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Thursday, July 20. 2023

Thursday morning links

 Strange Increase In Volume Of Congregational Singing Noted When Worship Leader Slips In Old Hymn


 The media is spreading bad trans science. Misleading studies are being taken as gospel


 Where Johnny Cash Came From


 Norman Mailer Was an Out-and-Out Psychopath


 Welcome to the MAGA Hamptons! Every summer, the haute bourgeoisie of Middle America descend on Lake of the Ozarks to jet ski, barbecue ribs, and (until 2023) drink a shit-ton of Budweiser.


Click bait:  Popular "all-American" Companies That Are Now Internationally-Owned


 Welcome To Canada — The Doctor Won’t See You Now, But The Undertaker Will


 Scotland Cuts Down Forest to Make Room for Windmills


 Biden DoD Lets Transgender Service Members Skip Deployments, Receive Indefinite Physical Fitness Waivers


 The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots


Stanford Law refuses comment on fate of DEI dean who helped shout down judge


 Stuart's miscellany


I have no hate for the guy, but he is in bad shape 


 Jack Smith bought a sandwich at Subway and CNN lost its mind


 Massachusetts asks homeowners to take in illegal migrants

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Thanks for the Johnny Cash thing.
#1 RL on 2023-07-20 13:56 (Reply)
I do actually have hate for the guy. I believe at this point he is bought by China and should be referred to as Benidict Biden. It could not possibly just incompetence that has driven his anti-American agenda. I acknowledge that he is merely the front guy, the puppet but never the less he is a traitor to America. And the Democrat party is in lock step with him and his traitorous agenda. I do not believe we will ever recover from his disastrous policies and decisions. I would say at this point that he will go down in history as a traitor and the worst president ever but I actually suspect our history will be written in Chinese and Benedict Biden's role will be left out. We had a good run though until those who should protect our democracy from tyrants decided to let a tyrant seize power because they hated Trump. Benidict McCain gets some credit for that too.
#2 OneGuy on 2023-07-20 13:59 (Reply)
QUOTE:
I have no hate for the guy, but he is in bad shape

Biden is reading from prepared notes. Leaving out the ums, he said, "And we brought Israelis and Palestinians together at a political level ... in Aqaba and Sharm." The Israeli president understood as he is familiar with Aqaba and Sharm where joint communiques were issued by Israel, Palestine, Jordanian, Egyptian, and U.S. officials.
#2.1 Zachriel on 2023-07-20 14:52 (Reply)
Agreed. President Biden is sharp as a tack and one of most powerful orators of our time. The words of wisdom constantly flow from his silver tongue. His refusal to answer questions about his policies only reflects the unworthiness of those asking them. I can't understand where all these misconceptions are coming from. I mean just listen to the great man speak!
#2.1.1 Lord Heathen on 2023-07-20 15:05 (Reply)
Lord Heathen: President Biden is sharp as a tack and one of most powerful orators of our time.

Biden is certainly a person of advanced age; however, making stuff up isn't much of an argument. "Aqaba and Sharm" sound odd to most American ears, and Biden has a stutter, so he tends to hem and haw, but the text was intelligible if you are familiar with the words. It's not a sign of dementia, which is what is being implied.
#2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-07-20 15:11 (Reply)
I know right?! By the way did you see the President nibbling that infants back the other day? As the late, great Michael Jackson once said, 'What could be more loving?' Both the 'King of Pop' and the 'King of Cornpop' are completely misunderstood in my opinion. I'm sure you'll agree.
#2.1.1.1.1 Lord Heathen on 2023-07-20 17:37 (Reply)
Zachriel: What doesn't it know?

Astrophysicist, property lawyer, affirmative action expert, search engine, newspeak dictionary, constitutional scholar, carrier of Trump Derangement Syndrome, master of the non sequitur, pretentious movie critic, high school civics teacher, financial analyst, the ackchyually guy, nitpicker, Historical art critic, armchair economist, poverty expert, theoretician of science, Covid apologist, speech therapist.
#2.1.1.1.2 eeyore on 2023-07-20 19:25 (Reply)
"Biden is reading from prepared notes."

The very fact he is doing so shows his limitations. It not even that he refers to the notes, he straight up mumbles it verbatim. Even the 'umms' are ridiculous since he's reading straight from the page. He never looks up, he never makes eye contact. My elementary school kids do better.

Even trying to excuse that performance makes you laughable. Have some self-respect.
#2.1.2 eeyore on 2023-07-20 19:21 (Reply)
Quibble-DickZ and self-respect are terms that are not compatible.
#2.1.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-07-20 22:40 (Reply)
Anyone who lets illegal immigrants into their home with no clear endpoint is a blithering moron. Soft-hearted, no doubt. But blithering. And they will deserve whatever happens because of it, be it a permanent unwanted "guest" who complains about the accommodations and menu to a criminal who rapes and murders their family in their sleep.

That anyone could be so naive in this day and age just shows that Darwin has been asleep at the wheel for a few too many generations.
#3 ruralcounsel on 2023-07-20 14:49 (Reply)
When I see all the Massachusetts' legislators and civil servants open their homes and take in the illegals, then I might consider doing the same. But then, their houseguests would most certainly be seriously vetted, and i wouldn't want to house the left-overs.
#3.1 Frances on 2023-07-20 23:31 (Reply)
CNN lost its mind long before Jack bought the sandwich.
#4 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-20 15:19 (Reply)
If a special prosecutor buys a sandwich with no cameras about, has he really bought a sandwich?
#5 Ming O'Mongo on 2023-07-20 15:24 (Reply)
Stuarts substack ... the "old liberal" SCOTUS managed to find a privacy right in abortion but the current military and academic institutions can find no right to privacy in the bathroom or bedroom. Such sadsacks.
#6 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-20 15:27 (Reply)
The College fix July 20 2023 by Marshelle Paulino

Students list "Apache attack helicopter" as gender on "engineering culture" survey, angering scholars.

All of the survey authors are affiliated with Oregon State University. College Fix reached out to Finn Johnson, Michelle Bothwell, Qwo-Li Driskill and Devlin Montfort, some of the authors of the study, on July 11. No Response

James Lindsay and Stuart Schneiderman are still laughing Academia needs more safespaces.
#7 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-20 16:58 (Reply)
Regardless of your religious beliefs it is time question the converged unbelievers.

Antichrist's apocalyptic fury against the priesthood.

Canada free press by David Martin on July 20,2023
#8 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-20 17:12 (Reply)
This is the kind of stupid that only occurs when the ruling elite and the uniparty combine to produce brain dead results.

From Barrons by Elina Ribakova July 18 2023

Russia's war machine is still running on western equipment.

The west imposed export controls BUT 80% of western critical components shipped to Russia are actually produced in China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and South Korea.
Tell me again that US political and military leaders are not actually brain dead.
#9 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-20 18:06 (Reply)
Pretty damning evidence that can no longer be avoided.

QUOTE:
Grassley said he released the document, which describes an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a Ukrainian business executive, so that the American people can "read this document for themselves without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats."


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-releases-unclassified-fbi-form-containing-details-of-biden-criminal-bribery-scheme-with-burisma-ceo
#10 Zachinoff on 2023-07-20 18:28 (Reply)

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