[Bee] ST. LOUIS, MO — Bud Light welcomed newly minted $100 million investor Bill Gates today with a special, limited-edition can featuring his old friend Jeffrey Epstein.
"First Dylan Mulvaney, now Jeffrey Epstein," said Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth. "This has been a banner year for Bud Light."
Bill Gates purchased $100 million of public stock in Anheuser-Busch, believing his image could really help win back Bud Light's conservative customer base. "I believe with just a few tweaks to the MRNA -- I mean recipe, Bud Light is poised for a comeback," said Mr. Gates. "We plan to kick things off by offering a free microchip with the purchase of a twelve-pack. It's going to be gangbusters."
As a thanks to Mr. Gates, Anheuser-Busch decided to produce a special can to bring a bit of the island life home. "We are grateful for Mr. Gates taking care of our needs, just like Jeffrey Epstein took care of his," said Mr. Whitworth. "We hope this little token shows the world exactly the sort of company we are."
At publishing time, conservatives were deeply confused how Anheuser-Busch planned to overcome a trans-influencer controversy by partnering with a guy with man boobs.
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[Breitbart] R&B singer Akon is hyping his centrally planned community in Senegal, the country of his childhood, promising that every African American who invests with him will become a millionaire. In addition, he says if they collectively leave the U.S. for Africa, they could do real damage to the country that has oppressed them so much.
The 50-year-old artist, whose real name is Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Senegal. Consequently, he is a big believer in Africa.
"If you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop," Akon said in 2020 of the reported $6 billion project.
[Federalist] A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic claims about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate "emergency" is a myth.
John Clauser, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in physics, became the second Nobel laureate last month to sign the document with 1,607 other scientists rebuking the idea of a climate crisis.
"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," the declaration organized by the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) reads. "Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures."
Last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) debuted a roadmap to net-zero emissions that became the model for corporate bishops of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. A June report from the Energy Policy Research Foundation criticized the initiatives outlined as a "green mirage." The IEA roadmap, researchers wrote, "will dramatically increase energy costs, devastate Western economies, and increase human suffering."
"The aim of global policy should be ’prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times," reads CLINTEL’s World Climate Declaration. "There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm."
Norwegian-American engineer Ivan Giaever, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1973, is also a signatory to the declaration.
It must be a conservative thing to willfully embrace the most pessimistic possible outcome with a sense of smug satisfaction in the hopelessness of it all. It’s not universal, though. Ronald Reagan didn’t do that – his sunny optimism revolutionized conservatism in America. But the right’s tendency to always look on the dank side of life has not been thoroughly exorcised. It’s still there, right now, demoralizing and demotivating our people just when morale and motivation are exactly what we need.
It's understandable why Republicans often doom. After all, conservatives do not believe in the perfectibility of man, but rather that man is fallen. This often leads us into believing that whatever bad can happen is definitely going to happen. But the reality is that the worst case scenario rarely happens. It can, but it’s rare. A defeat is rarely total, a set-back is usually just that instead of a permanent failure. Dooming fetishizes the inability to succeed. It repeats exactly what our enemies want to hear from us. Yet its practitioners often consider themselves edgy, posturing themselves as the only ones willing to make the hard choice for cynicism.
Baloney. Dooming is tiresome. It gets exhausting to hear people willfully ignoring and downplaying any hint of success so that no gleam of hope pierces the darkness of the hopeless future they anticipate. Yes, in any operation you always have to count on things going to hell and be ready to deal with that. But the fact is that things don’t always go to hell. In almost every case, things are not as bad as they seem.
Dooming makes you forget about the fact that the other side in this cultural struggle has its own problems. We conservatives are not facing geniuses. We are facing a bunch of narcissistic halfwits who are not a tenth as brilliant as they believe they are, and who inherited their cultural positions instead of creating them. We’re not fighting a bunch of cunning Darth Vaders. We’re fighting a bunch of pronoun-obsessed dorks, many of whom can’t even do a push-up. And all the while, we got 400 million guns.
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Frank Zappa said, "I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist." I try to live by the dictum that I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than bitterly disappointed. That's accomplished by managing my perspective and expectations.
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Seems like no matter how low I set my political expectations I still end up bitterly disappointed.
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See. That's what I mean. Some things really aren't worthy of any positive expectations at all...
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We conservatives are not facing geniuses. We are facing a bunch of narcissistic halfwits who are not a tenth as brilliant as they believe they are, and who inherited their cultural positions instead of creating them. We’re not fighting a bunch of cunning Darth Vaders. We’re fighting a bunch of pronoun-obsessed dorks, many of whom can’t even do a push-up. And all the while, we got 400 million guns.
Well, yeah, that is encouraging.
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Consider "Dooming" as a Churchillian technique to wake people up to just how dire the situation has become! Sometimes, it is the darkest just before the lights go out completely!
Voltaire's epic Candide, is illustrative:
..." Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.[8] The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes Candide with, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds".
[BEE] OTTOWA, ON — In a country-wide broadcast this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denied ever forcing COVID-19 vaccinations on Canadian citizens and also reminded the general public that Canada has always been at war with Eurasia.
"Ingsoc...I mean...the Liberal Party, would like to remind Canadian residents that just as we have never had peace with Euraisia, I also never ever told the public they had to be vaccinated or lose their jobs," Trudeau announced over Canada's network of in-home telescreens. "Let this serve as a reminder that anyone found in disagreement with this proclamation will be remitted immediately to the Ministry of Love for reeducation!"
Canadians reacted to the message with mixed emotions. "I could have sworn he mandated that all truckers entering the Canadian border had to be vaccinated or they would lose their commercial drivers' license," said Ottowa citizen Winston Smith, who was never heard from again.
Trudeau went on to say, "While not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure all the incentives and all the protections were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated. Now let us begin the Two Minutes Hate towards Eurasia and the unvaccinated!"
As of press time, Trudeau's image was seen projected on the sides of buildings with the message "Justin Is Watching" scrawled underneath. Liberal Thought Police were on hand to gently remind skeptical residents they must comply or be lovingly starved and tortured to bring their beliefs in line with the Party.
[VDH] What shameless act or felonious activity was not evidenced on Hunter Biden’s laptop? Racist attitudes toward Asians? Soliciting prostitution? Felonious use of drugs? Photographed nudity and perverse sex? Admissions to illicit foreign shakedowns?
Hunter all but accused his own father President Joe Biden of also being on the foreign take: "I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family... Unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary."
Hunter’s alleged felonies range from bribery to tax evasion. That he has not yet been prosecuted for anything is scandalous. His exemption is attributable only to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s likely weaponized directives to federal prosecutors to downgrade or forget altogether felony charges against Hunter.
So given such wild behavior, why would not Hunter tone it down, stop the global grifting, cease the reckless behavior—and quit redirecting attention to the likely illegal acts of his father, the President?
Why did not Hunter early on just settle the child support suit filed by his paramour Lundeen Roberts? Why haggle over money for his own daughter?
Hunter instead outrageously claimed near poverty. That excuse was hilarious given he flies on private jets and pays nearly $16,000 a month to rent a house in tony, celebrity-ridden Malibu.
Why did Hunter ever get involved with a performance stripper in the first place after his past widely publicized liaisons with prostitutes? Why also with his own widowed sister-in-law?
Given Hunter has little or no experience or training in high-stakes international finance and investment—and thus has no market value as an investor or broker. But he was infamous for translating that nothingness into millions in lucre due solely to his ability to monetize the influence of then Vice President Joe Biden.
So why now when under 24/7 scrutiny, would Hunter dare recreate himself as an "artist," by blowing through straws in his mouth?
His amateurish canvasses somehow have sold for up to $500,000 a pop. Both Biden donors and gamers saw their buys of such mediocre art as gambits either to meet with or profit from his father, Joe Biden.
But would not his painting grift only bring greater prosecutorial scrutiny, greater embarrassment to the president?
Hunter Biden’s attorneys sought to leverage federal prosecutors into agreeing to drop their charges—by threatening to call in as a pro-Hunter witness President Joe Biden himself and thereby likely invoke a constitutional crisis!
In such a scenario, the President under oath would be forced to lie again that he had no knowledge of or involvement in Hunter’s illegal behavior. Or if he admitted the truth that he did, he would thus contradict years of his adamant denials.
Why would Hunter put his father and president in such a publicity circus?
Hunter has lost an incriminating laptop by abandoning it at a repair shop. He has forgotten his crack pipe in a rental car. His illegally registered handgun turned up in a trash dumpster near a school.
So would not the carefree Hunter insist that all the Bidens in the spotlight remain extra careful never to abandon incriminating drugs—especially in the White House.
Yet in a West Wing first, recently cocaine was found lost in an entrance vestibule. Various media outlets claimed it belonged to someone in the "Biden family orbit."
One of two things explain the continuous reckless behavior of wayward son Hunter Biden:
One, he is either still on drugs or so suffers from past addiction that he has lost all common sense and judgment, and simply cannot control his behavior.
Or, two, Hunter is an embittered, angry son. As the Biden bagman for foreign shakedown cash, he did the dirty work and most risked the legal exposure that made all the Bidens rich.
Yet, instead of familial praise—or so the broke Hunter seems to whine on his laptop—Hunter gets no respect from those he enriched.
And now he, not they, might first go to jail.
As a result, does his continuous recklessness send a not so-subtle reminder to all the Bidens—his father the "Big Guy" especially?
That is, Hunter is not going to take the fall. He will not end up in prison for decades while the other exempt Bidens continue to enjoy their ill-gotten riches, due to Hunter’s imaginative cons.
No wonder the first family for months moved Hunter into the White House and put him on Airforce One.
Is it now, "Keep Hunter close and self-important—or else"?
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It feels like the press reveals about Obama and the Biden crime family in recent months are the salacious hints that signal far more damning records held by competing factions of the demokrat party nomenklatura, writ large. My guess is the Obama/ValJar/Rice/CCP Kalorama Kompound and its apparatchiks against a smaller, increasingly desperate clients, the Biden crime syndicate, In addition, with supporting fires by an embittered and struggling Hildabeast faction anxious to display any shreds of power and influence to keep the CGI money laundering system afloat a few more nano-seconds.
Given this hypothetical playing field, Hunter, the debauched Boy-Wonder, is setting out command detonated claymores inside the wire with "front to enemy" facing inward. His message is simple: make this go away, protect me, or its Gotterdammerung!
That’s how much the additional electricity consumption per household would be if the average US home adopted electric vehicles (EVs).
Congressman Thomas Massie—an electrical engineer—revealed this information while discussing with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, President Biden’s plan to have 50% of cars sold in the US be electric by 2030.
The current and future grid in most places will not be able to support each home running 25 refrigerators—not even close. Just look at California, where the grid is already buckling under the existing load.
Massie claims, correctly, in my view, that the notion of widespread adoption of electric vehicles anytime soon is a dangerous fantasy based on political science, not sound engineering.
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Hanlon's Razor does not apply because we know they mean malice. Sure, the useful idiots they use are certainly stupid, but, the people at the top pulling the levers mean us great harm. I see you're back posting and still as non astute as ever.
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A Sr. firefighter in the Metro-Atlanta area stated, that there is a disproportionate higher number of EV fires to Gas vehicle fires in the last 3 years.
Given only about 1% of the vehicles in GA are EV , that speaks volumes about the safety of EV's.
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They dont want us to drive.
They dont want us to be able to flee.
EVs are to price us out of the car market and force us onto mass trans cattle cars.
Solo vehicler travel is White Privilege, a Western Privilege that must be curbed.
[JustTheNews] Both Lou Dobbs and Newt Gingrich have recently suggested that House investigators looking into allegations of corruption against President Joe Biden should expand their investigations to include other members of the Obama administration, such as Hilary Clinton and President Obama himself.
[Earth.com] In a new study from Dalian Medical University in China, researchers have found that beer could actually be beneficial to your gut health and, surprisingly, might even be better than probiotics.
This is a revelation that contradicts the commonly held belief that beer is purely an indulgence and has no real health benefits.
History of beer consumption
"Beer, also known as ’liquid bread,’ is the oldest alcoholic beverage in human history, recorded by the Babylonians as early as 6,000 BC using clay tablets," wrote the study authors.
"At the same time, beer is the most widely produced and consumed beverage globally. It is second only to water and tea in terms of total consumption. Archeological research has found evidence of beer consumption in China dating back as far as 9,000 years."
Beer bacteria and your gut
The researchers reviewed the interactions and mechanisms between beer and the gut microbiome in regulating body immunity.
The research suggests that the bacteria present in beer helps to improve your intestines and immune system.
"Beer is rich in many essential amino acids, vitamins, trace elements, and bioactive substances that are involved in the regulation of many human physiological functions," the authors noted.
"When beer is consumed in moderation, the phenols and other nutrients it contains are fermented and broken down by the microbial community that resides in the outer mucosal layer of the gut. In healthy non-smokers, beer acutely improves parameters of arterial function and structure."
Positive health effects of beer
Furthermore, the study highlights the potential of beer as a microecological modulator due to its positive effects on cancer prevention, reduction of cardiovascular events, and modulation of metabolic syndrome.
Previous studies have suggested that beer bacteria can prevent heart disease and improve blood circulation. An experiment involving beer-drinking runners corroborated this in the current study. They experienced a reduced risk of upper respiratory tract disease.
"It has been reported that beer consumption has a regulatory effect on various physiological functions of the human body. Moderate consumption of beer helps in preventing arteriosclerosis and heart disease, inhibits cancer, and improves blood circulation and immune function," wrote the researchers.
"Beer has also been shown to have antioxidant and anti-aging effects, promote estrogen production, reduce radiation damage, and help prevent cardiovascular events."
[News9] Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew's possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin's coastline. Historians on Friday called it a "remarkable discovery" of a "significant shipwreck."
Wisconsin maritime historians Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck found the 156-year-old Trinidad in July off Algoma at a depth of about 270 feet. They used side-scan sonar to hone in on its location based on survivor accounts in historical records.
"The wreck is among the best-preserved shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters with her deck-house still intact, containing the crew's possessions and her anchors and deck gear still present," states a Thursday news release announcing the Trinidad's discovery.
The 140-foot-long schooner was built at Grand Island, New York, in 1867 by shipwright William Keefe, and was used primarily in the grain trade between Milwaukee, Chicago and Oswego, New York.
But it was carrying a load of coal bound for Milwaukee when early on May 13, 1881, it developed a catastrophic leak after passing through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] ST. LOUIS, MO — Bud Light welcomed newly minted $100 million investor Bill Gates today with a special, limited-edition can featuring his old friend Jeffrey Epstein.
[Breitbart] R&B singer Akon is hyping his centrally planned community in Senegal, the country of his childhood, promising that every African American who invests with him will become a millionaire. In addition, he says if they collectively leave the U.S. for Africa, they could do real damage to the country that has oppressed them so much.
[Federalist] A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic claims about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate "emergency" is a myth.
[VDH] What shameless act or felonious activity was not evidenced on Hunter Biden’s laptop? Racist attitudes toward Asians? Soliciting prostitution? Felonious use of drugs? Photographed nudity and perverse sex? Admissions to illicit foreign shakedowns?
