More footage from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, further contradicts the left-wing narrative that the day’s events constituted a “violent insurrection” wherein democracy itself was placed in jeopardy at the hands of virulent demonstrators. //
Michael Tracey @mtracey
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Jan 6 defendants have long argued that the initial entrants were peaceably escorted into the building by Capitol Police, and therefore had no reasonable expectation that their conduct was unlawful
This video, suppressed for almost 3 years, confirms it
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Whatever your thoughts on institutions firing people for social media outrage, any institution that cannot distinguish support for Hamas butchery from opposition to Hamas butchery is morally bankrupt.
Three people from three generations of the West family, ages 33 to 81, perished.
As has become common over three years, the cause was a battery charging an e-scooter, blocking exits.
So far, 17 of this year’s 93 fire deaths are from such batteries.
Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh calls it “devastating.”
Twenty-seven New Yorkers have died in these fires since 2021, the year after the city legalized e-bikes and similar devices. (No one had ever died in such a fire before.)
We’ve quickly reversed decades of progress. Between 2014 and 2020, the average number of annual civilian fire deaths was 66, including a low of 43 in 2017, the smallest number in a century.
Last year, though, fire deaths, at 102, exceeded 100 for the first time in 19 years, and we’ll likely top 100 deaths this year, too.
This represents a 51% increase, relative to the average before e-bikes became ubiquitous.
As the FDNY notes, e-battery fire deaths exceed electrical fire deaths.
"The impression that someone is organizing and regulating things on the Russian side is probably true; it is quite obvious that activity like this is a managed effort.”
The new deluge of immigrants is particularly suspicious because they are arriving at the border crossing on new Russian-made Stels bicycles...in Finland...in the winter. //
This is very much in line with Russia's policy of trying to destabilize eastern European countries. It has pushed a refugee stream through Russia and into Belarus in an attempt to swarm Poland with illegal immigrants (Putin's War, Week 35. The Lull Before the Next Storm – RedState). This has resulted in the Poles building a fence...imagine that...and moving about one-third of their army to the Belarus frontier, so backstop the border police.
Lithuania has been under a similar assault and militarized its frontier with Belarus.
Russia doesn't understand why they should come under suspicion when a previously quiet border area became inundated with Third World refugees who had to pass through Russia.
Starship Flight Test 2
November 18, 2023, at 7:02 a.m. — SpaceX's Starship launches on its second fully-integrated flight test from the orbital launch pad at Starbase in Texas. The rocket successfully reached stage separation under the power of 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster, with the new hot-staging separation method a success! Starship made it to space and was later terminated, while the Super Heavy booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly shortly after stage separation.
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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee
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Liz, we’ve seen footage like that a million times.
You made sure we saw that—and nothing else.
It’s the other stuff—what you deliberately hid from us—that we find so upsetting.
Nice try.
P.S. How many of these guys are feds? (As if you’d ever tell us).
Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney
Here’s some January 6th video for you.
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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee
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We need to investigate the J6 committee.
1:08 AM · Nov 18, 2023 //
How many people were jailed for simply walking through the Capitol, who didn't hurt anyone and weren't in any way violent? And if those people had been involved in a leftist action -- doing the same thing -- we know the likelihood is that they wouldn't have faced the same consequences. How many undercover people were there, and what did they do? The Committee doesn't want us to know that -- a U.S. Senator hasn't even been told the truth on this.
The American people have a right to know the full truth. But that wasn't what they were getting from the Committee.
I would be remiss in not providing an example of getting it right, as written by the 20th-century British minister Frederick William Pitt, and recently beautifully voiced by Rachel Wilhelm and Phil Keaggy:
The maker of the universe as man for man was made a curse
The claims of laws which He had made unto the uttermost He paid
His holy fingers made the bough which grew the thorns that crowned His brow
The nails that pierced His hands were mined in secret places He designed
He made the forests whence there sprung the tree on which His body hung
He died upon a cross of wood, yet made the hill on which it stood
The sky that darkened o’er His head by Him above the earth was spread
The sun that hid from Him its face by His decree was poised in space
The spear which spilled His precious blood was tempered in the fires of God
The grave in which His form was laid was hewn in rock His hands had made
The throne on which He now appears was His from everlasting years
But a new glory crowns His brow and every knee to Him shall bow //
There are few things more abhorrent than attempting to weaponize Christianity, or should I say, trying to use Christianity as a weapon against others. //
The true believer says “Christ is King” not as an assault against others but as an admittance of personal failure. The valid believer names Jesus as their Lord and not only their Savior. Accepting Christ’s Lordship is acknowledging the utter need for that Lordship. Even as He welcomes us into the fellowship bought at the ultimate price, we must bow before Him and follow His command to serve others, not exalt ourselves. There is no pride in being part of the Lion of Judah’s pride.
Starship returned to integrated flight testing with its second launch from Starbase in Texas. While it didn’t happen in a lab or on a test stand, it was absolutely a test. What we did today will provide invaluable data to continue rapidly developing Starship.
Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through a successful stage separation. The booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly after its boostback burn following the successful stage separation while Starship's 6 second stage Raptor engines fired for several minutes as the Ship climbed to an altitude of ~150 kilometers.
With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary.
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The FBI and CDC neglected to thoroughly investigate a CA biolab operated by Chinese nationals containing deadly transmissible pathogens. //
It’s worth mentioning that the CDC based its classifications on the vial labels and refused to test any of the samples, knowing that “absent testing, local officials would have to destroy all samples pursuant to a forthcoming abatement order.” Despite already being deemed an “illegal enterprise,” the agency also issued a three-page report concluding there was no evidence UMI violated U.S. law and that there weren’t any “select agents or toxins.”
While destroying the pathogens and materials, local officials discovered a freezer filled with silver bags containing samples of Ebola. According to the report, the CDC did not appear to be aware of such materials. Nonetheless, the pathogens were destroyed pursuant to the court order. //
“The CDC’s refusal to test any potential pathogens with the understanding that local officials would otherwise have to destroy the samples through an abatement process makes it impossible for the Select Committee to fully assess the potential risks that this specific facility posed to the community,” the report reads. “It is possible that there were other highly dangerous pathogens that were in the coded vials or otherwise unlabeled. Due to government failures, we simply cannot know.”
If Donald Trump were the covert Kremlin agent Democrats made him out to be, he might have given President Vladimir Putin the same kind of red-carpet treatment that Democrats gave Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping this week.
On Wednesday, President Xi was greeted in the hastily sanitized streets of San Francisco with all the fanfare of a communist parade, complete with waving red banners, to welcome the head of Red China. //
President Joe Biden is to China what Democrats claimed Trump was to Russia: that is, compromised by complex financial ties that raise significant conflicts of interest and warrant a congressional impeachment inquiry. What if the streets of Palm Beach, Florida were draped in Russian flags to greet President Putin after Donald Trump Jr. had accepted $3.5 million from an ex-Moscow mayor’s wife? //
Will the same people who raised a circus over ridiculous “pee tape” rumors about Trump and Russian prostitutes wonder if the Chinese have any more illicit films of Hunter Biden indulging in crack cocaine and hookers? We never found those pee tapes but there’s plenty of graphic porn online starring the first son. //
But even beyond the Bidens’ entanglement in influence-peddling schemes involving prominent Chinese leaders, there’s good reason why Democrats might want to leave a good impression on the world’s leading civil rights offender. A Federalist analysis of federal campaign donations found that companies credibly accused of harnessing Chinese slave labor overwhelmingly donated to Democrats. Of the nearly $40 million that went to congressional candidates between the two major parties in 2020, Democrats took home more than 85 percent while Republicans received less than 15.
Braverman's letter was three things. It was a vocal defense of her policies and the course she had taken; it was a direct attack on the failed leadership of Sunak; and it set her up as a potential replacement for Sunak as the leader of the Conservative Party. In her scathing letter, she accused him of failed leadership at all levels. She said his leadership was lacking in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants to Britain because he was afraid of offending "polite opinion." //
"Worse than this, your magical thinking - believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion - has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B." //
The letter was deserved and a clear signal to Sunak that should the Conservatives retain power after the next election, he will not be the Prime Minister, but he may very well have just fired who will be.
Committee on House Administration Access to USCP Video From January 6, 2021
Both wind and solar power are voracious land hogs. Wind or solar can need 90 to 100 times more acreage than a natural gas plant to generate the same amount of electricity. And let’s not forget the large swaths of land that will have to be appropriated, and in heavily forested areas clear cut, to build transmission lines that connect solar and wind farms to distribution lines. //
You can't get around the energy density problem; you just can't. Physics is a harsh mistress. And the amount of land - habitat, if you want to put a point on it - required is considerable. //
Eco-activists fuss and scold over the cutting of trees to clear land for housing, commercial development, and raw materials, but apparently it’s just fine to remove trees if they’re replaced by solar panels. //
What we need more of isn't windmills, solar panels, or batteries. We need more nuclear power plants. We need more small modular reactors. We need a decentralized grid powered by splitting atoms. Do you want clean energy? This is clean energy. //
Throughout our history, every major technological advance in power – from animal to machine, from wood to coal to oil to gas – has had one key characteristic in common, and that is increased energy density. Nuclear power represents just such an increase over generating electricity with coal or gas. Solar and wind power run in just the opposite direction, which is why they don’t scale up, and were we to try, as we see here, the cost in land would be massive.
Peter Paradise @byPeterParadise
Home Alone is a Christian movie about Kevin finding faith.
He starts the movie in a non-praying house, making an evil wish to Santa (an idol) for his family to disappear.
While at first he enjoys his time without his family, he has a yearning in his heart to be reunited with their love.
He consults a Santa impersonator asking for help, but comes to realize that this is a false god who can’t help him.
Disheartened he enters a peaceful and beautiful church where he encounters old man Marley, a patriarch who has inspired fear in him in the past. Marley approaches Kevin w/pierced hands, asks Kevin if he has been good, and tells him a version of the prodigal son story.
Kevin returns from the church, changed. He makes dinner and prays to God at home before his final confrontation between good and evil. The home is defending us now a Christian household.
Kevin’s victory is not just over the robbers but his sinful nature, and by conquering that he is reunited with his family and gets to experience the true meaning of Christmas.
Sherman McCoy @wasphyxiation
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Nov 12
The discourse about the Home Alone house has me thinking about the movie. Easily one of the most sincere and least irony-poisoned movies ever made. This is why it's become an enduring classic
Joe’s burner accounts are subject to scrutiny because evidence suggests he used them to advance his family’s foreign influence-peddling schemes.
The AG claims Team Trump exaggerated the value of real estate to secure favorable loans and insurance rates. That’s it. Lenders rely upon their own appraisals. Sophisticated businesses decided to loan him money, all of which he repaid. And the banks are not complaining. This is the Trump defense. Yet, so far, James is winning. //
The AG disregards that there is no victim such as a wronged investor or lender who wound up holding the bag on an undervalued piece of real estate. The state contends that none of this matters; that exaggerating, fibbing, or lying is wrong, and that the Trumps must be destroyed. Apparently, no expenditure of tax dollars is too much for the state to invest to punish these wrongs. The relief sought is the revocation of business licenses throughout the state of New York and fines as high as $250 million. Because it is unusual for a prosecutor to bring a civil case without a victim or cognizable harm, the AG’s motivations have been questioned, especially during her unprecedented daily press conferences. //
Each of these Trump cases brings an odd claim, one that has never been brought against others in the past, or a charge that is not being pursued today against others who have mishandled documents or challenged elections, for instance. //
If the court of appeals reverses Judge Engoron’s decisions, the irreparable harm to the Trump family will have already been done, though. And, for many, that is the goal. //
Much of the damage will have already occurred regardless of future vindication. These are the hallmarks of lawfare. If your goal is to harm your opposition or enemy, a trial win is welcome, but a trial loss also inflicts noticeable pain and offers plenty of consolation.
As a lawfare plaintiff, you win some and lose some — but you can make all of them hurt.