Wed. Nov. 13, 2024 – hmmm, missed it by that much…

By on November 13th, 2024 in culture, decline and fall, lakehouse, march to war

Cool and damp. Later, warm and damp. Maybe warm and slightly drier. It’s been really nice actually. Windows down, wind in your hair nice. I’m hoping for more of the same today.

Tuesday went pretty much to plan. Went to the volunteer work session at D2’s school in the morning, and only stayed a couple of hours extra… during which time I cleaned and tuned up both followspots. One is the school’s, one is a very cheap rental, and both needed attention. Now they look and function like they should.

I left school and did my two pickups, then picked up D1 from school. Dropped her at home, grabbed some refreshment, and headed to rehearsal. That went pretty well. It sounds ok. At this point it’s down to riding levels during the performance, and maybe tuning the individual mic EQs. With only 4 performances, there isn’t much time to do that, so there are some small issues with the ‘quality’ of the vocal sound, but you can hear the lines, hear the lyrics, and it only sounds a bit “mic’d” or un-natural. That is a vast improvement as far as I’m concerned. If someone comments on the ‘quality’ of the sound, I’ll use it as a conversation starter to suck THEM into supporting the shows.

So far, I’ve donated my time, a pair of powered monitor speakers, some mic cables, and adapters. I’ve cleaned and fixed two followspots, installed two new wireless mic receivers, and repaired some mic cables. There is also a powered Mackie monitor ‘on loan’ from me for the Music Director, and an 8 Gig thumbdrive to backup the settings in the board. I’ll be following up with some of the firmware updates and settings after the show is over, and probably trying to improve some of their other “pain points” as the corporate weenies say…

I probably should have done it years ago, when D1 was at the school. I knew it would be a huge time sink though, and I was trying to avoid Imperial entanglements. My thinking about community and local meatspace involvement has “evolved” over time.

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Preps have suffered while I did other things. That’s ok, because we’re already prepped, and the other stuff is important to me, and the kid. I have managed to put a bit more food in the freezer, so that’s a plus. My fisherman buddy’s son harvested two deer and a hog this past week, so some of that might come my way too. Speaking of which, if you are the praying sort, he could use some for health and strength this week.

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Today I am hoping to take down my Halloween decor, if it’s dry. Then I’ve got lots of stuff on the list, before turning into a taxi service…

It would be nice to do a bit of work on the food storage cleanup and organizing. Oh, and I’ve got to remove the dead rats from the traps, clean them, and re-set them. The new tunnel traps have worked, with 3 rats meeting their demise so far. Bait was blonde Oreos…

Bait your traps, stack some poison, and get your house in order. Bad things are still headed our way.

nick

53 Comments and discussion on "Wed. Nov. 13, 2024 – hmmm, missed it by that much…"

  1. brad says:

    It has turned cold here. Just a dusting of snow, but the cold weather is here to stay. Winter has arrived.

    Turning off the outside water today, draining hoses, etc.. Due to work, it’s my last chance until Monday. Only mild freezes for the moment, expected to change to hard freezes later next week. So I probably won’t drain the outside fountain until early next week. It’s new, so I also need to build a cover to keep water out over the winter.

    Other Winter preps are mostly done. Firewood is stacked, last round of lawn mowing is done. We lost most of the veggies to deer last winter, so I put up a fence around that part of the garden. They could jump it – it’s only about 110cm – but I hope they won’t be quite that motivated.

  2. drwilliams says:

    Mike Gonzalez in The Daily Signal

    There is little the government can do about ABC News, CBS News, etc. as long as they don’t violate their license, but NPR and PBS have violated the public trust with their extreme and biased coverage of this election. They are subsidized by the taxpayer, conservatives and liberals, through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

    Ed Morrissey

    I endorse the idea, but those aren’t the subsidies that keep Woke Inc operating. The Trump administration needs to dismantle all federal funding for Academia, including student loans, grants, research funding — the whole smash. Let that industry compete with real pricing signals and no backstop and see how much longer they focus on indoctrination rather than education. 

    https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/11/12/kill-woke-inc-by-ending-its-subsidies-n3796920

    It almost requires historical knowledge now, but I’ve asked the same question for years: If NPR is unbiased, what conservative commentator did they feature to counterbalance the ultra far-left rantings of Daniel Schorr?

  3. brad says:

    The Trump administration needs to dismantle all federal funding for Academia, including student loans, grants, research funding

    Grants and research funding – it depends. Lots of it is important, for example, a lot of medical research is funded that way. However, so is a lot of nonsense. Some of the nonsense is DEI, i.e., funded because the person is a minority. Another boatload is in the social sciences and liberal arts. Grants and research funding should be restricted to engineering and hard science, and be blind to the personal details of the researcher.

    Secondly, any results stemming from government funding become public domain. None of the games where the government pays the basic research, then the university spins off a company to commercialize the results and rake in the profits.

    Finally, there needs to be a lot more funding for researchers to reproduce results. Right now, there is a lot of scientific fraud, because you have to get that next round of funding. Lots of hungry grad students could work on reproducing results, to cut down on the fraud. The results should then feed into future decisions for the original researchers.

  4. Nick Flandrey says:

    Looks like a nice day out.   I’m up, the bean is engaged with the water in the  hope it will moderate my physical and emotional state…

    Hope I can get some stuff done today.

    n

  5. brad says:

    the bean is engaged with the water

    After they get married, what will their kids look like? 😛

  6. Greg Norton says:

    Grants and research funding – it depends. Lots of it is important, for example, a lot of medical research is funded that way. However, so is a lot of nonsense. Some of the nonsense is DEI, i.e., funded because the person is a minority. Another boatload is in the social sciences and liberal arts. Grants and research funding should be restricted to engineering and hard science, and be blind to the personal details of the researcher.

    Part of the reason that my first pass at grad school went nowhere is that the department wanted to replace me in their “contingency” slot with a student from the psychology department who had an interest in CS but no real ability to handle the classwork. 

    She was a she, however, with some kind of “learning disability” to cover the academic inadequacies and a big pile of grants from the government, which attracted the department tenure track faculty like flies to you-know-what.

    Eventually, a big CS program at a California school gave her a PhD in “Informatics”. I have no clue what that means.

    The girl now lectures at another name program in the UC system and continues to stack grants like cordwood.

  7. Denis says:

    …if you are the praying sort, he could use some for health and strength this week.

    Adding him to the list.

  8. Nick Flandrey says:

    Kamala Harris gave $500,000 to MSNBC anchor’s nonprofit before network’s fawning interview

    By CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC

    Published: 17:31 EST, 12 November 2024 | Updated: 17:35 EST, 12 November 2024 

    Vice President Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign delivered $500,000 in donations to Al Sharpton’s non-profit organization, just prior to a glowing interview with the candidate on MSNBC.

    Harris’s campaign gave two payments of $250,000 to National Action Network on September 5 and October 1, according to campaign finance records first reported by the Washington Free Beacon and confirmed by DailyMail.com.

    In July 2019, Trump famously reacted to attacks from Sharpton by describing him as a ‘con man.’

    ‘I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him & Don King, always got along well. He loved Trump!’ Trump wrote on social media. ‘He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing.’

    n

  9. Nick Flandrey says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14074827/spirit-airlines-prepares-chapter-11-bankruptcy-filing.html

    –Whatever else it’s woes may be, as predicted elsewhere, the biggest risk to ALL  businesses is rolling over their debt.

    A chunk of its huge $3.3billion debt is due soon – including more than $1.1billion of secured bonds that are due in less than a year. 

    Since the start of the year, its shares were down more than 86 percent.  

    It has failed to report a profit in the last five out of six quarters, raising doubts about its ability to manage looming debt maturities.

    Spirit has been struggling with losses and declining revenue since the pandemic. In fact, while it may have made profits some quarters, it has not turned an annual profit since even before the pandemic.

    –without looking, I’d bet it never made a profit overall.

    n

  10. Ray Thompson says:

    without looking, I’d bet it never made a profit overall.

    I would bet the top executives have made a handsome profit.

  11. EdH says:

    After they get married, what will their kids look like?

    Tasty.   They will look drinkable & tasty.

    This morning I opened a vacuum packed gift package of beans labeled Finca de Pasionaria this morning, from over a year ago.  Hoping for the best. 

    Starting my cleaning for Thanksgiving,  misplaced things are being found.

  12. CowboyStu says:

    “Los Angeles Times Owner Fires Far-Left Editorial Board – Wants ‘Factual and Balanced Coverage’ of Trump Presidency”

    I read the epaper daily and agree that the editorial writers very far left.  Read already today and happy to not see any of them.

  13. lpdbw says:

    Secondly, any results stemming from government funding become public domain. 

    This.  And all collected data, and products, too.

    Mosaic was created as a research project at my Alma Mater, and the grad students and prof took it private, and made a fortune.  Epic is, at its base, a derivative of MUMPS software created for a university hospital system.

    If it was government funded, it should be public domain.  Exceptions for national security should be allowed, but rare.

    And every release of new research should include disclaimers like “But this research has not yet been replicated.”

  14. dkreck says:

    Head of NPR is as biased as you would expect, and even more,

    Katherine Maher

    Completely ruined even the few good parts that were there.

  15. MrAtoz says:

    HFS!

    Sen. Chuck Schumer Warns Republicans Not to Abandon Bipartisanship When They Take Control

    He’s got to be kidding! The Redumblicans need to lockstep their votes and give Chuckie a big FU! Rickroll the Dumbo butts for four years. They did nothing but lie and gaslight us on everything to spend like a drunken sailor on woke shite. F’em.

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  16. Greg Norton says:

    Mosaic was created as a research project at my Alma Mater, and the grad students and prof took it private, and made a fortune.  Epic is, at its base, a derivative of MUMPS software created for a university hospital system.

    Netscape was a clean sheet implementation of the browser created by many of the same team from Mosaic.

    Microsoft licensed the Mosaic code and perverted it into IE.

  17. EdH says:

    There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into implementing ideas well, to the point where some inventors don’t even worry about enforcing their copyrights and patents.

  18. MrAtoz says:

    I’ve been reading up on IRA withdrawals since my age is getting up there. The withdrawals are calculated to screw you out of as much as the goobermint can get. Since SWMBO and I are married, both get pensions, both get SS, I might as well make the minimum IRA withdrawal and just give it to the goobermint.

    You can’t hate the Federal Goobermint enough.

  19. MrAtoz says:

    The hags on The Spew are mocking all of tRump’s nominations. You can’t hate those hags enough. They are so full of hatred it is no wonder Whoopi Cushion can’t hold in her farts. A pox on all of those harpies.

  20. Lynn says:

    “Thune to succeed McConnell as next Senate GOP leader”

        https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3228120/thune-cornyn-mcconnell-senate-gop-leader-election/

    And the effort to piss off Trump starts today.

    I will bet that Trump’s nominees sit in Senate committees for up to a year.

    Hat tip to:
    https://thelibertydaily.com/

  21. Alan says:

    >>Oh, and I’ve got to remove the dead rats from the traps, clean them,

    Yeah, always a good idea to clean them before you cook them. 

  22. Lynn says:

    “Interesting legal decision on busing “migrants” to New York”
       https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/11/interesting-legal-decision-on-busing.html

    “It seems New York City sued bus companies for busing thousands of “migrants” to the city from Texas, using an almost two-century-old statute as the foundation of its argument.  It didn’t work.”

    The court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Mayor Eric Adams in January against charter bus companies contracted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. It sought to bar them from knowingly dropping off “needy persons,” citing an 1817 state law that criminalized bringing an indigent person into the state “for the purpose of making him a public charge.”

    Justice Mary Rosado said in a sternly worded decision that the law is unconstitutional for several reasons.

    Sweet !

  23. MrAtoz says:

    I will bet that Trump’s nominees sit in Senate committees for up to a year.

    I don’t have much hope the spineless Redumblicans will come together to give us cohesive goobermint . A unique chance is just around the corner to get things done. I’m sure RINO Mittens Romney is already scheming behind the scenes to shiv tRump, ala McCain. Simple “partisan”, F the Dumbo’s, bills can get things done rapidly. tRump needs to have a stack of EO’s taller than plugs’ on Inauguration Day. Number One is for every Department to cut 10% of their budget. Reinstate the 3 for 1 rule. Give excessive land grabs back to the States. Pardon/commute every J6 conviction. Dismiss any not convicted yet. Nuke the EPA, Dept. of Education, and IRS from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.

    A New Beginning…

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  24. Lynn says:

    “Breaking news. Representative Matt Gaetz will be Donald Trump’s Attorney General.”

        https://thelibertydaily.com/2-9/

    I did not see that coming.

    I approve.  Trump needs an attack dog there.

  25. MrAtoz says:

    Sweet !

    LOL! Now the crimmigrant bums are needy, indigent, public charges. We have been told since day 1 by the Dumbocrats crimmigrants are undocumented citizens who pick our vegetable and shuck our chickens. All gainfully employed. I guess not, NYFC doosh-nozzle mayor.

  26. Lynn says:

    “BREAKING: Trump appoints Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence”

        https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-appoints-tulsi-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence

    U. S. Army vet.  Why not ?

  27. Lynn says:

    “Amazon Kills Freevee, Migrates Content to Prime Video”

        https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-kills-freevee-migrates-content-to-prime-video

    “Amazon is consolidating its video content and putting it in one place to keep things simple, according to the company.”

    Interesting.  The consolidation is getting real.

    The survivors will be Netflix, Amazon Prime, and …

  28. Greg Norton says:

    Trump’s response to the RINOs in the Senate.

    Who runs for Governor of Florida? The Witch?

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/trump-taps-rep-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general.html

  29. Greg Norton says:

    The survivors will be Netflix, Amazon Prime, and …

    Tubi. Rupert has nothing to lose.

    Plus Apple, but they want to move hardware so they can p*ss away money on things like “For All Mankind”.

  30. Lynn says:

    ” Biden administration sets plan to triple US nuclear energy capacity by 2050″

        https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-administration-plan-to-triple-us-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050/732807/

    “The road map aims for 200 GW of net new capacity from newly built reactors, restarts of plants retired for economic reasons and power uprates of existing reactors, the White House said Tuesday.”

    Very interesting.

  31. Lynn says:

    “Where Are Biden’s 81 Million Votes? Jordan Crushes CNN ‘Gotcha’ Question…”

        https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/where-are-bidens-81-million-votes-jordan-crushes-cnn-gotcha-question

    Biden got 10 million more votes in 2020 than Kamala in 2024 ?  I ain’t buying that.

  32. Greg Norton says:

    I’m sure RINO Mittens Romney is already scheming behind the scenes to shiv tRump, ala McCain.

    The Elders pulled the plug on Mittens in the Senate.

    I’ve long believed that Romney’s best shot at putting his Daddy issues to rest is as an interim VP if Biden assumes room temperature before January 20.

    OTOH, any interim Dem or RINO VP and tiebreaker vote in the Senate would be political suicide by the Republicans who now hold all of the cards.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ap-rep-john-curtis-wins-us-senate-race-to-replace-mitt-romney/ar-AA1tA5L1

  33. Lynn says:

    “EPA to Charge Oil and Gas Industry for Methane Emissions”

        https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/environmental-protection/air-environment/news/55242381/epa-to-charge-oil-and-gas-industry-for-methane-emissions

    “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Nov. 12 that it began issuing a fee to oil and gas facilities whose methane emissions exceed 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually.”

    “The requirement will apply to methane emissions reported in 2024.”

    “The waste emissions charge starts at $900 per metric ton of wasteful emissions in 2024, increasing to $1,200 for 2025 and $1,500 for 2026 and beyond.”

    “The fee is part of Congress’s directive in the Inflation Reduction Act to help ensure natural gas reaches the market rather than polluting the air.”

    And so begins the death of the fossil fuel industry in the USA.

  34. EdH says:

    “The road map aims for 200 GW of net new capacity from newly built reactors, restarts of plants retired for economic reasons and power uprates of existing reactors, the White House said Tuesday.”

    When the peasants needed baseline nuclear for their homes, it was satan’s industry.   

    When corporations  need power to reduce the middle class to peasants it is suddenly full steam ahead…

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  35. Greg Norton says:

    When corporations  need power to reduce the middle class to peasants it is suddenly full steam ahead…

    No one wants to throttle their AI servers.

  36. Lynn says:

    No one wants to throttle their AI servers.

    I am having real trouble with imagining over a million 15,000 watt AI servers in the USA alone.

    That is a HUGE electric bill.

    We are going to see these AI data centers put in a few 50 MW gas turbines at the AI data centers so they do not have to pay the 5 cent/kwh transmission and distribution charges.

    Every refinery and chemical plant in Texas (over 100 plants !) already operates this way and sells their excess to the grid.

  37. Lynn says:

    BTW, one of the Bitcoin miners bought a gas turbine power plant last year in central Texas and is using that power for their Bitcoin mining machines, onsite.  They are adding a few more gas turbines posthaste.

  38. Greg Norton says:

    I am having real trouble with imagining over a million 15,000 watt AI servers in the USA alone.

    The hardware would represent over $500 Billion dollars in capital alone.

    This won’t end well.

  39. Lynn says:

    So, in summary:

    The expected number of AI servers in the USA alone is presently a million (SWAG).  The current cost for a single AI server is $500,000 US. 
       1,000,000 x $500,000 = $500 billion US of capital. 

    Each AI server idles at 5,000 watts and uses 15,000 watts at full compute level. 
       15,000 watts x 1,000,000 = 15,000,000,000 watts = 15,000 MW = 15 GW 
    Current peak usage in Texas is 85,000 MW = 85 GW. 

    Where is all of this electric power going to come from, especially since we are shutting down 100+ coal power plants per year in the USA ? 

    ”Biden administration sets plan to triple US nuclear energy capacity by 2050″ 
       https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-administration-plan-to-triple-us-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050/732807/ 
    “The road map aims for 200 GW of net new capacity from newly built reactors, restarts of plants retired for economic reasons and power uprates of existing reactors, the White House said Tuesday.” 

    BTW, one of the Bitcoin miners bought a gas turbine power plant last year in central Texas and is using that power for their Bitcoin mining machines, onsite.  They are adding a few more gas turbines posthaste. They are saving five cents/kwh in transmission and distribution fees by colocating the power generation gas turbines and the mining machines. 

    I do not have good numbers for the electric vehicle changes to the electric grids in the USA yet.  That number may be 10X this number if the 18 wheelers and locomotives are converted to electricity.

  40. Greg Norton says:

    BTW, one of the Bitcoin miners bought a gas turbine power plant last year in central Texas and is using that power for their Bitcoin mining machines, onsite.  They are adding a few more gas turbines posthaste. They are saving five cents/kwh in transmission and distribution fees by colocating the power generation gas turbines and the mining machines. 

    Crusoe Energy, Coreweave, or someone else?

    Coreweave picked their IPO bank partners for next year’s event.

    That is going to be a huge payday for the backing VCs.

  41. Lynn says:

    Crusoe Energy, Coreweave, or someone else?

    “Crusoe confirms plans for 200MW AI data center in Texas, Company planning 1.2GW build-out at site”

       https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-confirms-plans-for-200mw-ai-data-center-in-texas/

  42. nick flandrey says:

    Liberal economist Larry Summers issues frightening warning about inflation to Americans following Trump’s election

    By STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    Published: 21:01 EST, 13 November 2024 | Updated: 21:20 EST, 13 November 2024 

    Liberal economist Larry Summers warned that inflation is still not fixed and that a Trump administration could make things even worse. 

    Summers, who was Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and also advised Barack Obama after 2008 financial crisis, was correct in his 2021 prediction that not getting ‘Bidenflation’ under control would bring back Donald Trump.

    In a talk at the New York Economic Club, Summers says the Jerome Powell-led Federal reserve is still not taking it seriously enough. 

    ‘My own judgement is that the Fed and markets ae still underestimating the overheating risk,’ Summers said.

    He then predicted a potential disaster for a decision Powell has already made: ‘I ask myself: Why is cutting rates a priority into that environment?’

    – my first thought was a snarky, “OH, glad we don’t have to worry about inflation worsening…”   Then I saw the battlespace prep…

    : Why is cutting rates a priority 

    – My prediction was that the Fed would participate in crashing the economy by raising rates.   The cut was half of what was being rumored, and T isn’t even in office yet.

    ‘There is a very substantial risk that the president will attempt to implement what he talked about. If he does, the consequences are likely to be substantially greater inflation than what was set off by the excessive Biden stimulus,’ Summers said. 

    – note the built in assumption that he WOULDN”T  try implementing them, normally.     

    Want to stop monetary inflation?  Stop spending  money you don’ t have and running the printing presses.

    Cutting consumer spending by raising rates hasn’t worked yet.

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    Go too far too soon with any tax cuts, and the Fed may be forced to hike rates to cool any additional inflationary pressures, potentially setting the stage for a conflict between the new administration and the Fed in 2025.

    — battlespace prep

  43. nick flandrey says:

    So the headline writer for DM thinks an armed pervert getting shot by police is a “horrific fate”.    Time to look into that person’s online habits…

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14080149/Florida-mom-confront-predator-sexting-daughter-police-shooting-Jacksonville.html

    Mom catches predator sexting her 13-year-old daughter and tricks him into meeting her at Popeyes where he suffers horrific fate

    By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    Published: 19:59 EST, 13 November 2024 | Updated: 19:59 EST, 13 November 2024 

    A Florida mother’s decision to confront the predator who was sexting her 13-year-old daughter led him to be shot by police.

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  44. Greg Norton says:

    Warner Brothers is broke.

    SyFy Channel parent Universal is slightly less broke but needs ratings.

    “Lethal Weapon” marathon on SyFy tonight.

  45. nick flandrey says:

    Third US airliner was struck by bullets in Haiti before FAA banned flights into country

    By SONYA GUGLIARA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    Published: 15:28 EST, 13 November 2024 | Updated: 15:57 EST, 13 November 2024 

    A third American plane was shot by gangs as it flew over Haiti on Monday, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to ban flights to the country for 30 days. 

    – well that escalated quickly.    Hey, I know, let’s bring in a massive number of haitians and put them in small towns in the midwest.  That will be a win win for everyone!

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  46. nick flandrey says:

    Giuliani claimed in the podcast, which bills itself a discussion of current events ‘from a Conservative Christian perspective,’ that he knows the Haitian population ‘backwards and forwards’ from the time he was working for former President Ronald Reagan and wanted to become a Catholic priest.

    ‘They practiced voodoo,’ he said. ‘And when they practiced voodoo, they killed domestic animals.’

    He went on to claim that at least ‘half of them do it’ as he argued that immigration officials are not vetting those who are coming into the country.

    ‘They’re not taking people in and saying, “Mr. Haitian, are you one of those who kills animals or not? Do you practice voodoo?” They have no idea.

    ‘So animals are getting hurt somewhere,’ Giuliani claimed.

    ‘And look, I’m going to say this,  it’s not their fault,’ he continued. ‘They lived back 200 years ago. They shouldn’t have been taken out of the jungle and placed in the middle of small town America, that’s ridiculous. Or big town America, for that matter.’

    ‘These people are insane what they’re doing!’ Giuliani said. ‘They’re insane.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14027789/Rudy-Giuliani-racist-comments-Haitian-migrants-podcast.html?ico=authors_pagination_desktop 

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  47. drwilliams says:

    “Third US airliner was struck by bullets in Haiti before FAA banned flights into country”

    Airdrop the returns. 

    Give them a discount on parachutes.

  48. drwilliams says:

    Warren wrote, “A Fox & Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-ratioed-twice-in-two-days-on-x-for-attacks-on-pete-hegseth-trump/

    Fake Indian. 

    Academic career based on a lie.

    Not qualified to lead anything. 

    Not qualified to be a U.S. Senator.

  49. drwilliams says:

    President-elect Trump Can Close the U.S. Department of Education in Five Easy Steps

    https://townhall.com/columnists/sherifew/2024/11/13/president-elect-trump-can-close-the-us-department-of-education-in-five-easy-steps-n2647711

    Decades of failure. Close it up. 

    Unconstitutional from the beginning–there is no federal power vested in the constitution to oversee education.

  50. drwilliams says:

    Harris paid Sharpton $500,000.

    Some thought Stormy was an expensive hooker.

    And then there’s Opra, who got* $1 million…

    *but the money was laundered through her company, so it’s not supposed to count?

  51. drwilliams says:

    The Elon and Vivek Show

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/the-elon-and-vivek-show.php

    No pipes for these guys: shaped charges and det cord, with chainsaws for detail work.

  52. drwilliams says:

    today’s NOAA gives, for example, $10 million grants to unaccountable ‘nonprofits’ for ‘environment education’ and other ‘progressive’ nonsense that, not so coincidently, is always on the side of global warming advocacy. That needs to stop whether NOAA is broken up or not as it is a built-in conflict of interest with scientific ethics. Meanwhile, the NWS is so money-poor it can’t even launch routine weather balloons in all of the locations where needed. Ten million dollars would alleviate that problem. 

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/13/to-president-elect-trump-recommendations-for-noaa-and-the-national-weather-service/

    Directing money to propaganda grants while neglecting gathering of weather data is malfeasance. Off with their heads.

    Propaganda grants need to go across the board. Low-hanging fruit for DOGE.

  53. Lynn says:

    “We’re Heading for a Recount in PA…and the Dems Want Illegal Ballots Counted.”

       https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/11/14/sore-loser-dems-want-a-recount-in-pas-senate-race-heres-what-theyre-arguing-for-n2647774

    “Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has no path to victory. He’s going to lose to Republican Dave McCormick. Everyone, including Democrats, knows Casey lost. Yet, Casey refuses to concede because attorney Marc Elias is trying to steal the election. Those aren’t my words—The Wall Street Journal editorial board said as much about this fiasco occurring in the Keystone State.”

    You know, there has been a lot of late night ballot dumps in this election. 

    We have got to stop this crap.

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