European Union Wages War on Free Speech

Because you plebes are not to be trusted. EU President Likens Free Speech To Infectious Disease | ZeroHedge

Once again I'm of the opinion that Europe is lost to freedom.

As president of the EU, [Ursula von der Leyen] conducted secret negotiations with Pfizer CEO to purchase a 20 billion Euros of Pfizer’s fraudulent and dangerous vaccine so that it could be inflicted on all the citizens of the European Union.

She is currently under criminal investigation for her conduct in this affair that has come to be known as Pfizergate.

It takes a special kind of chutzpah for a powerful state official who is probably guilty of committing a major crime - a crime that has been systematically and ruthlessly concealed - to lecture the public about the need for censorship.

Read the whole thing for some info/allegations on Biden pressuring the Germans on censorship.

Taum Sauk Dam Failure

I don't usually cover the same event twice, but it has been a couple of years since I had an infrastructure post on the 2005 Taum Sauk dam failure. And I really like Practical Engineering videos, because I like the way Grady Hillhouse explains things for those of use who aren't engineers.

This is Practical Engineering's video The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure.

That previous post on this incident is Taum Sauk Dam Failure, at the archives. You will find the Dam Failures case study for Taum Sauk, and a link the PBS review of the event on the 10th anniversary of the failure.

Self-Defense Is Legal in South Carolina

The Professional Journalist™ seems surprised by that, or that's how I read it anyway. No charges for Myrtle Beach-area homeowner who shot intruder | Myrtle Beach News | Post and Courier

The shooting happened around 7:40 p.m. Oct. 21 when 34-year-old Ryan Surujnauth entered at a home on Monaca Drive in Longs, according to a news release from the Horry County Coroner's Office. The homeowner shot him multiple times. Surujnauth, who lived in North Myrtle Beach, died Oct. 22 at Grand Strand Medical Center.

The moral of the story is, "Don't break into other people's homes."

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is just shy of a 120 mile drive northeast from Charleston, South Carolina, or about a 190 mile drive southeast from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Self-defense is a human right.

Privacy Is Such a 20th Century Concept

KrebsOnSecurity has an update on how your mobile phone is letting everyone spy on you. The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Not long ago, the ability to digitally track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a dangerous power that should remain only within the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

The details are depressing to contemplate.

Suffice it to say, if you carry your cellphone around with you, chances are you are in so many databases, that anyone who is interested can find where you live, work, etc. This is not good for a lot of people, and shouldn't be the case in any event.

NASA Admits Starliner Can't Fly

Whether Boeing will learn the lesson that DEI is not working for them, remains to be seen. NASA Finally Cuts the Cord: Starliner Grounded Until Boeing Learns DEI Won't Fly to Space - Flopping Aces

The news was that, despite having invested $5 billion in the project, NASA reluctantly deleted Boeing’s troubled Starliner from all upcoming scheduled space missions through at least 2026. The change leaves SpaceX’s Dragon as the agency’s lone domestic provider. (NASA also demurely confirmed it will continue seat-swapping with the Russians on certain space station missions).

Adding insult to injury, NASA’s decision comes as two of its astronauts remain stranded on the International Space Station, where they will be literally hanging out until February.

Of course NASA and Boeing have a cozy relationship, or they did, until this little thing came up.

Ironically, NASA originally considered dividing its multi-billion dollar budget between blue-blooded Boeing and scrappy SpaceX, but ultimately decided to award nearly all the money to Boeing. SpaceX was largely forced to self-finance, while Boeing built its now sidelined spaceship using taxpayer dollars.

As for DEI and the difference between how the two companies approached it, click thru. You won't be surprised.

The Terminator: 26 October 1984

I would like to say that it doesn't seem like it was all that long ago, but it's almost like I was living in a different country 40 years ago. It was certainly a different entertainment landscape.

Here is a collection of movie posters from that year. Some are classics like Ghostbusters, or Beverly Hills Cop. The Killing Fields was a chilling tale about how humans treat one another. While I didn't care that much for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, there is no denying it was successful, and better than the 2 movies that came after. Amadeus is great movie. Even the small, cheap films, like Karate Kid were good. And then there are the cult classics, like The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. I should probably watch some of these again.

Today we are lucky if there are 2 movies in a year that are not trying to lecture us for the way we live our lives, or tell us who is oppressing people. And if we do get a fun movie, it will be filled with garbage CGI, shot entirely in front of green screens, and based on the (mistaken) idea that spectacular fight scenes can substitute for plot and character development.

I'm not sure you can call The Terminator a masterpiece. Certainly James Cameron made better movies, and movies that made more money. It did make Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, and probably Linda Hamilton's as well. But it was a solid version of "The Thing that would not die" genre of action/thriller, with enough science fiction thrown in for good measure.

This is the official trailer for The Terminator.

"The thing that would not die" is usually associated with horror, like the 1958 version of The Fly, or Alien. James Cameron did a nice job of making it solidly Sci-Fi.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 26 October

Animal Magnetism starts us off with Animal’s Hump Day News

Two words: Democrat governance.
No shit, Sherlock Part Deux.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 10.24.24

Dana Loesch: Reporter Shot At Adam Kinzinger & Lucas Kunce’s Range Day Campaign Event, Don Surber: How it is going

The Right Way - Top of the News

Israel invites the people of Beirut to a treasure hunt - The New Neo
ELECTION PROPHYLATIC MEASURES - ACCORDING TO HOYT - Born Free

EBL - Kamala Harris: Everyone I Don't Like is Hitler!

RedState: Trump swiftly responds to Kamala's allegations
Legal Insurrection: Kamala Rants and Trump Blasts

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 24 October 2024: Disarmed Edition

Speaking of Ars Technica Tesla reported a quarterly profit of $2.2 billion and psychosis is running rampant among the commentariat. (Ars Technica)
I do not get a spell-check warning for commentariat. Huh.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 10.25.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Stoic Observations: A Simple Observation
Kukuruyo: Why Gamers Relate Sexy/Ugly Characters To The Quality Of Games

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

Woke World: Remember his name. The myth of Islamophobia. Your morning meme.
Cackling Kamala’s America: A dose of reality. Beta males for Harris.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 10/24/2024

Judge Blasts ‘Outrageous’ Arrest of Arizona Mom Who Criticized Bureaucrat, Bans Future Arrest
The city of Surprise, Arizona, won’t get another chance to surprise Rebekah Massie with criminal prosecution for speaking at city council meetings

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 10.25.24 (Evening Edition)

Power Line: The Hierarchy of Democratic Deceit, Thoughts from the ammo line, Newspapers Try to Reclaim Their Honor, and Daze of the Jackals
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental sorbet

Vlad Tepes - Bill Gates fit to be tried in the Hague? Israel-Iran and more: Links 1 for Oct. 25, 2024

3. Donald Trump remains an advertising genius.
4. Quebec opens investigation on another religious incident in a public school

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For October 25, 2024

Black Philadelphia voters on Kamala Harris: “We all know she’s not black.”
“Black, Latino, and Asian Trump supporters shout down white, liberal Harris supporters in Lancaster.”

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Ben Zycher makes clear that “both Harris and Trump pose problems for U.S. energy producers.”
Eric Boehm sensibly asks: “Where is Trump’s plan to cut spending?”

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Biden-Harris Iranian Spy Problem Blows Up

• The Government’s War on Elon - John Hinderaker
• California’s Unelected Tyrants - Edward Ring

Don Surber - How it is going

Walz has morphed into a younger and dumber version of Biden.
Skippy Tim jumped on Musk, saying, “Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipsh*t on these things.

Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links

SISTER OF DECEASED SOLDIER BLASTS THE ATLANTIC FOR LATEST ANTI-TRUMP FABRICATIONS:
The Last Desperate Act - Kamala Harris Calls President Trump "Hitler"

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 10/24/2024

Tim Walz slams Elon Musk as a ‘dips—‘ during rally with Obama in Wisconsin.
Video – On Telemundo, Kamala admits she wants a pathway to citizenship for all illegals.

I leave you with Wednesday's memes from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2093 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Media Scum ..............from Rico from Theo Spark.

You Are Not Protected At Home

You might have to invite a vampire into your home, but burglars need no invitation. 'You’re supposed to be at home, and nothing bad will happen,’ | Dog alerts resident of intruder who attempted to steal homeowner's truck | KENS 5. This got stuck in drafts for a week, but worth looking at.

I would say that the homeowner got the following steps out of order.

Law enforcement received a call west of Jourdanton – just after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning, where an intruder allegedly broke into a home.

“The male resident looked into the living room and saw somebody in there, and he grabbed a gun,” [Sheriff] Soward said.

Grab the gun first. Then go investigate what the dog is barking at.

Faced with an armed Texan, in his own home, he decided to leave. The only problem is, he decided to take the homeowner's truck. They do things different in Texas.

Atascosa County Sheriff David Soward says the homeowner had every right to protect his property.

That is in response to the shots fired at the would-be, car thief. Deputies took the miscreant into custody.

This guy had so many chances to end up dead. I wonder if he realizes how lucky he is. Click thru for the statement from Sheriff Soward on that topic.

It would probably be a good idea to refrain from breaking into homes in Texas.

As for the title to this post, and the quote in the title to the article... Not quite "Neighbors were shocked," but similar. You are not immune to crime. Not based on your zip code, and not based on the fact that you have a mortgage. You should plan accordingly.

The Media and the Democrats Have Been Lying to You about Violent Gangs

From The Post Millennial we get the following. City councilwoman reveals Venezuelan gang problem was well-known in Aurora, CO ahead of media attention

Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has revealed that the Colorado city knew of the Venezuelan gang problem plaguing apartment complexes. The gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), took over multiple apartment complexes and made headlines over the summer when video of suspected gang members wandering through housing units armed with rifles went viral.

Jurinsky posted an internal city email dated November 16, 2023, in which Aurora police discussed how an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent told them that TdA "decided to make Denver their headquarters due to sanctuary policies and location." A gang unit officer wrote to Chris Poppe, the police commander of District 3 of Aurora, Colorado about a "TdA bulletin" that was going to be sent out to the entire Aurora Police Department.

Aurora, Colorado is suburban Denver. It is about 10 miles east of downtown Denver.

So for nearly a year, the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) knew there was a problem in Aurora, CO and they didn't say anything.

I can't even pretend to be shocked.

Shadows

I found Aram Bedrosian because he wrote and performed the theme song to a YouTube channel I like. While I don't like all of his music, I find a lot of it interesting.

This is "Shadows" by Aram Bedrosian. It was released to YouTube 5 years ago.

Israel versus Iran

From The Other McCain we get the following. Armageddon Update: IDF Strikes Iran

So, here we are, barely 10 days away from Election Day, and Israel is at war with Iran. Gosh, now we’re teetering on the brink of World War III, who is most capable of handling a situation like this?

There is a lot more. Click thru.

Friday Links - 25 October

This Ain't Hell is up first with an important message about Delta Airlines. Delta deplanes Marine for anti-suicide shirt. Click thru for a look at the t-shirt in question.

But a non-abusive, non-obscene T-shirt supporting what the government has described as a health crisis cause – the high rate of veterans’ suicides? Threatening? [SNIP]

Quick hint for ya, Delta – you fly NOWHERE I want to go that other airlines don’t also go.

SiGraybeard - Starship Test Flight 5 "Worries" The IAC

The worries end up being nothing negative about the test flight itself. The worries are that SpaceX is so far ahead of the rest of the industry that they can't catch up.

Flopping Aces - NYT: Why Is Trump Gaining With Black and Hispanic Voters?

The headline says it all, and it’s one of those questions where “If you have to ask the question, you won’t understand the answers.” But that doesn’t stop The Times! They come up with five possible explanations, and to nobody’s surprise, they get it wrong.

The Other McCain - Charlie Martin Needs Your Help

Instapundit informs us that Charlie needs our help: He had retired to Florida, but when that became too expensive (Bidenflation), Charlie was persuaded to locate to Costa Rica where, he had been assured, the cost of living was more affordable.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 October 2024: Floppy Edition

The San Francisco MTA is spending $212 million to move its train control system off floppy disks. (GovTech)

The system was installed in 1998, which is rather late to be using floppy disks that were (assuming it uses 3.5" disks) introduced in 1982. But Compact Flash, the only real alternative at the time that is still supported today, was only introduced in 1994 and was likely not readily available when the project started.

And given that it's been working for 26 years so far, we can't really blame the designers for being short-sighted.

Again from The Other McCain - DOA on the Road to Social Justice

Perhaps there is some kind of useful life lesson to be learned here. Like, avoid teenage girls with criminal records and neck tattoos? Or maybe, high-speed driving and “purple drank” are a bad combination? But I think there are more serious lessons to be learned, about the importance of taking personal responsibility for one’s actions, rather than embracing a victim mentality that turns your life into an eternal hunt for scapegoats you can blame for your problems.

He Was Going to Speak Harshly To Them

Is your car, or anything in it, worth your life? Homeowner shot to death after confronting suspected burglars: SCSO

This is a tragedy, and I don't mean to make light of it. But there is an important lesson. It's only stuff.

The [Shelby County Sheriff’s Office] says the homeowner saw people attempting to break into a vehicle in his driveway. He opened the front door and yelled, and then he was shot numerous times.

He was taken to a local hospital, but he did not survive his injuries.

I looked at several articles on this incident, but I could find no information on the homeowner's family, or who he left behind.

I think Data said it best in Star Trek: the Next Generation.

This is just a thing, and things can be replaced. Lives cannot.

Your righteous indignation is not a suit of armor. You have every right to confront people who are trying to steal your stuff. That is not an issue. The question is, "Should you?"

Bad guys today are bad, in all ways. I know someone stealing your stuff makes you angry. I have been burglarized a couple of times and robbed once. It was upsetting each time. It was only stuff, even though some of it was given to me by my grandmother. If there is something you can't stand to lose, it should be in a safe-deposit box. (That's what 2 burglaries taught me.) They will shoot you for less than 50 bucks. That should be a part of your planning.

DC Comics Has Decided YouTube is to Blame for their Problems

The people who are in charge of the American comic book are completely Woke. The current Superman (Clark Kent's son) is gay, as is the current Robin from the Batman series. There is a reason that a single Manga can outsell the entire US comic book industry. And that reason is Woke doesn't sell. But they can't admit that, so it must be someone else's fault. YouTube, or more accurately YouTubers are to blame. People would buy their woke garbage if not for YouTube!

They have decided that the problem is YouTubers who are radicalizing people against their Woke shyte. Yeah, I know it's a stretch, but they can't admit that the stuff they are producing is crap. To admit that they are producing crap, would be for a writer to admit they can't write, or that they don't know how to craft an engrossing story. They're Artists, or something. The problem lies in someone else.

This is a problem shared by Hollywood, the western gaming industry, the media, and everything else that is concentrated in Los Angeles, or California in general, or the eastern seaboard Blue enclaves.

From That Park Place, we get the following: DC Comics Appears To Malign YouTuber Jeremy Griggs Aka DDay Cobra Of Geeks + Gamers By Turning Him Into Blue Beetle Villain

So regardless of how bad ass they make Griggs’ fictional commentary in the graphic novel, the point bears repeating, to borrow a phrase from Niemeier, he is still be painted as a villain. His views are being painted as villainous no matter the true substance of them. And that’s the real point, they want to associate these viewpoints with villains and evil. They want to condition people to believe these views are evil regardless of their actual merit.

In contrast, they show Blue Beetle, the protagonist, lecturing the individuals who listen to these views while he collaborates with a woman who has an Anarchy and Anti-Columbus Society on her laptop.

That is pretty much a textbook definition of propaganda.

I found all of this because of the followin RK Outpost video DC Comics ATTACKS Jeremy From Geeks + Gamers And Other Youtubers In CRINGE Blue Beetle Comic

The current focus of the attack seems to be Jeremy of Geeks and Gamers, though they don't mention him by name. The vehicle they are using is a recent edition of Blue Beetle.

St. Crispin's Day

Saint Crispin's Day marks the anniversary of The Battle of Agincourt, in the Hundred Years War between England and France. That battle was fought on 25 October 1415.

While I would love to go on at length about Agincourt, you can find plenty of information if you look. I believe there are six accounts made by people present at the battle that are available.

I will only note that from my point of view, it is one of the times in history, where a change in technology proved decisive in battle. The Welsh longbow together with a few other changes, enabled the British to best a larger force of plate armored cavalry and men-at-arms.

The day was immortalized in the Shakespeare classic Henry V, in the Band of Brothers speech by King Henry to his officers and men.

This story shall the good man teach his son, and Crispin Crispian shall ner go by from this day, to the ending of the world, but we in shall be remembered.

This is the "The Band of Brothers speech" as seen through the 1994 Danny DeVito movie Renaissance Man. It isn't exact, but it is one of my favorite versions. For a low-budget movie, that didn't include monsters, aliens, superheroes, or the like, it is pretty good.

People make much of the Kenneth Branagh version of Henry V, but I think you can't go wrong with Laurence Olivier version from 1944.

A Good Guy With a Gun Stops a Bad Guy

Isn't that the thing that the gun-hating Left says never happens? Would-be robber shot and killed in Gastonia store

A would-be bad guy walks into a store in the evening, pulls out a gun, threatens an employee, and demands cash.

A customer in the store was also armed and shot Almodovar, police said. He was taken to Caromont Regional Hospital where he died from his injuries. No one else at the store was injured, and no arrests have been made.

No was arrested because defense of self, and others, is legal in the Great State of North Carolina.

Gastonia, North Carolina is about a 20 mile drive west of downtown Charlotte.

The investigation is ongoing, but police have confirmed that the shooter has a concealed carry license.

Turns Out the Cloud Isn't The Cost Savings It Was Sold As

From Ars Technica: Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years

This isn't the first time some company has figured that out.

37Signals is a "productivity company." They had been heavily involved in Apple and the Mac, until Apple decided that only THEIR apps would be allowed on the home page, because how dare you question Apple! So 37Signals moved to Windows, or started to, until Apple saw the error of their way and relented. A little. None of that was done quietly, which is why Apple may have relented. (Bad Publicity can affect anyone.)

So when 37Signals decided to pull its seven cloud-based apps off Amazon Web Services in the fall of 2022, it didn't do so quietly or without details. Back then, Hansson described his firm as paying "an at times almost absurd premium" for defense against "wild swings or towering peaks in usage." In early 2023, Hansson wrote that 37Signals expected to save $7 million over five years by buying more than $600,000 worth of Dell server gear and hosting its own apps.

I could probably come up with a couple of other examples. But we have The Cloud™ to consider.

AWS made data transfer out of AWS free for customers who were moving off their servers in March, spurred in part by European regulations. Trade publications are full of trend stories about rising cloud costs and explainers on why companies are repatriating. Stories of major players' cloud reversals, like that of Dropbox, have become talking points for the cloud-averse.

Click thru for the details.

And that doesn't include the fact that you give up 4th Amendment rights for anything you let other people manage.

Companies, or rather executives, for reasons I never could quite figure out, resent the money they spend on information technology, and information security, and computers in general. Computers run their customer service, their manufacturing, their financial analysis, logistics, etc. Everything a company does today, is touched by computers in some way. But they don't want to pay for the support they need. (Look at the aftermath report of every ransomware attack in the past 7 or 8 years, and what is done after the fact.) They really don't want internal people telling them how they are screwing up. They would rather have outside contractors who don't have their best interests at heart. (There is another profit stream involved.) In the 1990s is was outsourcing. Today it is the cloud.

For the older generations of executives, you could say that they didn't understand the impact of computers, but can you say that in 2024?

The Subtle Art of Shutting The F*ck Up

I love seeing celebrities self-destruct. Self-important celebrities deserve everything they get, when they take themselves too seriously.

Case in point Cynthia Erivo, star of the upcoming, live-action, adaptation of Wicked, who for some reason picked the most bizarre of all hills to die on, a couple of days ago, kicked off a social-media firestorm, and as a result is now in hot competition with Rachel Zegler and Amandla Stenberg to be crowned the most whiny, entitled, and unlikable actress of 2024. Damn, talk about a strong playing field.

In case you aren't tied into the popular Zeitgeist the stage play Wicked is being released as a feature film. It had attracted a lot of hope, because it is generally considered to a top-notch stage play. All the cast needed to do was not say anything. But that is too much to ask in 2024. The actress playing Elphaba (the person you would know as The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz) didn't know anything about jokes that surrounded the stage play, and then she decided to lash out at an average fan. Why? Watch the video for an answer.

It's like she doesn't quite understand that she's just an actor playing a role, and the movie is about her character, and not her as a person. "No. This is MY movie, MY poster, MY face, and what I choose to show YOU, the lowly viewer, and you WILL accept what I choose to give you without question."

I think this movie will still do well, but damn, Hollywood, as Critical Drinker says at the end of the video, Celebrities need to learn to shut the fuck up. (where do you think I got the title for this post?)

This is Critical Drinker's video Wicked - How To Tank Your Movie In One Easy Step.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 23 October

DaleyGator starts us off with WEEKEND LINKAGE

Irons in the Fire NSFW
Daily Time Waster
By Other Means

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 10.21.24

Don Surber: Democrat Senators for Trump
First Street Journal: Another #Hezbollah leader goes into exile

EBL - Trump's McDonalds Troll of Kamala 🍔🍟😹

Twitchy: He did it: McDonald J. Trump!
Instapundit: Trump does it! Trolls Kamala over working at McDonalds

Pirate's Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

5. Gates Of Vienna: Germany Flushes Itself Down the Toilet
6. Geller Report: EVIL: Kamala Harris Accuses Israel of Genocide

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 October 2024: Monotreme Arc Edition

Unknown 9 Awakening, the latest big game from Bandai Namco, was released two days ago and oh it's dead. (Forbes)
It had an all-time peak of 285 players and is now down to 86.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - The Final Countdown

Sighing on da Hill, Trump overtakes Harris for first time in Decision Desk HQ/The Hill election forecast. No rightwing bastion, the Economist says Donald Trump takes the lead, as polls swing away from Kamala Harris. Ben Shapiro at Da Wire, Trump’s Cruising, Kamala’s Crashing

Vlad Tepes - Exposing enemy propaganda, the UN shows its colours again, Sweden’s version of comuslam: Links 1 for Oct. 21, 2024

1. Australian enemy propaganda network, ABC busted again for supporting terrorists
2. Expat Yemeni explains how Sweden has become a variant of Yemeni Islam. Quite an interesting interview. Probably explains why they didn’t have to do all the Covid BS.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 10.22.24

Nebraska Energy Observer: Get your woolen jumper out
Power Line: Nice Restaurant Chain You’ve Got Here, The Government’s War on Elon, and Elon and the Sharks

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

Woke World: Skyline pigeon. Historians of the future.
Cackling Kamala’s America: This week in really big lies. Lizzo loves Detroit. Your morning cartoon.

Political Hat - News of the Week (October 20th, 2024)

Local election officials in Georgia must certify results, judge rules
A Republican member of Fulton County’s election board had claimed she had the ability to refuse to certify election results if she suspected fraud.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 10/21/2024

Left McTriggered After Trump Does Fun Publicity Stunt
On Sunday, Donald Trump poked fun at Kamala Harris’ dubious claim that she ‘worked at McDonald’s and made fries,’ by going to a McDonald’s and making fries

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: Kamala Harris on Columbus Day, “European explorers ushered in a wave of devastation, violence, stealing land, and widespread disease.”
She has them confused with the illegal aliens she let in.

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Here’s David Henderson on Zachary Yost and Dan Klein on the differences between Democrats and Republicans.
Andrew Stuttaford reports on “the disinformation panic.”

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Changes in the Demand for College - Fewer boys is not a crisis
The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls
A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: ‘The Most Important Election That Has Ever Happened’

• You Will Not Believe What James O'Keefe Found - David Strom
• Kamala Harris Demonstrates the Taranto Principle - Jeff Mockensturm
• Border Patrol Agents Vow to Quit If Harris Wins - S.A. McCarthy

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 10/22/2024

Report: Secret Service didn’t know Crooks was armed before he opened fire.
Nathan Wade reveals ex-lover Fani Willis planned Trump prosecution before she took office.

I leave you with Meme Dump... from Tam at View from the Porch, Sunday Funnies For 10-20-24 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Monday Made Me Laugh from By Other Means, and Monday's memes from Wirecutter.