Wednesday, December 06, 2023
Instapundit - FINALLY: Taylor Swift is Time’s person of the year.
Instapundit-FINALLY: Taylor Swift is Time’s person of the year. 
"Taylor Swift’s record-setting year just got a little bit bigger: She was named Time magazine’s person of the year, the first entertainer ever to be a solo honoree.
The big picture: Swift’s Era’s Tour was a national phenomenon, she dominated the charts, had multiple albums hit No. 1 in a single year, and released a blockbuster concert film to boot...
Driving the news: Time’s Sam Lansky describes Swift in the person of the year cover story as “the last monoculture left in our stratified world. ”... I thought instead, I’d replace myself first with a new me. It’s harder to hit a moving target.”
To be fair, Swift’s nomination is arguably a step up from 2006, when Time declared “you” were the person of the year, as Jonah Goldberg wrote at the time...Ed Driscoll
Dem Mayor Sics Gang on Critics | The Patriot Post
Dem Mayor Sics Gang on Critics | The Patriot Post
- The El Monte, California, mayor ordered a street gang to silence those critical of her as she makes a power grab.
Hunter Biden Sent Direct Monthly Payments To Joe Biden From Bank Account For Chinese Money, Comer Reveals | The Daily Caller
Hunter Biden Sent Direct Monthly Payments To Joe Biden From Bank Account For Chinese Money, Comer Reveals | The Daily Caller:
“Today, the House Oversight Committee is releasing subpoenaed bank records that show Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC, made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden. This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world,” Comer says in the video. The payments appear to have taken place beginning in September 2018, the bank records show.
“Payments from Hunter’s business entity to Joe Biden are now part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes.”
Black People Never Wanted to Defund the Police
Black People Never Wanted to Defund the Police
“What’s at Issue is the White Progressives’ Belief That They’re Helping Us” - TED BALAKER
“We committed to dismantling policing as we know it.”
That’s what then-Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender declared in early June of 2020...
Bender responded with that familiar retort that substitutes an ad hominem attack for real engagement: According to Bender, Harlow’s question “comes from a place of privilege.”...
“What’s at Issue is the White Progressives’ Belief That They’re Helping Us” - TED BALAKER
“We committed to dismantling policing as we know it.”
That’s what then-Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender declared in early June of 2020...
- During an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow, the host pressed Bender. “To be clear, you’re not talking about reform … This is more than reform, this is dismantling.” Bender stood her ground: “I know that statement was bold and I stand by that bold statement.”
Bender responded with that familiar retort that substitutes an ad hominem attack for real engagement: According to Bender, Harlow’s question “comes from a place of privilege.”...
Rapidly Increasing Sea Level
"A quick tour of the remarkable sea level fraud being propagated by US government officials.
The Soros Empire Is Quietly Targeting A Key Voting Bloc | The Daily Caller
The Soros Empire Is Quietly Targeting A Key Voting Bloc | The Daily Caller:
The Open Society Policy Center, the Foundation to Promote Open Society and the Open Society Institute, all arms of the Soros philanthropic network, poured tens of millions of dollars into left-of-center Latino voter mobilization groups and left-wing Latino advocacy organizations in 2022, an election year while buying up latino media and plotting with Democratic strategists. The multi-million dollar grant deluge came as Democratic support has been declining among Hispanic voters in recent years, suggesting the Soros empire is targeting a key voting block.
Ginning up the HATE!-----Trump the dictator? - Don Surber
"...In Kagan’s piece, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending,”..
Kagan wrote, “If Trump does win the election, he will immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office....
The Bezos Post’s hysteria is mild compared to the mania the media will unleash next year.
...The projection is strong with this crowd.
Trump a dictator? If only he were one.
- If only Donald John Trump were as nasty and ruthless as Barack Hussein Obama...
The Sociopathic Generation
The Sociopathic Generation - LINCOLN BROWN
Nothing demonstrates a desire for peace like hundreds of rabid animals surrounding a falafel shop.
- Sunday night, another horde of young people descended on yet another victim. This time, the target was a Philadelphia falafel shop owned by Israeli Jews. Per the usual modus operandi, a mob arrived at the establishment named "Goldie" and began shouting, “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.”
- The world, albeit perhaps too little, too late, is coming to terms with who these protestors really are. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), during a recent interview with Dana Bash, essentially minimized the rape of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists. None other than MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met her thoughts with disgust.
- Even the Blessed St. Greta of the Melting Glaciers is being unmasked. Just the News notes that Thunberg is losing support in the climate movement over her pro-Palestinian stance. Thunberg has repeatedly posted photos of herself holding signs supporting Palestine and attending protests...
Let us have no more musings that these college students and their accompanying anti-Semites are misguided young people or that "from the river to the sea" or calls for intifada are not literal but figurative...collegiate or otherwise, cannot possibly claim ignorance of the brutality of the October 7 attack.
Even now, almost two months later, fresh reports continue to emerge.
Yesterday, Yoni Saadon, who witnessed the attack at the Supernova Music Festival, told the UK's Times's Sunday edition:
"She fell to the ground, shot in the head, and I pulled her body over me and smeared her blood on me so it would look as if I was dead too. I will never forget her face. Every night I wake to it and apologise to her, saying ‘I’m sorry’. I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, ‘Stop it — already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’ When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head...Read all!
Cal State faculty launch strike to demand pay raise, more benefits | The College Fix
Cal State faculty launch strike to demand pay raise, more benefits | The College Fix - MAGGIE KELLY"Professors at California State University are two days into a week of planned strikes at four campuses to demand a salary increase of 12 percent and improved benefits...
In addition to the 12 percent raise, the union has demanded an extension of parental leave from six weeks to a full semester.
They are also asking for “more manageable workloads for faculty, better access to breastfeeding stations and more gender-inclusive restrooms,” the AP reported.
Full-time professors earned an average of $112,397 and lecturers earned an average of $66,159 in fall 2019, according to the latest data from the school’s website...
In addition to the 12 percent raise, the union has demanded an extension of parental leave from six weeks to a full semester.
They are also asking for “more manageable workloads for faculty, better access to breastfeeding stations and more gender-inclusive restrooms,” the AP reported.
Full-time professors earned an average of $112,397 and lecturers earned an average of $66,159 in fall 2019, according to the latest data from the school’s website...
Levin: message those claim care innocent Palestinian lives | Blaze Media
Levin: message those claim care innocent Palestinian lives | Blaze Media:
Celebrities and politicians like Angelina Jole, Rashida Talib, Corey Bush, Bella Hadid, and Gigi Hadid have all been incredibly vocal about their disdain for Israel and support for Palestine.
But none of them spoke up when over 4,000 Palestinians in refugee camps were slaughtered in the Syrian Civil War. Nor did they scream when Lebanon banned Palestinians from working as doctors and lawyers or from owning land.
Public School Puts Boy and Girl in Same Bed on Field Trip
"In a less civilized age, the parents of this 5th-grade girl would have beaten the crap out of the school officials.
For good or ill, we no longer do that.
We sue. And (vainly) hope that somebody gets fired...
History for December 6
History for December 6 - On-This-Day.com 
Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886
- 1735 - In London, French surgeon Claudius Amyand performed the first successful appendectomy at St. George's Hospital. The patient was an 11-year old boy that had swallowed a pin.
- 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
- 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
- 1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
- 1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
- 1983 - In Jerusalem, a bomb planted on a bus exploded killing six Israelis and wounding 44.
- 1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier.
Tuesday, December 05, 2023
German judge lets 8 men who gang-raped girl walk free | Blaze Media
German judge lets 8 men who gang-raped girl walk free | Blaze Media:
AGerman court delivered its verdict Tuesday concerning those responsible for the barbaric September 2020 gang-rape of a 15-year-old German girl in the northern city of Hamburg.
Of the eleven men initially charged in relation to the gang-rape of the minor — only four of whom were technically German — two were acquitted. Nine were found guilty. Eight got probation, not exceeding two years. Only one is headed to prison.
Smearing Capitalism
Smearing Capitalism - JOHN STOSSEL"You must be lonely.
The media say loneliness is everywhere in America.
“What they never tell you in the reports,” Norberg replies, “is that people who live alone and spend less time surrounded by other people are also more happy with those relationships.”...
- A Los Angeles Times columnist says, “There’s a mass loneliness crisis going on.”
- “Capitalism is Making You Lonely,” says Jacobin Magazine.
- Vox claims, “Capitalism makes us feel empty inside.”
In my new video, historian Johan Norberg points out that, “There’s no empirical data that actually shows that we feel more lonely now than we did in the past. … When researchers compare people with previous generations at the same stage of life, they don’t find evidence of increased loneliness.”“But more people live alone now,” I say. “I would think that would make people lonelier.”
“What they never tell you in the reports,” Norberg replies, “is that people who live alone and spend less time surrounded by other people are also more happy with those relationships.”...
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