Leave a comment

SPACE: Leaving the Launch Pad

Yeaaaah, it’s not one of the best vegetables known to Earthlings. However, it does generate a heck of a lot of gas… Good call.

How it’s done in space…

The Great Expanse:

Diana Gitig: Are we ethically ready to set up shop in space? A new book asks hard questions about whether we’ve thought through life in space.

Robert Zimmerman: Curiosity looks ahead: Which way to go?

Russell McLendon: Scientists Think They’ve Cracked The Mystery of Europa’s Weird Rotating Ice Shell

Robert Zimmerman: The ubiquitous presence of ice in the Martian mid-latitudes

Michelle Starr: This Mysterious Planet Could Be Transforming Into a Water World

Competition is a beautiful thing. Isn’t it something how Hubble kicked-up its game since Webb went into space, huh…

Robert Zimmerman: Hubble looks at a nearby dwarf galaxy

Richard Milner: The James Webb Telescope Discovery That Defies How We View The Universe

Ashley Strickland: Magellan spacecraft images reveal volcanic activity on Venus

Ben Turner: 2 pairs of gigantic runaway black holes spotted on collision course, and they’re bringing four entire galaxies with them

Space and Other Tech:

Does it involve mining and eating a “spice”…

Tim Newcomb: Scientists Now Have the Blueprint for an Actual, Working Wormhole

21st Century space race continues…

Robert Zimmerman: Chinese pseudo-commercial rocket industry gearing up to launch numerous times from interior spaceport

Andrew Griffin: Scientists discover superconducting material that could bring total revolution in energy and electronics

Chris Young: In a first, scientists show time reflection of electromagnetic waves: The breakthrough experiment could lead to low-energy, wave-based computers and new applications for wireless communications.

And here we go…

Ben Bartee: Los Angeles Times Columnist: AI Deserves Human Rights

Scott Whitlock: AI expert warns of too much ‘hype’: Humans will still be in charge, won’t be ‘pets’ to new tech: According to Professor Robert J. Marks, Americans should worry about our military falling behind in the technology

Theories or Fiction:

Nadia Drake: What is the multiverse—and is there any evidence it really exists?

Diana Logan: This Theory Claims Quantum Entanglement May Be Responsible For Human Consciousness

U-FOs and Aliens:

Douglas Charles: ‘Most Spectacular’ UFO Photo Ever Taken Revealed After Being Classified For Over 30 Years

Douglas Charles: Filmmaker Claims Footage Exists Of Alien Captured In The Varginha Incident, AKA ‘Brazil’s Roswell’

Maggie Harrison: Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

Sci-Fi and Other Unreal Reels:

Space: Best asteroid movies, ranked

Scott Campbell: “Ashfall”: An unsung disaster epic that bravely played Hollywood at its own game and did it better erupts on Netflix … This is actually no longer available on Netflex. However, it is accessible for ‘free’ via the streaming service FreeVee (formerly IMDb) and if you have Amazone Prime FreeVee is streamed through that server. It’s dubbed in English, but the tedious dialog still translates as tedious in any language. I found it not-so entertaining about halfway into it and not thrilled by the end. It’s no “Volcano” or “Dante’s Peak”.

A real must watch reel is “Train to Busan”, also streaming on FreeVee. It too is a Korean film, but much faster paced and with better characters. Right up there with Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” (streaming on Netflix) on a smaller and more intimate scale…

Watching “The Last of Us”?…

Brooke LaMantia: A Guide to All of the Infected ‘Zombies’ on The Last of Us: A lesson that’s surely not for the squeamish.

ELISA GUIMARÃES: ‘The Last of Us’: How Is Ellie Immune to Cordyceps? Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s the umbilical cord.

Kirsten Acuna: ‘The Last of Us’ finally explains exactly how Ellie became immune to the cordyceps infection

Insider: ‘The Last of Us’ creators say they won’t recast Bella Ramsey amid season 2 time-jump: ‘Let’s put this thing to rest’

Vintage FLASHBACK…

Leave a comment

Saturday Newsfeed: Biden Deflections in F*** Major

NYPost: Blathering Biden’s suspicious silences say everything

And when he does speak he lies in the face of the empirical evidence…

Chris Pandolfo: Biden denies $1M in payments to family from Hunter associate, despite bank records: ‘Not true’ … ‘That’s not true,’ Biden said, disputing financial records that show Hunter, Jim and Hallie Biden received lucrative payments from one of Hunter’s business associates, according to Republicans

And if Pres. Trump is arrested come next week, it is purely a political move with no legal merit to deflect from the Biden family investigation the GOP-led House committee is undertaking…

Chris Pandolfo: Trump says ‘illegal leaks’ indicate he’ll be arrested Tuesday: Donald Trump says on Truth Social that Manhattan DA investigating alleged hush money payments he made to Stormy Daniels is ‘CORRUPT’ and ‘HIGHLY POLITICAL’

Jon Levine: Donald Trump says he will be arrested Tuesday

Twitchy: Flashback time! Here are some of the Dems & media who will be triggered by Trump’s call for protest … Uh-huh, but…

Miranda Devine with the receipts: @GOPoversight has bank records of Hunter Biden’s business partner Rob Walker, a former Clinton official whose wife, Betsy Massey Walker, was Jill Biden’s assistant when Second Lady. He wired money from a Chinese company to Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden & unnamed Biden

Gregg Jarrett explains this latest political folly by a George Soros heavily-backed dem operative posing as Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg who refuses to prosecute actual criminals plaguing NYC…

VIDEO: Gregg Jarrett on possible Trump indictment: This is the most cockamamie legal theory I’ve ever heard of

And as usual with these demcom third-world junta moves, the bullshit always blows-up in their smug faces…

Adam Shaw: ‘LAND SLIDE’ – Elon Musk predicts potential Trump arrest would seal 2024 presidential election: Twitter’s Elon Musk predicts Trump will win re-election in ‘landslide victory’ if Trump is arrested and put in handcuffs

VIDEO: Dan Bongino issues warning over possible Trump arrest, blames ‘Identity politics left’

Twitchy: Jonathan Turley analyzes case against Trump and concludes it’s ‘legally pathetic’

Jonathan Turley: Get ready for Manhattan DA’s made-for-TV Trump prosecution: high on ratings, but short on the law

Meanwhile, go back and re-listen to Gregg Jarrett’s evaluation of this case. House Speaker McCarthy is ‘following the money’ on this latest load of shit. Jarrett and Turley know what they’re talking about…

Adam Shaw: McCarthy directs committees to probe whether federal funds were used in potential Trump indictment

MORE:

Our once world power military has been fundamentally transformed into limp dicks overseen by dick-less hacks, many hired to fulfill purely “affirmative action/#WOKE social justice” quotas agenda of the Biden puppet-masters and the left…

Peter Kasperowicz: Navy secretary cited climate change as top priority as Biden proposes shrinking the fleet: The Biden administration proposed cutting two ships from the Navy in its 2024 budget plan

And while our school children are not even being taught passing-grades academic subjects (as they are in communist China) but are being indoctrinated and brainwashed with ‘gender/queer/sexualization’ bullshit and deliberately dividing and pitting them racially this is what Russia (China’s growing Ally) is also training kids in schools under their supervision. Sadly, I doubt the majority of our now deliberately confused anti-American youth would give them much of a fight should they decide to invade us. And never doubt there are ‘those’ already inside our country ready to join their ranks when the time comes, adults as well as indoctrinated children…

Some are scoffing that any invasion would involve drones and missiles and fighter jets. Yeah. But once defeated, an invaded land will be detained and controlled under foot-soldiers. Lots and lots of foot-soldiers on a ground where a citizenry has been allowed to buy and own/possess firearms for well over two centuries.

Production of ‘white flags’ in this country should be booming soon. No doubt Brandon will be patting himself on the hunched-back for those ‘new jobs’…

Steve Janoski: Shocking video shows Russian kids going through military training in Crimea

Meanwhile, in three years the American people has not been fed even one damn milliliter of truth in the entirety of the COVID pandemic, from origins to transmission to therapeutics to vaccines to etc. and still to this day…

Matt Taibi: TWITTER FILES #19 – The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine: Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”

Why the left in MSM and DC hate FOX News and work so hard to get it “canceled”:

Mediaite: Cable News Ratings Tuesday March 7: Fox News Scores 6 Times More Viewers Than CNN in Prime Time

A very pathetic attempt by Mediaite to polish the turd that is MSNBC with this fantasy title…

Mediaite: Cable News Ratings Monday March 13: Maddow Scores Over 2 Million Viewers to Boost MSNBC In Prime Time

Leave a comment

Weekend Reads: Whiskers and Sips

Jonathan Turley: Kitchen Bull Connors: Professor Denounces Cleanliness as Sexist and Racist

Lloyd Billingsley: From January 6 to November 7: What an actual attack on the U.S. Capitol looked like.

Jacqualine Henry: Questioning the January 6 Aftermath: If the Department of Justice can weaponize the FBI and legal system to target and make a cautionary tale out of ideological opposition, who’s next?

J.B. Shurk: Elections Have Consequences; Stolen Elections Have Catastrophes

Julie Kelly: A Haunting Anniversary: As we approach the third anniversary of “15 Days to Slow the Spread” there remains no accountability and no assurances that it couldn’t happen again.

Nicholas Wade: Unnatural Enhancement – The Covid pandemic raises an important question: How should promising but dangerous science be regulated?

Jonathan Turley: “The New Normal”: New York to Lower Math and English Proficiency Standards Due to Poor Test Results

Michael Hartney, Corey DeAngelis: Randi Weingarten’s latest bogus claim gaslights all of us: The evidence shouldn’t be a surprise. They are the teachers’ union, not the kids’ union

Daniel J. FLynn: Girls Are Now Being Banned From Sports for Wanting to Play Against Girls: Liberals won’t let anyone play who doesn’t agree with them.

Megan Fox: New Student-Led ‘Red Guard’ Installed in Maine School District Causes Fury at Board Meeting

Uldis Sprogis: Incompetence rewarded, throughout the U.S. government: The military, education and public health fields all have problems.

Exhibit #5029300…

Joshua Q. Nelson: Dr. Rachel Levine says changing kids’ genders will soon be fully embraced: ‘Wheels will turn on this’. Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the ‘highest support’ of the Biden administration

Katelynn Richardson: DOJ Internal Watchdog Shuts Down House Democrats’ Claims Against FBI Whistleblower Steve Friend

TUCKER CARLSON: You’re going to get a hot war with Russia and China, whether you want it or not

The Juicy Smellit Hoax…

Ace: America’s Hottest New Show Is the Fake Lynching of Jussie Smollett, Hosted By Those Nigerian Bodybuilder Brothers

Victor Davis Hanson: Are We the Byzantines? The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become. Will Americans?

Erik Arnold: Nietzsche in the Shadows: Traces of Nietzsche’s ideas are made manifest in intersectionality.

Matthew Boose: The Right Is Still Afraid to Fight the Culture War: Contemporary society rests atop a bedrock of deviancy that few, even the right-wing culture warriors, dare disturb.

As attacks on FNC escalate, a “leftist’s” perspective…

Leave a comment

Friday Newsfeed: All That’s Supposed to be Green but Isn’t … or Shouldn’t Be

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. The day that everybody can put an O’ in front of their surname and be Irish. And remember to sober-up with that Irish coffee after all of those emerald green brewskies.

No blarney like this bloke’s blarney…

Alexander Hall: Biden skewered as ‘world’s worst Catholic’ who cheapens Irish and Catholic identity: A writer slammed President Biden just before St. Patrick’s day as ‘about as authentically Irish as a leprechaun hat’

Biden Family business spreadin’ the green…

Victor Nava: Comer says ‘6 or 7 Biden family members’ may have been involved in overseas business schemes

Steven Nelson: Hallie Biden revealed as ‘new’ Biden family member who got China cash

Victor Nava: Where the money went: The Bidens and Biden associates that received Chinese cash

Kevin Downey, Jr: The Biden Family Influence-Peddling Scandal Just Got Much, Much Worse

NYPOST: Jim Comer shows that the Biden family business is corruption

Jonathan Turley: “Dirty Political Trick”: Hunter Biden Calls for Criminal Investigations of Critics and Media

Brandon’s ‘March Madness’ Bizzmess:

Biden’s brackets…

Veronique de Rugy: Biden’s New Budget Would Hike Taxes and Wage Class Warfare: The higher taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs could slow growth. Less opportunity means more tribalism and division.

Matt Weidinger: The trillion-dollar hole in the president’s budget: In further proof that he doesn’t understand the first law of holes (when you’re in one, stop digging)…

Betsy McCaughey: Biden’s banking busts include this single biggest monetary policy mistake in half a century: Biden has been obsessing on woke causes while banks are on the brink

NYPOST: SVB turmoil leads Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan to raise recession probability

Liz Sheld: Morning Greatness: Angry Taxpayers Respond to Latest Bank Bailouts

Alex Nitzberg: 19 GOP governors sign statement decrying ESG ‘proliferation’ as ‘a direct threat’

Huh…

Alexa Schwerha: Biden Admin Is Placing Undercover Federal Agents At Universities. Here’s Why

Come on, man…

Julian Epstein: Democrats Fear the Truth About Biden’s 2024 Presidential Run: A re-election campaign is a manifestly bad idea, but members of his party are too cowardly to admit it.

Russkies being Russkies:

Actually, the Pentagon has already hinted we’ll not be making any attempts to ‘recover’ the $32+M debris that’s allegedly some 5000 feet down in the Black Sea…

Liz Friden, Timothy H.J. Nerozzi: RECOVERY RACE – Russian ships at US drone crash site in Black Sea, US official says: ‘They wasted no time’: Officials have speculated that US drone debris has already sunk too far for recovery, after collision with Russian fighter jet

Kevin Haggerty: ‘Exuding weakness wherever they go’: Kilmeade tears into Biden admin after downing of US drone

Dems say, “SCREW THE BORDER”:

Adam Shaw: Homeland Republicans to turn up the heat on Mayorkas after Border Patrol chief’s ‘earth-shattering’ testimonyOrtiz had testified in McAllen, Texas, at committee field hearing

Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin: Homeland Dems booked travel, called witnesses before pulling out of border hearing, Republicans say: The hearing will focus on the ‘unprecedented crisis’ at the border

VIDEO: ‘Mayorkas has failed miserably’: Kinney County, Texas Sheriff Brad Coe details the surge of illegal immigrants he’s encountering ahead of his House testimony.

Kyle Morris: DOD spends nearly $50 million a year ‘to do nothing’ with Trump’s border wall materials, drawing GOP backlash: DOD is spending around $130,000 a day to store materials after Biden canceled Trump’s border wall construction project

Nothing to see here…

It’s not just on our southwestern border. A large number of those illegally crossing our northern border are from China and India…

Susan Jones: 55,736 Undocumented Migrants Encountered at US-Canada Border Since October, Up 133% From FY ’22

Paul Sacca: Cartels use ads on social media apps like TikTok to recruit American teens to smuggle migrants into US: Screenshots from social media show cartels offering as much as $3,500 per trip for Americans to help smuggle migrants across the border

Brian Flood: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas parties with MSNBC honchos amid border crisis

VIDEO: Joe Concha: Mayorkas looks ‘apathetic’ to the border crisis: Fox News contributor Joe Concha sounds off on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for attending a party for MSNBC while border officials struggle to maintain security.

Meanwhile, works both ways, demcoms…

Melissa Fine: ‘I would suggest that Republicans leave’: Rand Paul leads GOP walkout after Dem chair tries tactics to block amendments

Latest MSM/CCPChina COVID origins talking-point:

And the leftist MSM outlets are willingly, gleefully running with this latest deflection bullshit that sounds like a damn “South Park” episode…

And, of course, just as…

Jim Pearce: House Votes 419-0 To Declassify All Intel On COVID Origins

DWN: Jean-Pierre: ‘No’ Decision On If Biden Will Sign Unanimously Passed Bill To Declassify COVID Origins Intel

MORE:

No! No! NOOO! This classroom indoctrination bullshit has to stop. It used to be we viewed people having to eat worms and insects as a sign of severe and unjust poverty and malnutrition. Now it’s the “only right way”. And “cows are killing Earth” compared to the various dinosaur eras of much larger methane producing beasts? Earth will be just fine, teach.

Hannah Grossman: Utah school gives kids ‘disgusting’ insects to eat in class for climate assignment on cows killing the Earth: ‘There’s only one right answer to this essay. And it’s that Americans should be eating bugs,’ a teacher said … You know what’s next, right? “Reduce the surplus population” as Charles Dickens wrote. If these cults believe anything about “methane producing” animal its that Earth is “overpopulated”, with no ‘natural’ depopulation in-sight. Some even espouse reducing the current population. Could the initial COVID pandemic have been a not-so-dry-run?

And you’ll eat those bugs dirty and shivering in the cold. I told you they were coming for more than just your stoves…

Thomas Catenacci: San Francisco latest Dem city to crack down on gas appliances: Regulators characterized the ban as a ‘groundbreaking regulation’ … mark my words. Once they’ve obliterated all gas appliances they will be coming for the electric ones.

Julia Johnson: Greta Thunberg nixes tweet warning end of humanity if climate not fixed by 2023

Stephen Kruiser: The Morning Briefing: Climate Change Whackos Are the Real Danger to the Planet

Uh-huh…

Misty Severi: California could ban Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, and Campbell’s soup over additives

Carlos Garcia: Elon Musk shoots down Democrat lawmaker’s claim that being a ‘good parent’ means letting a child choose their gender

The problem with those privileged to have been born/live in “evil capitalist” society that think they know the reality of a utopian socialist society…

Actually, in the so-called “socialist utopia” of places like Cuba this sort of “neighborly” “scaling up” isn’t ok with the government, let alone making dwelling repairs without government permission. Socialism always means far less for people than they had before its instalment and far-far more for government after its instalment.

Twitchy: Socialist Party beclowns itself by inventing capitalism

Leave a comment

“Hump Day” Reads: Happy “Death Day”, Karl…

The best thing Marx did for mankind was die…

I recently re-watched the movie “Nicholas and Alexandra”. I’d read the book (as well as Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”) in high school (ugh!). Even though it’s fiction, “Doctor Zhivago” is still a more worthwhile loooong view/read. Anyhow, the depiction of the infighting between different commie/Bolshevik groups reminded me a lot of today’s dumb-ass neo-coms. Don’t get me wrong. The Czar was a total ass and not worthy of his people’s loyalty. He’d made his own bed in denying the people an active voice and position in the country. Much like today’s Czar Puddin’-head.

Hump Day Reads:

Victor Davis Hanson: The March Madness of the President: Joe Biden’s political utility and near senility serve as exemptions for his often sexist, racist, and creepy riffs.

Me Too…

Jim Nelles: The Ukraine War Made Me a Hippie, Not a Putin Stooge: Billions in U.S. aid to Ukraine would be better spent here at home. The time for our country to be involved in regional conflicts that do not impact our own security is over.

“DUH-H-H-H” by design…

CR: Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows: A recent study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, Americans’ average IQ is declining, a trend that the study’s authors theorize could result from the quality of education. The authors write that ‘the greatest differences in annual scores were observed for 18- to 22-year-olds.’

Robert Spencer: America’s Teens Are Dumber Than They’ve Been In 100 Years

Not even a ‘cute’ post-turtle…

Christopher Tremoglie: Greta Thunberg’s online climate change cover-up: Thunberg is trying to cover her tracks after yet another climate change doomsday prediction did not come true…

“Shut-up”, they said…

Jonathan Turley: Banking on Censorship: Sen. Kelly Becomes Latest Democrat to Suggest Censoring Views on Social Media

Jonathan Turley: What Stanford, UC Davis campus chaos has in common with Antifa: The anti-free speech movement has racked up two big wins this month at both Stanford and UC Davis

Where’s the money, California…

Brianna Lyman: ‘Where Is Proof Of Damages?’: Leo Terrell Comes Unglued Over San Francisco’s Proposed Reparations

Stephen Green: San Francisco, Reparations, and the Racist Cruelty of Empty Promises

While Carter was indeed ‘bad’ I’d wager there were probably one or two in the running for “second-worst”. Biden, however, has first place wrapped up. And with Brandon giving a televised eulogy it would be “classic mumble-gaffe-whispering Biden”, no doubt…..

Robert Spencer: Second-Worst President in History Asks the Worst President to Deliver His Eulogy

Leave a comment

Wednesday Newsfeed: Another Day, Same Old Dullard…

Yeah! Yeah, just walk away, Puddin-head:

Emily Goodin: Joe Biden is confused AGAIN as he messes up story about what part of Oregon voted to secede in front of wealthy donors who just gave $1M: Biden made a verbal blunder at a fancy fundraiser> He mixed up a story about Oregon in front of 65 wealthy donors. They had just given $1 million to Democratic Party.

Hanna Panreck: Biden caught telling multiple versions of infamous gay marriage ‘epiphany’ story in fact-check: Biden recently told a version of the story during an interview with ‘The Daily Show’

God help us. As Brandon finances Ukraine, he impedes Americans and carves-away their freedoms and rights…

The current ‘energy efficient’ washer models are already insufficient in that they do not use enough water for the loads and wash/rinse times/water is not enough causing laundry to either manually be put through a second rinse cycle or end up being rewashed when you go to get something from the closet that eventually doesn’t smell clean, although it has been washed. And don’t get me started on the damned “HE” formulated laundry detergents…

Matteo Cina: Manufacturers say Biden washing machine rule would make Americans dirtier and stinkier — and raise prices: Industry manufacturers claim the change would make each cycle take longer, detergent cost more, and leave clothes dirtier and stinkier

Collin Anderson: How Biden’s New Washing Machine Regulations Could Ruin Laundry Day: Manufacturers say government climate change initiative would make your washing cycles longer, clothes dirtier

“When you’re squeezing all you can out of the efficiency in terms of electricity use and water … you by definition either make the appliance worse or slower,” said Fisher, who serves as a senior research fellow at the foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. “Why are we so focused on the energy output, as opposed to if it’s helping me wash my clothes? That standard has kind of gone off the rails.”…

Stephen Green @ Instapundit:

Our own Sarah Hoyt told me years ago that she believes the real purpose is to condition people to things that are worse than they used to be, to lower our expectations. I’ve never seen anything to contradict her.

The not-so-slow ‘drip’ … They won’t stop at your stove. Your gas water heater and furnace is also on the chopping block, as well as your propane fuel for home and BBQ grills. Wait for it…

Collin Anderson: Turns Out They Are Coming for Your Gas Stoves: New Biden ‘efficiency’ rule would ban half of gas stoves on the U.S. market

Ben Lieberman: 5 ways Biden is still coming for your gas stove: Gas stoves remain in Biden’s crosshairs

Meanwhile, just a reminder of how EU countries that fell for the Greta climate vs energy crisis are now dealing with the insanity…

Brittany Hughes (10/28/22): Germany’s Leveling a Wind Farm to Expand a Coal Mine as Energy Crisis Worsens

Then there’s Brandon’s Second Amendment target…

Brooke Singman: ARMS RACE – Biden to take executive order action to make it harder for Americans to access guns by requiring background checks on more gun sales: The executive order will increase background checks and prevent firearms dealers without licenses from selling guns

Daniel Trotta: Biden to reinforce background checks for gun buyers … Not to forget he has banks and credit card companies doing the ‘unconstitutional’ ball-sweat work for him with their own ‘ratings’ on ‘climate’ bullshit and on gun purchases of customers.

“Not-a-joke-man”: Taking his schpiel to his low-info base…

Matt Margolis: Joe Biden Takes Things Seriously by… Going on Comedy Central?

Recent polls show the overwhelming majority of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. So naturally, Joe Biden found it appropriate to do a sit-down interview nowhere other than Comedy Central.

No, that’s not a typo. Joe Biden (or his handlers, anyway) thinks it’s an appropriate move at this time to grant an interview to the same network that airs South Park, Beavis and Butt-Head, and other high-level programming becoming of a sitting president.

It gets better…

Not Making Bank:

Biden’s bloviating and self-back-slapping about his alleged “lowering” of inflation (that he caused) is equitable to him using a coffee can to empty the water from the Titanic…

Megan Henney: EYES ON THE ECONOMY – Prices remain elevated as the Fed’s inflation fight takes a twist after SVB collapse: Prices remain elevated as the Fed’s inflation fight takes a twist after SVB collapse

Joe Schoffstall: Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Here’s who benefited from their executive, PAC donations: Bank’s executives, PAC primarily donated to Democrat politicians in recent years

Chris Pandolfo: Silicon Valley Bank committed ‘one of the most elementary errors in banking,’ Larry Summers says: Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says Silicon Valley Bank borrowed money in the short term and invested in long-term bonds, a colossal error that led to its downfall

Kay Smythe: Financial Expert Explains Why The Economy Is Collapsing In One Perfect Tweet

Victoria Taft: The Fault Line in Biden’s Bank Failures Runs Through Washington’s Greed

Vivek Ramaswamy Op-Ed: Big Tech Wins Unfair Advantage Over American Workers in SVB Scandal

The federal government just sent a clear message to the American people: There are alternative rules if you are part of the favored class…

That’s no basis for a bailout, so they pinned it to American workers instead…

It’s a bailout, pure and simple. For years, SVB and its cronies lobbied for looser risk limits by arguing its failure wouldn’t create “systemic risk” and wouldn’t need special intervention by the US government. Yet now the same cronies claim SVB was “systemically important.”

A friendly reminder that everyday customers will have to shoulder the burden of this bailout through higher charges as they top up FDIC…

The deeper problem is that the Federal Reserve has been trying to play God for too long. Except with a fat finger.

Indeed!

Hunting Hunter:

Brooke Singman: Hunter Biden: Treasury to give House Oversight access to suspicious activity reports, Comer says: The federal investigation into Hunter Biden was predicated, in part, by suspicious activity reports on funds from ‘China and other foreign nations’

The Panderer-in-Chief:

Matt Margolis: Biden Claims He Had an ‘Epiphany’ on Same-Sex Marriage as a Teen, but We Have the Receipts

Robert Spencer: As Military Recruiting Numbers Dip to Record Lows, Biden’s Woke Army Works to Destroy Morale

Sick old bastard…

VIDEO: Biden blasts DeSantis-backed ban on transgender affirming care for minors as ‘sinful’: President Biden attacked a Florida ban on gender affirming care for minors as “cruel” and “sinful” during an appearance on ‘The Daily Show.’

MORE:

I’m hoping Tucker Carlson is not yet done with the ‘reveals’ from the J6 raw footage…

Julie Kelly: A ‘Spill’ of FBI Secrets: Americans will hold accountable those responsible for the accelerating degradation of the U.S. justice system as the government’s J6 narrative collapses and their wrongdoing becomes apparent.

Well, because you voted wrong, East Palestine…

Alana Mastrangelo: Exclusive – J.D. Vance: Railroad Companies Have ‘Gotten in Bed with Big Government,’ Biden Administration Making It More Difficult to Clean up East Palestine Mess

This needs to start happening here…

Shawn Fleetwood: If The Dutch Government Thought Its Farmers Would Submit To Environmental Statism Easily, It Was Wrong

Check your pockets…

Cortney Moore: Check your coins: 2004 Wisconsin state quarters could be worth up to $6K: Here’s why. Some Wisconsin quarters from 2004 have a detectable error on its reverse side

Leave a comment

Monday Newsfeed: And You Can Take That to the Bank!

National K9 Veterans Day honors the service and sacrifices of American military and police working dogs.
On March 13, 1942, the Army began the K-9 Corps.

Dogs, some veteran K9s, are trained and become ‘service and support dogs’ for our PTSD human military veterans and for other civilians in need of their unique mental and emotional support.

Our Four-legged Heroes:

VIDEO: Celebrating National K-9 Veterans Day: Jason Johnson, founder of Project K-9 Hero, and Army Ranger veteran Patrick Leser join ‘Fox & Friends’ to salute police and military dogs.

The Bullshit Whisperer:

Steven Nelson: Biden whispers Reagan was ‘wacko liberal guy’ while pushing for tax hikes

The only real solution to Biden’s insane double-triple taxing…

Jessica Chasmar: Sen. John Kennedy says the only way to improve Biden’s budget ‘is with a shredder’: GOP senator says, ‘The president’s budget took my breath away’

As they attempt to blame Pres. Trump for the SVB crash:

This bullshit ‘blame Trump’ missive by the MSM and the left will fail just as the blame for the East Palestine train mess ‘Trump’s-to-blame’ one did…

FOX Business: “SYSTEM IS SAFE” – Biden reacts to Silicon Valley Bank’s historic collapse, refuses to take questions: Biden hints he will seek stronger regulations on banks

Twitchy: Joe Biden stuck around just long enough to lie about who’s on the hook for SVB bailout

Andrew Miller: Liberals blame Trump for Silicon Valley Bank collapse citing 2018 bipartisan bill: Trump signed bipartisan legislation rolling back parts of Dodd-Frank in 2018

CBS News (10/14/20): Trump claims Biden win would cause depression despite economists’ forecast

Meanwhile…

Twitchy: SHOCKER: Comfortably Smug exposes the REAL issue with Silicon Valley Bank and OMG-LOL we KNEW IT

Helena Kelly: SVB had NO head of ‘risk assessment’ for nine months before it collapsed… as woke boss for Europe, Middle East and Africa was busy organizing a month-long Pride campaign and a ‘Lesbian Visibility Day’

CNBC: Silicon Valley Bank employees received bonuses hours before government takeover … This, in addition to those who dumped their stock ahead of the collapse.

Adam Sabes: Silicon Valley Bank posted ‘financial crimes’ senior manager job listing just before closure: The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation shut down the bank on Friday

Suzanne O’Halloran: How Silicon Valley Bank got burned: Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is the second largest in U.S. history

Beege Weborn: Gird your loins: I’m not sure “bloodbath” will be descriptive enough for Silicon Valley Bank failure Update: Yellen says no bailout, focus on depositors MORE: Auction underway

More “proof” these past near-26 months have all been Trump’s fault, or Putin’s … but Trump and Putin are one-in-the-same, or someshit…

The Fed’s raising rates “cause and effect” syndrome is just starting.

Ryan King: Janet Yellen rules out federal bailout for Silicon Valley Bank

The radioactive fallout of the big blast…

J.J. Sefton: With everything going on in the world, whoever had a nationwide run on the banks on their scorecard for today, you just won a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba! Go pick up the keys in Morty’s office.

Joel Kotkin: The SVB collapse marks the end of the Silicon Valley era: The Bay Area is no longer brimming with innovative startups and entrepreneurs … Go #WOKE get #BROKE.

Rick Moran: Did Woke Policies Help Lead to the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank? When the story of why Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by the FDIC is written, the role played by policies that sacrificed fiduciary responsibility for wokeness should be examined. … This is very damn important because every single damn countless trillions of dollars in this administration’s policies are indeed based in #WOKE ideology, from equity to racial justice to gender identity to climate change. ALL of it.

Greg Byrnes: Interest Rate Hikes May Trigger an Avalanche of Household Debt while Badly Run Bank Collapses Capture the Headlines for Now

Abuse of Power should never be rewarded or repeated:

Jerry Dunleavy: GOP warns of ‘trust’ deficit facing FBI’s FISA renewal push

The Department of Homeland Security has swayed into yet another politicized federal agency and its uselessness on our border is just one example of that…

Nick Gillespie and Justin Zuckerman: DHS Just Turned 20. It’s Time To Abolish It: Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.

George Soros is the Cordyceps Infection in Our Country:

Hannah Grossman: St. Louis homicide detective blows whistle on Soros-backed DA’s ‘concerted effort to break down the system’: Roger Murphy warned young people not to go into law enforcement, saying ‘it’s not worth it’

Biden’s Border Collapse – Our Border is NOT “Secure”:

Videos are embedded in Bill Melugin’s tweeted below. The report is the vast majority were Venezuelan…

James Gordon: ‘Absolute madness’: Massive horde of migrants storm El Paso border checkpoint in brazen attempt to enter the US as wild footage shows them tearing down concrete barriers and wire while agents scream ‘they’re coming, shut it down’

And our northern border continues to fall…

April Barton: ‘Extremely dangerous’: Spike in illegal crossings at Canada-Vermont border has feds sounding alarm

Meanwhile, China to our south…

Caitlin McFall: China flexes muscles in Latin America in latest security challenge to US: US struggles to keep up with mounting Chinese threats coming out of Latin America

MORE:

Colleges are fetid money pits and intellectual blackholes…

All you rabid leftist “feminists” have completely sold-out your sex/gender and can have nothing further to offer any ‘debate’ on anything. You are never again to be taken seriously…

CR: Colleges throw out Women’s History Month, celebrate ‘Womxn’ instead: Across the United States, colleges are replacing the ‘Women’s’ in ‘Women’s History Month’ with the woke-appropriate ‘Womxn’s.’ The change is a ploy to make Women’s History Month more gender-neutral and to distance women from men.

Like this bullshit…

Twitchy: Watch: Group of women refuse to define what a woman is because it might offend men

You can cut off parts and construct fake parts, wear opposite gender clothing and make-up and hair, but being a “woman”/female and a man/male is in your DNA and you cannot change that … atleast not yet.

Paul Caron: A Law School’s ‘Denaming’ Evokes Donor Family’s Ire

Good luck with this…

TCF: Colleges need to teach students how to listen, debate: university president

Twitchy: WATCH as white male college student who thinks he’s ‘privileged’ is deprogrammed in REAL-TIME (video)

TCF: In ‘victory for free speech,’ Cornell to host climate change debate

MSMehhhhh…

Miranda Devine: The media ignore Democrats in Congress stepping on freedom of speech

Bookworm: The media sin of reporting and debating from false premises

Clarice Feldman: This Great Stage of Fools: If you’ve ever wondered why the Left is so successful in fooling so many people for so long…

This…

NAOMI WOLF: Dear conservatives, I’m sorry I believed so many media lies: “There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere…”

A point I have made over and over since 9/11 is that many events in history are both real and hyped. Many actors in historic events have their agendas, but are also at times used by other people with their own agendas, in ways of which the former are unaware. Terrorists and terrorism in the Bush era are one example. This issue was both real and hyped.

“Patriots” or “insurgents” (depending on who you are) entering the Capitol can be part of a real event that is also exploited or manipulated by others. We don’t know yet if this is the case in relation to the events of Jan 6, or to what extent it may be the case. That is where a real investigation must come in.

But as someone who has studied history, and the theatrics of history, for decades, I was not at all surprised to see, on Mr Carlson’s security camera footage, the person who was to became the most memorable ‘face’ of the ‘insurrection’ (or the riot, or the Capitol breach) — escorted to the beating heart of the action, where his image could be memorialized by a battery of cameras forever.

There are other aspects of the Jan 6 breach that seemed anomalous to me from the start. I study the relationship in history of buildings such as The White House and the Capitol, to the US public; I follow the way in which the public is either welcomed into or barred from these structures.

The White House itself and the Capitol steps have often been open to US citizens. They are public buildings…

The Capitol is not a sealed space exclusively for legislators, but it is one that is supposed to welcome the public in an orderly way. We should not be encouraged to forget this.

The violence of Jan 6 and its subsequent service as a talking point by the Democrats’ leadership, risks its use also to justify the closing off of our public buildings from US citizens altogether.

This would be convenient for tyrants of any party.

Leaving aside the release of the additional Jan 6 footage and how it may or may not change our view of US history —- I must say that I am sorry for believing the dominant legacy-media “narrative” pretty completely from the time it was rolled out, without asking questions…

Read the whole thing.

Glenn Reynolds @ Instapundit:

YOU CAN’T “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” IF IT’S NOT SCIENCE, AND IF IT’S NOT REPLICABLE IT’S NOT SCIENCE: Social science is irreproducible, drug tests nonreplicable, and stoves studies ignore confounders.

Longterm…

Salena Zito: In Beaver County, anx­i­ety and un­cer­tainty un­der the black cloud of a rail di­sas­ter … Home/property value has already begun to slide in East Palestine.

J6-ers:

Smells like antifa…

Twitchy: DAFUQ?! Here’s some actually NEWSWORTHY #J6footage from trashed suite of Senate hideaway offices

Deanna Fisher: Chansley Gains Support From Musk And Turley

Hollywood’s night-of-nights:

Hollywood’s always proving it’s an ungrateful sap town/industry, not just to customers but to its own…

Heather Hamilton: Oscars 2023: Top Gun: Maverick snubbed despite being credited as having ‘saved Hollywood’

Ryan Smith: Oscars In Memoriam Slammed After Snubs—’Should Be Ashamed’

Big Winners…

Kudos…

Jeffrey Clark: Don Lemon seemingly roasted at Oscars by Michelle Yeoh: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you you’re past your prime’: Don Lemon has been widely condemned for saying that women were only in their ‘prime’ in their ’20s and 30s and maybe 40s’

Michelle Yeoh is 60 years old, and Jamie Lee Curtis is 64 years old.

Jonathan Landrum, Jr: Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Also, remember this kid from “Goonies” and “Indiana Jones”?

He has a real life story that Hollywood should script into a movie…

Daniela Avila: Ke Huy Quan Shouts Out His Goonies Costars After Oscars 2023 Win: ‘Goonies Never Say Die’

Katie Reul: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Wins Seven Oscars, Is Most-Awarded Best Picture Since ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

I’ve yet to view “Everything Everywhere All at Once” but see it is streaming, so, it’s on this week’s ‘wish list’ for me. The trailer looks entertaining … something Hollywood just can’t get a grip on in recent decades. Ticket prices are outrageous. People want entertainment, not #WOKE political scolding lectures. I’ll also be re-watching “Top Gun: Maverick” for the umpteenth time.

If you care, which I really don’t but found these wins interesting…

FNC: 2023 Oscars complete winners list

Leave a comment

Sunday’s Lighter Side: Please Pass the Roast Beef and Potatoes…

Makes me really miss my Grandma(s)…

Cortney Moore: Kentucky woman with over 230 great-great-grandchildren meets great-great-great-grandchild: MaeDell Taylor Hawkins, 98, met her first biological 6th-generation granddaughter in Kentucky

Great Finds:

Rosemary Giles: Centuries-Old Ship Found Beneath the Ruins of the World Trade Center

Jen Grimble: This Newly Discovered Egyptian Sphinx Has a Unique Feature

Michelle Starr: The Broken Stones of Monkeys Look Uncannily Like Something We Used to Make

And sometimes “danger” finds you:

Pilar Arias: Moose charges Idaho snowmobiler during freak incident: ‘Had my brother not jumped when he did, he would have been crushed,’ Jeremiah Bigelow saysMore of the VIDEO here.

Don’t pick a fight your butt can’t win…

Why my Erie-Lackawanna wrecking crew Grandpa pounded into my head when I started driving ‘stop your car as reasonably far away as possible from the “marked” area near the tracks when train warning lights/gates activate’. Note the vehicle trying to make more distance from the area…

Greg Norman: Moment Norfolk Southern train derails in Ohio caught on dashcam video: Cars on Norfolk Southern train carrying liquid propane and ethanol did not spill in Springfield Township, Ohio, officials say

That’s Entertainment:

MovieMaker: Paint Movie Official Poster Features Owen Wilson as an Artist Who Is About to Lose Everything

Coming early April on Prime (?): This looks good…

Ever see this Denzel Washington (fictional) movie? I’ve seen it a couple of times and the bulk of the movie is interesting, but the actual flight scenes were incredible. First time I watched it I stopped and backed up a couple of time to re-watch those scenes. It’s streaming now on Paramount+ (subscription) ..

Joe Otterson: Mel Brooks Talks Working on ‘History of the World, Part II’ at 96: ‘I’m the Jewish Advisor’

Coming 2024: A mighty high bar to reach on this one…

Unwedded bliss…

Janelle Ash: Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn wondered ‘why does anybody care’ they’re not married after being ‘constantly’ asked: Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have been together since 1983

VIDEO: Goldie Hawn rips cancel culture for ruining comedy: ‘Mistrust everywhere’

Leave a comment

SPACE: The Twinkles in Our Eyes When We Look Up at Night

The Daily Digest: The world’s newest space telescope just found something that shouldn’t exist: Hidden within images taken by the James Woods Space Telescope were subtle traces of six massive galaxies that astrophysicists argue must have come into existence shortly after the Big Bang, galaxies so old and so large that they couldn’t possibly be real.

Planets and other Heavenly bodies:

(Ghostly photos from NASA’s Curiosity rover reveal beautiful, rare clouds and the first sun rays ever spotted on Mars)

VIDEO: NASA Releases Ghostly Images of Never Before Seen Phenomenon On Mars

Robert Lea: Strange circular dunes on Mars spotted in these NASA photos

(Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) that passed the Earth in 2020. Scientists expect comet C/2023 A3 will be even brighter. Alexander Ryumin/TASS via Getty Images © Provided by Business Insider)

Marianne Guenot: Brighter than the Green Comet: A bright comet is heading towards Earth and could outshine the stars in the sky, say astronomers

Diana Logan: They Just Discovered an Asteroid on a Collision Course With Earth

Business Insider: NASA image may show first-ever ‘rogue’ supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake

JPost: A planet between Mars and Jupiter could wipe out Earth – study

Space and Other Tech:

Chris Knight: Hubble space telescope is being photobombed, study finds: A recent study in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals that the Hubble Space Telescope – a stalwart orbiting observatory, launched in 1990 – is being regularly photobombed by younger, smaller satellites

Elizabeth Howell: See the evolution of SpaceX rockets in pictures

Not only does Musk build EV vehicles, but he’s developed reusable rockets…

Anthony Cuthbertson: ‘It won’t be boring’: SpaceX Starship launch may end in explosion, Elon Musk hints:

Starship is being developed to fulfil a $1.15 billion contract with Nasa to deliver astronauts to the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

Beyond that, Mr Musk sees the rocket as integral to his ambitions to send the first people to Mars, with the ultimate goal of setting up a permanent human colony on the Red Planet.

“This is a very difficult programme,” Mr Musk said at the conference. “The rocket is roughly two-and-a-half times the thrust of the Saturn V, so if or when it reaches orbit it’ll be by far the largest rocket to reach orbit. But more importantly, it is designed to be the first fully-reusable rocket ever.

“The key to expanding life beyond Earth is a fully and rapidly reusable orbital rocket. This is a very hard problem given the constraints… Earth has a thick atmosphere and strong gravity, it is only barely possible to do this, that is why it has not been done before.”…

Charlene Badasie: Scientists Have Determined The Jobs AI Is Most Likely To Destroy, Will You Be Replaced?

Maggie Harrison: Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity

TM: DARPA created a hypersonic aircraft capable of Mach 20 speeds

Theory or Fiction:

My husband asked me about this today…

Kashyap Vyas: The Survival of Bacteria in Outer Space: What happens to the bacteria in space?

U-FOs and Aliens:

Douglas Charles: Pentagon And Harvard UFO Experts: Alien ‘Motherships’ Could Be Flying Through Our Solar System

Ellie Cook: Congressman Says Alien UFO Tech Is Being ‘Reverse Engineered’ in Secret

Mike Reyes: E.T., Close Encounters, War of the Worlds Icon Steven Spielberg Responds To UFO Stories Going Around Online

Kristine Parks: Steven Spielberg concerned about ‘secrecy, lack of transparency’ around UFO sightings: ‘There is something going on…that’s not being disclosed,’ Spielberg said

Sci-Fi and Other Unreal Reels:

Chad Langen: A Terrifying Natalie Portman Science Fiction Film Is Now Free Streaming … This one is actually a few years old now, and I wasn’t impressed with it. But that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t like it. I might watch it again if nothing else catches my attention, but a couple of the actresses are some of the most boring ever, including Portman. Eh, thinking I’ll give a re-watch a “hard pass”. “The Critical Thinker” has the right vibe going…

An AppleTV post-apocalyptic dystopian offering…

Joshua Meyer: Silo Trailer: Rebecca Ferguson Leads A Star-Studded Adaptation Of The Dystopian Bestseller

Hmmm, this one looks intense…

Meanwhile…

Spencer Connelly: Prometheus’ Forgotten Sequel Totally Changes ALIENS’ Ending

Zack Sharf: James Gunn Fires Back at ‘Racist’ Marvel Troll Upset by ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Villain Casting: ‘I Don’t Give a S— What Ethnicity He Is’

Leave a comment

BONUS: FOX News War Correspondent Benjamin Hall Interview Nearly a Year After His Near-Death in Ukraine