on in the news, right around this time a year ago? Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin marks anniversary of withdrawal from Afghanistan.

ATTENTION DR. OZ: John Fetterman once signed pledge to ban fracking, which supports tens of thousands of PA jobs.