The dogs at this shelter in Tennessee are allowed to choose their own favorite toy for Christmas:
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The dogs at this shelter in Tennessee are allowed to choose their own favorite toy for Christmas:
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Wishing All who find some reason to visit this blog, who comment and those great people on my Blog Roll; a Very Merry Christmas.
May your time with family and friends be Blessed.
Remember those separated from their loved ones - for whatever reasons - especially deployed U.S. Troops. Merry Christmas. May God watch over them. Remember those who are alone. Keep them all in your prayers.
For those experiencing this holiday for the first time without someone special in their lives, remember the good memories and hold onto them because those are the moments that matter.
It'll be in the mid-50's today. A Very Brown Christmas in the Twin Cities and most of Minnesota.
December brought a few dustings of snow, but it melted fast.
I know many people like snow for Christmas. I don't miss the snow one bit.
We'll have some rain instead. I can deal with that just fine!
Keep that Global Warming a'coming!
PF live (1980); "Young Lust", from 1979's The Wall.
AutoBlog (with lots of pics): One-off Lamborghini Revuelto Opera Unica took 435 hours to paint.
Lamborghini turned the Revuelto, its new flagship model, into a one-off art car to celebrate its 60th birthday. Unveiled ahead of its public debut at the 2023 Art Basel show in Miami Beach, Florida, the 1,001-horsepower coupe named Opera Unica was designed in-house.
Beyond commemorating 60 years of Lamborghini's V12-powered cars, the Opera Unica showcases what the brand's Ad Personam team is capable of. It was painted entirely by hand. The front end is finished in a color called Viola Pasifae, and the livery gradually fades into a shade of black called Nero Helene. That's just the base layer; Lamborghini then added blue, red, and orange accents to emphasize speed.
Getting it perfect was more difficult than it might sound. Lamborghini notes that the livery required 76 hours of development and testing plus around 435 hours (that's over 18 days!) to apply. The finish touch is a 60th Anniversary logo on the hood that's only visible in the right light.
That's just the exterior; the interior took 220 additional hours to complete.
More Lambo pics and news below at the link ⏬
CarScoops: This Lamborghini Revuelto Has A One-Off Paint Job Like No Other.
UFO's version of "Mississippi Queen", from 2017's The Salentino Cuts.
Understanding that during any crisis the timeline is, "fluid", as the experts tell us, this Las Vegas shooting raises questions that aren't being answered.
Click on the images for easier reading.
This person claims to have seen the shooter arrested and apprehended into police custody:
The most recent story from The Daily Mail: University of Nevada gunman Anthony Polito, 67, was armed with 9mm handgun and 11 loaded magazines: Shooter had a 'target list' - but none of the three people he killed were on it.
Around 11PM last night I was searching through various online news stories about this. I hit at least 8 different sites from CNN to local Vegas news. This would have been about 10-11 hours after the shooting. All the stories I read were copy/paste of whatever controlling main news disseminator spits out. Every story read the same. All were quick to point out that the name of the shooter hadn't yet been released. Why not? The shooter, we were told, is dead. Why withhold the name?
Who, according to the above video, was taken into custody?
Believe the narrative. It happened just like the news tells us. Shut up! Asking questions means you're a conspiracy theorist. You're not a conspiracy theorist, are you?
Mercury News (via Archive): Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day — just three survivors of the USS Arizona remain.On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the American Army and Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The attack came as a surprise to the American Army and Navy and lead to great losses of life and equipment. More than 2000 American citizens were killed and more than 1000 were injured. The Americans also lost a large proportion of their battle ships and nearly 200 aircraft that were stationed in the Pacific region.
The three remaining USS Arizona survivors are Don Stratton, Lou Conter and Ken Potts.
Don Stratton was 19 at the time of the attack.
Lou Conter was 20 during the attack.
Ken Potts was 20 during the surprise attack.
It has been said that when an old person dies, it is like a library burning down. For the past 75 years, I have tried to share what I remember of World War II, but a day will come when I can no longer speak. Then what will become of everything I experienced on December 7, 1941? That’s why I wrote this account.
CBS News: Someone bet against the Israeli stock market in the days before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
A study by researchers from Columbia University and NYU called "Trading on Terror?" suggests that a trader may have been aware of the coming attack, bet against the Israeli economy and walked away with a profit by short selling on the U.S. and Israeli stock exchanges.
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[...] the Israel Exchange-Traded Fund [...] on any given day has around 2,000 shares shorted. According to the researchers, on Oct. 2, that number shot up to over 227,000 shares.
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According to Columbia Law School Professor Joshua Mitts, one of the authors of the study, "that's extremely unusual." It was also profitable[.]
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All of this led them to their conclusion that the trades were not a coincidence, but a tactic by someone who knew the attack was coming.
"We think it's virtually impossible this happened by chance," Mitts told CBS News.
🎶 Who can it be now?
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🎵 (Ooh ooh) Who can it be now?
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♬ (Ooh ooh) Who can it be now?
(Ooh ooh wee) Yeah yeah yeah 🎵
KSTP: Man charged for murder in Minneapolis’ Phillips West neighborhood.
Court documents note the victim, 38-year-old Savannah Ryan Williams, was obviously dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office had identified Williams, a transgender woman, by her birthname of Miguel Reed Stillday.
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25-year-old Damarean Kaylon Bible, is now charged with second-degree murder for Williams’ death.
A criminal complaint notes that Bible called his parents from jail and said he’d “just murdered someone” and while he was sorry, he “had to do it.”
Police later found a 9 mm handgun and a rifle in his apartment, as well as the clothing he was seen wearing on surveillance videos at the time of the murder, the complaint states.
While Bible initially claimed he wasn’t involved, he later admitted that he shot Williams, according to court documents. He went on to explain that he walked past Williams, who was in a bus shelter, and Williams asked if he was interested in sex. They walked to the courtyard and, once finished, Bible said Williams was making him feel suspicious and that’s when shot her.
FOX 9: Cougar sighted again in Minneapolis, may be using Cedar Lake trail system.
According to a city official, the cougar was recently spotted near Kenwood Park. Officials say there is now concern that the large cat might be using the Cedar Lake trail system near the Lake of the Isles.
"...near the Lake of The Isles." That's a nice, densely-populated area of Liberals. Let Kitty snack.😈
EW: Denny Laine, co-founder of The Moody Blues and Wings, dies at 79.
"Go Now" by The Moody Blues, released first as a single in 1964 and 1965's The Magnificent Moodies.
NRP: Shane MacGowan, irascible frontman of The Pogues, has died at age 65.
His drinking and drugging would destroy his body, but MacGowan led the Pogues to international renown.
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"I'm just following the Irish way of life," MacGowan said in Crock of Gold. "Cram as much pleasure as you can in your life and rile against the pain that you have to suffer as a result and then wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure."
Not PC: with a very nice write up on him and music videos.
Wiki:
Ozzy! 75 years young!
"No More Tears" by Ozzy, from 1991's No More Tears.
Trivia: No More Tears was the first album Ozzy recorded while he was sober.
"Flying High Again" by Ozzy, from 1981's Diary of A Madman.
"One of Those Days" by Ozzy Osbourne, from 2022's Patient Number 9.
No, the song isn't about rejecting faith in Jesus, it's just the opposite:
[Osbourne's] honest humanity comes through in "One Of Those Days" as he sings about the struggle to hold onto his faith in Jesus in the midst of a world in flames.
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Osbourne made clear that "One Of Those Days" is not an anti-Christian song. Really, it's lyrics are obviously pro-Christian in the sense that for one's faith to be tested, there had to be faith there to begin with. It likely wouldn't have been an issue at all if it weren't for Osbourne's past reputation.
Daily Mail: Mr. Big Stuff singer Jean Knight has died at the age of 80 from natural causes.
Mr. Big Stuff hit the number two spot on Billboard Hot 100 chart upon its release.
It spent another five weeks in the top spot on Billboard Soul Singles chart.
Knight got a Grammy nod for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for the track.
'New Orleans and her global fan base join together in gratitude for the indelible mark she left on the world,' her family said.
"Mr. Big Stuff" from 1971's Mr. Big Stuff.
One less globalist in the world. Huzzah!
Henry Kissinger
How I'm missing yer
You're the Doctor of my dreams
With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare
And your machiavellian schemes
I know they say that you are very vain
And short and fat and pushy but at least you're not insane
Henry Kissinger
How I'm missing yer
And wishing you were here
Henry Kissinger
How I'm missing yer
You're so chubby and so neat
With your funny clothes and your squishy nose
You're like a German parakeet
All right so people say that you don't care
But you've got nicer legs than Hitler
And bigger tits than Cher
Henry Kissinger
How I'm missing yer
And wishing you were here
"Safe in New York City" by AC/DC, from 2000's Stiff Upper Lip.
Travel safely.
“When asked to describe his music, Brown always replied, ‘The sound of happiness[.]”, the rep added.
"Celebration", from 1980's Celebrate!
"Too Hot", from 1979's Ladies' Night.
"Jungle Boogie" from 1974's Soul Train.
"Get Down On It", from 1981's Something Special.
Don't pretend that in 1980 you didn't get out on the dance floor with your girlfriend when "Celebration" was played, because you know you did. Hopefully your unbuttoned shirt wasn't showing excessive amounts of chest hair and gold chains. White Shoes, too? Oh Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! 🤣
"Dance Away" by Roxy Music, from 1979's Manifesto.
"Hells Bells" by AC/DC, from 1980's Back in Black.
Don't know where this meaningless bit of trivia floated into my brain. I can tell you it occurred during a marathon clean and toss session. My physical labor=wandering, mindlessness hating every minute of it.🤣
Without doing a Search, these are the sit-coms I could think of that don't have lyrics. Voice-over narration doesn't count (i.e. Soap). No animated or cartoon series allowed. (i.e. Simpsons).
MASH
Barney Miller
Soap
NewsRadio
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Ropers (Lowest budget ever.)
Archie Bunker's Place
What's Happening
Taxi
The Bob Newhart Show
Newhart
Wings
Fawlty Towers
Keeping Up Appearances
Monty Python's Flying Circus
That's all I got. There has to be way more. Which ones can you think without searching? Drop a comment.
"Angry" by The Rolling Stones, from 2013's 2023's Hackney Diamonds.
Decent single, imho, that harkens back to their style from 1980 & 1981's Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You. I'm hearing the album is getting good reviews.
Kind of funny the video using CGI to de-age them about 50 years.😏 Who made that decision?
The girl in the car is easy on the eyes.👀
Made a valiant attempt in getting caught up with everyone on the blog roll. Didn't quite make it all the way but everything and everyone is still around. Everyone okay out there? Hope so!
Anything new? Besides Biden's Handlers driving head-on into World War 3 involving every nation on earth? Is Build Back Better working now? Someone said the DJIA closed at over 55,000 on Thursday and I overheard someone I don't know saying BitCoin is at One Billion Dollars. I've been away for so long.
A few chilly, under the average, days here but a warm up is supposed to happen this week. Joy!
Still in a process of sorting, tossing, keeping. Just a different area, not the garage, although there's more to do there. This is going to be a while.
The My closets in the basement...ugh. Boxes, stacked atop others. Ugh...ugh. If I do it inebriated does that make the task and decision-making process easier?
I keep waiting for Hillary to announce her run for president. C'mon Hill, don't disappoint me. I made sizeable wagers, dammit, that she'd enter the race.
There's a video ready for Monday Morning Music! Ooh-Ahh! But I'll be AFK for a while. Feel free to drop comments. I'll check in sporadically. Stay Safe out There!
IT IS THE SOLDIER
by Charles M. Province, © 1970, 2005:
It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
👍 AC/DC, "DDDDC."
I won't be online or powering my cell phone.
MassLive: FEMA’s Oct. 4 emergency alert test spurs conspiracy theories.
Engadget: Your phone will blare a national emergency alert test on October 4 at 2:20PM ET.
[...] in the (extremely unlikely) [sic] event of an actual emergency on Wednesday, the test will take place a week later on the backup date of October 11.
What? If there's an actual emergency this Wednesday, a "test run" is set for the 11th? 🤣
"Conspiracy Theories." Because the government would never deceive us.
What are you doing on October 4th? This site will be closed that day FYI. Unless the 4th does usher in Armageddon, then I might hop online and join in the festivities.
Student Loan Deadbeats, pay your fucking loans!
CNBC: Student loan bills resume for 40 million Americans. How it could shake the economy.
Ryan Moran, a nurse in Jacksonville, Florida, hasn’t thought about his federal student loans in years. But this month, he’s scrambling to figure out how to make room in his budget for his $500 monthly bill.
He and his wife, Amelia, plan to dine out less and to skip the football games they love to attend. His grocery bills will also need to shrink.
“And it’s not only consumption that decreases,” said Moran, 26. “Increasing monthly payments means I have to work overtime, taking time away from my family.”
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Meanwhile, many people with student debt plan to cut back their spending on clothing, travel and food.
Oh, so during the past years these people knew this date was coming and instead of preparing for it many were spending on travel, sporting events and dining out. It didn't dawn on them to set X dollars aside per month for this day?
B-B-B-but..."the economy is so bad." I don't know why they think this, Biden tells everyone this is the greatest economy ever.
RochesterFirst: Payments resume for student loans; Rochester students, graduates react.
In Collegetown, local students shared their thoughts — with some saying they are not a fan of the idea of having to pay it back in this economy. [Do they mean the Biden Economy? Who did they vote for? - DD]
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“Students must have access to university and become something free for everybody and not become something for few people or just for who is rich.” Foreign college student Elona Ndoj said. “It’s not fair because education is the base of any society.”
And there it is; the fallback phrase of every whining liberal cuck student loan borrower: "It's not faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir."
Which one of you held a gun to Elona's head and forced him/her/it to travel to the U.S. for their education instead of staying home and mastering the art of baked mud pie or lizard-on-a-stick?
"Life is sooooooooooooooooooooo hard with a student loan. Waaaaahhhhhhhh!"
The Self Entitled Permanent and Coddled Infant Mind Generation.
Get a second or third job. Eat Ramen. Suck it up, Buttercups.
OAN: Man Accused Of Killing Wife Allegedly Texted It Was ‘More Satisfying than You Can Imagine’.
John Wonder was arrested after his wife was found dead with his last name written on her leg in blood and texts show him saying how “satisfying” and “easy” the murder was.
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“Hey kiddo. Sorry about the mess,” Wonder allegedly wrote. “It’s way easier and much more satisfying than you can imagine. See you around.”
Yeah, you want to forgo texting others about your alleged criminal activities.
I'm curious what tactics a criminal defense attorney will employ.
Guy should've divorced and walked away. Unless he made it look like an accident. Stop it! No!
Breitbart: Dianne Feinstein (1933-2023): A Liberal, Left Behind by Her Party.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) passed away on Friday at the age of 90, after serving in public office for decades.
Feinstein: Pro-Anti 2A, Pro gun control↓
New American: Critics Slam Sen. Feinstein’s “Assault Weapons” Ban, Gun Registry.
But she carried:
Military.com: Dianne Feinstein carried a gun.
"Truckin'" by Grateful Dead, from 1970's American Beauty.
...enough of this↓?
[...] nearly 13,000 UAW members have started striking against three automakers as contract negotiations have yet to deliver assurances that Biden’s rapid push for Electric Vehicles (EVs) will not jeopardize their wages and jobs.
Who did the UAW support in 2016 and 2020? In 2016 it was Cankles and in 2020 it was Biden.
al-Reuters (April 2020): United Auto Workers union endorses Biden for president.
The 400,000-member United Auto Workers union endorsed Joe Biden’s U.S. presidential bid on Tuesday[.]
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The UAW endorsed Clinton in 2016 but has said it believes a higher-than-normal 32% of members voted for the Republican candidate.
"it believes a higher-than-normal 32% of members voted for the Republican candidate." 🤣 32%? Oh no! How dare they! The beatings will continue until morale improves and until the union votes 110% democrat!
Adding to the irony is that in 2016, the UAW favored Bernie Sanders for president until the DNC pulled the rug out from under him and coronated Cankles. The UAW had no choice, then, in supporting her.Life...normalcy...as we used to know it. Is it over?
RT: The Old World Order is over – Blinken.
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153News (25 min VIDEO, at least skim through it): Your future THE SPARS PANDEMIC 2025 to 2028.
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Breitbart: Lyft Launches Feature Allowing Women, ‘Nonbinary’ Customers to Request Drivers by Sex.
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NY Post: Denver homeless camp features pop-up bar with rentable prostitution tents.
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The Spectator: Your pets are killing the planet.
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153News (VIDEO, brief): Hawaii Governor Josh Green has major Freudian Slip on Smart Cities.
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Twitchy: James O'Keefe drops undercover Maui footage and something is DEFINITELY off.
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NY Post: Tim Gurner apologizes for his comments about unemployment and economic pain.
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Word & Work: Paul Harvey’s “If I Were the Devil” Transcript from 1965.
Harvey's words were never more accurate.
"White Line Frankenstein" by Alice Cooper, from 2023's Road.
I retook the IDRlabs Moral Alignment Test.
In April I posted; Do you dare take the Moral Alignment Test?
My goal in taking the test again was scoring 100% Evil and Chaotic, intentionally.
I tried. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
* My actual score is Neutral Good, lest anyone think me evil or chaotic.
U.S. Air Force test pilot Major Bill Allison flies the X-80 experimental aircraft to sub-orbital spaceflight successfully, though he loses radio contact. When Major Allison returns to the airbase, it appears abandoned, old and deserted. Mystified, he sees a futuristic city on the horizon and heads for it. The major is rendered unconscious and captured.
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The Captain sends Allison to be imprisoned with a group of bald and violent mutants who are determined to kill everyone in the Citadel. As the mutants attack him, Allison overpowers one and demands answers. They claim to be the survivors of a "cosmic plague", and they blame the residents of the Citadel for their problems.
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[...] the scientists explain that Allison has traveled through time to the year 2024.
Wiki: Beyond the Time Barrier.
Imagine, one or two years ago the post title would trigger The Blooger Team to email me telling me this naughty content is unscientific conspiracy theory and for the good of the public it has to be spiked.
On August 5th 2023 a Japanese research team published a pre-print that appears to contain the most important and shocking revelations of the covid era.
Atsuki Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa, of Osaka Medical University and Kyoto University, wanted to trace the historical evolution of the omicron variant of SARS-CoV2 by studying viral sequences found "in the wild" and deposited in public databases.
In doing this they found around 100 separate omicron subvariants that could not conceivably have arisen through natural processes. The existence of these variants seems to provide definitive proof of large-scale lab creation and release of covid viruses.
Moreover the variants appear to form comprehensive panels of mutations typical of those used in "reverse genetics" experiments to systematically test the properties of different parts of viruses.
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As with all evolution, changes in the spike protein occur through progressive accumulation of mutations. In the case of omicron BA1 there are 37 non-synonymous mutations - that is, points where the sequence of the spike protein produced is different to that of the original Wuhan variant.
Tanaka and Miyazawa wanted to use public databases to trace the evolutionary history of the omicron BA1 spike protein - that is, to answer the question: in what order did these 37 mutations accumulate?
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A surer approach, and the one taken by Tanaka and Miyasawa, is to work backwards instead. That means starting by working out which of the 37 mutations is the last, or most recent.
To do this you need to find a sequence that includes all the mutations except one - and this must be the most recent mutation.
So Tanaka and Miyazawa made a series of 37 database queries using sequences each lacking just one of the omicron BA1 mutations - reasoning that one of them should find a match, indicating the last mutation in the series.
It's interesting to imagine yourself in the position of these researchers, running queries for each of the 37 mutations, perhaps wondering which of them would turn out to be the most recent, and getting the answer.. ..ALL OF THEM.
Well, all but 1 - which makes no material difference.
Their brains must have exploded.
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Conclusion: this changes everything.
If the observations and inferences in this paper are correct - and barring a pure hoax, involving fraudulent depositions to sequence databases, they certainly seem to be - then they provide indisputable evidence that the entire history of SARS-CoV2, at least subsequent to the emergence of the original strain, is artificial.
Someone, somewhere, really is doing all this deliberately.
Where else have you read about this in the degree of detail at the Substack link? Not much coverage. Why not? Shouldn't the public have as much information on this as possible? Who profits from all this?
Create viruses, sell vaccines. What a racket! It'd be nice to know who's doing this.
"She Drives Me Crazy" by FYC, from 1989's The Raw & the Cooked.