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September 21, 2024

Sunrise — 6:39, 6:41, 6:46, 6:46.

34 comments:

Political Junkie said...: Not every day North Carolina basketball loses 70 - 50 to James Madison.; 9/21/24, 8:09 PM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Things are so bad right now; K & T are joyfully running against Biden.

link X video; 9/21/24, 8:18 PM
Big Mike said...: It wasn’t basketball, it was football. Schools from major conferences usually pay colleges from lower-ranked conferences. In this case the contract paid the JMU Dukes $10,000 per point scored, so the Dukes were incentivized to run up the score. UNC now owes JMU $700,000 after being blown out.

James Madison is about a half hour or so south of where I
I live. It’s not UVA, but it’s not a bad college either.; 9/21/24, 8:28 PM
Political Junkie said...: That was a joke, Big Mike.; 9/21/24, 8:47 PM
gilbar said...: wait a minute.. are y'all implying that UNC plays football? that's news to me..
wait another minute.. maybe you AREN'T implying that at all; 9/21/24, 9:03 PM
Caroline said...: World on fire!; 9/21/24, 9:54 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: No one jokes about Carolina basketball! Ever! They save the jokes up for Duke and NCSU.; 9/21/24, 10:59 PM
TickTock said...: Whole lotta red going on there.; 9/22/24, 12:31 AM
gadfly said...: The official @MyPillowUSA X (formerly Twitter) account tweeted an advertisement for its pillows with a price tag of $14.88. The number "1488" is a reference to the "14 words" slogan frequently used by neo-Nazis: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The "88" is a reference to the eighth letter of the alphabet twice, interpreted by neo-Nazis to mean "Heil Hitler."

As suspected, Mike Lindell is a Nazi.; 9/22/24, 12:46 AM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/22/24, 2:03 AM
BG said...: This won’t end well: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/un-general-assembly-votes-make-old-jerusalem-jew/; 9/22/24, 2:34 AM
wendybar said...: Even Tim Walz agrees...
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Tim Walz: “We can’t afford four more years of this!”

https://x.com/theblaze/status/1837551492170948649; 9/22/24, 3:23 AM
wendybar said...: "While the Teamsters have decided to withhold a call to vote for Kamala Harris in this election, the tax collectors for the welfare state have put out their enthusiastic endorsement."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/kamala_harris_gets_that_coveted_irs_endorsement_for_president.html; 9/22/24, 3:27 AM
wendybar said...: Unfortunately, there are too many coincidences to be just dumb luck.....

"Prior to their respective assassination attempts targeting Trump, Ryan Routh and Thomas Crooks had extraordinary proximity to U.S. Intelligence, demonstrated foreknowledge of Trump’s schedule and security, and acquired skills that intelligence agencies have a history of sharing with assets."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/trump_assassins_off_the_books_assets.html; 9/22/24, 3:33 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Poor stupid gadfly can't seem to handle simple arithmetic. If "1488" = Nazi, then 14.88 is obviously one-hundredth of a Nazi, and gadfly himself has a higher percentage of Nazi in him than that.

I worked in a small town in PA a few years ago, and often had the cheap breakfast (two eggs, toast, and OJ, I think it was) at the local diner with Bible quotations prominently displayed on the wall. With tax, the price came out to $6.66. The waitress was mildly amused when I pointed out that the number wasn't very Christian, but not particularly embarrassed: it was just a number, and not even the same number. After all, if "666" is the Mark of the Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, my $6.66 breakfast only represented seven-hundredths of a head and a tenth of a horn: ugly but not particularly terrifying.

Thomas Wictor once tried to calculate the number of actual Nazis and Klansmen in the U.S. Even adding up the various competing groups of each, he concluded that there were roughly 500 Nazis and 3,500 Klansmen in America. Of course, at least 10% of each, and probably more like 20% or 30%, are undercover agents of federal, state, and local law enforcement. People who pretend to worry about Nazis in America almost invariably support much larger, more dangerous, and less obvious groups that are at least as violent and unAmerican.

Was it Schopenhauer who said that 'Every noxious insect thinks he's Socrates'? So with self-described gadflies. Unlike Socrates, they're almost invariably annoying in an utterly useless way.; 9/22/24, 4:10 AM
The rule of Lemnity said...: YouTube: Trump is not going to be allowed to win

Hint:: What Actually Happened with All the "Trump" 2020 Election Lawsuits - Viva & Barnes; 9/22/24, 5:28 AM
tim in vermont said...: Maybe some of the cheerleaders for for the Kiev side of the Ukrainian civil war, which has been going on for a decade, BTW, ever since the coup, can update us on the Kursk operation. I have been assured that it is a serious operation and a serious threat to Putin's power. Any updates?

How about the HIMARS? Don't tell me that we exposed one of our premier weapons systems to combat and now it has been solved, and the Chinese are being filled in on how to deal with this threat? Hint: Drones with night vision and range, so that they are discovered as they are moved around at night, these are something China can manufacture in massive quantities, BTW.

We keep hearing about an agreement where Ukraine had security guarantees, (it didn't) from all sides, well, the Russians offered security guarantees written down, including signing off on additional security guarantees from the West, in exchange for neutrality, three times since, and all three times the Ukrainians tore up the agreements "because Putin can't be trusted," and interestingly, it was never Putin who tore up these agreements, it was always Kiev which refused to live by them, because it was more important to NATO to have nuclear missiles in Ukraine, five minutes from Moscow, than it was for Ukraine to live in peace and security.

Three days before the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian civil war, Moscow tried to find a way out by asking if NATO would agree to a nuclear free Ukraine as part of NATO, and the US refused, saying that it was completely non-negotiable and that as soon as Ukraine was in NATO, nuclear missiles would be stationed there, as I said, five minutes from Moscow. If you don't think that a statement like that was intended to provoke an invasion that we felt would amount to a trap for Russia, well, tell me without saying so that you haven't read any history.

Now the West is finally admitting what had been clear all along, that the neocons like Biden and Blinken dreadfully miscalculated, and that Russia is far stronger than they thought, and the economic sanctions are hurting Europe more than Russia, and advocating starting an economic world war by sanctioning China, because, just as predicted, the whole misadventure was poorly thought out, and the only way that the Biden/Harris Administration can think of to win is to threaten Russia with WW3 and hope that Putin is bluffing, in fact the Biden/Harris Administration wants to bet all of our lives on the opinion that Putin is bluffing.

That is enough reason to vote for Trump right there. The idea that it was ever worth WW3 in order that Ukraine, a country whose very name means in English "The borderlands," and which lies between NATO and Russia, could join part of a hostile and warlike military bloc which seeks the collapse of the Russian Federation is .. well, I can't think of an expression to convey how deeply misguided such a "plan" has been.; 9/22/24, 6:42 AM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Headline: "Arizona Supreme Court OKs nearly 100K people to vote after citizenship proof glitch"; 9/22/24, 6:44 AM
Big Mike said...: This election all of the people who proudly announce that they want to kill Jews are Kamala Harris supporters. You can already find them in Dearborn, Michigan, and in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Coming soon to a campus near you (if they aren’t there already).; 9/22/24, 6:49 AM
Big Mike said...: Well, Political Junkie, it strikes me that the real story is funny enough. Like two weekends ago, when Notre Dame paid Northern Illinois over a million dollars to come to South Bend, only to have the Huskies win.; 9/22/24, 6:50 AM
tim in vermont said...: Putin, so far, has publicly declared only three red lines.

No NATO in Ukraine. The US crossed it, and now we have the war.

No depleted uranium weapons in Ukraine, as they would consider this the equivalent of using dirty bombs. The UK did it, not the US, we didn't send Abrams tanks with DU armor, but Russia responded by moving nuclear weapons into Belarus. Oh yeah, and the DU tank shells made no difference in combat, since the largest cause of mortality to NATO tanks is drones, which the shells are useless against.

Now they are saying that if the US operates long range missiles that strike in Russia, we will be in a state of war with Russia. As was obvious, but which was proven by the leaked German general's phone call, the Ukrainians can't operate these weapons by themselves, if US missiles are used against Russia, the US will be heavily involved in each strike. This is Putin's reasoning, and if you can talk him out of it, go ahead and try,

The rest of these supposed "red lines" we've crossed were entirely based on speculation on our side as to how much Putin would tolerate, not plain language declarations from the Russians.; 9/22/24, 6:56 AM
Christopher B said...: While demanding a third Democrat debate with Trump, "Say it to my face" Harris ditches another joint appearance hosted by a group that isn't DNC-adjacent.; 9/22/24, 7:07 AM
Humperdink said...: VP candidate Tim Awalz in Bethlehem, PA yesterday: “We can’t afford four more years of this”.

I completely agree. Preach it Tim!; 9/22/24, 7:08 AM
Rocco said...: Dr Weevil said...
"Poor stupid gadfly can't seem to handle simple arithmetic. If '1488' = Nazi, then 14.88 is obviously one-hundredth of a Nazi, and gadfly himself has a higher percentage of Nazi in him than that."

Oh, it gets worse than that.

The Left is always accusing the rest of us of what they are doing. Take gadfly's post and spell out all of the numbers as words (14 = "fourteen", etc). Including his name "gadfly" at the top, it comes out to exactly 88 words. Gadfly is literally screaming "Heil Hitler" at us.; 9/22/24, 7:10 AM
wendybar said...: Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Surely Cheney, the IRS, Putin and Iran endorsing Kamala can’t all be wrong! 😑; 9/22/24, 7:11 AM
boatbuilder said...: Well, he's not wrong.; 9/22/24, 7:12 AM
Jersey Fled said...: You were kidding, right Gadfly?; 9/22/24, 7:20 AM
Jersey Fled said...: On X this morning.

“Usher just deleted all of his tweets. The Diddy tapes are about to send hundreds of celebrities to prison.”; 9/22/24, 7:23 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Is the ABC whistleblower document any less credible than the Steele dossier?; 9/22/24, 7:30 AM
narciso said...: Asking for a friend; 9/22/24, 7:37 AM
Leland said...: It is interesting how familiar gadfly is with Nazi lore. It is like he’s a fanboy.; 9/22/24, 7:53 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Beautiful photo sequence. An accompaniment - Bad Company"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdkXNrfVy1w; 9/22/24, 8:00 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I keep thinking back to what Buwaya was predicting about USA's future before he bugged out of this blog.; 9/22/24, 8:03 AM
Narayanan said...: these guys need to speak slower - what is the rush? is anybody poundng at doors to arrest them?; 9/22/24, 8:13 AM