WELL, IF YOU CAN’T TRUST MEXICAN “EXPERTS,” WHO CAN YOU TRUST? *  UFO expert displays supposed ‘non-human’ alien corpses in Mexico’s Congress: ‘We are not alone’.

*Anyone. i mean literally anyone. Our “experts” might be more reliable. Heck, Hillary Clinton and the thing inside Biden’s head might** be more reliable.
** Notice, please, I said “might.”

OUCH: Audience Cheers As Apple Unveils First Carbon-Neutral Uyghur Slave Camp.

HEY MAN, NICE SHOT: Starlink Not Needed: Ukraine Hits Two Russian Warships with Missile Strike. “That brings me to the one important bit of news you won’t read in many other places. For all the talk about sending Ukraine more modern tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and even jets, what they need just as badly — if not more so — is mine-clearing equipment. Clearing mines isn’t nearly as sexy as driving a modern Abrams tank or flying an F-16 Falcon, but forgetting the unsexy stuff loses battles and even wars.”

AT LEAST SHE’S NOT MARRIED TO HER BROTHER… PROBABLY:  AOC lists fiancé as her ‘spouse’ on House forms — but office says she’s not married in likely breach of ethics rules.

I WAS RELIABLY INFORMED THE EARTH IS BURNING UP AND ICE IS A DISTANT MEMORY:  Luxury cruise ship charging $33K per person stranded in freezing Arctic.

YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD REFRESH HIS MEMORY? DISBAND THE FBI. SALT THE EARTH:  FBI official can’t recall, refuses to answer questions over Hunter Biden whistleblower cover-up claims.

WHENEVER GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REGULATE ANYTHING, IT’S ALWAYS WRONG:  Chuck Schumer urges bipartisan AI policy at summit with Musk, Zuckerberg: ‘Congress must play a role’.

On the other hand, the possibilities for graft and patronage are immense, so of course congress wants to play a role.

OH. I SEE IT. OTHERS SEE IT. FIXING IT IS MORE DIFFICULT:  A big problem is brewing and no one seems to see it.

OLD STORY. THIS IS ONE OF THE LEFT’S APPROVED HATREDS:  University reportedly retaliated against student who reported anti-semitic professor.

THE NEW SCREECH FROM THE LEFT SEEMS TO BE “CONSPIRACY THEORY”:  Conspiring.

It might make less sense than “racism”.

KNOWLEDGE YOU CAN USE:  The Seventh Amendment.

KNOWING AS WE KNOW THE PROBLEMS WITH THESE, PARTICULARLY IN THE YOUNG, AND THAT IN FACT, THE YOUNG ARE AT NO RISK OF COVID, THE TERM “GENOCIDE” COMES TO MIND:  The CDC Pushing COVID Vaccines for Those as Young as 6 Months for Cold Season.

Do not, under any circumstances put things into your kids where the companies producing them have been given waivers of liability for 100 years. Particularly to protect them from a largely imaginary peril. Remember, increasingly, the way to survive is to disobey authorities.

CHUCKIE MIGHT WANT TO CONTEMPLATE THE EVIDENCE. AND ALSO WHAT TIME IT IS: Chuck Schumer Calls Impeachment Inquiry of Biden a Time and Money Wasting ‘Witch Hunt’.

Consulting his time piece may show him it is “Americans are tired of this sh*t o’clock.” It is a dangerous time. Ignore it at your own risk.

GOVERNMENTS SEEM TO EXCELL AT OPPRESSING AND KILLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE:  Whistleblower: CIA Tried to Bribe Analysts to Cover Up COVID Lab Leak Findings.

PIERRE DELECTO, WE KNEW YOU ALL TOO WELL:  Mitt Romney Not Running for Reelection in 2024: ‘New Generation of Leaders’.

NOW THAT’S A DOG WHISTLE, TO THEIR LAPDOGS IN THE MEDIA:  White House Tells Media Outlets to ‘Ramp Up Their Scrutiny’ of House GOP’s Biden Impeachment Inquiry.

I ALREADY KNEW THAT, BUT OKAY: Glenn Greenwald wants you to listen for yourself what a fascist Rachel Maddow is.

AN END TO LAWLESS IMMIGRATION? Federal Judge Again Rules DACA Is Illegal. “A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday rejected the Biden administration’s latest effort to save a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults from deportation, saying that it remained unlawful even after recent changes. The judge, Andrew S. Hanen of the Federal District Court in Houston, maintained that President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, by executive action in 2012. . . . The government is almost certain to appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, experts said, and the case is likely to end up in the Supreme Court.”

TRUTH:

The biggest source of "man-made climate catastrophe" isn't coal; it's misgovernment, war and central planning gone wrong. Grain disruptions in Ukraine, deforestation in Haiti, flooding in Libya are fundamentally no different from ruining your car by racing it without engine oil.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 13, 2023

OPEN THREAD: It’s there for you.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Audience Cheers As Apple Unveils First Carbon-Neutral Uyghur Slave Camp.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Kuiper launch companies say they can meet Amazon’s schedule.

THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: We Are Repaganizing.

Uneasy agnosticism on both abortion and infanticide has probably been the norm in Christian societies, even during periods when the church was far more powerful than it is today. Laura Gowing, for instance, writes of the reluctance of witnesses and neighbors to condemn women suspected of infanticide in seventeenth-century England: instead, they would present the accused as “confused and anxious, heartbroken and manipulated by her fear of naming the father.” Although a 1624 statute demanded that women found guilty of infanticide be hanged, courts were unlikely to hand down such a sentence. This reluctance persists still, as Helen Dale writes:

An echo of humanity’s infanticidal past is still found in jury rooms throughout the common law world: the reason we do not refer to infant-killing as “murder” is because in 1922, it was reclassified and re-named with passage of the Infanticide Act. This was done because juries refused to convict—even before 1920, when they were all male and the Crown case was overwhelming—and had been refusing to convict for some time. The only crime for which fewer convictions were recorded was abortion. In Scotland, there hadn’t been a successful abortion prosecution for 50 years. To this day, infanticide convictions are astonishingly rare.

“Juries,” as Helen put it to me, “are pagan.” Increasingly, we all are.

In 1939 T. S. Eliot gave a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge in which he described a fork in the road. Western Civilization might continue along the Christian path, he predicted, or it might adopt “modern paganism.” Eliot, a Christian convert, hoped for the former, but he feared that we were already hell-bent on the latter.

Eliot’s binary is the basis of a 2018 book by the legal historian Steven Smith titled Pagans and Christians in the City. One might reasonably ask why our choices should be limited to these two options, to be pagans or to be Christians. If we fully abandon Christianity, so say the secular reformers, shouldn’t that clear the way for some newer and better guiding philosophy?

No, says Smith, because paganism never really went away, which makes its return all the easier. Forget the account of history offered in, for instance, Gustave Doré’s painting The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism, in which Christ and his sword-wielding angels descend from the sky and scatter the old gods. Even after the Christian emperors began to persecute pagans in earnest, Smith argues,

Paganism lingered on both in the countryside and in enclaves like Athens for decades, even centuries. . . . paganism endured as a powerful, evocative, shaping force in the historical memory and imagination of the West. It persisted both in a positive form—in wistful memories of (and attempts to recapture) the beauty and freedom that had ostensibly been lost with the suppression of paganism—and in the more negative form of a lingering anger or resentment toward the force that had supposedly defeated and suppressed it—namely, Christianity.

Smith and Eliot do not define paganism narrowly as an interest in entrails or in praying to Jupiter. Rather, they understand it as a fundamentally different outlook on the world, and on the sacred.

Read the whole thing. As G.K. Chesterton never actually wrote, “When a man ceases to believe in God, it’s not that he believes in nothing, it’s that he’ll believe in anything.

WHEN SPINNING BECOMES LYING:

The Times purports to explain:

Releasing damaging information about candidates of the opposing party into the heat of a campaign is an age-old political practice, but the sensational nature of the disclosure of sex tapes — reportedly featuring [Susanna] Gibson and her husband, a lawyer — is highly unusual.

Most of the rest of the article is about whether Republicans committed a crime by cluing voters into what Ms. Gibson was doing on Chaturbate.

It is true that “[r]eleasing damaging information about candidates of the opposing party…is an age-old political practice.” But the Times’s characterization of “releasing damaging information” presumes that Gibson was entitled to engage in public sex for money without the fact becoming known to voters. In fact, the “release” of damaging information was done by Gibson when she uploaded her videos (there were more than a dozen) to Chaturbate, to be watched by the public. And, yes, this situation is “highly unusual.” It is unusual because most politicians do not use porn sites to engage in sex acts for money.

Matt Walsh sums up Gibson’s defense: Dem Candidate Claims It’s A ‘Sex Crime’ To Talk About The Fact That She’s A Porn Star.

WITHIN HOURS OF RECEIVING WH LETTER, CNN PUBLISHES BOGUS FACT-CHECK OF HOUSE INQUIRY.

CNN fact-checked the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Wednesday just hours after the White House asked news executives to up the scrutiny on Republicans. CNN’s fact-checking team admitted most of the claims were true but downplayed each allegation.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday Republicans would move forward with an impeachment inquiry, saying he believes there is enough evidence stemming from both the House Judiciary and Oversight committees to move forward.

The White House Counsel’s Office spokesperson Ian Sam sent a letter to news executives Wednesday saying “it’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.” The letter reportedly said the inquiry should “set off alarm bells for news organizations.”

Apparently it worked at CNN, because they issued an entire report fact-checking the inquiry in which they state most of the claims are true before trying to downplay them.

This is CNN:

Unproven? Your fact check literally admits everything McCarthy said was true. https://t.co/gOFBzAPbaB pic.twitter.com/q0OS4Fd4Fd

— Mike Bastasch (@MikeBastasch) September 13, 2023