Sometimes a flare goes up in the darkness and you can see where everyone is standing.
"...The bodies of all the young festivalgoers, pensioners and beheaded babies hadn’t even been found before people began making excuses for their murder. And even praised the mass slaughter. On Sunday, just 24 hours after the atrocities, Hamas terrorists were still killing Jews in Israel. And radical extremists were gathering in Times Square to celebrate their actions.
According to Kelly, while these horrifying images are circulating, there are Washington Post journalists liking tweets that say things like: “What did you think decolonization meant? Did you think it meant vibes? Losers.”
“That happened,” Kelly says, disgusted. “Her name is Karen Attia. She writes for the Washington Post.”
There is an old expression: “Success has a thousand fathers but failure is always an orphan.”
"We can judge the results of the pandemic response, then, by the number of people who claim it as their own.
So far the answer seems to be: none. These days, if you listen to the rhetoric, you would think that absolutely no one forced anyone to do anything, not even take the jab.
There were no mask mandates.
No one was ever locked down.
There were some mistakes, sure, but those came only from doing the best we could with the knowledge we had.
Other than make well-considered recommendations, they didn’t force anyone to do anything...
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.
A tearful Israeli mother whose boys, 12 and 16, were taken hostage by Hamas amid its surprise attack against Israel accused MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell of trying to garner sympathy for "animal human beings" in the terror organization.
What are the details?
The mother, whose name wasn't given, sat for a video interview with Mitchell and frequently sobbed as she gave a gut-wrenching description of listening on the phone as her sons were abducted by Hamas after hiding in a safe room in their home.
"Walmart’s recent decision to shut downhalf of its Chicago stores highlights a troubling reality for big-box retailers: operating in urban markets isn’t easy...
The company says it closed the stores because they hadn’t been profitable in years... Some observers have blamed higher levels of shoplifting for the retailer’s retreat from urban markets... Companies including Target (TGT), Albertsons (ACI), and Lowe’s (LOW) have called out more instances of so-called inventory shrink, or the loss of inventory tied to theft, administrative errors, and damage...
"...But now I’m done with my downtown Denver condo.
What’s happened to downtown Denver in just the last three years is disgraceful and disgusting. It’s simply overrun with vagrants...
That mayor wasn’t alone.
Virtually the entire Denver city council are leftist Democrats.
The leftist group-think on this issue is that the vagrants are victims of a bad economy, probably the one George W. Bush brought on 20 years ago, and Ronald Reagan before him, and John Kennedy before him, by greedily refusing to take wealth from those who earn it to give it to those who want it...
The new mayor elected last summer says he wants to do something about the vagrants...wants to spend more money. He wants to spend $50 million to house about 1,000 of them. That’s out of the 7,000 or so that are here, a number sure to grow when word gets out about the fabulous deal for them in Denver. Do the math again. That’s $50,000 per person – over $4,000/month in rent per person. Does he plan to house them downtown in the Four Seasons?...
Reporters had a meltdown on Tuesday when a State Department spokesperson declared that Israel has a right to defend itself from the recent brutal terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas.
The terrorist organization has reportedly killed more than 1,000 people, including women and children. Another 150 people are believed to have been taken hostage by the group.
There would be peace in the Middle East if Israel just ended its occupation, right?
"That’s what the Squad wants you to think, anyway.
The statements of the three primary members of this winsome leftist House coalition on the Hamas massacres in Israel had the distinct odor of canned talking points.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Make Mine A Double) issued a statement that said, “I condemn Hamas’ attack in the strongest possible terms.”
That was a good start, but she then turned on a dime to blame it all on Israel: “No child and family should ever endure this kind of violence and fear, and this violence will not solve the ongoing oppression and occupation in the region.”
Ongoing oppression and occupation, see?
If Israel would just ease up on the poor Palestinians, Hamas jihadis would all open restaurants and shops, and peace would dawn upon the region...
A new study warned that artificial intelligence technology could cause a significant surge in electricity consumption.
The paper, published in the journal Joule, details the potential future energy output of AI systems, noting that generative AI technology relies on powerful servers and that increased use could drive a spike in demand for energy.
The authors point to tech giant Google in one such example, noting that AI only accounted for 10%-15% of the company's total electricity consumption in 2021.
Highlights of the week - Don Surber The lesson is don't behead babies and expect support. We know, John. ITEM 1: The horrific attack on Israel by Palestine shocked the world.
Suddenly Sarah Silverman and other celebrities no longer support anti-Semitic groups such as BLM. J.K Rowling tweeted, “We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.” From my side of the pond, Brits worried too much about Bibi and too little about Corbyn. Virtue signaling made anti-Semitism popular again. But we must forgive these fools and move on to eliminating Black September, PLO, PLA, Hezbollah, Hamas, Hummus, or whatever Palestinians are calling their terrorist army these days. Level Gaza. Too harsh? The New York Post reported, “Minnesota woman, husband who advocated for Palestinian rights killed by Hamas.”
ITEM 2: Breitbart reported, “The Black Lives Matter Chicago chapter on Wednesday deleted a controversial pro-Hamas tweet, but doubled down on its support for the Palestinian cause as Hamas launched a violent terror attack on Israel...
A bill in Michigan’s state Senate would create a bureaucracy “to provide for the transition of transition-impacted industries into new industries.”
"...The bill singles out three industries as potential losers in the transition: energy, auto and construction. ...The Senate Labor Committee approved the bill last week, and it will head to the committee of the whole. Read it for yourself: Senate Bill 519 of 2023
...The Senate Fiscal Agency’s analysis portrays job losses from the energy transition as market-driven.
But both Michigan’s energy transition and the changeover to electric vehicle manufacturing have been prodded by a mix of government regulation and incentives.
...Michigan will stop burning coal in 2032, up three years from the original end date of 2035.
