Althouse: Sunrise — 7:18, 7:36, 7:37.

January 4, 2024

Sunrise — 7:18, 7:36, 7:37.

82 comments:

BUMBLE BEE said...: See for yourself...

https://rumble.com/v453r76-the-epstein-cover-up-texas-vs-bidens-border-viveks-media-guide-okeefe-paxto.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTq5VV573gs

Vote for Biden!; 1/4/24, 6:22 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: From Michael Yon's source...

"There was a time when the Border Patrol would try to get to the truth of illegal aliens background, that is no longer the case. The priority is in processing fir release as fast as possible. Agents will get questioned as to why they did not get more files done if they do not do as many as management wants done in a shift."; 1/4/24, 6:24 PM
Michael said...: NYT today has article on how Democrats have discovered that representatives of foreign governments spent (splashed as the article has it) 7.8 million dollars in Trump hotels over his term in office. That is they checked in and paid on checkout. The commenters, of course, went wild at this proof of Trump malfeasance. The writer, of course, either doesn’t know the difference between gross and net revenues or decided that keeping it at gross sounded more awful. Hotels might deliver ten percent to the bottom line after expenses, perhaps less in a five star property. So 7.8 million over four years in four hotels. Financially a huge yawn. The Democrats who uncovered this are attempting to diminish Biden’s intake of millions with this sad bit of “evidence.” Trump with real assets and real overhead vs Biden with no business and no overhead. Hilarious.; 1/4/24, 6:34 PM
tim in vermont said...: I learned today that the "shock and awe" bombing of Baghdad that we all saw on TV never hit civilians and that we used only precisely targeted smart bombs in that campaign, and that the bombing was as precise as laser robot cancer surgery.

This is from the New York Times

A SHOW OF POWER -- An American B-1 dropped four 2,000-pound bombs in Mansur, an exclusive Baghdad neighborhood after the Central Intelligence Agency passed on a tip that a senior leadership meeting was happening there. But it was not clear who was at the meeting.

So based on a CIA tip, 4 2,000 lb bombs were dropped on a residential neighborhood in Baghdad. Were they smart bombs or were they iron bombs? Here is what the LA Times said about smart bombs some time later:

The coalition has begun using massive and expensive “smart” bombs, ground-strafing AC-130 gunships and heavily armed Apache helicopters for the first time since the springtime march to Baghdad. The display of force is intended to intimidate insurgents, U.S. officials said, but it also has frightened some civilians and surprised some military analysts.

BTW, I wonder if the "tip" came from "50 intelligence experts."

That was just the first hit on a web search. My memory of the time is that smart bombs were introduced as the conflict went on, but that iron bombs were used at first, in the "shock and awe" phase mostly, along with precision missile strikes. The news stories from the time seem to backup my memory of the war. I supported the war at the time, a failure that I will have to explain at St Peter's Gate, I fear.; 1/4/24, 6:41 PM
tcrosse said...: RIP Glynis Johns.; 1/4/24, 6:49 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Reddit: When has a vaxx been political?

#WhatTrumpDidToLiberals.; 1/4/24, 6:54 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Big if True: "The largest migrant caravan of 2023 known as the 'poverty exodus,' has recently departed from Southern Mexico, comprising approximately 15,000 individuals from 24 countries en route to the US border."

Reposted by Musk saying, "The public should be made aware of this".; 1/4/24, 6:59 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Horrific if true: This is Spain.; 1/4/24, 7:02 PM
planetgeo said...: I've been in Japan for a few weeks. Photo #3 evokes a "cherry blossom sky in winter, Kanji trees" vibe.; 1/4/24, 7:20 PM
narciso said...: well its a socialist government, previously allied with a far left faction, podemos, now another faction, largely dependent on the qataris; 1/4/24, 7:37 PM
Leland said...: Remember being told that the Hamas captives were treated well? Yeah, it was a lie to stay alive.; 1/4/24, 7:39 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Tucker : Epstein's brother says his brother, Epstein didn't kill himself; 1/4/24, 7:48 PM
Leland said...: Enjoyed the latest Dave Chapelle show earlier tonight. I forgot Madison Cawthorn even existed.; 1/4/24, 7:49 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Bif if True: "RFK Jr. says three states are refusing to send him the required petitions for ballot access: Maine, New Hampshire, and North Dakota"

And Trump is the dictator?; 1/4/24, 7:59 PM
Narr said...: Our sunset sky had the most peculiar formation of overlapping streaks of cloud and contrail, all lit up candy pink like a big twisted-balloon object--my wife said it looked like a crossbow, and I thought of Japanese script.

I made her take a photo but even her phone had trouble capturing the effect on the fly.

A pity.; 1/4/24, 8:06 PM
Chuck said...: NEW American Research Group poll of New Hampshire Republican Primary:

Trump 37%
Haley 33%
Christie 10%
DeSantis 5%
Ramaswamy 4%
Hutchinson 1%
_____________________

I'm hoping that nearly every Trump-sympathetic reader of the Althouse blog finds something terrifically painful in this polling. The AlwaysTrumpers terrified of Haley; the Christie haterz, seeing him beating DeSantis; the DeSantis deluders seeing their guy in FOURTH place; and of course, Dave Begley (who might be able to personally nudge Ramaswamy up to 5% if he moved to NH). I would love nothing more than if Asa Hutchinson, with a suspended campaign, managed to outpoll Ramswamy.; 1/4/24, 8:14 PM
walter said...: Sorry Leland. Your link goes nowhere.; 1/4/24, 9:30 PM
Big Mike said...: Latest update. Six shot, one 6th grader fatally.; 1/4/24, 9:45 PM
Mutaman said...: “What do you have to lose? Take it.”

"Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during COVID, study finds"

https://www.politico.eu/article/hydroxychloroquine-could-have-caused-17000-deaths-during-covid-study-finds/; 1/4/24, 10:03 PM
gadfly said...: Hydroxychloroquine is a prescription drug that’s been around since the 1940s. Doctors first used it to treat malaria.

Today you’re more likely to take it if you have rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. In the early days of the pandemic, you may have heard it could treat COVID-19. A widely shared video, featuring a doctor falsely claiming hydroxychloroquine is a “cure” for COVID-19, ignited an online storm that resulted in the video being pulled by social media platforms.

Now, French researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. — may have died as a result of taking the damned "cure."; 1/4/24, 10:12 PM
Mutaman said...: Michael said...

"The commenters, of course, went wild at this proof of Trump malfeasance. The writer, of course, either doesn’t know the difference between gross and net revenues or decided that keeping it at gross sounded more awful. "

Its a big nothingburger because Trump took a little bit of that "at least 7.8 million" to pay the maids and the bus boys.; 1/4/24, 10:16 PM
gadfly said...: Michael said...
NYT today has article on how Democrats have discovered that representatives of foreign governments spent (splashed as the article has it) 7.8 million dollars in Trump hotels over his term in office. That is they checked in and paid on checkout. The commenters, of course, went wild at this proof of Trump malfeasance. The writer, of course, either doesn’t know the difference between gross and net revenues or decided that keeping it at gross sounded more awful. Hotels might deliver ten percent to the bottom line after expenses, perhaps less in a five-star property. So 7.8 million over four years in four hotels. Financially a huge yawn. The Democrats who uncovered this are attempting to diminish Biden’s intake of millions with this sad bit of “evidence.” Trump with real assets and real overhead vs Biden with no business and no overhead. Hilarious.

You read the article, Mikie, so you know that he was not permitted to accept a single penny from foreigners for his personal benefit under the Emolument Clause (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8) of the Constitution. The payments received of $7.8 million was the sum from only 20 countries at four of his properties during the first two years of Trump's term.; 1/4/24, 10:40 PM
gadfly said...: Lem the artificially intelligent said...
Big if True: "The largest migrant caravan of 2023 known as the 'poverty exodus,' has recently departed from Southern Mexico, comprising approximately 15,000 individuals from 24 countries en route to the US border."

The same thing happened during Trump's term and many years before that. In the old days, American farmers worked many laws to get cheap labor into this country. As Arizona found out, the Catholic Church has been organizing illegal entry for years.; 1/4/24, 10:47 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: Ripping apart the Zionist's rape porn: Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom: Max Blumenthal takes on the Israeli Press.; 1/5/24, 12:06 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: A Palestinian lawyer explains the genocide case at the International Criminal Court, which the US controls, as compared to the upcoming genocide case, at the International Court of Justice, which the US does not. The ICC case is covering every crime the Zionists have committed since 2014. The ICJ case will force them to stop, and reverse, what they're doing in Gaza now. And whatever the verdict Israel suffers - they are expected to lose by a lawyer who's won there before - their humiliation will be linked to, and shared by, the United States.

Are we having fun yet?; 1/5/24, 12:48 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: US criticism of S Africa's genocide case is meritless, counterproductive & baseless: Marwan Bishara

This is mind-blowing. 22,438 dead. By our hand. To support apartheid, a religious theocracy, and white supremacy, in 2024.

There simply aren't enough drugs to cope.; 1/5/24, 1:19 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Haaretz - Gaza Genocide Case at the ICJ Has an Unwitting Ally: Israeli Politicians: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have asked his ministers to shut up and stop saying stupid things about Gaza. Instead, he ignored and even encouraged them.; 1/5/24, 1:31 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Haaretz - Gaza Genocide Case at the ICJ Has an Unwitting Ally: Israeli Politicians: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have asked his ministers to shut up and stop saying stupid things about Gaza. Instead, he ignored and even encouraged them.; 1/5/24, 1:32 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: HE NEVER PAID; 1/5/24, 2:05 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: More than 100 Social Organizations from around the world back South Africa’s case against Israel; 1/5/24, 2:10 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: "If you can dehumanize the Arabs, which is what we've been doing, then you can sign on to Mr. Netanyahu's program. Now, I don't think it will work....I see nothing good that will come from this, for Israel. Or for us."

- Douglas Macgregor: The US is ‘isolated globally for supporting Israel’; 1/5/24, 2:44 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Surprising facts about Canada:
Canadian "Democracy" (Hunger Games):

Canadian "Democracy" (Hunger Games):
- The King of England owns 90.3% of Canadian lands
- There is a housing crisis
- You can only own an interest in an estate, not land
- You can't vote for the Prime Minister
- You can't vote for Canadian Senators who are appointed by the Prime Minister. They introduce laws to be approved as law and can, and do, block bills by elected officials from becoming law
- You can't vote for the Premier
- There is no way to impeach a Canadian Prime Minister or any politician, Federal or Provincial
- The Governor General, the King's representative appoints the Prime Minister
- There is no law or constitutional provision to require the leader of a political party to be the Prime Minister, or to even be an elected official. Constitutionally, the Governor General could appoint anyone they want.
- The Governor General appoints Lieutenant Governor Generals to preside over provinces in their legislatures.
- Provinces were carved up to make Canada more manageable by the Federal Government. Besides perhaps Quebec they were not formed by self determination the way individual self determining states are.
- Canada doesn't have a capital city, it has a National Capital region that includes Ottawa in Ontario and Gatineau in Quebec. Government workers there continue to grow exponentially. There are currently 151,936 Federal workers in the NCR out of a total 274,219 in Canada representing 55% of government workers.
- The average public service employee makes $125,300 per year.
- Based on this tax payers send the National Capital Region $19 billon per year or $52.2 million per day.
- These workers, were encouraged by Ottawa based lawyers, to sue Canadian COVID Mandate Protestors and donors that gave to the protestors, despite fundraiser funds never being delivered to the protestors due to multiple court orders and bank freezes prohibiting the distribution.
- Four protest fundraisers raised approximately $14.75 million. Could argue $25.25 million if count the first that raised $10.5 million but was shut down. Only around a million was used or distributed. $5.5 million is frozen to make it available for National Capital Region residents to take in a lawsuit against protestors.
- The lead plaintiff of the lawsuit is a Chinese Canadian federal government worker that expressed political ideological views for suing Canadian protestors. During the protest a police complaint was filed against her apartment complex for reigning marbles and eggs down on protestors as they peacefully marched with a City permit on day one of the protest. She complains that protestors were hostile to her after this.; 1/5/24, 3:01 AM
gadfly said...: NYC is suing 17 Texas charter bus companies for $708 million in costs associated with dumping 33,600 migrants into the Big Apple for the past 20 months.

New York Social Services Law § 149 . . . requires that "[a]ny person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, a needy person from out of state into this state . . . to make him a public charge. . .shall be obligated to convey such person out of state or support him at his own expense." That statute expressly authorizes the . . . City Department of Social Services (DSS) to sue to recover those costs . . . including shelter, food, health care, and more.

So now these Charter Bus companies will never get the cash from insurance so they will have to sue the State of Texas. Governor Abbott declares that it is all Biden's fault, that Texas put some 88,000 border-crossers onto buses out of the Lone Star State. But Abbott didn't engage in his illegalities when Trump was president.; 1/5/24, 3:09 AM
wendybar said...: Suhag A. Shukla
@SuhagAShukla

Eagerly awaiting the scathing OpEds from @nytimes @washingtonpost and @ForeignPolicy about democracy and law and order being on a steep slide towards anarchy in United States of America. 😜

R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Pro-Palestine Protesters Occupy and Shut Down California State Capitol; 1/5/24, 3:10 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Ben Shapiro is a real shit when debating someone other than college students; 1/5/24, 3:35 AM
Humperdink said...: A. N. Pritzker was the founder and patriarch of the billionaire clan. It has been often said the third generation brings down the business. Well the business may be thriving, but the reputation(s) are in tatters.

Penny Pritzker is front and center hiring the incompetent Claudine Gay and staunchly standing behind her.

"Meanwhile, cousin Thomas Pritzker is named in newly unsealed documents relating to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked overseas to have sex with the now 73-year-old, who is chairman of Hyatt Hotels and CEO of the Pritzker Organization." (NYPost)

JB Pritzker is governor of Illinois presiding over the huge exodus of citizens from his state.

And of course we need to toss in Jennifer Pritzker, who now identifies as transgender (of course), is funding the cause to the tune of millions.

There's more, read the whole thing.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/news/pritzker-power-family-under-fire-for-harvard-epstein-scandals/; 1/5/24, 4:48 AM
wendybar said...: Elon set Mark Cuban straight on DEI.

Mark Cuban
@mcuban
5. So what's the conclusion ?
If you don't think there is a need for DEI and it doesn't create a competitive advantage for your company, just look at the
@x
posts/replies/quotes below.

These are the same people that work for you or are your co-workers. Everyone is entitled to their POV, but these same feelings, even if they are not said out-loud, are heard loud and clear at work.
6:33 PM · Jan 3, 2024

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
Cool, so when should we expect to see a short white/Asian women on the Mavs?; 1/5/24, 4:50 AM
wendybar said...: "But with no backpacks to carry water, energy snacks, or even spare socks for their journey? Shoot, our children don’t go off to neighborhood elementary schools without backpacks full of supplies. So how is it these folks walk the 1,300-mile south-to-north expanse of Mexico, not to mention trekking from Central and South America, without backpacks?
Media tell us that many invaders traveled far distances and have endured harrowing conditions. But they don’t look all that travel-worn. Any reader who has traveled in developing countries, especially in adventure-travel mode (ostensibly, walking through the Darien Gap and the length of Mexico qualifies) knows that it is a neat trick to keep self and clothes clean and body hydrated and nourished."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/invasion_inversion_turning_america_upsidedown.html; 1/5/24, 5:16 AM
Humperdink said...: Funny that Claudine Gay claims racism was the reason she was canned, but the (female) president of the University of Pennsylvania "was resigned" somewhat quietly. She is completely off the radar screen.; 1/5/24, 5:21 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is what REAL CORRUPTION looks like, and she and the others made Insider Trading LEGAL for them, but not for us.....

"Nancy Pelosi 83, got a 65 percent return on her investments in 2023, well over double the S&P 500's overall 24 percent gain."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12928515/Nancy-Pelosis-stocks-trades-saw-staggering-65-return-year-Former-Speakers-shares-spotlight-Democrats-calls-trades-banned-Congress.html; 1/5/24, 5:39 AM
BillieBob Thorton said...: Is tomorrow, January 6, a Democrat Holiday?; 1/5/24, 6:09 AM
Humperdink said...: gadfly asserted with certainty: "Now, French researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. — may have died as a result of taking the damned "cure."

Estimated? What a specious claim. Studies to back it up? If it is an approved drug, why is it killing patients? I am surprised you failed to mention Trump took the drug.; 1/5/24, 6:09 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Not one of my posts showed up.

Incredible.; 1/5/24, 6:24 AM
iowan2 said...: Now, French researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. — may have died as a result of taking the damned "cure."

Notice the absolute absence of any facts.

Gadfly. What was the cause of death It was not choking on the pill. Some bodily systems were corrupted so drastically to cause death.

After all the lies told by EXPERTS, surrounding covid, you believe a story that has zero facts; 1/5/24, 6:39 AM
iowan2 said...: . requires that "[a]ny person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, a needy person from out of state into this state .

They have documents allowing them in the country. Hence they have constitutional rights to travel without restrictions.
President Biden issued those documents.; 1/5/24, 6:51 AM
iowan2 said...: In the old days, American farmers worked many laws to get cheap labor into this country

You mean the people through their elected representatives, wrote and passed laws concerning immigration and migratory labor?

Don't they know they just have to get the President to ignore all the laws, and do as he pleases?

Farmers are true hicks. . .right?; 1/5/24, 6:57 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Half of what I write no longer appears.; 1/5/24, 7:07 AM
effinayright said...: Gadfly wrote:
You read the article, Mikie, so you know that he was not permitted to accept a single penny from foreigners for his personal benefit under the Emolument Clause (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8) of the Constitution. The payments received of $7.8 million was the sum from only 20 countries at four of his properties during the first two years of Trump's term.
****************

Yeah, gadfly, the Constitution requires Trump and every President to divest himself of his businesses when he takes office and to make sure no foreign government employee uses their services, even if the transaction is arms-length, and has no connection to any official business.

SNORT

You need to get your microcephalic mind right: Read this:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-8/the-foreign-emoluments-clause-generally

Appellate courts VACATED the lower courts'holdings that Trump had violated the Emoluments clause. IOW they nullified those decisions.

The score thus far:

REALITY: Infinity

Gadfly: Dick; 1/5/24, 7:19 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Jon Stewart, doing that self-hating Jew thang, again; 1/5/24, 7:19 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Israel-U.S. Rift: After Netanyahu Rebuffs Biden, Ben-Gvir Says ‘We’re Not Another Star on the American Flag’

WHY ARE WE SENDING THESE PEOPLE MONEY?; 1/5/24, 7:30 AM
Leland said...: Here’s the link: https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/01/02/mia-schems-captivity-was-anything-but-kindness-n602341; 1/5/24, 7:30 AM
Leland said...: NYC is suing 17 Texas charter bus companies for $708 million in costs associated with dumping 33,600 migrants into the Big Apple for the past 20 months.

NYC is a racist corrupt city that thinks they alone can regulate travel in the US based on skin color. I look forward to the counter suits and hope the official immunity is dropped.; 1/5/24, 7:34 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Palestinian Stand-Up Comedy: The West Doesn't Stand A Chance; 1/5/24, 7:44 AM
tim in vermont said...: Pretty sure they were iron bombs. It doesn't take four, expensive at the time, 2,000 lb smart bombs to blow up a house. It takes 4 iron bombs to increase the odds that one of them actually hits the target.; 1/5/24, 7:50 AM
Josephbleau said...: “Now, French researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. — may have died as a result of taking the damned "cure."”

Does not pass a basic smell test. If 17,000 people in six nations died taking a common pharmaceutical ( I have taken it for malaria prevention ), the lawsuits would have been paid off a long time ago. Why have I not seen thousands of billboards and bus ads telling me that Honest Bob the lawyer can get me millions if I have taken the pill. If 17000 died then 100000 people must have suffered non fatal injury. Hydroxychloroquine is on the UN list of critical medications, are the WHO/UN killers?; 1/5/24, 7:58 AM
tim in vermont said...: Eagle tries to attack a kitten through a car windshield; 1/5/24, 7:59 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Gadfly:

The NYC law you cited seems to imply specific intent, I.e. “to make him a public charge”. That might be a hard thing to prove, similar to when Hillary mishandled classified documents on her bathroom server but didn’t really mean it.; 1/5/24, 7:59 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: 'I had black friends growing up' said Nikki Haley.

BUT NOT ANYMORE; 1/5/24, 8:07 AM
narciso said...: https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-ceo-financier-of-october-7-attack-living-freely-in-turkey; 1/5/24, 8:23 AM
Old and slow said...: Blogger The Crack Emcee said...
Half of what I write no longer appears.

I shudder to think what that half must be like.; 1/5/24, 8:36 AM
wendybar said...: "Hey Obama, thanks for nothing."

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/president-nothing; 1/5/24, 8:47 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Eric Adams is getting ratioed to hell on his angry foot-stomping lawsuit against the bus companies transporting illegal aliens to New York and New Jersey.; 1/5/24, 8:47 AM
Rusty said...: The Crack Emcee said...
"Half of what I write no longer appears."
(In my best Jeremy Clarkson), Oh, no! Anyway.; 1/5/24, 8:50 AM
Jamie said...: “Now, French researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the U.S. — may have died as a result of taking the damned "cure."”

I imagine what these "researchers" have concluded was that these people forwent (is that a word? "Forgoed" certainly doesn't sound right) other treatments and died as a result of their decision. It's not that taking HCQ killed them, itself, obviously, as many have pointed out.

Of course, until the medical community realized that intubation was killing people, and that causing patients to lie supine instead of prone was killing people, those things were in fact also killing people. More that 17,000? Hmm. An awful lot of people died under medical care...

Any discussion of excess deaths linked to the COVID vaccine? There are always deaths related to vaccination; why is this the one vaccine where we don't talk about the rate of such?

I am vaccinated, btw. And I got one booster.; 1/5/24, 8:57 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: You read the article, Mikie, so you know that he was not permitted to accept a single penny from foreigners for his personal benefit under the Emolument Clause (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8) of the Constitution. The payments received of $7.8 million was the sum from only 20 countries at four of his properties during the first two years of Trump's term.

Hotels must offer accommodations to everyone, including foreigners. An emolument is a gift; renting an hotel room is a service, for which customers pay.

Nice try. Would you like to play again?; 1/5/24, 9:02 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Oochie walla walla oochie bang-bang: Bill Ackman’s wife is accused of plagiarizing part of her dissertation; 1/5/24, 9:07 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: My comment, from before I said "Half of what I write no longer appears," still hasn't appeared.; 1/5/24, 9:10 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Former IDF soldier: "Israel should not exist."; 1/5/24, 9:27 AM
Original Mike said...: "Governor Abbott declares that it is all Biden's fault, "

I can't imagine who else's fault it is.; 1/5/24, 9:59 AM
Jamie said...: Hey! My phone display fixed itself! Huzzah!; 1/5/24, 10:02 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Let's try again: Bill Ackman’s wife is accused of plagiarizing part of her dissertation

I imagine the poor man will have to get a divorce now, being such an extreme breach of trust, in every instance someone finds.; 1/5/24, 10:17 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Israel 'WORSE Than Apartheid': South African Jewish Former ANC Politician Andrew Feinstein; 1/5/24, 10:34 AM
Humperdink said...: @gadfly. The number of deaths you quote rival the number of scalps (eh) former NY Governor Cuomo took by stuffing nursing homes with Covid patients.; 1/5/24, 10:39 AM
Leland said...: Interesting how New York City is able to insist that nobody can transport people to the Sanctuary City of New York without also having funds to care for those they are transporting. Isn't that Interstate Commerce? Since when has New York City alone had authority to impose such regulation on Interstate Commerce? Again, I look forward to the countersuits, and I hope Eric Adams is held directly accountable for the transportation company legal fees and reputation damage.; 1/5/24, 11:04 AM
Big Mike said...: My comment at 9:45 makes no sense because the comment it updated seems to have been swallowed by Blogger. Yesterday was the first day of classes back from winter break at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa. At 7:37 local time most students were in the cafeteria — it’s not clear why — and a biological male named Dylan Butler, who identified as trans, entered with a pump action shotgun and a ”small caliber handgun.” The principal verbally attempted to engage the shooter and talk him down, but was shot for his efforts. Nevertheless Principal Dan Marburger did succeed in buying time for some students to escape the cafeteria to safety. When the shooting stopped the principal and five students had been shot, one — a 6th grader — fatally. It’s not clear from the article why a 6th grader was at the high school. Nor is there any information about whether the high school had a resource officer and where he or she was when this went down.

Afterwards Butler hid in a school bathroom and killed himself.

I do not get why the Ls, Gs, and Bs chose to slign themselves with school shooters. If the way to cut down on school shootings is to cram all of you back into the closet, then for the sake of the children we’re overdue to start cramming.; 1/5/24, 11:22 AM
Leland said...: Curious, do other people remember the old movies and tv shows in which a corrupt Sheriff, usually portrayed as being in the South, sat in their patrol car at the edge of town and profiled those entering their town. Eventually, they would chase down somebody coming in and would ask what they planned to do in town and why they were there. If they didn't get the hint to leave, they would get arrested on some absurd charge like having a broken taillight (that the Sheriff broke as walked up to the car, but who are you going to believe?).

These were stories to show how corrupt governments would use law enforcement as a means to keep certain undesirable people from freely traveling across the state or country. In the 60's, 70's, and 80's, such shows portrayed the corrupt governments as bad people.

Today, Gadfly celebrates New York Mayor Eric Adams bringing back corrupt law enforcement to keep out undesirables. Forget the concept of economic free trade and travel in the US. Once again as it was in the Jim Crow days in Democrat controlled cities and towns, you'll have to show papers identifying yourself and proving you have the financial means to care for yourself when visiting blue cities. If you fail to do this, you will be refused entry, and anyone that assisted you will be sued by the city. This is the future Gadfly celebrates.; 1/5/24, 12:24 PM
Michael said...: Gadfly. You moron, were deal clerks at Trump hotels meant to turn away guests with reservations because of where they cane from? And you think Trump personally took money off the top before expenses to pay himself. By going from hotel to hotel and taking the cash? Oops they pay by card. Stunning stupidity.; 1/5/24, 12:31 PM
Enigma said...: With the breakout of 14th Amendment challenges to Trump, and now Dem attempts to disqualify Republicans from elections more broadly, I've concluded the Dem Party has entered the 3rd stage of grief: bargaining.

The five stages of grief are:

* Denial
* Anger
* Bargaining
* Depression
* Acceptance

https://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-grief#5-stages

The Ds spent the entire Trump presidency in denial and anger. Now, with Musk releasing the Twitter files and Ds seeing the outcomes of knee-jerk anti-Trump policies (i.e., inflation, COVID lockdown/vax chaos, border/sanctuary city chaos, transgender sports chaos, Ukraine, the rise of neo-Nazis on the left, etc.), they cannot deny and cannot blame Trump.

So, they've moved forward. The 2024 election will be revelatory one way or another.; 1/5/24, 1:38 PM
walter said...: Link to the study giving Jabfly a hard-on:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075333222301853X
"We estimated the worldwide in-hospital mortality attributable to HCQ use by combining the mortality rate, HCQ exposure, number of hospitalised patients, and the increased relative risk of death with HCQ. The mortality rate in hospitalised patients for each country was calculated using pooled prevalence estimated by a meta-analysis of published cohorts. The HCQ exposure was estimated using median and extreme estimates from the same systematic review. The number of hospitalised patients during the first wave was extracted from dedicated databases."
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"Conclusions
Although our estimates are limited by their imprecision, these findings illustrate the hazard of drug repurposing with low-level evidence."

Graphical display:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S075333222301853X-ga1_lrg.jpg

"However the magnitude of theconsequences of the HCQ deleterious effect was unknown."; 1/5/24, 2:07 PM
wendybar said...: Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
🚨🚨🚨

The criminal law firm representing Burisma, the Ukraine gas giant paying Hunter Biden millions, just registered as a Foreign Agent for its work in 2016.

This proves once and for all Hunter Biden violated FARA.

The firm was trying to prevent an investigation from the Obama admin and got meetings with high-level appointees including key anti-Trump impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch.

Hunter Biden was engaged in the same exact work. Will he get raided like Rudy Giuliani?

https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1743307530032591033?s=20; 1/5/24, 3:45 PM
Jim at said...: Do notice Mutaman and Gadfly's glee in sharing the results of a dubious study claiming people died using HCQ.

Why would that be?; 1/5/24, 4:38 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Big Mike (11:22am):
If it was 7:37am, classes probably hadn't started yet. Many public schools offer (usually free) breakfast these days. Even in those that don't, the cafeteria is a good place for students to hang out before classes start: plenty of room and teachers and administrators (and the principal in this case) can keep an eye on them more easily than if they're wandering the halls. And many parents have to drop their kids off 30 or more minutes before classes start so they can get to work on time themselves.

As for grade schoolers at a high school: where I live (Shenandoah Valley) some kids ride two separate buses. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it. If there's some holler way up in the hills that has only 3 grade-schoolers, 1 middle-schooler, and 2 high-schoolers living in it, it would be incredibly inefficient to send 3 buses twice a day. All 6 will ride the same bus to the nearest school, where those going to the other 2 schools switch buses. As I recall - it's been 10+ years since I taught in the local public schools - students switching buses would normally wait outside. But it's January and it's Iowa, so I imagine letting middle-schoolers wait for their transfer buses inside the cafeteria would be better than making them freeze outside, especially if the buses are running late.; 1/5/24, 7:30 PM