Thing0, 8-ring court circus. J6, I’ve lost count. Ukraine, fuggedaboudit, Pootie-Poot. Elections, here we go, six more weeks of meshugas. Then we GNUsies can start to feel slightly sane again. Not them, though. Their raging, shrieking, caterwauling denial isn’t going to reach its peak until they are actually irrelevant. They will keep getting louder, and try to get nastier, in proportion as their numbers dwindle. Just remember that all of that is the clearest sign that we are winning. So we have to hold on until their children and grandchildren replace them. We also have to hold on until the Oil and Gaslighting kleptocrats are swept away all around the world.
Now, in the rest of the world, we have by no means won yet. Russia, Hungary, Turkey, and now Italy have gone wockawockadoodliedoo, and there are the usual suspects elsewhere. Still we are making progress on poverty and the ills that go with it, more than most people suspect.
Ukraine—No, Russia—No, No, Actually Still Ukraine
Putin declares victory with sham elections, so he won’t have to nuke Ukraine after all. Isn’t that jolly?
There’s hurricanes in Florida,
…
There’s strife in Iran.
What Nature doesn’t do to us
Will be done by our fellow man.
The Merry Little Minuet THE KINGSTON TRIO (with lyrics)
More Meshugas
FL Gov. and human wrecking ball Ron DeSantis, and also Elmer “the Fudd” Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers founder and human wrecking ball who shot his eye out playing with guns, both graduated from Harvard Law School, while Clarence Thomas got his law degree from Yale.
There is something wrong here, but I haven’t put my finger on it yet.
J6 Hearing Delayed by Respect for Hurricane Ian
20 inches of rain, and 15 foot storm surges.
Winds down to Category 1 overnight, but the water remains dangerous. The rain bands reached Fort Myers on the east coast of Florida in the middle of the night, causing severe flooding.
The goodies for the J6 show, whenever it gets rescheduled to, are piling up.
Puerto Rico Without Power after Hurricane Fiona
Still. Again.
PR could have had a fully decentralized wind and solar electrical system with the money that Whatsit wasted on cronyism and general malfeasance after Hurricane Maria, but instead it has a system even creakier than what FEMA was supposed to be replacing. So let’s see what Brandon can do, willingly.
Spare a thought for Cuba, too. It has a national electrical blackout from Ian, when it was snapping lines of power poles at Category 4.
Special Master Dearie
Be careful what you wish for, Donnie. It’s put up or shut up time now.
Oath Keepers Trial
Jury selection continues today.
Also,
Please, Sirs, may we have another?
Figures likely to be an underestimate, says Global Witness, as land defenders are killed by hitmen, crime groups and governments
Bank of England left with no action but to intervene after Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget
Regular News
Youth Crime in the U.S. Has Plummeted 78% Since 1994, Which Counters the Usual Narrative
“These data reflect an encouraging trend—one that has in fact been developing over the last three decades—and offer a welcome counter-narrative to claims that youth crime is on the rise,” said Liz Ryan, Administrator of the Office of Justice’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
“They also give us reason to be optimistic about the course of juvenile justice reform, particularly efforts in many jurisdictions to replace harsh punishments with personal development opportunities and to design programs that build support into accountability.”
All 50 states, Puerto Rico and DC get approval as White House gives go-ahead to plans for access to federal funding for chargers
All 50 states have been approved for EV charging stations covering 75,000 miles of highway, the US transportation department announced on Tuesday. The White House has approved plans that will give states access to $1.5bn in federal funding to build the chargers.
“We’re poised to lead in the 21st century with electric vehicles,” said the US transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, in a statement. “We have approved plans for all states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to ensure that Americans in every part of the country – from the largest cities to the most rural communities – can be positioned to unlock the savings and benefits of electric vehicles.”
Government says country ‘moving ahead’ with ceasefire as new leftist president Gustavo Petro promises ‘total peace’
DMZ trip comes days after North Korea warned that the South and the US risked ‘triggering conflict’ with joint naval drills
Bad headline writer! No, she isn’t going into the DMZ.
Allegedly Communist tyranny (replacing Japanese tyranny) vs. actual governing
Animals! Science! Weirdness
Vintage Chinese Music - THE DRUNKEN FISHERMAN by Wei Chung Loh 1939
Study shows cognition in early-stage patients on lecanemab declines by 27% less than those on placebo
It’s a start.
This is what the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) impact looked like from the impactor.
This is what it looked like through a telescope on Earth.
And a view from spa-a-a-a-ace.
The mechanism involves the loss of orexin-releasing neurons within the lateral hypothalamus (about 70,000 neurons).
The Breakthrough prizes are described by their Silicon Valley founders as ‘the Oscars of science’, and while they are not as glamorous, they do come with a $3m award. This year, one of the prizes was dished out to Prof Emmanuel Mignot at Stanford University and Masashi Yanagisawa at the University of Tsukuba for their work uncovering the cause of narcolepsy. Their discovery has opened the door to the development of treatments for this chronic and often debilitating condition. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Mignot about how he pinpointed the cause of narcolepsy, why it is similar to diabetes and what sleep mysteries he wants to solve next.
Yes, dogs, including Labrador retrievers and Doberman pinschers, can get narcolepsy.
It’s official! Coffee is good for you – just like red wine, dark chocolate, beer …
Another day, another study suggesting a little of what you fancy does you good. But almost half a million people took part in this one
Funny or Cry
More crying today than usual. Sorry.
OK, Brothers and Sisters, play us out.
ALE BRIDER, ALE SHVESTER - Moritz Weiß Klezmer Trio & Friends (Klezmer Explosion 2020)
And we are all brothers/sisters,
And we’re singing happy songs…
Happy High Holidays. May you be written down for a good year, especially after November 8.