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September 1, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

65 comments:

Lewis Wetzel said...: You know how Slow Joe is always vague about his family background? While we know all about Fred Trump's career as a real estate developer?
It seems that back in August, 2020, the New Yorker had a writer who did very good work unearthing the history of Joe Biden's family. It ain't pretty.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/the-untold-history-of-the-biden-family
I actually don't think that this is entirely fair. If your primary means of research is legal records, you end up with records of disputes. Still, like I said, it ain't a pretty picture. Lots of social climbing, business cheating, and alcoholism.; 9/1/22, 6:54 PM
Temujin said...: Anyone watching The Joe Show?; 9/1/22, 7:04 PM
tim in vermont said...: My theory of the "bottleneck" in the Ashkenazi Jewish population discussed over on Instapundit is that they are descended of a couple thousand slaves brought by the Romans when they sacked Jerusalem in about 70 AD, and used the slaves and the looted treasure to build the Colosseum (See plaque left by the Romans in the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus) This population was apparently genetically isolated from europeans. Genetics say that the male line goes back to the Levant, and the female line is southern European.

Anyway, the above theory is not in Wikipedia, it's my own, but I think it fits the facts the best, including the "genetic bottleneck." Feel free to tear it apart, it's just a guess and it might be wrong.; 9/1/22, 7:06 PM
Temujin said...: "Too much of what is happening in this country is not normal."

This, from Joe Biden, leader of the Progressive Left.; 9/1/22, 7:07 PM
Joe Smith said...: Biden is Mussolini without the charm or 50 IQ points...; 9/1/22, 7:08 PM
Dave Begley said...: Five minutes into Biden’s speech. The most evil, deceptive and dishonest speech ever by a President.

Biden: If you are a Trump supporter, you’re an Enemy of the State.

He sets up straw men and then knocks them down.; 9/1/22, 7:16 PM
Temujin said...: Unquestioned. The most insulting, nauseating, delusional speech I've ever heard an American President make. Literally detached from reality.; 9/1/22, 7:23 PM
Lilly, a dog said...: I'd like to extend a sincere FU to the BAN GAGORTION absolutists who infect this blog and this country. You have seized defeat from the jaws of victory in the 2022 midterms, in an impressively stupid way. You have doomed the rest of us to woke bullshit for the next 10-15 years.; 9/1/22, 7:33 PM
farmgirl said...: https://track.namastelight.com/c/443/522aa871b06c093e646ebce5da811a0fe47a12006f1c0d75b52240d2c596035cca5f1aa49e5edb96

Ivermectin…

Your photos look like a cover album. Pink Floyd?
Very beautiful!; 9/1/22, 7:39 PM
Michael said...: Biden is asshole; 9/1/22, 7:48 PM
Temujin said...: Tim in Vermont- I'm one of them that made it through the bottleneck. And man, I can tell you it was a slog. I'll never take that route again.; 9/1/22, 7:48 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: As I said recently, the political left is at war with Americans. They think that through shame they can bully the right into surrendering. They don't understand the American spirit of independence. You can see it in our Host's shift over these last few years. They will lose the middle, not chase the right underground.; 9/1/22, 7:49 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: The ugliest euphemism in the medico/political dictionary today is the use of "gender-affirming" to describe castration and sterilization. And I see that the word "abortion" has been replaced by "abortion care."

I recommend "limb care" instead of "amputation."; 9/1/22, 7:52 PM
Joe Smith said...: Shameful speech.

Only missing the swastikas in the background.

They were National Socialists, after all...; 9/1/22, 7:58 PM
Clyde said...: I don't think that Biden's rant will go over too well with anyone outside of his far-left base. Bad optics included having to be led onto and off the stage by Nurse Jill. Then there was the red and black background behind him, like something from a Nuremberg rally. Comically, he angrily accused his opponents of being angry and violent, forgetting that his own far-left base spent the summer of 2020 burning down America's cities. He had the gall to talk about supporting the rule of law while thousands of illegal immigrants a day continue to pour across the border that he should be protecting (if he was following his oath of office) instead of ignoring. But hey, we all know that the Big Guy is getting his cut from the cartels from the drug smuggling and human trafficking. If Biden is Anti-MAGA, then I'm Ultra-MAGA AF.; 9/1/22, 8:02 PM
Drago said...: Dave Begley: "Five minutes into Biden’s speech. The most evil, deceptive and dishonest speech ever by a President."

At least 50% of elected republicans in DC are in lockstep agreement with Biden.

At least.; 9/1/22, 8:03 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Megyn Kelly on Biden.; 9/1/22, 8:15 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/1/22, 8:15 PM
Drago said...: "Oh just to be clear, I agree with most of what Biden has said. Nearly all of it. But I still think this is a mistake."
--Jonah "Goucher College All-Star" Goldberg, "True Conservative" that is Conserving Conservatism by supporting everything the New Soviet Democraticals desire.

Next up for the "TrueCons": David French pens column entitled The Conservative Case For Criminalizing Opposition To Democrats; 9/1/22, 8:22 PM
Butkus51 said...: Substitute Hitler for Biden and Jews for not bat-shit crazy people. and you have the 1930s all over again.

Guess who plays the part of Churchill?

He told us. Some listened, most didnt.

Inga cried for her Leader and party that night.

Expect Antifa to show their heads next few weeks.

Fauci says its ok.; 9/1/22, 8:27 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: You really have to wonder who in the absolute fk thought it was a good idea to put rambling Joe Biden out in front of a blood red stained state house to give his last "I AM THE SENATE" speech.

Even CNN was appalled. CNN. CNN was APPALLED by Senator Palpatine's speech tonight.

"Whatever you think of this speech the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that." - CNN

Make no mistake. Joe Biden and the Democrats are preparing the battlefield for the murder of millions of American citizens. And they think the United States Marines are going to do their killing for them.

Semper Fi, bros. Ya'll done with this guy yet?; 9/1/22, 8:29 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: You really have to wonder who in the absolute fk thought it was a good idea to put rambling Joe Biden out in front of a blood red stained state house to give his last "I AM THE SENATE" speech.

Even CNN was appalled. CNN. CNN was APPALLED by Senator Palpatine's speech tonight.

"Whatever you think of this speech the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that." - CNN

Make no mistake. Joe Biden and the Democrats are preparing the battlefield for the murder of millions of American citizens. And they think the United States Marines are going to do their killing for them.

Semper Fi, bros. Ya'll done with this guy yet?; 9/1/22, 8:29 PM
Josephbleau said...: "My theory of the "bottleneck" in the Ashkenazi Jewish population discussed over on Instapundit is that they are descended of a couple thousand slaves brought by the Romans when they sacked Jerusalem in about 70 AD, and used the slaves and the looted treasure to build the Colosseum (See plaque left by the Romans in the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus) This population was apparently genetically isolated from europeans. Genetics say that the male line goes back to the Levant, and the female line is southern European."

So Tim, How can we improve the data, what is your thesis? What conclusions can be made? And how can we try to falsify it? This is the echo of my PhD advisor.; 9/1/22, 8:32 PM
William50 said...: The largest cause of death in Alberta is “Unknown Cause of Death”--Awaken with JP; 9/1/22, 8:34 PM
Kit Carson said...: well that was a speech that will go down in history...and delivered with a blood red luminescent background that looked like the gates of hell except for the american flags.

also, was there a single non-bromide factual assertion in the speech that was accurate?

that speech is going to cause trouble. but it was so over the top and hypocritical that it may backfire like basket of deplorables. but unlike the deplorables comment this speech was scary. it was delivered by the president of the united states.; 9/1/22, 8:36 PM
rhhardin said...: Biden is pretty well round the bend.; 9/1/22, 8:40 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/HKN6FAKjFPU; 9/1/22, 8:48 PM
n.n said...: GAGORTION absolutists

What absolutism? There is support for abortion up to viability where baby meets granny in state, if not in process. There is opposition to enslave women, and underage girls, through rape... rape-rape and likely incest. There is acknowledgement of women and men's dignity and agency with four choices, and an equal rights to self-defense. The absolutism is in discouraging the performance of human rites for social, redistributive, clinical, political, and far weather causes. The wicked solution is neither a good nor exclusive choice to the demand to keep women affordable, available, and taxable, and the carbon-based "burdens" of evidence sequestered in darkness, at the twilight fringe.

That said, women, men, and "our Posterity" are from Earth. Feminists are from Venus. Masculinists are from Mars. Social progressives are from Uranus.; 9/1/22, 8:54 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: "Joe Biden Crosses Lines in Grotesque National Address, Heckler Spoils His Party. “Excerpts from Joe Biden’s “MAGA speech” previewed a gross abuse of the Executive Office of the President. Sure enough, that’s exactly what was delivered as the president appeared in Philidelphia, standing in front of a blood-red background, flanked by Marines. Lines were crossed that can’t be uncrossed, from the use of the military as props in a blatantly political speech to Biden suggesting that nearly half the country is a ‘danger’ to the republic. This was a speech that went far beyond anything seen in the modern era of presidential addresses. . . . The meat of the speech was no better than Biden’s health. He kept repeating the term ‘MAGA,’ painting those who voted for Donald Trump as evil fascists that pose a direct threat to the very well-being of the nation. That’s ludicrous, and as I’ve shared before, it’s also incredibly dangerous. When you begin attack tens of millions of Americans as scum, suggesting they are going to destroy ‘our democracy,’ that justifies just about anything in response, doesn’t it? Someone is going to get hurt based on his incitement.”; 9/1/22, 8:58 PM
Narr said...: The semiotics of FJB's jeremiad is likely to backfire. Even with the sound low or off, I thought I was seeing a lost . . . I won't say soul . . . shell of a human whose lodestar has always been political clout.

Which is part of the problem: I discount any and all mentions of that nebulous entity the soul from the mouths of lifelong pols, especially ones as venal and vicious as he.

Tarloff said the quiet part out loud on The Five earlier, regarding Trump--check the transcript but something like, "The trouble is that Trump won't shut up."; 9/1/22, 9:05 PM
Maynard said...: They think that through shame they can bully the right into surrendering. They don't understand the American spirit of independence.

Yes, but they understand the cowardice of the Republican Party that wants to get rid of Trump.; 9/1/22, 9:18 PM
Michael K said...: Biden showed his true colors tonight. The 1987 presidential disaster is the best indicator or his mentality before he became senile.

Here it is.

Howard, is this your guy ?; 9/1/22, 9:19 PM
narciso said...: Pharoah whoever was the high priest in tyre haman this is what we are facing; 9/1/22, 9:38 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Trump = goof

Biden = Hitler Castro.

FBI = KGB; 9/1/22, 9:39 PM
Howard said...: Saw a clip today of Joe Rogan with Aaron Rodgers. Joe was riffing on the cocktail of supplements pharmaceuticals and broceuticals to help Biden function. I was thinking maybe the only thing the DNC needs to give Kamala Harris is ex-lax.; 9/1/22, 9:41 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: This is way past Trump at this point.; 9/1/22, 9:43 PM
PM said...: The Marines were right there. They could've ushered him right to the mental ward.; 9/1/22, 9:48 PM
Mason G said...: Saw some images from the speech tonight, got a question. Is that really the look Democrats want to promote? Because if it is- well, damn. Y'all are some twisted fucks.; 9/1/22, 9:50 PM
Creola Soul said...: The demonization of Trump by Liz Cheney didn’t serve her well in Wyoming. Is there any reason to think that Biden’s similar demonization will play well anywhere other than the East and West Coast blue states?
On top of that, no one in Pennsylvania cares…..Pitts playing West Virginia and Penn State is playing Perdue.; 9/1/22, 9:53 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Biden's optics; 9/1/22, 10:18 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Chancellor Adam "Shit For Brains" Sutler gave quite the hilarious speech tonight. What a fucking clown Fuck Joe Biden is.; 9/1/22, 10:29 PM
wildswan said...: I don't think people in this country will find that an appealing speech. I just looked at a minute or or so and I thought it looked like some sleazy TV setting - maybe the interior of a pole dancing place with leather in the back rooms and bouncers dressed as soldiers. (Sorry, Marines, I know you had no choice. The Corps was abused tonight.) And then comes this negative speech. Times are tough and people want a President to explain how things will get better. "Round up half the country" doesn't cut it as uplift.; 9/1/22, 10:38 PM
Drago said...: Narr: "Tarloff said the quiet part out loud on The Five earlier, regarding Trump--check the transcript but something like, "The trouble is that Trump won't shut up.""

Tarlov.

Jessica Tarlov. Lifelong partisan democratical political consultant.

Complaining about Trump.

Gee, I did not see that one coming.; 9/1/22, 10:39 PM
Gospace said...: Open thread- and with so much to say about Biden- I'll stick to covid.

Ann- are you taking Vitamin D? Have you had your Vitamin D blood levels checked?

Karl Denninger has something to say about mRNA. https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246813

And it seems Japanese doctors have found spike protein in skin lesions developed after getting the vaccination that isn't- and why it isn't, aside for the fact it doesn't worl is explained by Karl above: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/mrna-shots-are-the-gift-that-keeps

And there's been specualtion about how long it takes for damag from the vaccination that isn't to show up. As deaths, Steve Kirsch says 5 months: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/this-one-graph-tells-you-everything But I suspect this is but one mechanism-there is evidence there is more then 1. By evidence, I mean numbers. Since the beginning, everything about covid has been all about the numbers.

www.coffeeandcovid.com, another substack I've recently found, talks about more then just covid. I expect an update in the next day or two a post on Joe Biden uniting th country in tonight's speech...

Since the beginning, covid has been all about the numbers. To be quite honest, I understand numbers much better than I understand people and emotions. I've taken a bunh of those online self diagnosic tests. If I gone to school at the timeframe my children did, I would have been diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome, or for my youngest, on the spectrum. 18½ years from my oldest to youngest. In my day, you had autism, or you were just a little weird and told to get your act together. I have a measured IQ of >150, and like many in that range, don't have a job that requires it- because I lack people skills. Luckily, I found a woman who liked me becaue I was what woman say thy want, but most actually don't, a nice guy. So number:

Since the very beginning of the covidiocy it has been known that there is an inverse relationship between Vitamin D blood levels and covid outcomes. Sine the VERY BEGINNING Yet, the NIH/CDC still don't recommetn mass testing of Vitamin D blood levels, and in fact, only if showing clinical signs of Vitamin D deficiency, which means- you're already really sick. Seems that there is the same ling between Vitamin D blood levels adn ALL URIs, with studies going back over 2 decades. Something those of us with curiosity can easily find out on the internet today, but before the internet, couldn't without expending great deals of money and time, and even then, probably couldn't. Connecting dots is much easier when all the dot are visible.

Hence my question at the beginning- "Ann- are you taking Vitamin D? Have you had your Vitamin D blood levels checked?" My tested level, 3 or 4 times now, is hovering about 50 ng/ml which seems ideal. That question goes for every commenter here- Do you know yours? It's all about the numers.

I first had mine checked by a VA practitioner who was concerned I might be suffering from Vitamin D intoxication, a very real problem, because I was supplementing without doctor's orders. I wasn't. Last checked by the NP at my non-VA practice. She checks all her patients when doing routine blood tests. She's aware of the relationship.

Excuse any spelling errors- spellcheck on DISQUS isn't working, and I'm almost through a bottle of wine tonight. Pain in my left hand- trying to kill it. Alcohol is NOT working. Lesson learned.; 9/1/22, 10:42 PM
Josephbleau said...: Beiden’s speech could have been produced by Leni Reifensthal. Beiden is the new Mussolini.

Who is giving this crazed fool advice??; 9/1/22, 10:53 PM
gadfly said...: Creeping environmentalism provides us with useless news. From old news in The Blaze and the NY Times, we discover that when New Jersey banned the use of plastic and paper bags, handheld shopping baskets began to disappear because many customers refused to buy and carry personal cloth bags. So self-checkout shoppers decided to load up shopping baskets in order to substitute for bags.

In California, Prop 67 begot the same problem and two solutions evolved. Target purchased baskets with alarms to discourage customers from taking them outside of the store.

Most stores simply 86'd shopping baskets with the “only buggies - no hand baskets” rule.

It also seems to me that Sam's Club's practice of providing emptied product boxes also lessens its cardboard disposal task.; 9/1/22, 11:19 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: I don’t think Biden’s speech is about triumphalism or rounding up Trump voters. It has a very distinctly desperate Walls-Are-Closing-In feel to it. He’s begging the faithful to stay faithful ‘cause MAGA! My sense is there’s some bad news coming for Biden specifically or Democrats generally.; 9/1/22, 11:27 PM
walter said...: For some reason #PedoHitler is trending.; 9/1/22, 11:42 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/nedryun/status/1565510892942401538?cxt=HHwWhICxnZv357krAAAA; 9/2/22, 12:40 AM
Humperdink said...: So President Soiled Pants goes after the MAGA citizens. MAGA ... think about it. Make America Great Again. Under Soiled Pants, America is tanking in a big way. We need MAGA more than ever. The left remains in denial.; 9/2/22, 5:10 AM
Breezy said...: Trump is single-handedly tearing apart the fiber of the Democrat party. He’s made them barking mad. “He won’t shut up” and let us continue to do the work of dismantling our norms and values, independence being the first that must go. The speech bordered on insanity, given the Declaration of Independence backdrop. What US President in their right mind would disparage half the country in prime time like this? Especially our USA?; 9/2/22, 5:22 AM
tim in vermont said...: "And how can we try to falsify it? "

Well, I read the current theories, as discussed in Wiki, which only says that the origin of the Ashkenazi is "shrouded in mystery," I posted my theory in a public place where people who are interested in history would see it to see if anybody can tell me that it had already been proposed and knocked down, next I will ask a rabbi. This seems very obvious.

It fits the known-to-me historical facts and two lines of genetic evidence that I have learned since I thought of it while visiting the Colosseum.

I don't believe that it's possible to prove it conclusively, nor am I seeking a PhD. Just passing the time, like the rest of you.; 9/2/22, 5:43 AM
Andrew said...: Dwight Schrute said it better.; 9/2/22, 5:59 AM
Narayanan said...: so finally found answer to my Q about what happens if Pence absconding on 1/6/2021; 9/2/22, 6:36 AM
wendybar said...: "Not only did this industry accept petty cash to poison or dismember an innocent child, they covered up known sexual abuse where the victims were themselves, children."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/former_chicago_school_administrator_allegedly_procured_abortions_for_young_girl_he_allegedly_assaulted.html; 9/2/22, 6:42 AM
Tina Trent said...: Lewis Wetzel: that story, or rather the suppression of it by the media until now, is jaw-dropping. And in The New Yorker? Thanks.; 9/2/22, 7:57 AM
Iman said...: Your lips to God’s ears, Cracker Emcee Refulgent!; 9/2/22, 9:17 AM
wendybar said...: Pedo-Hitler MUST be impeached for declaring war on half the citizens of the United States.; 9/2/22, 9:36 AM
wendybar said...: What if Corn Pop was a good dude and just wanted to protect kids from a creepy lifeguard?? -Jack Posobiec; 9/2/22, 9:40 AM
wendybar said...: Charlie Kirk of TPUSA.
Mentions in Biden's speech:
China: 0
Crime: 0
Inflation: 0
Fentanyl: 0
The Border: 0
Charlottesville: 1
January 6th: 2
Insurrection: 3
Donald Trump: 3
Extremism: 7
Violence: 10
MAGA: 13
Republicans: 16; 9/2/22, 9:42 AM
Narr said...: Tarlov. I stand corrected.

The surprise--I didn't use the term--if any, is that she let it out at all, not that it expresses the Left's view.; 9/2/22, 10:09 AM
wendybar said...: According to newly released emails obtained by state AGs, Facebook & the Biden admin arranged weekly/monthly calls to discuss what to censor on the platform.

Who is acting like the FASCIST again??

https://twitter.com/VinceCoglianese/status/1565397626018750464?; 9/2/22, 10:59 AM
gadfly said...: 36,591 posts later, Allahpundit is leaving HotAir to join The Dispatch where Steve Hayes, David French and Jonah Goldberg hold sway. Allahpundit was the last columnist in all of Townhall Media remaining "as a strident critic of Donald Trump serving a pro-Trump populist readership across all of the [so-called] conservative media".

Allahpundit gets to the bottom of it all with his straightforward opinion:

Some conservatives became earnest converts to Trumpism, whatever that is. But too many who ditched their civic convictions did so for the most banal reasons because there was something in it for them — profit, influence, proximity to power, the brainless tribalism required by audience capture. “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket,” Eric Hoffer wrote. We’ve all gotten to see who the racketeers are.; 9/2/22, 1:03 PM
Jupiter said...: And in other news, Megan McCardle finally managed to swallow the whole thing!; 9/2/22, 3:39 PM
Drago said...: gadfly: "36,591 posts later, Allahpundit is leaving HotAir to join The Dispatch where Steve Hayes, David French and Jonah Goldberg hold sway."

The Dispatch is completely funded by far left partisan Democratical billionaires and activists.

So yes, Allahpundit will fit in quite nicely with all of his lefty pals there. And it makes perfect sense that you, a lefty, would feel great about it.

The funniest part of the entire FakeCon Allahpundit departure from HotAir? Allahpundit actually claimed he was headed over to Substack!

LOL You know, where people have to actually sign up to pay for content.

Allahpundit, like Shep Smith, Chris Wallace, Chris Stirewalt et al was actually pretending he had a "readership audience" that were willing to pay for his moronic leftwing missives!!

As predicted, that Substack talk went away pretty quickly and now Allahpundit will be safely esconced in the warm protective womb of the lefty funded, AlwaysDemocratical The Dispatch....where no one will read what he writes, but his lefty masters will be pleased.; 9/2/22, 7:10 PM