Headlines

 

Democrats risk a new Progressive rebellion as Biden embraces border deal

Weekly mortgage demand drops as buyers struggle to find affordable homes

DOJ investigating far-left ‘squad’ member Cori Bush for allegedly misusing government funds

Elon risks losing richest title … Growing skepticism around brain chip claim …

‘A recipe for violence’: Election officials on edge for ruling from Georgia judge

Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla compensation voided by judge, Tesla shares slide

Parents of fallen soldier killed in drone strike still awaiting call from Biden 

Study: Fasting may lower risk of Alzheimer’s …

Ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years for corruption

Putin’s anti-war opponent takes step toward election; Russia says West could meddle in upcoming vote

Complaint alleges Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer plagiarized her husband’s work

Poll: Trump to lose 55% of swing state voters if convicted …

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Fruitcake Anyone?

Pilgrim, I know the holidays are over … but there is still some of this sweet treat lying around …

E. Jean Carroll with Rachael Maddow

E. Jean Carroll with Anderson Cooper … a while back

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Even More Sqirrelly

 

The saga of the E. Jean Carroll two lawsuit victories against Trump … netting her close to $90 million in jury awards …  gets even more squirrelly when one realizes that these suits were allowed only through special New York State legislation specifically designed to open a temporary window to allow such suits to proceed … see: Daily Caller article.

Interestingly, this law’s permission window will close back down this coming November … coincidence?

Now Pilgrim I’m no lawyer, but doesn’t this special NY statute come across as a bill of attainder … something forbidden by Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution?

STAND UP FOR THE CONSTITUTION,

Headlines

The U.S. pulled resources out of the Middle East. Now it is rethinking this decision.

GM beats Wall Street estimates, predicts strong performance for 2024

Ex-IRS contractor who leaked Trump’s tax returns sentenced to 5 years in prison

Pentagon mixed up friendly, enemy drones …

Kishida vows to end money scandals of Japanese ruling party

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts $213 billion profit, boosted by tech profits

Report: Manchin to launch 2024 bid with “No Labels” party if Biden has health scare

Iran executes 4 Israeli ‘spies’ in bomb plot on weapons factory …

Macron flirts with EU-bashing in wink to French farmers

Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time

Overwhelming majority side with Texas over Biden border dispute

AG Garland to go under knife, hand power to deputy …

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Interesting Factoid

One weighs slightly more at the North Pole than on the equator because, at the equator, stronger centrifugal force (inertia) works to counteract gravity.

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Crimes Againsr Humanity

 

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Earth’s Rotation Observed

From daily timewaster blog

No, rockets to space don’t follow a curved path. They go pretty much straight up.  It’s the Earth rotating under them that creates this illusion.

STAND UP FOR SPACEX!

Headlines

 

The huge wedge between McConnell and Johnson: Donald Trump

Evergrande shares halted after Hong Kong court orders liquididation

Nearly 750k foreign nationals released into U.S. interior last year through Biden’s Parole Pipeline

Drone wars … McConnell calls for striking Iran … Nuke warning …

North Korea fires several cruise missiles, South Korea says

Zelensky’s income fell dramatically after Russian invasion, new declaration reveals

Judge in Trump-Carroll case was mentor to E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer

Kansas City Super Bowl bound vs. San Fran …

French farmers plan ‘siege’ of Paris despite government concessions

United CEO kickstarts Airbus talks amid Boeing delays

State Department to continue funding United Nations Relief and Work Agency despite workers’ involvement in Oct 7 attacks

Ghislaine working on tell-all: Epstein’s madam ‘obsessively writing memoir’ …

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More Cute Animals

From Woodsterman blog

I’ve got to get a second job.

STAND UP FOR BIG FAMILIES!

Thank you Biden!

 

And Obama, your evil puppet master …

STAND UP TO AYATOLLAHS!

Quotable Quote

Repeating and embellishing a half-truth is the worst kind of lie. — Fletcher

STAND UP TO HALF TRUTHS!

Headlines

‘You are the reason I am president’: Biden embraces Black voters in S.C.

Tech layoffs balloon in January as Wall Street rally lifts Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft to records

Failed left-wing outlet Buzzfeed and Vice Media start selling off assets

Manchin on border: ‘Democrats let this happen’ and Biden can act

Trump vows to fight border deal ‘all the way,’ praises Johnson as ‘very tough’

Beijing intensifies military pressure on Taiwan as U.S.-China talks resume

Some Chicago Dems rethinking city’s sanctuary status

Trump to states: Use National Guard to remove migrants across border

UN chief calls on countries to resume funding Gaza aid agency after allegations of Hamas ties

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley targeted in swatting incident

Trump-backed Gina Swoboda becomes new Arizona GOP chair

Ben Shapiro raps! #1on Itunes … 

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Woodsterman Pic

 

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Babylon Wasp

Iran-backed proxies have attacked and killed three American service members in a drone strike in northern Jorden … and wounding over 34 others … crossing another American  red line.

As a result President Biden has challange the Ayatollah Khamenei to a push-up contest … loser buys the ice cream.

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Political Calculus

Senator Lankford of Oklahoma, a lead negotiator on a new immigration bill, should know better … Trump does.

President Biden flouts the existing laws today to open the Mexican border to millions of illegal aliens. If Congress were to pass into law a new set of immigration restrictions, then when Biden still ignores them, it becomes the Republicans’ problem  … not the Democrats’.

Not a very good election-year strategy …

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Woke Karma

 

Woke karma would be tranies’ dicks falling off. — Fletcher

STAND UP FOR WOKE KARMA!

Search Ergines

First, realize that Google has an effective monopoly on the internet search market … with over an 84% market share.

Pilgrim, are you as frustrated with Google’s search engine as I am? Almost every time I search for something I am frustrated. And I use DuckDuckGo which suffers the same biases as Google … in fact I suspect it is just a software film on top of Google that just eliminates search results tracking.

Why am I frustrated? Primarily because of lefty bias, lack of historic perspective, ponderous duplication of results and how movie and book titles crowd out other results.

So, anyone who wants a new business idea … build a search engine that eliminates these complaints. (Actually the Large Language Model chatbots have the potential to fulfill this need. But don’t hold your breath.)

STANND UP FOR GOOD SEARCHES!

Headlines

 

The delegate door is closing faster than Nikki Haley thinks

U.S. to reportedly announce billions of dollars in subsidies for advanced chips

Border Patrol stands with Texas — ‘No plans’ to take down razor wire on southern border

Poll: Trump 27 points ahead of Haley in South Carolina

Trump ordered to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll

South Gaza battles rage as heavy rains hit displaced people further north

Biden’s third-year approval rating the worst since Jimmy Carter

USA moving nukes to UK to counter Russia …

Biden says he’ll shut down the border if deal gives him authority

Mars rover data confirms ancient lake sediments on red planet

Speaker Johnson says Senate border deal ‘dead on arrival’ in House

NSA secretly buying Americans’ data without a warrant …

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New York Justice

 

Above is Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba explaining how E. Jean Carroll walked away with a $83.3 million judgement in her civil defamation suit against Trump. And please remember … Trump was interestingly never convicted of criminal rape … he was found liable for “battery and defamation“in a civil lawsuit alleging a “rape sometime” in the 1990s.

This is how New York justice is again unserved when Trump is the defendant.

And in case you have forgotten who E. Jean Carroll is … here is a reminder:

STAND UP TO KANGAROOS!

Powerline Pic

 

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Babylon Wasp

 

It has just been discovered that Mitch McConnell’s spates of catatonic frozen speech were actually his having been hypnotized by Chucky Schumer while in negotiations on the Mexican border. He is rumored to still be fully spellbound … under the control of Upchuck.

STAND UP TO HYPNOSIS!

One Nation, Indivisable …

From Woodsterman blog

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Headlines

 

A wine aficionado in sweet tea country: Gavin Newsom goes to South Carolina

Intel stock sinks as early 2024 outlook comes up short

All 28 Republican AGs blast Democrats for attempting to shutter U.S. military’s largest ammo plant

UAW president; ‘Great majority’ of auto workers ‘will not vote’ for Biden

Hunter Biden snagged a cushy job after law school. He’s been trading on his name ever since.

JP Morgan Chase shuffles top leaders as race to succeed Jamie Dimon drags on

Republicans introduce legislation to ban federal authorities from removing Texas razor wire following SCOTIS defeat

GDP soars 3.3%, much higher than expected

Biden reins in gas exports that have raised U.S. prestige and climate fears

After earnings miss Cramer says Tesla is out of the Magnificent Seven

Ohio Senate overrides Governor’s veto of bill banning trans surgeries of minors

RNC moves to crown Don after only two states …

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Steel Will

One characteristic that stands out for Donald Trump is his steel will … elsewise he never could have survived and accomplished as much as he did under the Deep State onslaught.

Of course it is this steel will that causes his detractors to roll out the easy Nazi and Mussolini comparisons. But the reason these analogies  are strained is that his motivations are clearly patriotic whereas the Biden’s anti-MAGA  diatribes are not.

So, in a world of malign steel-willed actors … Xi, Putin, the Ayatollah Khamenei, Kim Jong un … it’s comforting to think that we might again have a benign counterbalance.

STAND UP FOR OUR STEEL WILL!

Babylon Wasp

 

Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon have both been sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to respond to a Congressional subpoena for depositions … claiming executive privilege.

For the same offense, Hunter Biden has been given the Big Guy’s Medal of Freedom.

STAND UP FOR EQUAL JUSTICE!

Turned Tables

 

Maybe I’m premature in this wish … but I have a election hope — no matter who Trump faces this November, I would love to have him win the national popular vote and, as a consequence, win the electoral votes of those  liberal states like California, New York and Illinois, who have pledged to give their electoral votes … no matter the vote in their state … to the winner of the national popular vote in an ill-advised compact.

That, dear reader, would make my heart sing.

STAND UP THE TURNED TABLES!

Headlines

 

Democrats fear economic fallout from Red Sea could hurt them in November

Tesla shares close down 12% after company warns of slowdown in 2024

Senate Republicans sound off on leaked border deal proposals

Poll: Over half of Dems favor aborting babies with Down Syndrome

‘They’ve all turned their backs on her’: Haley hosts a homecoming in a hostile state

Trump warns he will blacklist Nikki Haley campaign donors

House Republicans introduce legislation to prevent Biden administration from tearing down key hydroelectric dams

Texas defies feds — ‘We will continue to deploy razor wire’

Trump’s super PAC raised $46 million in 6 months

Moscow and Kyiv face off over downed POW plane amid suspicions and allegations over  crash

Biden administration demands Texas relinquish control of border after SCOTUS decision

Haley defiant …  mocks ‘insecure’ Trump …

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Interesting Factoid

All but one of the 27 Republican governors have signed a letter supporting Gov. Gregg Abbot of Texas in his defiance of the Biden administration’s demanding access to a key portion of the Texas-Mexican border.

The exception … Republican Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont … not a surprise.

STAND UP WITH TEXAS!

Wouldn’t it be Funny?

America’s infatuation with the Tesla and other EVs is wearing off just as China is following suit … a little ironic since Peiking has still not swallowed the global warming myth. See: CNBC article.

Shows you that social pressure often trumps logic.

STAND UP TO SOCIAL PRESSURE!

Stupid Laws

 

Every stupid law that is allowed to stand begets seven others. — Fletcher

STAND UP TO STUPID LAWS!

Killing Babies and Taking Drugs

 

The Democrats cleverly use favorable ballott initiatives … abortion on demand, state-sponsored gambling and legalizing hard drugs … to drive lefty turnout for their candidates.

What does that say about the Democrat party when they connive to grab power through promoting social depravity.

STAND UP TO SOCIAL DEPRAVITY!

Headlines

 

Trump’s New Hampshire win had some bright red warning signs

Israel-Hamas war negotiations reportedly working toward a weeks-long cease fire

Biden wins New Hampshire Democrat primary

CNN exit poll, Seventy percent of Haley voters not registered Republicans

Next step on Trump’s path to be presumptive nominee; The Supreme Court

New Hampshire primary results: Trump wins primary as Haley donors fret over next steps

Audio recording reveals Arizona’s top Republican official trying to bribe Keri Lake not to run for Senate

Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed

South Carolina probably won’t save Nikki Haley

Russian military plane crashes near border region, Moscow says 65 Ukrainian prisoners on board

Hamas rejects Israel’s proposal for two-month cease fire, hostage-prisoner swap

Trump loses gag order fight in Jack Smith’s election case …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

A Real Reporter

 

I have  been listening to DC’s WMAL radio of late … and have heard Julie Kelly being interviewed  there a lot … and find her quite honest and thorough … particularly on the events surrounding Jan 6 and the litigation thereof.

She has a spot in Substack that has lots of her posts … here it is: Julie Kelly posts … in particular read the post : “Kamala Harris' Still Unexplained Presence at the DNC on January 6” … this may well blow Jan 6 wide open.

If you want a balanced view of things, you might want to dip in there occasionally.

Afterward: Dan Bongino is fairly convinced that the pipe bombs were Plan B in case the Capitol invasion didn’t come off as designed. … and that’s why there has been such a flaccid follow-up by the FBI.

STAND UP TO CONSPIRACY!

90 Miles from Tyrrany Pic

 

I know, I know … I’m like a dog with a bone.

Afterward: Here is another pic from the Woodsterman blog:

STAND UP FOR FAIR ELECTIONS!

Babylon Wasp

Under the Chief Justice John Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court has stopped issuing decisions … instead it is now calling them “suggestions!”

STAND UP FOR JUSTICE!

Woodsterman Pic

 

Malign … like his dad George …

Alex and George Soros

Not as bright as his old man.

STAND UP AGAINST SOROSES!

Headlines

 

How Steve Garvey became a punchline at the first California Senate debate

World’s largest hedge funds record a bumper year of profits

SCOTUS allows border patrol to remove razor wire installed by Texas in 5-4 decision

Chris Sununu: ‘Low energy’ Trump can barely read a Teleprompter

Gen. Kelly final warning: Trump has contempt for USA …

Protesters demand Israel-Hamas cease-fire outside the California Senate debate

Emergency declared in San Diego as wettest January day on record brings widespread flooding

GOP’s slim House majority gets even narrower

Fetterman’s break from the left excites Republicans

Kremlin denies latest deadly Russian strikes on major Ukraine cities was revenge for market attack

Jan 6 committee deleted 100+ encrypted files right before GOP took majority in House

NH: Trump 54.6%, Haley 43.1% …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Investment Advice (Which I Need to Take)

Capital appreciations in the stock market that occur in the short term are of the heart … those from a longer period are of the head. — Fletcher

STAND UP FOR CAPITAL GAINS!

Role Reversals

The role of the media and academia is to question … and the politicians, to assert. When the media and academics start asserting … the politicians must then question. 

Such is the situation today. — Fletcher

STAND UP FOR QUESTIONING!

Revealed!

 

Whoopi Goldberg’s middle name ……..

……… Cushion!

STAND UP FOR FLATULENCE!

Headlines

 

Polls show Trump could be doomed if he’s convicted. Will a trial happen in time?

Blockchain,, the tech behind Bitcoin, may have found its ’killer use case’ by keeping AI in check

Study finds thousands of companies are monitoring every Facebook user

Cops: Chicago organized retail theft rung led by illegals

Judge Judy jumps for Haley

Moscow strikes back at Ukraine for ‘monstrous act of terrorism’ after market, oil terminals attacked

Multiple U.S. troops injured after Iran-backed terrorists fire missile barrage at Iraq base

Exclusive — Republican Senators warn against immigration deal

New Biden ad blames Trump for overturning Roe

No ‘economic collapse’: top Citi strategist says healthier economic growth is coming

WHO puts countries on notice about possible pandemic 20 times deadlier than COVID

Haley questions Trump’s mental fitness …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Interesting Factiod

 

Because Washington, DC has had bitter cold temperatures for over a week, numerous water mains have broken there resulting in many traffic problems. (I’ve been listening to WMAL there and hear the traffic reports.)

STAND UP FOR CLIMATE CHANGE!

More Cute Animals

 

From Woodsterman blog

I hope he’s house broken …

STAND UP FOR LONGHORNS!

Revolting Development*

 

From 90 Miles from Tyranny blog

* a bit of Great Gildersleeve nostalgia

STAND UP TO CLIMATE INSANITY!

Headlines

Putin willing to visit North Korea at ‘early date,’ Pyongyang says

Israel’s Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty in post-war Gaza, rebuffing Biden

Biden finally admits the border isn’t secure, claims he’s believed this ‘for the last 10 years’

WEF: Biometric IDs could track vax status

EU, U.S. near deal on police access to online data

Iranian and Hezbollah commanders help direct Houthi attacks in Yemen, sources say

Fani Willis in 2020: Dating staff ‘certainly inappropriate’

Publisher of ‘Sports Illustrated’ lays off magazine’s entire staff

Trump said NATO countries spent ‘billions’ after he threatened not to defend EU

China defies sanctions to make Russia its biggest oil supplier in 2023

Tim Scott endorses Trump in New Hampshire

DeSantis drops out …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!