WELL, I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:   House Report: ‘Irrefutable Evidence’ Pentagon ‘Intentionally Delayed’ Deployment of National Guard on Jan 6.

BAH. IT’S A LIE. THEY NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS A CRISIS. THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE:  Sen. Gillibrand Admits Democrats Waited Too Long to Address Border Crisis.

GOOD:  Two men found guilty of human smuggling after Indian family froze to death crossing US-Canada border.

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND ITS RESULTS ARE INSULTS TO ANY THINKING HUMAN BEING:  Elizabeth Warren needs to learn what’s really an insult.

AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS IS HAVING A SALE:  Here.

IF OUR GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO SPEND OUT MONEY TO DEFEND FOREIGN LANDS?  Mr. Musk, Tear Down This Wall.

2026 CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS MAKE THEMSELVES:

Trans activist calls on LGBTQ people to get guns to threaten anyone who doesn’t let men in women’s bathrooms.

Democrats want men like this to invade women’s spaces. pic.twitter.com/U8eRuweXTF

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 22, 2024

OPEN THREAD: One fine day, we’ll fly away.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China quietly tested its first inflatable space module in orbit.

SPECIAL STARSHIP EDITION: Friday Sky Candy.

Yeah, it’s VIP, I forgot.

I did title it Sky Candy. Just got it wrong here. I’ve got to have a talk with the editor…

HMM: Common Heart Meds May Sharply Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says.

GERMANY: THE WIND DIED ALONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT COALITION. “And the cold weather came in just as it did. Part of the reason the government fractured? Ruinous green energy policies which exploded the price of electricity thanks to transitioning to unreliable renewables.”

WAGES OF LOST TRUST: Vaccination rates for flu and Covid are low this season, CDC says.

A MANUFACTURED “RIOT.”

Exclusive: Pentagon ‘Intentionally Delayed’ National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6 https://t.co/4eRTHXDIu6

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 22, 2024

PROGRESS: New technique might better treat hematoma brain bleeds.

MARK JUDGE: The Cowardice of Modern Journalism.

YOU DON’T SAY: School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules. “The incident occurred in December 2023 when RNH was a junior. The school determined that RNH and another student ‘had cheated on an AP US History project by attempting to pass off, as their own work, material that they had taken from a generative artificial intelligence (‘AI’) application,’ Levenson wrote. ‘Although students were permitted to use AI to brainstorm topics and identify sources, in this instance the students had indiscriminately copied and pasted text from the AI application, including citations to nonexistent books (i.e., AI hallucinations).'”

WELL, THEN:

The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely 😂 https://t.co/YX2EznXfoF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024

History repeats itself. pic.twitter.com/ZNwTQnVccZ

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) November 22, 2024

IT’S VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Still Drinking the Kool-Aid.

READER FAVORITE: Snailax Shiatsu Neck and Shoulder Massager. #CommissionEarned

THE 21^st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: $749 million ‘treasure hunt:’ Crypto miner fights to retrieve Bitcoin fortune he claims was accidentally thrown in landfill.

An early Bitcoin miner says he lost a fortune worth more than $700 million after his partner accidentally threw a hard drive containing 8,000 coins in a landfill dumpster more than a decade ago.

James Howells of Newport, Wales, has asked his local council if he can dig through its rubbish site to find the discarded hard drive—but he has been denied so far.

Howells is now taking Newport City Council to court, saying it either needs to give him access to his property or settle the damages for the value of the drive.

Howells, 39, says he mined the coins himself in 2009—drawn to the world of cryptocurrencies in the wake of the financial crisis a year prior.

The Bitcoin were stored on a private key within Howells’s computer hard drive, which was placed in a drawer while Howells—a systems engineer by trade—updated his PC.

In 2013, Howells said he placed that hard drive in a plastic bag, which his former partner then erroneously took straight to the dump, depositing it in a large waste bin.

With the price of Bitcoin sitting at an all-time high of $93,637 at the time of writing, the buried drive would potentially be worth more than $749 million.

And you thought switching from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 was a challenge.

TRUTH:

If Newsom had just winked into existence this year, everyone would assume it was an AI render of a sleazeball. https://t.co/wOKZqnuui2

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) November 22, 2024

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: Wrangler Authentics Men’s Relaxed Fit Stretch Cargo Pant. #CommissionEarned

SELF-DEFENSE: Understanding Fine Motor Skills: Simple things become really hard to accomplish under stress.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Worst Elon Musk Impersonator EVER. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have the world’s worst Elon Musk impersonator, how to get caught at shoplifting without even trying, and Louisiana Man’s Ulta-mate mugshot.”

WE LIVE IN ROBERT HEINLEIN’S WORLD: Elon Musk Wants to Save the World — and More.