FROM RACONTEUR PRESS: Moggies In Space.

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Since the first feline walked into the first human dwelling and decided they liked the staff, Cats have been going where they want and doing what they do. Whether hunting, lounging or deigning to grace their companions with company, cats will continue to do what cats do.

Which is anything they want.

Join these 11 wonderful authors as they explore how and where cats boldly go.

OH, FOR THE LOVE OF BOB. ALL NURSERY RHYMES ARE DISTURBING:  ‘Childhood ruined’: The real meaning of iconic nursery rhyme revealed.

YOU DO REALIZE ALL THEIR NUMBERS ARE MADE UP, ANYWAY, RIGHT?  China Halts Publication of Youth Jobless Data Amid Soaring Unemployment Rate.

HOW WOULD THOSE PARENTS KNOW THEIR CHILDREN AREN’T TRANSGENDER IF THE SCHOOL TRANSITIONS THE KIDS WITHOUT TELLING THE PARENTS?  Parents Can’t Challenge US District’s Secret Transition Policy Because Their Children Aren’t Transgender: Court.

Oooh. Shades of “you can’t contest possibly fraudulent election results, because you haven’t suffered harm from them yet.” Which flipped to “too late, he’s been sworn in.”  They only have one play book.

How’s about we keep government at all levels off our lives and families as much as possible? If it ain’t specifically enumerated in the constitution, they can whistle for it? How about that?

THAT ‘LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL’ IS AN ONCOMING TRAIN, JANET:  US Economy ‘On the Right Track,’ Yellen Says on 1-Year Anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act.

THE QUESTION IS NOT IF IT’S WORKING. THE QUESTIONS ARE WHAT SYSTEM? WHAT IS IT WORKING ON? AND FOR WHOM?  Trump Indictments Are ‘Persecution,’ Says Ramaswamy, as Clinton Assures ‘System Is Working’.

Because it sure ain’t an American system of impartial justice.

IT’S A VERY GOOD THING NO AMAZON PACKAGE IS EVER RIDICULOUS LATE OR MISDELIVERED, RIGHT?  Amazon Pharmacy to offer insulin, diabetes drugs for as little as $35 a month.

HELLO GLOBAL COOLING:  Volcano in Italy erupts, spewing a fountain of lava into the air.

Idiots will hit the airwaves and all media explaining how it’s man made and the only cure is socialism… oh probably next week.

LET ME COUNT THE WAYS:  The trouble with battery-operated cars.

THE LEFT TURNED ON FREE SPEECH WHEN IT STOPPED HAVING ANYTHING TO PROMISE THAT ANYONE BELIEVED IN. AROUND THE FALL OF THE USSR:  How the parties have flipped on free speech. [VIDEO]

FASCISM BY ANY OTHER NAME:  6 Takeaways From The Biden Admin’s Court Quest To Keep Censoring Americans Online.

CASE IN POINT:  More of why trust in institutions is a thing of the past.

YOU KNOW, IF THEY DIDN’T INSIST ON LYING TO US ALL THE TIME, DENYING WHAT WE KNOW AND SEE, PERHAPS THERE WOULD BE LESS ROOM FOR CONSPIRACY THEORIES?  Maui wildfires spark conspiracy theories about space-lasers, Oprah land grabs, and suspicious trees.

Even insane ones. And yes, this one sounds insane, but after the last three years of Clownworld, who can blame those who believe in it?

WHAT ELSE S THE TALKING MOP DOING THAT BELONGS TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH?  ‘Historic’ Biden Spox Makes Surprising Announcement.

NO. HE REALLY DOESN’T CARE:  Biden’s Response to Question About the Maui Fire Was Even Worse Than We Initially Thought.

I FOUND OUT RECENTLY OUR CHURCH’S PANTRY HAS BEEN DISPENSING THREE TIMES WHAT IT WAS LAST YEAR. MOSTLY TO WORKING, MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES:  Middle Class Meltdown: Thanks To The Reckless Policies Of Our Leaders, ‘Average’ Americans Are In Huge Trouble.

BEING HIDDEN BEHIND THIN AND UNCONVINCING FAKE NUMBERS. DUH:  Rickards: Where’s The Darn Recession?

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: It’s democracy in the dark without Nashville shooter manifesto’s release.

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the (sometimes ironic) slogan of The Washington Post.

But it’s also a fair description of what’s happening in Tennessee, as the state Legislature is being called to a special session even as local and federal officials withhold information that might be critical to its decision-making.

Gov. Bill Lee ordered the special session to begin Aug. 21 in response to a March 27 mass shooting in which three adults and three children at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, were killed.

The Nashville Tennessean article refers only to “a shooter.”

The shooter was a female-to-male transgender shooter named Audrey Hale, aged 28, who left a manifesto before being killed by police. . . .

Local and federal authorities with access to the manifesto have refused to make its contents public.

Though Hale sent an Instagram message to a friend just before the shooting, saying, “One day this will make more sense. I’ve left more than enough evidence behind,” we haven’t seen that evidence.

Vivek Ramaswamy, running third in the GOP presidential primary, recently called for the manifesto’s release. He characterizes the government position as “stonewalled silence.”

Well, I generally believe that when government officials don’t want us to know something, it’s because they fear we would think or act in ways they wouldn’t like if we knew it.

I think that here, too.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s gone with the wind.

ANTARCTICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Immediately Leave Their Desk Job If Asked To Embark Upon A Trans-Antarctic Expedition On A Big Wooden Ship.

U.S. — A new study has found that 100% of men would immediately leave their desk jobs if a daring explorer showed up at their place of work and said, “My lad, I am in need of bold adventurers to join me on my tall wooden ship as I attempt to traverse the entire continent of Antarctica.”

The survey found that every single actual man on the planet would immediately log out of Slack, Trello, Zoom, and countless other productivity and connectivity apps, pack their things, and join the dangerous and deadly voyage without a second thought.

Ernest Shackleton, call your office! (Though at the risk of a being a killjoy: Shackleton Probably Never Took Out an Ad Seeking Men for a Hazardous Journey.)

Also, I’d rather traverse the arctic in a Toyota pickup:

OPERATION POKE THE BEAR: So what’s with all the indictments of Trump?

In addition to every danger just listed above, it is also a strategic dialectical operation designed to poke the bear into reacting. They didn’t get a big MAGA / hillbilly / (Christian) conservative reaction from the drag queens, so they’ll get it by going after Trump.

If they can provoke the American people, or a contingent of them, into believing this is a truly lost-cause, revolutionary moment, they can provoke a second J6-style reaction (watch who in Trump’s camp/orbit calls for this too) that reifies the J6 narrative and demands action.

I’ll be accused (watch who does it! LOL) of telling people to stand by and do nothing while our system is destroyed by pointing out this operation too. Just watch. Provocateurs everywhere, on both sides. I’m not calling for inaction but for judicious action, so, still action.

It is incumbent upon us to make it the general consensus of the movement/population (or whatever is relevant) that these dangerous provocations are not acceptable AND understood for what they are as provocations, the bait of which we will not take. That’s how they’re beaten.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: MSNBC running fear porn for their far left viewers:

WHITE HOUSE CLOWN SHOW CONTINUES:

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— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) August 15, 2023

More here.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Intuitive Machines sets mid-November launch date for first lunar lander.

GREAT MOMENTS IN GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Cops raid small Kansas newspaper in a disturbing attack on the free press.

Well, this is alarming. Local police recently raided a small Kansas newspaper, the Marion-County Ledger, in an incident that’s prompting warnings from free speech watchdogs.

On Friday, police raided the newspaper’s office, collecting computers, cellphones, and other data. They also raided the home of the paper’s 98-year-old co-founder, Joan Meyer, who was placed under tremendous stress and then died just a day later. (Her family suspects a connection between the stress and her death, but whether the two are directly related is currently unknown).

The Marion County Police Department said their raid was justified as part of an investigation into whether the paper had illegally obtained a document in its reporting on a local business owner. But to engage in this kind of raid as part of this kind of investigation is extraordinarily unusual, according to the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

Read the whole thing.

SOROS-BACKED CALIF. DA FACING RECALL, CHARGES OF NEPOTISM:

The process to recall a progressive, George Soros-backed district attorney in Alameda County, California, became official Tuesday amid new accusations that Pamela Price hired her boyfriend — without disclosing the relationship — to a six-figure position.

Price took $130,000 from Soros in a failed run to the DA’s office in 2018. She narrowly won election to become DA last year, but now a failed seven-month tenure that features a vicious rise in crime, especially in Oakland, has a group poised to remove her as DA.

“Save Alameda for Everyone” (SAFE) on Tuesday submitted 127 signatures to officially file a notice of intent with the county to recall Price, who ran on a platform to transform the justice system, which also goes by the progressive tenet of soft on crime.

“As crime spirals out of control on Alameda County streets, DA Price reduces sentencing for criminals and even refuses to charge violent felons with crimes,” SAFE said in a statement on Tuesday.

Homicides in Oakland, the county’s largest city, are up 80% vs. pre-pandemic numbers, according to the Oakland Police Department, and violent crime is up 15% year over year under Price.

Faster, please. As Tom Cotton, the owner of the New York Times, wrote at the end of 2021: Recall, Remove and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.