AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Besides COVID, Here Are 43 Other Things Democrats Are Requesting Amnesty On.

ZOOM: Tested: 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with Z07 Package Is the Performance Pinnacle.

CHANGE? White Suburban Women Flocking Back to the GOP in Huge Numbers.

READER FAVORITE: Instant Read Meat Thermometer. #CommissionEarned

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Why you do NOT need to shower each morning… or ever again! Hygiene expert insists washing yourself is ‘really unimportant’ (just be prepared to stink!)

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Galactic Empire Requests Amnesty For Anyone Who May Have Gotten Carried Away And Blown Up A Planet.

BLOODLINES: Ancient DNA analysis sheds light on the early peopling of South America.

GOT WOKE, WENT BROKE: Dan Snyder Hires Bank Of America To Sell Washington Commanders.

MEGAN FOX: Alex Stein Running Write-In Campaign for Dallas Family Court Judgeship Against Trans Activist Mary Brown. “Alex Stein, the comedian made famous by trolling board meetings and politicians all over the country, is running a write-in campaign to take the seat of Judge Mary Brown in the 301st family court district of Dallas.”

HMM. Afternoon or evening physical activity is linked to reduced insulin resistance, better control of blood sugar.

DON’T COUNT THOSE CHICKENS JUST YET: Kathy Hochul learns from Terry McAuliffe how to lose a blue state.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Reviewer Exposes EV Truck’s ‘Kryptonite’ After Trip Takes 3 Hours Longer Than It Should’ve.

[Henry] Payne, an auto critic for the Detroit News, set out to travel from Detroit to Charlevoix, Michigan. His trip was to be around 280 miles, and he was driving a new 2022 F-250 Lightning EV.

Payne wrote that he charged the truck to a full 100 percent charge ahead of the trip, and that the manufacturer claimed that a full charge should have allowed him to travel the whole distance without another charge.

But it wasn’t even close.

Payne wrote that as he sat at his third charging station of the day, another driver asked what sort of mileage he was getting on his roughly $93,000 EV truck.

“I’m getting about 170 miles of range on this trip up I-75,” he told the other driver. “How about you?”

The man replied, “I’ve got the turbo-6 cylinder. I’m getting 600 miles and 22 mpg. I don’t think I’ll ever get one of those electrics.”

At the bottom of his tale of woe, Payne reeled off the F-150 Lightning’s statistics, which included that it was supposed to have a 320-mile travel range on a full charge. But Payne only got about 170 miles down the road before he had to find a charger.

Read the whole thing, which is a preview of California’s future. Speaking of which:

Flashback: How It Started: California will ban sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

—NPR, August 25th.

How it’s going: Californians are urged to avoid charging electric vehicles, days after state announced ban of new sales of gas-powered cars by 2035.

—The Blaze, August 31th.

In accordance with the prophecy:

(Via Small Dead Animals’ recurring “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars” series.)

SPACE: NASA’s InSight spacecraft on Mars nears final days.

JUST NBC THE PRO-CHINA PROPAGANDA! Video: CNBC’s Jim Cramer Goes On Bizarre Pro-China COVID Lockdown, Vaccine Propaganda Rant, While Pfizer’s logo is proudly displayed behind him.

Financial analyst Jim Cramer appeared to confuse the hell out of his CNBC co-hosts Tuesday by going on a bizarre rant about Chinese COVID lockdown and vaccine propaganda being a good thing.

The context for the strange outburst is that news of China potentially easing COVID restrictions and re-opening has seen improvements in the stock market.

China’s change in direction after months of brutal lockdowns is reportedly to be headed up by the nation’s chief propagandist.

And that’s where Cramer came in to sell the ‘good side’ of propaganda, noting that we only think of propaganda being bad because of “regimes we didn’t really appreciate.”

Cramer further stated that he doesn’t see any problem with suddenly locking people down without warning, even in giant theme parks, reasoning that he was able to get his own COVID test results back within a day.

“Let’s just go back over, I think chief propagandist, I call that person a dissembler, so to speak. But they have a narrative in which basically you can conquer COVID by just being locked down, and this has to change the narrative,” Cramer continued.

He then argued that China stealing and back engineering Pfizer’s vaccine is also a good thing.

“What is even better is homegrown mRNA, which I’m told they managed to get the intellectual property, stole it, which is good, and I say good because it’s better to have mRNA than not,” Cramer said.

Evergreen:

As Jim Geraghty wrote in October of 2019, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.

MANY THINGS DON’T: A Detail in the Paul Pelosi Attack Story Makes No Sense.

MICROBIOME NEWS: COVID-19 infection damages gut microbiome, study shows.

MAYBE IT’LL HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME AS THE RAILROAD STRIKE: Delta Pilots to Management: ‘We Will Strike If Necessary’: Nearly 15,000 Delta Air Lines pilots have voted to authorize a strike after contract negotiations stalled.

LAUGHING WOLF ON PUTIN’S Most Interesting Speech.

Again, note what he didn’t say in the speech. There was effectively no bluff, no threats, even almost an avoidance of direct talk of the war. It was not truly brought up until the Q&A. Now that got interesting, and again much of this was aimed internal, not external (save to useful idiots). The idea that Vladimir and Russia have NEVER threatened use, only hinted, was part of a well-laid campaign. Note how he brought up the threats from the British, which is going to play well in some quarters. The Slavophile dislike of the Brits showed through, just as it has throughout the invasion. Worth noting that they’ve gone after Great Britain more than they have the U.S. by a good margin. Leaving aside the hapless Truss, Vladimir was almost gentle in pointing out the threats of Biden. Which, given that the demented meat puppet and his incompetent Regency have chewed their shoes with their feet still in them almost continuously, is something.

Not sure what it says that I laughed along with Vladimir at the Khruschev comparison, but again note what wasn’t said along with what was said. No direct threats, though he invited all to read Russian doctrine on nukes. An emphasis on the threats incoming. The dirty bomb and nuclear plant discussions were interesting. Much wasn’t said, and how it wasn’t said was interesting indeed.

This is when smart Western leadership would prepare Sun Tzu’s golden bridge for Putin, but the West doesn’t have any smart leadership.

IN RESPONSE TO NANCY PELOSI: Why I Am Voting Republican. “With less than a week until the 2022 midterm elections, and Democrats reeling from the shellacking they are expected to get, I read a news article that stated you are wondering just how ‘anyone could vote for these people’ (meaning, Republicans). Allow me to answer what I presume was a merely rhetorical question. . . . We’re voting Republican because Democrats control every major c