HE SOUNDS HIGHLY QUALIFIED … FOR A DEM: Adeel Mirza, NY Dem running for DA, allegedly sexually harassed subordinate, told her ‘I know you’re not white’: lawsuit.
Archive for 2024
January 11, 2024
GOOD. MY TWENTY YEAR OLD DISHWASHER IS MORE USEFUL THAN ANYONE IN THE BIDEN JUNTA: Biden Suffers Major Court Defeat in His War Against Appliances.
I GUESS WANTING TO SURVIVE AND LIVE IS NOW FAR RIGHT WING: German Farmer Protests Painted as “Far Right” Activism by Out-of-Touch Politicians and Media.
They won’t like the definitions they’re laying down. Because if wanting to raise food and live is right wing means that being left wing is starvation and death. We accept.
IN ACADEMIA, IN THE ARTS, IN ENTERTAINMENT. WHICH IS WHY THEY ALL STINK TO HIGH HEAVEN: Conservatives in Academia “have been purged not so much by firing, but by not hiring”.
Hiring for any reason other than competence always destroys the thing that you’re supposed to be doing. Always.
THEY WANT TO TURN US INTO BEGGARS, ‘CAUSE BEGGARS ARE EASY TO PLEASE: Biden administration issues rule that could curb ‘gig’ work, contracting.
Also “rule”? Pardon me. Are any of these people elected to create rules with the force of law to limit our pursuit of happiness?
BY WHOM? CRAZY PEOPLE? This Northeastern state is the best place to raise a family — see the full top 10.
PRECEDENTS? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING PRECEDENTS! Outraged parents, pols worry decision to boot NYC students from school for nearly 2,000 migrants will set troubling precedent.
They’re facilitating the invasion and despoiling of these United States of America. They couldn’t care less if it inconveniences American school children. In fact, that’s a plus.
OH, NO SH*T SHERLOCK. AND HOW MUCH DID HE PROFIT FROM ALL THIS, INCLUDING HIS MISBEGOTTEN BOOK DEAL? Fauci Admits Social Distancing Wasn’t Scientific and the Wuhan Lab Leak Wasn’t a Conspiracy Theory.
He should perhaps go in pilgrimage on his knees to the graves of all the men who died storming the beaches at Normandy, because he’s kith and kin to the Nazi “doctors” whose reigns of terror those men ended. And they should not have died in vain.
IS EVERYONE IN THE BIDEN JUNTA AS USELESS AS TITS ON A BULL? The White House’s Attempt to Whitewash Lloyd Austin’s AWOL Makes Things Worse.
Pentagon Review of SecDef Austin’s AWOL and Lies to Be Led by One of the Coverup Leaders.
This would be funny if it weren’t happening to our country.
I STILL SAY THAT IF YOU GET RID OF SOCIALISM, FERTILITY WILL COME BACK FINE. IT’S TAXES STRANGLING BIRTH: The Fertility Crisis – There Is No Cure In A Free Country.
I say the cure is freedom.
AS EVERY SECOND AMENDMENT DEFENDER KNOWS: The Houston Grand Jury That Cleared Taqueria Hero Knows Good Guys With Guns Stop Crime.
GOVERNMENT RUINS EVERYTHING: Red Tape Strangles Nuclear Innovation.
PART FISKING, AND PART ADAPTING THE STRATEGIES, AND PART, LET’S FACE IT, LAUGHING AT THE LEFT: Before the crash 2 and Before the crash 2.
January 10, 2024
ADMIRAL AKBAR COULD HAVE WARNED THEM: The Liberal Media’s Plagiarism Attack on Bill Ackman’s Wife Blew Up in Their Faces.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE:
TRUMP: “I’m a federalist —I didn’t actually have a shut down, despite the fact that some people wanted to..” pic.twitter.com/TRAmaREDBd
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 11, 2024
Flashback: Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Affable Culture Warrior.
In April 2020, businesses in Georgia were shuttered by government decree as in most of the rest of the country. Mr. Kemp was hearing from desperate entrepreneurs: “ ‘Look man, we’re losing everything we’ve got. We can’t keep doing this.’ And I really felt like there was a lot of people fixin’ to revolt against the government.”
The Trump administration “had that damn graph or matrix or whatever that you had to fit into to be able to do certain things,” Mr. Kemp recalls. “Your cases had to be going down and whatever. Well, we felt like we met the matrix, and so I decided to move forward and open up.” He alerted Vice President Mike Pence, who headed the White House’s coronavirus task force, before publicly announcing his intentions on April 20.
That afternoon Mr. Trump called Mr. Kemp, “and he was furious.” Mr. Kemp recounts the conversation as follows:
“Look, the national media’s all over me about letting you do this,” Mr. Trump said. “And they’re saying you don’t meet whatever.”
Mr. Kemp replied: “Well, Mr. President, we sent your team everything, and they knew what we were doing. You’ve been saying the whole pandemic you trust the governors because we’re closest to the people. Just tell them you may not like what I’m doing, but you’re trusting me because I’m the governor of Georgia and leave it at that. I’ll take the heat.”
“Well, see what you can do,” the president said. “Hair salons aren’t essential and bowling alleys, tattoo parlors aren’t essential.”
“With all due respect, those are our people,” Mr. Kemp said. “They’re the people that elected us. They’re the people that are wondering who’s fighting for them. We’re fixin’ to lose them over this, because they’re about to lose everything. They are not going to sit in their basement and lose everything they got over a virus.”
Mr. Trump publicly attacked Mr. Kemp: “He went on the news at 5 o’clock and just absolutely trashed me. . . . Then the local media’s all over me—it was brutal.” The president was still holding daily press briefings on Covid. “After running over me with the bus on Monday, he backed over me on Tuesday,” Mr. Kemp says. “I could either back down and look weak and lose all respect with the legislators and get hammered in the media, or I could just say, ‘You know what? Screw it, we’re holding the line. We’re going to do what’s right.’ ” He chose the latter course. “Then on Wednesday, him and [Anthony] Fauci did it again, but at that point it didn’t really matter. The damage had already been done there, for me anyway.”
The damage healed quickly once businesses began reopening on Friday, April 24. Mr. Kemp quotes a state lawmaker who said in a phone call: “I went and got my hair cut, and the lady that cuts my hair wanted me to tell you—and she started crying when she told me this story—she said, ‘You tell the governor I appreciate him reopening, to allow me to make a choice, because . . . if I’d have stayed closed, I had a 95% chance of losing everything I’ve ever worked for. But if I open, I only had a 5% chance of getting Covid. And so I decided to open, and the governor gave me that choice.’”
At that point, Florida was still shut down. Mr. DeSantis issued his first reopening order on April 29, nine days after Mr. Kemp’s. On April 28, the Florida governor had visited the White House, where, as CNN reported, “he made sure to compliment the President and his handling of the crisis, praise Trump returned in spades.”
Three years later, here’s the thanks Mr. DeSantis gets: This Wednesday Mr. Trump issued a statement excoriating “Ron DeSanctimonious” as “a big Lockdown Governor on the China Virus.” As Mr. Trump now tells the tale, “other Republican Governors did MUCH BETTER than Ron and, because I allowed them this ‘freedom,’ never closed their States. Remember, I left that decision up to the Governors!”
Of course, Trump is far from the only former official distancing himself from the debacle of 2020: Anthony Fauci Says Don’t Blame Him for COVID Lockdowns and School Closures.
And this isn’t the first time that Team Trump has tried to morph the history of 2020:
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE MYTH OF BROOKLYN’S ‘JEW TUNNELS:’
So, some religious men in New York City dug a hole. I’m sorry, but why is this global news? Why is the Guardian reporting on it? Why was it splashed all over the pages of the Mirror and the Mail? Why did it trend on social media for hours? I was even WhatsApped video clips of this global non-event. ‘Look, a hole in the ground in NYC!’ And? I understand that the juggernaut of American culture, propelled across Earth by social media, makes spectators of us all to every incident and idea that unfolds across the pond. But a hole in the ground is a new low – pun intended.
Perhaps it’s because of who the hole-digging religious men were. Whisper it: Jews. Worse, Hasidic Jews. This is the case, of course, of 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, home to the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters. This is an insular Orthodox Jewish movement. On Monday night, some men were arrested at 770, as the headquarters are locally known, following the discovery of a kind of tunnel. A passageway had been illegally dug under the building, structural engineers turned up to fill it in, a few young Hasidics got angry with the engineers and the cops cuffed them. I can see why this is of interest to New Yorkers. It makes perfect sense that it made the pages of the New York press. But why can’t I, 3,500 miles away, so much as switch on a gadget without seeing breathless commentary on the Hasidic diggers and even feverish talk of ‘Jew tunnels’?
As far as we can tell, the tunnel was dug by rogue members of Chabad-Lubavitch. It is reportedly around 50 feet in length and stretches from the 770 synagogue to a men’s ritual bath area, which had been closed. Apparently, the young renegades dug the hole in the belief that they would enjoy redemption if they followed the command of Chabad-Lubavitch’s late rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to extend the HQ. Most members of the movement frowned on the tunnel-digging. In fact, it was they who reported it to officialdom. A spokesman for Chabad-Lubavitch branded the zealous diggers ‘odious’.
That’s it. It’s a colourful story, for sure. If the Atlantic publishes a longform piece on the doctrinal clashes in this curious community, I’ll probably read it. But for it to trend, to make waves worldwide, is odd to say the least.
According to America’s Newspaper of Record, the tunnel diggers really overshot the mark: Jews Realize They’ve Dug Too Far When They Pop Out Of The Ground Next To A Mountie Drinking Maple Syrup On A Moose In Front Of A Tim Hortons.
Especially when there are two Tim Hortons in Brooklyn, and numerous others throughout the Empire State.
NEO: The left and the Palestinians: Part I – The Soviets.
A great many people seem surprised that the left is so strongly allied with the Palestinians, and are their main champions in the West. After all, the two groups would seem antithetical on a host of important values. The left claims to support the rights of LGBTQ people and yet the Palestinians are downright hostile to them – as well as to sexual freedom in general and women’s rights, which are other purported leftist causes. Many leftists are anti-religion as well, whereas a very restrictive form of Islam prevails among most Palestinians.
And yet the alliance between the left and the Palestinians is not only there, but it goes way back. Take a look at this, written in 2003 by a Romanian named Ion Mihai Pacepa, head of intelligence there who had defected to the West. He describes a very direct connection between the Soviets and the Palestinians [emphasis mine]:
Read the whole thing.
THE LIBERAL MEDIA’S PLAGIARISM ATTACK ON BILL ACKMAN’S WIFE BLEW UP IN THEIR FACES:
Claudine Gay is no longer the president of Harvard after 50 examples of plagiarism were exposed throughout her academic career. It was a charge she could not survive. However, Gay should’ve been booted for her atrocious remarks regarding calls for Jewish genocide on college campuses and whether that was an activity that, at the very least, constituted harassment. She could not. Days later, Gay’s academic record was exposed as fraudulent.
The liberal media couldn’t defend it, as professors, including Harvard, admitted that there were papers where “duplicated language” was discovered with no attribution. The Left claimed that Gay’s resignation was soaked in racism and that conservatives were weaponizing plagiarism against academia. Excuse me, it’s not like the latter is some minor infraction—it’s a career-killing move. People in this field already ‘weaponize’ it to keep scholars accountable.
This clown show set up shop at Business Insider, which opted to go after the wife of Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who is pro-Israel. Ackman has refused to hire any pro-Hamas scum, warning that blacklists could be drawn up for recent graduates wanting a career in finance who hold pro-terrorist sympathies.
Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, allegedly plagiarized portions of her doctoral dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She apologized for missed citations, but these oversights aren’t like Gay’s plagiarism. The reporting is so shoddy that the publisher for Business Insider wants an internal review because he wasn’t pleased with the work (via Wall Street Journal):
According to Ackman:
I learned today that at least four or five other media companies rejected the plagiarism story before it was accepted by Business Insider.
Think about that. The story did not meet the standards for accuracy, evidence and/or ethics of the other media companies they approached.
As you might expect, they went to the highest profile publications first. How far down the list do you have to go before you get to Business Insider?
Likely, a lot further going forward after Ackman is done with them.
I HOPE DEWINE’S MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT WAS WORTH IT: Ohio House Overrides DeWine’s Veto of Bill Banning Child Gender Medicalization.
UPDATE: “While the House vote to override the veto is indeed a win, we shouldn’t be popping the champagne corks just yet. Not only does it have to pass the Senate, which tends to be more liberal than the House, but last year’s passage of the Issue 1 ballot measure could make it difficult or impossible to enact the SAFE Act.”
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Fani Willis subpoenaed in top Trump Georgia prosecutor’s divorce case. “Wade was paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees in 2022 and 2023 as he worked on the investigation, county records show.”
More here: “Wade led prosecutors’ presentation to the special grand jury that spent nearly eight months in 2022 collecting evidence and hearing witness testimony in the Trump case. . . . The Fulton County District Attorney’s office has paid Wade’s law offices nearly $654,000 since January 2022, according to county records, making it likely that he is the highest paid prosecutor in the state. (By comparison, Georgia Supreme Court justices currently earn slightly more than $186,000 per year.) Wade is the Fulton DA’s office’s highest-paid contract attorney. His law partner, Christopher Campbell, has separately made $126,000 for his work with Fulton prosecutors, according to county records. McAfee in September quickly shut down an attempt to sanction Wade for a mailer his law firm sent multiple defendants offering them legal services.”
An Atlanta lawyer friend writes:
The question “Why Nathan?” has been drifting around the legal community here for a while now. Lots of us know Nathan and like him. He’s pleasant in court, friendly, gregarious, diplomatic, professional, all that. He was a misdemeanor prosecutor and later a municipal judge in Marietta, where I live, and he has run for higher office around here several times, without success. He’s ambitious, and that’s not a sin.
But when Fani hired Nathan for the Trump RICO case, that didn’t make sense to anyone. Sure, it benefits Nathan because he’s ambitious and gets his name in a national spotlight, but Fani leads the largest DA’s office in Georgia (one of the largest east of the Mississippi River) and she has plenty of fearsome seasoned litigators at her beckon call. Why appoint someone who has never prosecuted a RICO case?
And if she just wanted to appoint a special outside person for this case, there are scores of former high-ranking prosecutors ousted into private practice since 2020 who would love to take the job. So why Nathan?
Now we know.
Ashleigh (and her husband John) are here in Marietta too. Their office is between my home and office. They know Nathan well. Ashleigh likes the spotlight, but not enough that she’s willing to make promises (or threats) she can’t keep. If she says there’s good evidence of an affair, there likely is. And she’s loving it, trust me.
This is one of those things that is so stupid that it boggles the mind. Fani Willis hasn’t been in office all that long. She hasn’t built up a war chest of favors and loyalty. And here on the national stage she’s going to be outed as using the Trump case to funnel taxpayer money to her unqualified paramour? What was she thinking? What was Nathan thinking?
Sounds like we may find out.
GOOD NEWS!
A German ecology activist had enough of the farmers striking in his area and tried to tow away one of their tractors with the help of his Dacia.
He failed pic.twitter.com/GYuCvD6Z6v
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 9, 2024
It’s a shame the Clarkson-era Top Gear is no longer a thing. Oh the fun they’d have dunking on the Dacia’s lack of oomph:
I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Lactic Acid Isn’t Making Your Muscles Sore. Here’s What’s Really Behind It.