ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON NOT LIVING UP TO PREDICTIONS: We’ve reached the end of a bizarre Atlantic hurricane season.
This is, of course, evidence of climate change. So would be the presence of many storms. Or none!
Archive for 2022
November 29, 2022
YES, THERE ARE ACTUALLY FLYING SNAKES: This came as a shock to me to discover, as I am sure it will be for some number of Instapunditeers. The Apologetics Press’ Kyle Butts explains in this video on HillFaith. I am puzzled how Natural Selection could account for these creatures.
GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T DO JOURNALISM HERE — THIS IS NBC NEWS! NBC’s Mystery of the Week: Where in the world is Miguel Almaguer after Pelosi-report retraction?
AARON RODGERS, 9/11 TRUTHER? Former NFL QB Claims Aaron Rodgers Pushed 9/11 Conspiracy Theories: He Told Me I ‘Should Read Up’ on Them.
If Rodgers is let go by Green Bay after the season, he could always end his career in Seattle: Pete Carroll Isn’t Shying Away from His 9/11-Truther Reputation.
JULIETTE OCHIENG: The Dahomean: Prologue.
WHEN SOMEONE DIES AS A RESULT OF YOUR FELONY, THAT’S NORMAL: Surviving Home Invaders May Be Charged with Murder After Resident Shot and Killed One of Them in Self-Defense.
JIM TREACHER: Is Apple Helping the CCP Stifle Dissent?
Here’s what was in the latest iPhone update, according to Zachary M. Seward of Quartz:
Hidden in the update was a change that only applies to iPhones sold in mainland China: AirDrop can only be set to receive messages from everyone for 10 minutes, before switching off. There’s no longer a way to keep the “everyone” setting on permanently on Chinese iPhones. The change, first noticed by Chinese readers of 9to5Mac, doesn’t apply anywhere else.
In other words, Chinese iPhone users can’t do or say anything without the CCP knowing about it. Dissent can be quashed before it even starts. The Chinese people can be kept under the CCP’s thumb. And Apple is helping.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk asks, “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?”
Yes. Next question?
THE LEFT WILL TRY TO DESTROY WHAT THEY CAN’T CONTROL: Leftists Crow About Chasing 50 Major Advertisers Off Twitter. “By opening Twitter up to diverse points of view, Musk has rendered it ‘brand unsafe,’ meaning the platform is no longer fit for the precious advertisements of companies that wish to remain in good standing at the Kool Kids Klub.”
“I FOUND OUT TODAY THAT I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO VOTE ‘AYE’ OR I WILL BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH A FELONY.” To certify an Arizona county’s vote total. Again, we have a joke of an election system because people in power want it that way. They don’t care what this does to the actual or perceived legitimacy of elections, even though it’s only the perceived legitimacy of elections that separates us from full Mad Max.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Benefits of ‘bloodless medicine’ boost surgery without transfusions.
SURE WOULD BE NICE IF THAT DEVELOPMENT SPENDING AND OIL OUTPUT INCREASES WERE HAPPENING HERE: UAE Plans $150 Billion Spending Spree To Boost Oil Output To 5MM Barrels By 2027.
THE CORNER XI HAS PAINTED HIMSELF INTO: Ending China’s zero-covid policy could unleash chaos: But keeping it ensures a grim economic outlook for 2023.
Not all businesses have struggled through China’s zero-covid era. Andon Health, a Shenzhen-listed company that makes covid tests and medical devices, for example, posted a 32,000% increase in net profits in the third quarter of the year, compared with the same period in 2021, as it cranked out testing devices for China and America. The 35 largest companies producing covid-19 tests raked in some 150bn yuan ($21bn) in revenues in the first half of 2022, minting a new generation of pandemic tycoons.
But outside China’s covid-industrial complex, the economy is suffering. Lockdowns and onerous restrictions on movement have stunted consumer confidence and economic growth. Over the past fortnight they have inspired protests across the country, with tensions escalating over the weekend. Young people on the streets of Shanghai on November 27th rejected the prospect of endless testing and lockdowns, chanting: “We don’t want covid tests; we want freedom.”
Xi: Best I can do is more lockdowns.
SURE, BOSTON’S ALWAYS LOVED THE KING OF ENGLAND: Dysfunctional Royal Family Head to Boston to Restore Their Image.
A friend writes: “Interesting the Royals seem to have decided, if they’re gonna make it, they have to make it in America.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Don’t Be Fooled — Antifa Is America’s Nazis.
LET’S: Let’s Talk About Biden Corruption.
It was back in September 2019 that there sprang into the news the story of Hunter Biden and his million-dollar-per-year gig as a board member for Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter’s gig began in April 2014 — shortly after his dad Joe, then sitting VP, took on the role of “point man” as to U.S. policy toward Ukraine. The gig then ran until some time in 2017 — shortly after Joe had left office. It just happened that Burisma had gotten the lion’s share of Ukraine oil and gas lease deals under ousted (and Russia-aligned) President Viktor Yanukovich, and had strong reason to fear prosecution under a new Ukrainian President and chief prosecutor. In early 2016 VP Joe Biden got the new prosecutor fired, and later was caught on tape bragging about it.
Essentially the entire story about these events in the state media since 2019 has been the story of minimization and/or suppression of the facts and their significance. The suppression went to a whole new level a year later, in October 2020, when the New York Post broke the story of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that had been abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware. This was now just a few weeks before the 2020 election, with Joe Biden the Democratic candidate for President. The laptop contained extensive emails and other documents detailing Hunter’s business dealings in places where his father had major influence on U.S. foreign policy, including not just Ukraine, but also China, Kazakhstan, and other countries, as well as father Joe’s involvement in same.
Promptly, some 50 former U.S. intelligence officials issued a letter stating that the laptop had all the “earmarks” of “a Russian information operation.” The state media adopted that line as gospel. Most shamefully, all of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (Google) explicitly suppressed the story by either banning any information about it or minimizing its distribution on their platforms.
Well, perhaps the time has finally come when this story can be discussed.
Read the whole thing, and remember: “The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.”
READER FAVORITE: iRobot Roomba i3+ EVO (3550) Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum. #CommissionEarned
WAIT, WHAT? Legal Gun Purchases = Slavery?
BLUE STATE BLUES: California food stamp costs reach record highs.
CHAOS UMPIRE SITS: How Joe Biden caused the diesel supply crisis he is complaining about.
IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY HUMAN SOCIETY IN HISTORY THIS WOULD BE A CONSIDERED BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS: Walker: Young people haven’t earned the right to change the country. Young people, by definition, haven’t seen much and don’t know much. The idea that this gives them special insight would have been regarded as ludicrous until about the time I was born.
The cult of youth was engineered by people who wanted to sell ideas that only naive and gullible folks would accept. Encouraging young people not to listen to what people with more experience told them was an isolation tool, such as are employed by cults.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Elon Musk Bought Twitter, Now the Left Will Destroy Them Both. “Onetime Democrat voter Elon Musk made the Left’s naughty list, and now they’re out to get him with everything they’ve got.”
- Thank you for explaining the magpie pronoun set
- DOCTOR Jill Biden lets the dirty truth slip out
- I just wrote Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign slogan and he’ll hate it because it’s true
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
SCIENCE IS REAL: ‘Genderbread person’ makes appearance in nursing course.