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December 16, 2024
“LACK OF TRAINING” COMES TO MIND: How Do You Miss Six Shots From Five Feet Away? “The Secret Service agent that engaged the would-be Trump golf course assassin missed six shots despite being five feet away.”
THIS IS CNN: When the Weeping Torture Victim You Save…
With Syria suddenly accessible, CNN’s Clarissa Ward, who has been something of a lightning rod herself, hot-footed it back into the country she had reamed the Obama administration for abandoning to the younger Assad.
In 2021, CNN's @clarissaward boasted that she stopped looking at US policy in Syria as a journalist: only as an activist.
She said she was so enraged by Obama's refusal to do more to remove Assad (beyond his $1b CIA dirty war) that she sent deranged voice mails to @brhodes: https://t.co/WOpXI6NIrE pic.twitter.com/T5z0z5u4HO
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 11, 2024
After hooting it up in the streets, Ward somehow made her way over to a ‘secret facility’ in Bashar al-Assad’s infamous prison system. She and her crew were on the hunt to see if they could find traces of Austin Tice, the young American kidnapped some 12 years ago and not heard from since, although his family had recently gotten word he was alive.
While Ward didn’t find Tice during her quest, what she did find thrilled her to no end.
‘Are you serious?’: He spent months in a Syrian prison. CNN’s camera caught the moment he’s freed
While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncovered a hidden prisoner still unaware of Assad’s ouster.
It was almost, like, ‘too good to be true’ television.
At the moment, it’s looking very much like it’s “too good to be true television.”
Whew — good thing CNN doesn’t have a reputation of previous dodgy reporting in the Middle East.
JIM GERAGHTY: New Jersey Bedeviled: Four Possible Explanations for the Nonstop Drone Sightings.
Explanation Four: What some people are seeing are alien spacecraft.
Look, if they’re aliens, why are they hanging out in New Jersey?
Because that’s where Orson Welles told them they should go, Jim!
UPDATE: The rump Biden administration has 35 days left in office, and they’re determined to make the most of them:
How sick to put an incoming president in this position. To foment a major panic over national security, keep its nature a secret from the electorate, & muzzle the leader who burns to tell the truth about the matter but is a few weeks short of having the power to do so
Disgusting https://t.co/WZzFbnmgfe
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) December 16, 2024
DOG BITES MAN: Joe Biden Delivers Delusional Speech at DNC Holiday Party.
BUILD MORE NUKES:
Wow:
"In 2025-28, we project ~57 gigawatts (GW) of US data center power demand, and we quantify available power capacity to serve this demand as: near-term grid access of ~12-15 GW, plus ~6 GW of data centers under construction, resulting in a ~36 GW shortfall of US power… pic.twitter.com/4PArdYY9qO
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 16, 2024
Plus this from the replies:
If they don’t soon stop shooting themselves in the foot, you have to wonder how much longer there will be any data centers in Germany at all.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA updates ‘Moon to Mars’ roadmap for exploring Red Planet.
HEY, IT’S GERMANY — WHAT’S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? German Government Collapses at a Perilous Time for Europe.
WAKE UP, WOKE IS DEAD: The National Spelling Bee Goes Woke: Women Is Now Spelled W-O-M-Y-N. “The National Spelling Bee has disavowed any responsibility. According to them, all the words they used were taken directly from the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. Alas, after the Merrian-Webster’s Grammar Gestapos approved of ‘W-O-M-Y-N,’ nothing more could be done.”
HMM: Breast, ovary removal might extend lives of women with breast cancer genes. Color me skeptical.
CHILD ABUSE: Troubled 12-year-old was ‘fast-tracked’ for hormones, mastectomy, charges lawsuit. “Sexually abused as a young child, 11-year-old Kaya Breen told a school counselor that she’d wondered if ‘life would be easier if she were a boy,’ her lawsuit states. The counselor told her and her parents that she was transgender. She was diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and fast-tracked her for puberty blockers at 12, cross-sex hormones at 13 and a mastectomy at 14.”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Allow me to respond via one of my favorite European journalists:
No, I had never heard of them either, but more details here: Which brands have quit X/Twitter? More journalist organisations ditch social media platform.
OUT: TWITTER/X IS A CESSPIT OF HATE SPEECH. In: Bluesky’s Death Threat Problem. “Bluesky advertises itself as the X-alternative for the nice, compassionate left. It claims to be less toxic and a place for civil discussion, without all the misinformation that plagues X. What crap. Bluesky is a leftist sewer in which anybody who deviates from leftist orthodoxy is not only shunned but outright threatened, often with death. That’s not hyperbole, and to demonstrate how awful it is let’s discuss the case of Jesse Singal. . . . It’s not randos on Bluesky who are calling for Singal’s death or doxxing him–obviously hoping somebody will carry through on the death threats–but journalists, VPs at companies like Microsoft, and prominent lefties who jumped off of X because they claim it is too toxic. The claim, as with all such leftist calls to violence, is that holding disapproved views and expressing them is a form of violence and should be suppressed or their holders destroyed.”
THE FACTS ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: James Agresti of Just Facts Daily explains how totally wrong is the media narrative that birthright citizenship protects the children born to illegals in this country:
“In reality, the legislative history of the 14th Amendment is clear that it only grants birthright citizenship to the children of people who are legally and permanently living in the United States. This does not apply to the children of illegal immigrants, temporary residents, visitors, or tourists,” Agresti writes.
ENDLESSLY INVENTIVE: Here’s Another Way California Just Found to Make Life Hell.
ALL THE CENSORSHIP AND ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND LAWFARE HAS BEEN DRIVEN DRIVEN BY THE RULING CLASS’S FEAR THAT VOTERS WILL FIGURE OUT WHAT’S BEEN DONE TO THEM: Hilarious: DC Anti-DOGE Residents Find Out How Their Money Is Actually Being Spent.
GREAT GIFT: Apple AirTag 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned
WELL, PUT HIM BACK: Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad-regime torturer.
The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.
The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it “one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed” in her 20 years of reporting.
But “independent and unbiased” fact-checkers Verify-Sy published a detailed report Sunday saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.
“We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” CNN acknoweldged to the Telegraph. “We are continuing our reporting into this and the wider story.”
The CNN story last week showed Ward and a camera crew, escorted by a rebel fighter, visiting a former Syrian Air Force intelligence headquarters in Damascus and freeing the man who was found under a blanket locked in a windowless cell.
Exit quote: “Verify-Sy noted, however, that he appeared ‘well-groomed, and physically healthy, with no visible injuries or signs of torture — an incongruous portrayal of someone allegedly held in solitary confinement in the dark for 90 days.'”
Heckuva job, CNN.
NC GOVERNOR’S SCHOOL SUMMER PROGRAM IS MISEDUCATING ELITE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Another miserable DEI takeover ruins a valuable institution for gifted kids. I attended Duke’s TIP program in the early 90s in high school and it was life-changing for me. Duke killed it off thanks to COVID and the “racial reckoning.” But would I have sent my kids anyway? They would have loved the 90s TIP. Today? I’m not so sure.