FROM DAVE FREER.… ER, I MEAN ALIDA LEACROFT:  Georgina.

#CommissionEarned

April, 1836: Her missionary parents dead, Georgina Ross comes back to an unfamiliar England that she had left as a child. Alone and impoverished, she seeks shelter with her estranged grandfather, on his estate in rural Hampshire… Except it is not a peaceful refuge. She finds someone has attempted to murder her grandfather. He has suffered a head injury which has affected his memory, and left him unable to identify his attacker. Georgina becomes entangled with not only arson and robbery, but also the second son of the local squire, and a debonair, fashionable cousin she never knew she had. Struggling through uncertainty and present danger, Georgina must find her way, and her love.

I was one of his beta readers, and it is an excellent book. Sure, Romance, but honestly, just as much mystery. Go and buy. You won’t regret it.

POLITICS IS DOWNSTREAM FROM CULTURE: John Hinderaker: Money Talks, In Spanish. George Soros is buying up conservative Spanish speaking media. “Some years ago, Glenn Reynolds proposed that the Koch brothers–major funders of conservative politicians and causes at that time–should, instead of supporting politicians, buy up all of the women’s magazines and tilt them to the right. That was a great idea. It would have had a lot more impact than pouring more millions into the coffers of GOP consultants. The Left doesn’t have to buy up newspapers or magazines because it already controls virtually all of them. But give them credit, liberals do understand where real power comes from.”

SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE TOLD HIM BY BEING MY FRIEND HE’D ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE RODENT LIBERATION FRONT:  Bleep The RLF!

(My original RLF issues: Le Jour Du Squirrel.)

ABOLISH THE AGENCY. SALT THE EARTH:  Today’s blacklisted American: The FBI’s purge of conservatives forces one agent to sue.

Create something different to do what needs to be done which is a fraction of what they’re actually doing. Also do not hire from the same poisoned academic pools.

AT LEAST HE’S PUSHING BACK:  North Carolina teacher fired for stating harsh truth.

REPRESSING YOU:  Your tax dollars at work.

ONLY IF WE’RE VERY LUCKY:  Are Universities Doomed?

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO:  Omnibus Bill’s Monstrous Linkage of “Family Planning” to “Biodiversity”.

They really hate humans.

REMEMBER AND WORK TO REMOVE THEM IN PRIMARIES:  18 Senate Republicans Vote for $1.85 Trillion Omnibus Bill.

UNFORTUNATELY NOT ALL OF THEM:  Three DEI Staffers Resign From Princeton University, Accusing School of No Support.

CRIES:  California pol Scott Weiner praises Oregon and Colorado as models on drug policy.

I CONTINUE THE DEEP DIVE ON ALL THE BROKEN THINGS:  Kids These Days – Riding the Catastrophic Change Wave, Part II.

Bring scuba gear.

SHE’S NOT WRONG:  What Eddie Fisher Said.

THEY HAVE A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED MENTAL DYSFUNCTION THAT AMOUNTS TO BELIEVING THEY’RE LIVING IN A GIANT GAME OF SIMON SAYS:  The Impaired Vision of World Remakers.

OH, YEAH, I MEAN TO LINK THIS WAY BACK, BUT LIGHT HAS BEEN FRAUGHT:  Trump’s Announcement.

IF YOU HAVE A VERY DARK SENSE OF HUMOR, I GUESS?  Three New Hilarious Papers On The Coronadoom Vaccine.

HEY, i NEED TIME TRAVELS TO RETROACTIVELY CASTRATE CASTRO:  Trudeau gov’t uses cringe video to let you know Santa is fully jabbed and boosted.

Castrate Fidel, free Canada.

JEFF GOLDSTEIN: When Gender Theorists Attack: There is coming a profound change in identity affirmation politics. Prepare yourself to beat it off with an unlubed stick.

Related: Dismissed: Detransitioners “too rare” to warrant attention. “Allowing McKinnon to have his team’s work showcased in a thoughtful piece and then the Reuters reporters – to their great credit – actually doing journalism, researching and interviewing both sides, makes for compelling reading. They may not have realized what they published.”

HAPPY HANUKAH:

IDENTITY POLITICS MAKING LEFTISTS BIG MAD OVER SMURFS: The Avatar sequel is getting heat from some Indigenous people.

More than a decade after sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar” hit theaters, James Cameron is back with a sequel that once again takes audiences into the lush world of Pandora. But some Indigenous viewers aren’t particularly interested in returning to it.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” and its director are facing fresh scrutiny from Native audiences, some of whom have criticized the franchise for its “White savior” narrative, use of stereotypes and inadequate representation of Indigenous people.

Yuè Begay, a Navajo artist and activist, called for a boycott of the film in a tweet that’s since received more than 47,000 likes, while Autumn Asher Blackdeer, a scholar from the Southern Cheyenne Nation, compiled a widely shared list of Indigenous-led sci-fi films for viewers to watch instead. Countless others have also weighed in with their own complaints, with some – including Begay – calling out remarks made by Cameron in earlier interviews.

The “Avatar” franchise isn’t subtle in its anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and environmentalist themes – Cameron has said as much, previously referring to the first film as “a science fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period.”

But despite the director’s intentions, critics of “Avatar” feel the films fall short in their execution.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

Earlier: James Cameron Learns Hard Lesson – You’re Never Woke Enough.

OPEN THREAD: Live your best life.

GIRL GETS TRAPPED IN CLAW MACHINE AFTER TRYING TO STEAL TEDDY BEARS:

A four-year-old girl’s plan to pilfer teddy bears from a claw machine backfired horribly after she ended up trapped inside the crane contraption.

“My partner was shocked but I just started laughing,” her mother Melanie Pike told Channel 7 News of the im-prize-onment, which occurred while she was with her family at a pub in Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia.

Her daughter Poppy attempted to nab some teddy bears from a claw machine on a dare from her twin sister. However, the tot’s attempted toy heist went sideways after she infiltrated an opening in the glass box like a pee-wee jewel thief and couldn’t figure out how to escape.

“The girls were playing outside and the next minute my twin daughters ran inside and said ‘mum, Poppy’s stuck in the vending machine,’” recounted Pike, who, luckily for social media gawkers, filmed her daughter’s impromptu jail sentence.

Live look inside the machine:

PORKULUS II, FISCAL BOOGALOO: Here are the 18 Republican senators who voted for the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China sets out clear and independent long-term vision for space.

NFL ‘SUNDAY TICKET’ HEADED TO YOUTUBE BEGINNING NEXT SEASON: “It is the second time in less than two years that the NFL has partnered with a streaming service to air games. The league’s 11-year contract with Amazon Prime Video for Thursday night games started this season.”