Politics

Dec102024

Episode 993 – Justice Is Still On Life Support

As if the Middle East needed some more instability, the Syrian government has fallen and has been taken over by a terrorist group.

The judge in the Danial Penny trial is bending over backwards to get Penny convicted. It doesn’t work.

And did you know there was a school shooting last week in California? Of course you didn’t. And there was a reason why.

This One is On Obama

According to the Daily Wire:

President-elect Donald Trump responded to the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday, suggesting that Russia lost a key ally in the Middle East because of its war with Ukraine.

Assad reportedly fled Syria over the weekend as terrorist rebel forces took over the capital of Damascus. Assad’s regime fell after rebel forces led by the terror group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (which is led by , Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) blitzed across the country in a sudden resurgence of fighting in Syria’s civil war, largely stalled in recent years.

“Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer,” Trump wrote. “There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”

“Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success,” he continued. “Likewise, [Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky] and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians.”

“There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse. I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!” Trump said.

Assad ascended to the presidency in 2000 and kept his hold on power through more than a decade of civil war with the help of allies in Iran and Russia. Recent conflicts depleted resources among his allies and left Assad in a weakened state that terrorist rebels, who had been restricted to Syria’s northwest region for years, took advantage of to topple the Syrian government.

The terrorist rebels are led by HTS, which grew out of an offshoot of al-Qaeda. HTS later split with al-Qaeda, but earned its own designation as a U.S.-recognized terror group in 2018. HTS has been backed by Turkey in its fight to topple Assad.

Trump earlier called for the United States to stay out of the conflict in Syria.

“Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT,” Trump said in a post on X. “THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!”

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Saturday that the Biden administration will not get involved “militarily” in the Syrian conflict, however, the administration will seek to protect U.S. interests in the region and stop a resurgence of ISIS.

“The first, critically is, do not let this allow for the resurgence of ISIS, and we are going to take steps to make sure that that happens,” Sullivan said at the Reagan National Defense Forum. “Second, we do have a profound interest in shoring up the security of our partners in the region, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, others – we’ll do that. And third, we will attend to the humanitarian situation because we believe that we have an obligation to do that.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/assad-is-gone-trump-responds-to-syrias-downfall-calls-for-russia-ukraine-ceasefire?topStoryPosition=1

No Justice, No Peace!

According to Fox News:

Attorney Brian Claypool accused the prosecution of intentionally “overcharging” Marine veteran Daniel Penny in the Jordan Neely subway chokehold case, knowing the move would boil down to the jury weighing on the “easier-to-prove” lesser charge. 

The judge in the high-profile case granted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss the top charge of second-degree manslaughter before the jury broke for the weekend, leaving them to weigh the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide when court deliberations resume on Monday.

Jurors failed to reach a unanimous agreement twice, prompting the dismissal.

“I thought when this case started that this prosecutor overcharged Daniel Penny. This never was a second-degree manslaughter case; that requires Penny to intend to harm Jordan Neely. That requires proof that Penny knew and had reasonable belief to know that Jordan Neely was going to die because of this chokehold and still did it,” Claypool said.

“There’s no facts to support that, so these prosecutors overcharged, knowing they’d never get a conviction on second-degree manslaughter, and then got what they wanted. Then they get the judge to say, ‘Well, you can’t agree on that one, but let’s go to the lesser charge, which is easier to prove.’ What that does is it induces jurors to throw up their arms after they’ve been deliberating three or four days and say, ‘OK, let’s just get them on the lesser charge,’ so it’s patently unfair, and that’s a miscarriage of justice.”

Penny’s defense said in a statement Friday that it is “cautiously optimistic” that the remaining count will be dismissed by the jury on Monday, allowing the “nightmare” to be put behind Penny.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/daniel-penny-overcharged-prosecution-patently-unfair-move-attorney-argues-miscarriage-justice?intcmp=tw_fnc
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-daniel-penny-found-not-guilty-of-criminally-negligent-homicide-in-jordan-neely-death

These Are Not Peaceful People

According to CBS 12 Action News out of Redding, California:

The Butte County Sheriff released new information about the motive of the gunman who shot two children at a Christian school in Palermo this week. The district attorney said it could possibly be considered a hate crime.

At a news conference Thursday evening, Butte County Sheriff  Kory Honea identified the gunman as 56-year-old Glenn Litton who grew up in Butte County. Honea said Litton had written about committing this crime in response to American actions against Palestinians.

The sheriff’s office released surveillance photos of Litton arriving at the Feather River  Adventist School just after noon on Wednesday Dec. 4 for a tour of the school under the ruse that he wanted to enroll a child. He spoke to the principal and received a tour of campus. The principal told investigators it was a cordial visit with no indication of hostility.

As Litton was leaving campus and headed toward the parking lot, Sheriff Honea said Litton suddenly changed direction and started walking toward the playground where children were headed back to class after a break. The surveillance photo shows Litton reaching under his jacket, into his waistband where he apparently had a handgun.

Litton started shooting with the handgun, hitting two children before taking his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Sheriff Honea said Roman Mendez, age 6, was shot two times, and Elias Wolford, age 5, was shot once. Both boys are in kindergarten and remain in critical condition at a trauma center in Sacramento.

According to Sheriff Honea, Litton had also made an appointment to visit the Seventh-Day Adventist school in Red Bluff on Thursday. Investigators say that was his alternative target.

Litton had attended the Seventh-Day Adventist school in Paradise as a child. The sheriff’ said they investigated if the gunman Litton targeted the school due to its religious affiliation and obtained his writings describing his motive for the attack.

“Information that is most probative to why he chose this school is this statement right here,” Honea said “It reads ‘Countermeasure involving child executions has now been imposed at the Seventh-Day Adventist school in California, United States by the International Alliance. Lieutenant Glenn Litton of the Alliance, carried out countermeasure in necessitated response to America’s involvement in Genocide and Oppression of Palestinians along with attack towards Yemen.”

Sheriff Honea found no evidence of an organization called the International Alliance. He said Litton suffered from mental health issues and had a long criminal history. He had served prison time, mostly for identity theft, and stealing.

Action News Now asked Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey if Litton had survived, would he have been charged with religious hate crimes because he gunned down two children at a Christian school and had mentioned the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in his writing. Ramsey said it’s “possible,” but added it would be speculative.

The FBI wants to learn about Litton’s beliefs and ideology from people who knew him. He was recently homeless. He had been staying at hotels and was seen near the Motel 6 in Chico Wednesday morning before the shootings.  He was also known to work out at local gyms, If you have information about Glenn Litton, contact the FBI, at 1-800-CALL FBI or online at tips.fbi.gov.

https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/christian-school-shooter-wrote-that-his-motive-was-american-oppression-of-palestinians/article_dc5e1556-b3eb-11ef-a5e3-372379fa1993.html

Dumbass of the Day

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Dec082024

Episode 992 – We Grow Avocados Here Too!

It doesn’t go well for the LGBTQ cult in front of the Supreme Court yesterday.

Whoopie Goldberg really has to twist herself into a pretzel to blame Donald Trump for Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden.

And the Associated Press tries to scare you about tariffs. It’s kind of weak tea. Let’s talk about it.

One More Word About This

Dumbasses of the Day

The Biden administration is reportedly considering preemptive pardons for notable figures including Dr. Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and Adam Schiff. These considerations come amidst discussions within the White House, sparked by potential legal actions from political adversaries following a change in administration. The debate centers on protecting these individuals from what some believe could be politically motivated prosecutions.

Oh, No!

According to the AP:

Mexicans are worried that threats by Donald Trump to impose 25% tariffs could affect a wide range of iconic Mexican products and threaten entire regional economies.

In western Mexico, no crop supplies an income for so many small growers as avocados. But avocado growers, pickers and packers worry that U.S. consumers, faced with 25% higher prices, may just skip the guacamole.

“I think that when there is an increase in the price for any product, demand declines,” said avocado grower Enrique Espinoza. Orchards like his are the economic lifeblood in the western Mexico state of Michoacan. “It would be a tragedy if they closed down (the border) on us,” he said.

Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration — when he said he would impose tariffs — couldn’t come at a worse time: It’s around when Mexico starts shipping crates of the green fruit north for Super Bowl Sunday, the annual peak of consumption.

It may not just be Mexican producers who are affected; U.S. consumers may also be howling.

Mexican business leader Gina Diez Barroso told a news conference Tuesday that one U.S. agriculture official told her he had never had as many complaints as when the U.S. government halted import inspections on Mexican avocados in 2022.

“Never in his life had he had so much chaos in his office, because they halted Mexican avocados,” Diez Barroso said.

Espinoza agrees that consumers are likely to share the pain.

“The gringos need avocados, it is a good product, and I don’t think they are going to stop consuming it,” he said.

Rather, the reverse effect has him worried; if Mexico retaliates with its own tariffs, as President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested, Mexicans will face not just a drop in income, but high prices for U.S. products like corn, which is a main supply of feed for animals in Mexico.

“There are more poor people here, so in some ways it is going to hit us,” Espinoza said. “The United States can pay 25% more for Mexican products, very few of us have enough money to pay 25% more for what we import from the United States.”

It’s not just the guacamole; Mexican tequila producers have seen a bonanza in the U.S. market. In 2023, the U.S. imported $4.6 billion worth of tequila and $108 million worth of mezcal from Mexico.

That has raised cautious concern among tequila producers, including farmers who grow agave on some of the driest, marginal soils that couldn’t support many other crops.

“We are analyzing the statements by the authorities and their reactions, and in the coming days we will establish a position,” the National Tequila Industry Chamber said in a statement.

And industry representatives say a drop in the consumption of tequila — America’s third-most popular spirit, behind vodka and pre-mixed cocktails — could affect U.S. bars, restaurants and clubs.

The point is made at the end of the article:

The tariffs would probably plunge Mexico into an immediate recession. Mexican financial group Banco Base estimated in a report that for every 1% that Mexican exports increase in price, their volume falls by 1.33%

Supposing that Americans might absorb half the impact of the tariffs and just pay higher prices for Mexican goods, they still might reduce their consumption by 12%, Banco Base estimated.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-us-trump-tariffs-avocados-tequila-7729d1b49ccb3f8daefffb29dce5e615?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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Dec052024

Episode 991 – A Big Case Today for the Supreme Court!

It seems the President of South Korea may have changed his mind about becoming a doctator.

Women are going to extreme lengths to protest the Donald Trump Presidency.

And the Supreme Court is hearing a huge case today.

Look Who’s Doing It

According to the New York Post:

These women are getting elective surgical procedures to render themselves infertile — all because Donald Trump won the election.

The women, who are speaking proudly about their decision, say it’s because they fear a reproductive rights crackdown under a second Trump administration.

Newsweek recently spoke to multiple women, including an OnlyFans model, who said they were turning to invasive, irreversible medical procedures to ensure their reproductive freedom remains untrodden upon.

Eden Ixora, 25, of Florida, who creates content for the adult-oriented site, told the outlet, “for me, the idea of getting pregnant is worse than death.” She said she was making plans to have a bilateral salpingectomy — a procedure in which her fallopian tubes will be removed.

“For me it was a call to action. A need to get this locked in so I don’t have to live in fear that at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life,” Ixora said.

“For me the idea of getting pregnant is worse than death. I’m doing what I can to protect my right to choose. I am choosing me.”

Reached via Instagram, Ixora told The Post she was already mulling the procedure before Election Day, but said “his winning just made me want to actually get it scheduled and on my calendar.”

She wasn’t the only woman considering the procedure with politics in mind.

“If I am to be denied any rights in the next four (or more) years, I will not give them up without a fight,” said Lydia Echols, 28, of Texas.

Echols told Newsweek she also plans to have her fallopian tubes removed. 

An unidentified 39-year-old who said she had just gotten the procedure told the outlet that she felt she had no choice after the election results.

“I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized — that is horrible.”

Another woman — who said she and her husband both never wanted children — described her decision using language straight out of a dystopian novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women are second-class citizens.

“I paid way too much attention to the vitriol Trump repeatedly spit during his previous term … and am keenly aware of the people he keeps around him and in his ear, who all seem to see women as incubators and possessions to subjugate,” she told the outlet.

She had preemptively scheduled her appointment to be sterilized in October, claiming she was “fully planning to cancel the surgery the day after the election, assuming Kamala won.”

https://nypost.com/2024/12/01/us-news/women-blame-trumps-election-for-decision-to-get-sterilized/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Finally This Ends

According to the Daily Wire:

The Supreme Court on December 4 will hear oral arguments in a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children — and it promises to be one of the most significant cases the court has looked at this term.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R.) signed the much-discussed Senate Bill 1 into law on March 22, 2023, which went into effect on July 1, 2023. The bill bans doctors or health care providers from performing so-called “gender-affirming” surgeries or hormonal procedures on minors, including surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones.

The bill followed a September 2022 investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) by the The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who exposed VUMC’s gender transition procedures for children and shocking attitudes towards gender transitions in general. Walsh and The Daily Wire found that the hospital regarded transgender procedures as a “big money maker” and pressured employees to ignore their “religious beliefs” on transgender issues or face “consequences.”

The Biden administration joined the ACLU and several teenage plaintiffs suing to stop the law, and a Tennessee district court initially blocked it in April 2023. But in September 2023, a sixth circuit court upheld Tennessee’s protections for children. The Supreme Court took up the case in June 2024, combining the Justice Department and ACLU cases into United States v. Skrmetti, marking the first time that the High Court took up a case of this kind.

Here is the one who will be arguing for cutting off the body parts of children, a “trans” man by the name of Chase Strangio (you just can’t make this stuff up):

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-supreme-court-is-about-to-hear-a-major-child-gender-transition-case-heres-what-to-know?topStoryPosition=1

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Dec032024

Episode 990 – You Thought We Were Having Problems

In the shocker of shocks, the cease fire between Hezbollah and Israel is failing. Guess whose fault it is.

The government is Georgia is proving you do not have rights to your own children.

And the Daniel Penny trial enters the closing arguments.

Some News

Here is some news:

  • The cease fire in Israel, which is a week old, is already on the shelf. There is fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Both sides are blaming each other.
  • Martial law has been declared in South Korea to subdue the protests happening their. The leader of South Korea is saying that the opposition leader is too cozy with North Korea.
    • South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday, accusing the opposition of “anti-state” activity.
    • In an unannounced address broadcast live late at night on YTN, Yoon said he had no choice but to take drastic measures to protect South Korean freedoms and the constitutional order. He asserted opposition parties have taken the parliamentary process hostage and thrown the country into crisis.
  • The Danial Penny trial has enter closing arguments.
    • Manhattan prosecutors again accused Daniel Penny of failing to recognize the “humanity” of Jordan Neely during their closing arguments Monday, weeks after being accused of unfairly hinting at racial undertones in a case that does not involve hate crime charges.
    • There are issues with the prosecution:
      • The Medical Examiner said Neely died of drugs, schizophrenic delirium and sickle cell anemia.
      • There has been testimony that people felt fear for their lives.
  • A New Jersey resident was escorted out of a town council meeting for waving an American flag in protest of a new rule that bans such items, including the U.S. Constitution and other “props” from the public comment portion of town meetings.
    • Last week, the Township of Edison, New Jersey, passed an ordinance that cuts down the time residents have to address the council and forbids them from using “props” in their remarks, including American flags, during public comments, MyCentralJersey.com reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-jersey-lawyer-ejected-from-town-council-meeting-waving-american-flag-protest-disgusting-new-ban
https://www.foxnews.com/us/daniel-penny-prosecutor-dangles-race-card-again-over-defense-objection-despite-no-hate-crime-charges
https://www.foxnews.com/world/south-korean-president-declares-martial-law-move-against-opposition-party
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/12/03/south-korean-president-suspends-national-assembly-and-declares-martial-law-n2182746

Dumbass of the Day

Forcing Children to Stay Immature

According to the New York Post:

A Georgia mom is refusing to strike a plea deal after she was arrested on child endangerment-related charges over her 10-year-old son’s unsupervised walk into town.

Brittany Patterson, 41, of Mineral Bluff, Ga., was arrested by the Fannin County Sheriff’s Department on Oct. 30 after she left her son alone at home and he wandered less than a mile into town, according to NBC News.

The Fannin County Sheriff’s Department initially called the mom to alert her to the fact that her son Soren was unaccompanied in the town located near the North Carolina border.

“It’s not a super dangerous or even dangerous-at-all stretch of road,” Patterson told the outlet, referring to the street that leads from their rural home to the town of Mineral Bluff. “I wasn’t terrified for him or scared for his safety.”

Deputies drove Soren home and, hours later, returned to handcuff and arrest her in front of her family.

Patterson was booked on suspicion of reckless conduct and posted a $500 bond, according to the report.

The mom said she was angered and frustrated that her children had to witness her being handcuffed and booked by police.

Patterson has rejected an offer to drop the charges, arguing they are entirely unwarranted.

The Sheriff’s Office has offered to drop charges if Patterson signs a form that outlines a safety plan for her kids, she and her lawyer say, according to NBC.

“This is not right. I did nothing wrong,” she said. “I’m going to fight for that.”

https://nypost.com/2024/11/16/us-news/georgia-mom-brittany-patterson-fights-child-endangerment-charges-after-son-found-less-than-mile-from-home

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Dec022024

Episode 989 – None of This Should Have Been a Surprise

Joy Reid goes on a rant…wait for it… against white people.

Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden.

And protests/riots plague the nation and world during Thanksgiving.

Big Shock

https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-pardons-hunter-claims-son-was-singled-out?topStoryPosition=1

Dumbass of the Day

Same Old Story

According to the Daily Wire:

Even as anti-Israel protests disrupted Black Friday shopping — all over the United States and beyond — outgoing President Joe Biden was seen exiting a Nantucket bookstore with an anti-Israel volume clutched in his arms.

The protests were documented in several cities across the country — everywhere from Boston and New York City to Chicago and Seattle — where they blocked traffic on the streets and harassed shoppers in local malls.

Other spots included Santa Monica, CA., Montreal, Canada and London, England.

“Bombs are dropping, why are you shopping?” protesters demanded as customers attempted to find their post-Thanksgiving deals in New York City’s Columbus Circle.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-protests-disrupt-black-friday-shopping-biden-exits-bookstore-with-anti-israel-tome?topStoryPosition=5

Not Sure I Buy This

According to the Daily Wire:

Multiple Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut were targeted with bomb threats on Thanksgiving.

The threats come a day after the Trump transition team announced that several of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees received bomb threats.

Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Jim Himes (D-CT), and John Larson (D-CT) all said in statements that their homes were targeted.

The threats came after the Trump transition team revealed on Wednesday that several Trump nominees and appointees were targeted “in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” according to the transition team.

Those threatened from the Trump team include:

  • Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) – Ambassador to the United Nations.
  • Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) – EPA Administrator.
  • Brooke Rollins – the head of the Agriculture Department.
  • Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) – Secretary of Labor.
  • Scott Turner – Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) – former pick for Attorney General.
  • Pete Hegseth – Department of Defense.

Problem I have with this story is the timing. The Democrats were “threatened” AFTER the Republicans were threatened. And, anyway, that not what Conservatives do. We all have jobs and are too busy.

The FBI should investigate and prosecute any threat.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-democrat-members-of-congress-receive-bomb-threats-on-thanksgiving-day

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Dec012024

Episode 988 – Thanks for the Confirmation About the Mask Thing!

It turns out a lot of the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio are not legal citizens as the Democrats said.

Two reports state climate change is BS. One of them is coming out from the government.

And, if you can believe it, we have a dumbass that is still pushing masks. Go figure.

Dumbass of the Day

I Thought They Were Legal?

Springfield, Ohio — Ketlie Moise fled unspeakable violence in her homeland of Haiti hoping to find peace and a slice of the American dream, settling in Springfield, Ohio.

“I stay here,” Moise told CBS News. “I do two jobs to make my business. That’s why I don’t go back to Haiti.” 

Moise saved money for years and recently opened a restaurant. She is one of the thousands of Haitian migrants building a life in Springfield who now find themselves in the crosshairs of the incoming Trump administration. About 12,000 to 15,000 Haitians reside in the Springfield area, according to city estimates.  

It was during President-elect Donald Trump’s Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that Springfield came to forefront, when Trump repeated false and debunked claims about the Haitian migrants living there. Local officials have said there are no credible reports to back up such allegations.

Trump made the issue of mass deportations a major pillar of his presidential campaign.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fearing-deportation-some-haitian-migrants-leaving-springfield-ohio/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=665487423

You Don’t Say!

According to Red State:

True story: 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous, Antarctica was covered mostly in temperate forest. Dinosaurs roamed the woods, and while the winters were still cold and the winter nights long, Antarctica was in those days green, not white. 

These days, of course, that continent is the world’s southern icebox. It’s the only continent with no indigenous human population because it’s a pretty forbidding place, surrounded by sea ice. That sea ice has been the subject of a lot of panicked screeching by climate scolds in recent years, as they claim that the ice is melting at an accelerating rate – but a new study described by The Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor Chris Morrison shows that the sea ice around Antarctica has actually been increasing since satellite monitoring began in 1979.

Sea ice around Antarctica has “slowly increased” since the start of continuous satellite recordings in 1979 with any changes caused by natural climate variation. In a paper published earlier this year, four environmental scientists further state that any sign that humans are responsible for any change is “inconclusive”. Not of course for mainstream media that have been crying wolf about the sea ice in Antarctica for decades to promote the Net Zero fantasy. Last year there was a reduced level of winter sea ice and this caused the Financial Times Science Editor Clive Cookson to exclaim that the entire area “faces a catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events… that will affect climate around the world”.

Over the satellite record, the scientists note there was a “prolonged and gradual” expansion of sea ice to around 2014 followed by a short period of sudden decline from 2014-19. Growth was then resumed, although there was a temporary downturn around 2022. These variations, which can also be observed before 1979, were caused by a number of natural atmospheric and oceanic factors. All of this is known of course, with the EU weather service Copernicus admitting recently that sea ice extent as a whole “shows large year-to-year variability and no clear long-term trend since 1979”. At the other end of the Earth, Copernicus correctly states that the cyclical decline in Arctic sea ice “has levelled off since 2007”.

Thoughts and prayers are also the order of the day for those who set great store in all the coral disappearing. Three years of record growth on the huge Great Barrier Reef put an end to that headliner. Polar bears are just as bad and keep breeding to top up new Arctic highs. Satellites keep discovering vast colonies of penguins in Antarctica, and mainstream media seem shocked into complete silence to report that the eyes in the sky have detected a vast recent plant greening of the Earth.  There is a growing trend to debunk any ‘extreme’ weather claim – the great citizen journalist Paul Homewood even writes a book about the BBC’s more egregious climate howlers, every year no less, such is the volume to process.

The Net Zero project is starting to crumble around the world as citizens make their feelings known with votes, and sometimes with rocks. Nobody can or wants to live in a world without hydrocarbons. Crucial to this trend is an emerging understanding that the scientific process when it comes to climate has been trashed for decades and replaced with an increasingly laughable junk ‘settled’ science narrative.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/11/17/new-study-finds-antarctic-sea-ice-expanding-since-1979-n2182115

More Surprises

According to Red State:

We have seen plenty of hand-wringing on the threats of climate change not only from climate activists but many in our own, United States government. We are hectored almost daily about the risks we face by our refusal to surrender cheap, abundant energy and our modern technological lifestyle; we are told we risk literally setting the planet on fire. 

Now, plenty of us are skeptical about that. Plenty of us have looked into the issue and realize that, yes, the climate is changing; it always has, it always will. Sure, humans have some effect, although one good volcano can blow us away – not to mention a major asteroid impact, like the one that ended the Cretaceous, that impact being the reason you aren’t dodging T-Rexes every time you go for a morning walk.

Now, a report required by the U.S. government per the 2022 Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act has given us an assessment of the various risks humanity faces. Climate change didn’t make the cut.

Here is are some excerpts from the report:

Global catastrophic and existential risks hold the potential to threaten human civilization. Addressing these risks is crucial for ensuring humans’ long-term survival and flourishing. Motivated by the gravity of these risks, Congress passed the Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act in 2022, which requires that the Secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinate an assessment of global catastrophic risk related to a set of threats and hazards. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and the Federal Emergency Management Agency requested the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center’s support in meeting this requirement. The authors of this report document findings from the resulting analysis.

This report summarizes what is known about the risks associated with six threats and hazards: artificial intelligence; asteroid and comet impacts; sudden and severe changes to Earth’s climate; nuclear war; severe pandemics, whether resulting from naturally occurring events or from synthetic biology; and supervolcanoes.

The risk summaries cover the following aspects: where feasible, estimates of the likelihood and potential consequences of each risk; factors causing the risk and associated uncertainties; and whether the risk is likely to change in the next decade.

Congress requested that the assessment focus on six areas of risk:

  • the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI);
  • asteroid and comet impacts;
  • sudden and severe changes to Earth’s climate;
  • nuclear war;
  • severe pandemics, whether resulting from naturally occurring events or from synthetic biology;
  • supervolcanoes

Using the key definitions across these six categories, the table below summarizes my reading of the report.

Hmm, maybe we can keep driving our gas-powered cars.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/11/14/us-govt-report-climate-change-not-an-existential-risk-n2182016

Have You Ever Watched Barney?

According to the Post Millennial:

A University of Tulsa (UOT) professor has claimed that the reason why some adult men do not like Barney the dinosaur character is because they are attempting to rebel against a “different model for masculinity” and have a “resistance to homosexuality.”

Dr. Emily Contois, a media studies professor at the UOT in Oklahoma made the claim about cultural resistance to Barney coming from adult men, per the Daily Wire. The backlash against Barney that went on in the 1990s has been documented, and the professor reflected on the backlash in an episode of the series, “Generation Barney.” The podcast is about the history of the purple dinosaur and its reception culturally.

During an episode titled, “Love 2 Hate,” host Sabrina Herrera brought Contois on for the conversation. Herrera told the college professor, “Understanding particularly why adult men didn’t like Barney reveals a lot about gender and power in our current society. There were women who didn’t like Barney, but the high-profile hate was really coming from men.”

Contois replied, “He offered up a different model for masculinity, even as a purple dinosaur and not a human. This message about love, about nurturing, about looking after others, that these are emotions and also sort of social practices and responsibilities that in our culture are constructed and understood to be sort of feminine and feminizing.”

The college professor said that Barney as a character was “pushing back against that, offering a different model of sexuality and gender” and added that some men reacted badly to the show. She then added, “A part of that white masculine sort of set of authorities is also this incredible resistance to homosexuality.”

The professor’s university profile claims that she is a “public expert on a wide variety of topics” and adds that she has written for the left-wing publication, Jezebel, as well as NBC News. She has research interests in media studies, gender studies, fat studies, and others.

https://thepostmillennial.com/u-of-tulsa-prof-claims-adult-male-hate-for-barney-the-dinosaur-rooted-in-resistance-to-homosexuality#google_vignette

Dumbasses of the Day

https://thepostmillennial.com/ellen-degeneres-actress-spouse-portia-de-rossi-move-to-uk-never-coming-back-to-the-us#google_vignette

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Nov262024

Episode 987 – What Can They Come Up With Now?

Matt Gaetz is out. Pam Bondi is in. What bullshit can the Left make up about her? Their first efforts are questionable.

The police report is out about Pete Hegseth’s “rape” accusation. The media is counting on you not reading it.

And people will bitch and moan about everything.

One Trick Ponies

He’s Out!

Matt Gates is out. His replacement has been selected and it is Pam Bondi. The Left already has a story to discredit her.

According to the New York Post:

President-elect Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, was once caught up in a legal dogfight with a Louisiana couple over a pooch named Tank fighting to keep the beloved animal she felt had been seriously “neglected.”

The dispute goes back to 2005, when Tank’s owners, Steve and Dorreen Couture, put the St. Bernard in an animal shelter in Louisiana to ride out Hurricane Katrina.

Tank was later turned over to the Pinellas Humane Society in Florida and ultimately adopted by Bondi, 59, who renamed him Noah, The Tampa Bay Times reported.

These People Will Bitch About Anything

According to the Daily Wire:

A Minnesota hospital issued a profuse apology to staff after failing to abide by its “values of respect and justice” — by giving out free Chick-fil-A.

Essentia Health in Duluth wrote to staff last Tuesday after staff clucked about the free sandwiches available in the St. Mary’s Medical Center’s atrium earlier that day.

“We have received feedback from some colleagues who were concerned or offended by this occurrence, and we value colleagues feeling comfortable expressing their reservations,” Tammy Kritzer, senior vice president for regional operations at Essentia Health wrote in an email to medical staff that was obtained by The Daily Wire.

“We would like to thank our colleagues who had the courage to speak up to widen our lens of inclusivity, and we appreciate all colleagues continuing to live our values of respect and justice,” Kritzer wrote.

Chick-fil-A has drawn the ire of LGBT activists over the years, who have boycotted and staged protests over the company donating to groups like the Salvation Army, which activists claim has “a record of anti-LGBTQ discrimination.” In fact, the company emphasizes that it “values diversity, equity and inclusion” and does not discriminate or tolerate harassment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The hospital distanced itself from Chick-fil-A in the email, writing that the free lunch was “not intended to endorse a business or business practices,” the email said.

“We respect all we are honored to serve and employ, and situations such as these are an important reminder to consider all viewpoints. As we strive to be thoughtful and inclusive as an organization, we will have learnings along the way,” the email read.

“In the words of Maya Angelou, when we know better, we do better,” the email concluded. “Thank you for giving us grace, as we work to be better, together,” the email read.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospital-apologizes-for-chick-fil-a-lunch-thanks-employees-who-had-the-courage-to-complain?topStoryPosition=2

What’s the Hurry?

According to the Daily Wire:

On Tuesday, a Texas father who has spent years fighting his ex-wife’s attempt to trans their son said a California judge had sealed the boy’s fate, allowing the mother to go forward with “gender-affirming care” that would enable her “authority to castrate my son.”

“I lost all parental rights to my sons. Goodbye, boys. Perhaps, we will meet when you are adults. California Judge Juhas gave my ex-wife authority to castrate my son, James,” Jeff Younger posted on X.

Younger has been battling his ex-wife, pediatrician Anne Georgulas, for custody of their son James, who is now 12, since 2018, when Georgulas filed a restraining order to prevent Younger from entering James’ school and referring to his son as male. Younger‘s marriage had been annulled in 2016. Georgulas claimed James wanted to be called “Luna” and allowed her son to paint his nails and wear dresses, while Younger said the boy acted like a boy when with his father.

In 2019, Dallas County District Judge Kim Cooks granted both parents full custody. However, in 2020, Judge Mary Brown ruled that Georgulas should be granted full custody, although “gender-affirming care” would still have to be approved by Younger. “Georgulas has the exclusive right to consent to James’ medical procedures except for hormone suppression therapy, puberty blockers, or transgender reassignment surgery,” The Texan noted.

In February 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion in which he stated, “The medical evidence does not demonstrate that children and adolescents from engaging in these irreversible sterilization procedures,” adding that the “’sex change’ procedures and treatments enumerated above, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse.” Those procedures and treatments included sterilization through castration, orchiectomy, and penectomy, among others.

In September 2022, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107, which made California a “sanctuary state” for children seeking “gender-affirming care.” In November 2022, Georgulas moved to California.

In February, Georgulas filed a motion in Los Angeles County Superior Court “aiming to dissolve the protective order preventing her from subjecting James to ‘gender-affirming care,’” The Daily Signal reported. In July 2024, Younger claimed California Judge Michelle Kazadi “illegally sealed my case with no public access,” as The Daily Signal added.

“Judge Shelley Kaufman’s court has misrouted orders to the wrong address,” Younger stated. “Judge Mark Juhas denied me access to crucial evidence by setting a too-early trial date. I can’t even get an independent medical exam of my son. The corrupt Los Angeles courts sealed my case to hide their corruption as they castrate my son.”

The Daily Signal reported that Georgulas had quoted psychologist Brigid Mariko Conn’s statements that James “is interested” in “puberty blockers,” estrogen, and “bottom surgery.” “Bottom surgery” refers to the removal of his penis and testicles.

Younger cited Dr. Miriam Grossman, who was featured in The Daily Wire’s “What Is a Woman,” who said James is not suffering from gender dysphoria and that “gender-affirming care” is not an effective treatment for gender dysphoria.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/goodbye-boys-texas-dad-says-california-judge-gave-ex-wife-authority-to-castrate-my-son

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Nov242024

Episode 986 – Telling the Truth Is a Controversy

Men want to use the women’s restroom in Congress and then complain that Republicans are starting the culture war.

Gas will be going down throughout the country except in California. Let’s explore why.

And some guy is facing 10 years in prison for driving…on a street.

Some News

Here is some news:

  • Jose Ibarra, the killer of Laken Reilley, has been sentenced to life in prison. The leftist DA is getting crap for not asking for the death penalty.
  • U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Boston announced on Wednesday the arrests of two illegal immigrants who have been charged with forcibly raping children in Massachusetts, as well as a third individual who was convicted of raping a child in Brazil, and was hiding in the U.S. after being caught and released at the U.S. border in 2022.
    • The arrests come after Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said her state would not cooperate with President-elect Trump’s federal immigration enforcement efforts once he returns to the Oval Office in January.
    • ICE said one of the suspects, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was arrested for forcible rape of a child, but was released in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by authorities, who ignored a detainer request made by the federal agency to hold or transfer him to federal custody.
  • The Illinois Supreme Court overturned Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax conviction Thursday.
    • “Today we resolve a question about the State’s responsibility to honor the agreements it makes with defendants,” the court wrote in documents obtained by Fox News Digital. “Specifically, we address whether a dismissal of a case by nolle prosequi allows the State to bring a second prosecution when the dismissal was entered as part of an agreement with the defendant and the defendant has performed his part of the bargain. We hold that a second prosecution under these circumstances is a due process violation, and we therefore reverse defendant’s conviction.”
  • The International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected challenges from Israel and issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday.
    • The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with “crimes against humanity and war crimes,” including using starvation as a method of warfare and targeting civilians. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the move in a statement on Thursday.
  • Ukraine said Russia fired what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro on Thursday, in what would be the first use in war of a weapon designed to deliver long-distance nuclear strikes.
    • The United States disputes that.
    • Russia has made no comment.
    • Joe Biden is sending Ukraine another $275 million.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-conviction-overturned-illinois-supreme-court
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-3-illegal-immigrants-massachusetts-2-charged-child-rape-1-convicted-same-crime-brazil
https://www.foxnews.com/world/icc-rejects-israel-appeals-issues-arrest-warrants-benjamin-netanyahu-yoav-gallant
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-attack-ukraine-kyiv-says-2024-11-21/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-sending-another-275m-in-military-aid-to-ukraine-before-trump-takes-office?topStoryPosition=2

These People Are Insane

According to the Daily Wire:

South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace is following up her Capitol Hill bathroom legislation with yet another bill protecting women’s spaces — this time, banning men who identify as transgender women from using women’s facilities on any federal property.

Mace’s bill, the “Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act,” was obtained exclusively on Wednesday morning by The Daily Wire. It will “prohibit individuals from accessing or using single-sex facilities on federal property other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” It forbids anyone from accessing facilities on federal property that do not correspond with their biological sex, and it provides precise definitions of what it means to be female or male.

Mace sparked a backlash this week when she introduced a bill banning trans-identifying men from women’s bathrooms or facilities on Capitol Hill. The resolution specifically states that “allowing biological males into single-sex facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms designed for women, jeopardizes the safety and dignity of members, officers, and employees of the House who are female.”

Liberal media outlets and lawmakers balked at the resolution, arguing that it targets a newly elected member of Congress — Sarah McBride, a man who identifies as a woman.

Tim “Sarah” McBride – Congressman from Delaware

https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-second-nancy-mace-bill-would-ban-men-from-womens-facilities-on-all-federal-property?topStoryPosition=1

Thing Just Keep Getting Worse

According to the Washington Examiner:

California gas prices could rise up to $1.15 per gallon next year thanks to the state’s new carbon credit system, taxes, refinery regulations, and refinery shutdown. This would require the typical Californian to make up to $1,000 per year more in pre-tax income to “break even,” according to an analysis from a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. 

“The increase contributes to inflation, the high cost of living in California, and has a disproportionate and adverse impact on lower income Californians,” wrote Professor Michael A. Mische. “To compensate for the increases, the average Californian driving an internal combustion vehicle will have to earn an additional $600.00 to $1,000.00 a year in pre-tax income in order to “breakeven” with 2024 prices, depending on the grade of gas they purchase.”

Days after the November election, the California Air Resources Board — a regulatory commission almost entirely appointed by the governor — passed new updates to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, requiring producers of “dirty” transportation fuel to purchase more credits from producers of “clean” transportation fuel. The new LCFS will provide an estimated $105 billion in EV charging credits and $8 billion of hydrogen credits largely paid for by fees on gasoline and diesel, which the state estimated would be passed on to drivers and consumers. 

Mische first estimated  that the state’s newly passed carbon credit requirement will increase retail prices for regular grade gasoline in 2025 somewhere between 40 and 65 cents per gallon — similar to that estimated by the University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

He then estimated that the governor’s new refinery regulations he passed during a special legislative session last month would increase prices between 5 and 27 cents per gallon, and that the shutdown of the Phillips 66 refinery announced after the new refinery regulations would add another 8 to 14 cents per gallon.

Because California gas taxes rise with the state’s price index, Mische estimates the gas tax will go up between one to two cents per gallon in 2025.

Combined, these changes add up to an increase of 55 to 90 cents per gallon of regular-grade gasoline in 2025, and 95 cents to $1.15 for premium-grade gasoline.

How will it rise?

  • Carbon credit will raise the price – $.40-.65.
  • Refinery regulations – $.05-.27.
  • Refinery closure – $.08-.14
  • Gas tax hike $.02

Gavin Newsom was asked about this. Here’s his answer:

.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3235752/usc-estimates-california-fuel-could-rise-by-up-to-90-cents-per-gallon-next-year/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/californians-reject-proposal-to-increase-minimum-wage-for-first-time-in-state-history/ar-AA1urfyr?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=ef73add5a272430dee6f8b20f63de69f&ei=30

What If He Burned an American Flag?

According to the Post Millennial:

A man has been arrested for doing burnouts on Pride crosswalks in Bellevue, Washington.

According to police, 21-year-old man Ivan Barzul is connected to several vandalism incidents targeting the same Pride art.

He was arrested at his home in Renton at approximately 1:58 pm on Tuesday on three counts of Malicious Mischief/first-degree vandalism and three counts of Reckless Driving. He could face up to 10 years in prison. 

Bellevue police believe he is responsible for three similar acts of vandalism that occurred on July 14, Sept. 7, and Sept. 15.

https://thepostmillennial.com/man-arrested-for-doing-burnouts-on-pride-crosswalk-could-face-10-years-in-washington-prison

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Nov242024

Episode 985 – Guys, Keep Doing This!

Democrats just can’t get over Trump. This may lead them to be unemployed in a couple of years.

I have another story about why you should home school your child.

And do you have a lot of apps, pictures and e-mails on your phone? You must have a mental disorder.

Good Idea

This is one of the dumber takes from Katie Hobbs, the governor of Arizona.

Home School Your Children!

According to the Post Millennial:

A current St. Helens High School teacher and a former teacher at the Oregon school have both been arrested on sex abuse charges after a months-long investigation. Students at the high school have criticized the school board for allowing the current teacher to continue teaching despite the allegations and investigation.

46-year-old Eric Stearns was arrested in St. Helens on Tuesday and is a current teacher at the school, and 64-year-old Mark Collins, who is retired, was arrested on Tuesday in Beaverton, according to KGW8.

https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-students-blast-school-board-after-2-teachers-arrested-on-sex-abuse-charges-district-sat-on-the-allegations-for-years

I Guess I’m Nuts

According to the New York Post:

Does this ring a bell?

If your phone contains thousands of photos you have to swipe through to find what you need or your phone storage is always full because you’re reluctant to delete anything, even unread emails, you may be a digital hoarder.

Hoarding disorder — which is often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder and is believed to affect about 2.5% of Americans — is defined as persistent problems parting with possessions even if they have little or no value.

Digital hoarding is characterized by the excessive accumulation of digital files like emails, photos, texts or memes. The smartphone user may feel emotionally attached to the computer data and struggle to organize or delete it, leading to stress and anxiety.

“It has to do with the fear of needing this information at some point in the future and yet not having access to it and not knowing where to find it,” Dr. Emanuel Maidenberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, told CNN last week.

So how do you know if you have a problem? Researchers have identified four types of digital hoarders.

First are “collectors,” who have a well-organized system of files and don’t get easily overwhelmed.

Next are “accidental hoarders,” who don’t mean to save unnecessary data but don’t know how to manage it.

There are also “hoarders by instruction,” who keep data on behalf of their company and don’t have personal ties to it, and “anxious hoarders,” who emotionally preserve information just in case they need it later.

Experts gave three tips to CNN for managing and purging digital clutter from your life.

Recent research found that the average smartphone user has around 80 apps installed on their phone but only uses about 30 a month.

Delete unused apps, unsubscribe from unnecessary newsletters and notifications and clear your inbox of unread or unimportant emails.

The average American spends roughly seven hours online every day.

Curtailing your email and social media usage and scheduling “digital detox” days can reduce stress, enhance focus and even improve sleep.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/18/lifestyle/too-many-unread-emails-might-be-a-sign-of-a-mental-disorder

Dumbass of the Day

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Episode 984 – Don’t Put Up That X-Mas Tree Yet!

It’s Christmas time. That means it’s time to tear down the institution. I’ll give you another example.

Israel scores another win against Iran.

And Ukraine strikes against Russia three days after Biden allows Ukraine to shoot missiles at them. Are we on the brink of World War III? Sweden and Finland think so. Let’s talk about it.

Here We Go

According to the New York Post:

When you choose to deck the halls says a lot about you, according to experts.

Christmas Day is more than a month away, but people, including celebrities, are already starting to get into the holiday spirit.

Decorating early is for a specific kind of person, whether you just reached for the tinsel and lights or put the full tree up.

Psychologist Carmen Harra told the Daily Mail that putting up your decorations early can reveal “concealed emotions and subconscious behavioral tendencies” — including narcissism.

“Narcissists derive a sense of high satisfaction from being the center of attention, from being praised and applauded,” Harra explained. “It makes sense, then, that these character traits can easily be fulfilled by turning one’s house into a winter wonderland for the entire neighborhood to admire.”

She said that on top of giving some a chance “to show off,” it also may give people the opportunity to portray a “picture-perfect family.”

“Fights and rifts are common in all clans, but some people feel the need to cover up the truth of what goes on inside their households with lights and tinsel in November,” Harra said.

She added that decorating early might be a mechanism for some people to “fill a void” to feel happiness when they otherwise wouldn’t.

Harra previously noted that those who hang decorations before November might have trouble “living in the moment” — but it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

“If you’re one of the few people who has had their lights in place since October, then you like to be the first to do things,” Harra previously told the Daily Mail. “You enjoy planning and executing well ahead of schedule. You also correctly anticipate the holiday rush and wish to avoid it.”

Amy Morin, a Florida-based psychotherapist, shared with the outlet that decorating early can also stir up positive emotions, such as nostalgia, so sentimental people might like to decorate sooner rather than later.

“For many people, Christmas was a magical time during childhood that is filled with happy memories,” Morin said. “So it makes sense people often want to decorate early because the sooner they get out those decorations, the sooner they can experience a little bit of that magic again.”

She explained that people may feel that the earlier they decorate, the longer the season lasts, giving them more time to live in the happy memories and seek “a much-needed escape from the stress of day-to-day life.”

“We feel better when we anticipate something good and putting up decorations early can remind people that the holidays are coming up soon,” Morin said.

The “anticipation of joy” theory might also contribute to decorating early, Professor Erlanger A. Turner, clinical psychologist at Pepperdine University, said.

“By decorating early, people can prolong the sense of excitement and happiness associated with the holiday season,” he told the Daily Mail. “As people begin to mentally prepare for enjoyable experiences, such as Christmas decorations and celebrations, anticipation of joy helps to boost their mood and well-being.”

https://nypost.com/2024/11/18/lifestyle/cant-wait-to-put-up-your-christmas-tree-you-might-be-a-narcissist/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

Why Did It Take A Month?

According to the Daily Wire:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly destroyed a top-secret nuclear weapons research facility late last month where Iran was actively conducting research for its illicit and undeclared nuclear weapons program.

Israel hit the facility in Parchin during retaliatory strikes against the Islamic regime after it launched more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israel early last month.

Multiple U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios that the strike against the facility “significantly damaged Iran’s effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research,” the report said.

The site where the nuclear weapons research was happening was the Taleghan 2 facility in the Parchin military complex, the report said.

The strike destroyed advanced equipment that is needed to design sophisticated explosive materials that are required to detonate a nuclear device.

Satellite imagery shows that the facility, which was a previously declared nuclear weapons facility decades ago, was completely destroyed in the strike.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-destroyed-top-secret-nuclear-weapons-research-facility-in-iran
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/iran-israel-destroyed-active-nuclear-weapons-research-facility

They Are Taking This Seriously

According to the New York Post:

Sweden and Finland have all begun warning their residents to prepare for the possibility of war as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine rages on.

Stockholm on Monday published its latest version of “In Case of Crisis or War,” a pamphlet instructing civilians on how to prepare for, and ride out, a national crisis that was last sent out in 2018.

The pamphlet, which has been issued five times since World War II, is now twice as long at 32 pages and focuses on war preparations as the Swedish government warns of the worsening situation in Ukraine.

“The security situation is serious and we all need to strengthen our resilience to face various crises and ultimately war,” said Mikael Frisell, director of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

An estimated 5.2 million copies of the pamphlet are set to be delivered to Swedish households in the next two weeks, with the text available in multiple languages online.

The text calls on citizens to be ready with a stockpile of food and emergency supplies, including baby food, medicine and hygiene products.

The Swedish campaign comes as neighboring Finland has also published its own online crisis prep brochure, detailing how the Finnish government would react in case of war.

Helsinki warned that as of the last government survey in September, only 58% of Finns have adequate emergency supplies at home to ride out a crisis.

The warnings come after Norway published its own physical pamphlets earlier this year on how to manage by themselves for a week in the event of a national crisis, including war.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/18/world-news/sweden-finland-warns-residents-to-be-ready-for-war/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/donald-trump-jr-claims-biden-administration-is-trying-to-start-world-war-3-ahead-of-trumps-presidency/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

A Good Start

According to the Post Millennial:

Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday to “restart communications.”

Here’s what they had to say during their show yesterday:

https://thepostmillennial.com/morning-joe-hosts-meet-with-trump-at-mar-a-lago-claim-its-time-to-restart-communications-with-leader-they-compared-to-hitler
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-what-was-discussed-in-meeting-with-scarborough-brzezinski?topStoryPosition=1

Taking Away the Fun

According to the New York Post:

Dance Dance … retribution?

The “NFL on CBS” X account edited out tight end Brock Bowers’ Trump-shuffle touchdown celebration Sunday, OutKick reports.

On the televised game broadcast, fans saw the score, then Bowers’ celebration, then Raiders owner Mark Davis rejoicing in his box. 

Bowers’ end zone moves were skipped over on NFL on CBS’s X post, though, with the video cutting directly from the touchdown to Davis in his suite at Hard Rock Stadium.

While it’s not clear if the editing choice was made deliberately or inadvertently, the decision is controversial in light of a snafu that occurred in the locker room following the game — a 34-19 loss to Miami that dropped the Raiders to 2-8.

When USA Today’s Safid Deen asked the 21-year-old about his dance moves, Bowers responded, “I’ve seen everyone do it … I watched the UFC fight last night and Jon Jones did it. I like watching UFC so I saw it, and thought it was cool.”

https://nypost.com/2024/11/18/sports/cbs-seemingly-removed-brock-bowers-donald-trump-dance-after-raiders-touchdown/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-dance-takes-the-nfl-by-storm-as-players-celebrate-their-wins

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