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Friday, October 11. 2024

Friday morning links

Northern Lights Visible Across DC, NYC, Boston


More this weekend. I blame climate change.


Research supports run–walk interval training as a way to reduce chronic low back pain


Why Stephen Hawking gave up on a Theory of Everything - The scientist who gave up on truth


Konstantin Kisin talking to the Woke about Climate Change


The Biggest Climate Whopper Ever Told


Scientific American Article Claims There’s No Difference Between Male, Female Athletes. An
article’s assertion there is biological equity in female and male
athletes shows what happens when a trans-activist agenda supersedes
rational scientific analysis.


Disinformation Isn't The Problem... Government Coverups And Censorship Are The Problem


Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Hates Israel


'Anti-Hate' Art Exhibit In LA Featured Participants Kicking Around Donald Trump's Head


Elon Musk Steps Up Again-Accelerates Starlink Access for Hurricane Milton Victims


#WTH We are [almost] all colonizers. A short recitation of facts


Faculty Required to Report “Misgendering”


Can I say "You throw like a girl"?


TGIF is amusing today


She is right: Do not f- with Appalachians


Good News: AOC Offers Her Opinion On Hurricanes And ‘Climate Change’


Kamala Harris Says She Owns a Handgun—Despite Fighting To Ban Others From Doing the Same


Kamala’s ‘Charm’ Blitzkrieg Fails Miserably


Catherine Herridge Spills the Tea on CBS Over Kamala Interview Editing Scandal


Megyn Kelly: The Panic Amongst Left-Wingers About The Loss Of Control Of Information Is Evident


Did the Biden Administration Perpetuate Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?


What Was Gained by the Ukraine War? The Ukraine–Russia war has dragged on for at least two years longer than it had to—and for what?


Why  There Will Never be a Two-state Solution

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Scientific American high lights the problem. Simply put LGQTB people who seek offices of power do so to use that power to further their personal agenda. This is what all people with a radical agenda do. This is what is destroying Europe, Canada, Australia, and the U.S. not just or necessarily the LGQTB agenda but the communist/socialist agenda, the Muslim agenda, the CCP agenda, the elite agenda of world control, the BLM agenda, etc. People run for school board positions not to make schools better but to make children more accessible to gays or to train them in Marxist theory etc. People run for political office to push a socialist/communist agenda. People go into reporting the news to push their one agenda. The problem is that "normal" people are to busy living their normal life to devote time an energy into seeking positions of power to push an agenda. Somehow that has to change. We need to stp electing agendized power hungry people to positions of power and we need to encourage more normal people to seek these positions. The alternative is what we see in Venezuela.
#1 OneGuy on 2024-10-11 10:18 (Reply)
Nebraska Senate Race May Surprise Us All

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Which is why it’s so curious that Republicans are suddenly rushing to make sure Republican Sen. Deb Fischer keeps the seat for a third term and Democrats are holding tepid optimism that the deep-red state might be at least open to backing a union boss who is running as an independent.

National Republicans have booked roughly a half-million dollars in advertising time in this last month of campaigning. An outside group with ties to one of the state’s richest families is adding another $2 million to that kitty to boost Fischer’s late-emerging nail-biter against neophyte Dan Osborn. Meanwhile, national Democrats are publicly denying any involvement but are privately flagging polls—albeit limited in number—suggesting Nebraska may be closer than any state with a 2-to-1 Republican voter registration advantage should be.

. . . Put plainly on the Plains: Nebraska’s Senate race stands to become this cycle’s out-of-nowhere shocker that neither side saw coming.

. . . A Republican strategist who is a veteran of the Senate game adds, “If Deb Fischer is in trouble, then [Senators] Sherrod Brown, Jon Tester, and Bob Casey are toast in an anti-incumbent year.”

https://time.com/7085674/senate-nebraska-polls-fischer/
#2 feeblemind on 2024-10-11 11:16 (Reply)
The Appalachian lady makes my blood boil. I’ll add that to my growing list of conspiracies. They ain’t conspiracies if they keep coming true. What, in the last five years, conspiracies that turn out to be true: 19-0.

I’m really looking forward to the links that good ole Zach will provide that show the truth of what Kamala really said to CBS. That’s going to take some serious gaslighting.

Say, wasn’t it CBS that tried to discredit George W. Bush with some fake National Guard paperwork? It was NBC that added explosive devices to a GM car to make sure it exploded. That was back in the 70’s. Seems like these networks have a history of lying to the American public. It’s almost like they have an agenda. Makes you wonder how many other lies they broadcast, but never get caught at. Ooops, conspiracy stuff. At any rate, their broadcast licenses shouldn’t be on automatic pilot for renewal. I can see why some say that the media is the enemy of the American people. Well, unless you are a Marxist communist authoritarian who wants bigger and bigger government. Why do you want to be a slave?
#3 B. Hammer on 2024-10-11 11:40 (Reply)
The venerable ol' Walter Cronkite lied like a dog about the Tet Offensive. And of course, that earlier Walter, Walter Duranty, lied like crazy.

I am not sure "news" has EVER been "objective."
#3.1 Lee Also on 2024-10-11 11:58 (Reply)
Yes, there certainly are many examples of the media rearranging the sound bites, or outright lying to fit what certainly seems like a political agenda.

Elon Musk:
QUOTE:
They (CBS) edited an interview I once did with them. My actual words were "I can do what I want at Tesla, provided that shareholders agree."

They deleted the last four words, giving my statement the opposite meaning.


hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ

I remember when Elon was the darling of lefty’s everywhere. He even appeared on The Big Bang Theory, whose entire cast, directors and producers appeared in a photo with the caption: We believe Jussie. And then Elon had to go and buy Twitter, fire 80% of the staff, come out entirely on the side free speech, now he is persona non grata. Government is messing with him, both foreign and domestic. The Left does not like the truth.
#3.1.1 B. Hammer on 2024-10-11 16:18 (Reply)
That stuff reminds me of old movie posters: there would be a "quote" about the movie from some respected film reviewer, but totally out of context. For example, Pauline Kael might've written in her review of a crappy film, "Hell would freeze over before I'd recommend seeing this film." And on the poster, it'd say, "Pauline Kael says, 'I'd recommend seeing this movie.'"
#3.1.1.1 Lee Also on 2024-10-11 19:40 (Reply)
DOD’s Kathleen Hicks issues new directive authorizing military to use ‘lethal force’ when assisting local law enforcement in its operations

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/dod_s_kathleen_hicks_issues_new_directive_authorizing_military_to_use_lethal_force_when_assisting_local_law_enforcement_in_its_operations.html
#4 feeblemind on 2024-10-11 11:55 (Reply)
Ukraine war... Reagan and his administration got it right and did right with their promises about Nato expansion. Trump got it right and questioned Nato motives and even its relevancy today. Everyone in between screwed it up and then the 'cherry on top' policy to fund the coup and the Zelensky installation was insane. What else do you expect from 'nation building' progressives and neocons? They are an international shitstirring organization.
#5 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-11 12:39 (Reply)
Gulf States Lobby Hard For US To Stop Israel From Attacking Iran Oil Sites

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Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates are now also lobbying the US and Israel to avoid hitting Iran's oil sites, on fears that with such an escalation Tehran would in turn target oil facilities in the Gulf. This was already a reality that played out in the last half-decade of regional proxy conflict between the Iran axis and the West-Gulf country alliance.

The Saudis and GGC states wish to avoid the kind of attacks which could impact its oil production and exports, such as the 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais Saudi Aramco drones strikes.

. . . Tehran is basically telling the Saudis to talk the Israelis down, or else...

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gulf-states-lobby-hard-us-stop-israel-attacking-iran-oil-sites
#6 feeblemind on 2024-10-11 12:48 (Reply)
Regarding the Hawking article, I disagree with the writer that a mind-dependent model of being is a denial of reality, as he seems to assert. The mind is just as real as physical reality, probably more so.

Hoyningen-Huene seems to espouse a materialist positive concept of reality. Heisenberg and his colleague in quantum physics would not have agreed. Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem proves the impossibility of developing a 'theory of everything' within the constraints of the Universe. Neither Heisenberg nor Goedel disbelieved in Reality, they just were not materialists. It is not Philosophy that is dead, but that branch of it known as Positivism. The writer doesn't seem to know that, yet.
#7 DeGaulle on 2024-10-11 13:11 (Reply)
Kamala is being accused of stolen "McValor" because of her now disappeared claim to have worked at McDonalds. Her resume is so thin that she needed to plump it up with a lie about having worked at McDonalds.
#8 OneGuy on 2024-10-11 13:54 (Reply)
We have reached a point where we will lose the America we once knew and we will never get it back. It will/is happening "slowly at first and then all of a sudden". I read this story this morning and it may be the best advice going forward.
“Whatever they tell you to do,” a French friend quoted his father, an early cynicalist, “do the opposite.” In the father’s case, he was mayor of a small town in France in 1944. A German soldier had been shot nearby. The German officer told him to have all the people of the town assemble in the town square in the morning. “It was a death sentence,” our friend explained. “There were going to be reprisals. Maybe ten citizens would be killed. Maybe all of them. So, my father spread the word... and they all went and hid in the woods.”

This is good advice in the coming days, months, years. A major terrorists attack in country is predicted and will be committed by terrorists let in by the Biden administration. The election will be massively stolen likely resulting in a massive uprising of the citizens/kulaks. The "free stuff" may soon run out for the 15 million illegals/refugees/terrorists that Biden brought in and they will have to take your stuff to survive. The national debt cannot be paid and some trigger event will precipitate Great Depression 2.0, and on and on. It's about to go kinetic. So: Whatever they tell you, do the opposite. And don't forget to hide in the woods.
#9 Anon on 2024-10-11 14:23 (Reply)

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