Re: the New Orleans case, Townhall.com has a video clip of an FBI agent saying the agency will take the lead on the investigation and “this is not a terrorist event,” but they have found IEDs that could be “viable.” Not a terrorist event, the agent declares at the outset, despite the ISIS flag conspicuously affixed to the truck. Shake my head.
The same gang of idiots who failed to connect the dots on 9-11, failed to protect our young gymnasts from a serial sexual predator and use SWAT teams of cowards to arrest harmless older men and "dangerous" Catholics who want to attend the Latin mass. Thank heaven for Kash Patel.
It’s come out that he converted to Islam about a year ago and promptly began to radicalize. There’s evidence that he didn’t act alone. Reportedly, a different driver brought the truck across the border from Mexico two days before the vehicle assault, and surveillance cameras appeared to show others planting IEDs in NOLA’s French Quarter, which fortunately didn’t detonate. The FBI has raided his residence in Houston, which is a block from a mosque.
Edit: The FBI now thinks he did act alone. It’s been confirmed that he placed the IEDs, not somebody else. Perhaps an example of reporters trying to be first without waiting to be right.
It was reported early on that the electric Ford truck crossing the border at Eagle Pass had the same license plate as the assault truck. They know this from plate-detecting cameras at the border.
Out law enforcement on fed and local level has to get serious quickly. We knew that the Trump coalition will have a lot on its plate. And coalition by definition has diverse views on solutions. That in itself should prove to the left that President Trump will not be a dictator.
Did you see in the WSJ that over 60% of Dems think there will an economic catastrophe and dictatorship under Trump? These people are simply ridiculous.
The contrast between the Las Vegas and New Orleans law enforcement is startling. I have no doubt that the Nevada cops will resolve this in short order while the New Orleans midwits seemed to be trying to out-grieve each other. We get it, it’s tragic. The NOLA police chief’s responses were ridiculous.
The worldwide jihad has started. Fasten your seatbelts, kids. They're going to keep surprising us until no one feels safe anywhere.
I'm very concerned about the number of muzzies who work at airports and in pharmacies. It would be SO easy for them to take out a lot of us in those venues.
It started on 9/11 and has grown in scope and intensity since then. Until every non-Muslim country stops letting them in, and keeps track of those already in, the Jihad will continue. I think that in the future, it will come down to China vs. the Jihadists for world domination, and at that point, the US will have to choose a side.
I just saw a list of, on you tube, of 10 countries that don't allow Muslims to enter.
I don't think it's money changing hands, I do think it's the bleeding heart club that allows them in, that and the Muslim worms inside the government. I'm curious as to how many Muslims in influential, decision making postilions are in the federal govt.
Well....that was depressing. Although several common themes emerge. The religion of peace isn't. The "benefits" from illegal immigration are figments of a liberal's imagination. And...duh...being soft on crime simply encourages more crime.
Cannot wait until January 20, when sanity again prevails.
Your optimism is refreshing and welcome. Just the official beginning of a beginning that seems to be afoot already, Let us hope for a minimum of the internecine warfare, now and later.
I kind of like the intra coalition spats. As long as both sides of it agree that when the bout ends, we shake hands and the winner's arm gets raised, then we leave the ring together to start walloping on the stuff that matters. The spats allow for voicing of differences, coming to better, more cohesive answers. A fake "cohesive front" with simmering differences just kicks the can for exploitation by the left later.
Can't help but wonder if the recent unexplained drone surveillance is related to Intel about possible Isis and other terrorist attacks re nuclear etc. It's interesting that my husband who doesn't watch much news, got right away that it was a terrorist attack, probably coordinated with others. Maybe the useful idiots who have been supporting these intertwined terror groups and excusing them as oppressed freedom fighters will finally get a clue! WA state has lost it's gender loving mind. How much more proof do the idiots need that this shit is completely toxic?
Apparently the WA prison system is crazier than anyone could imagine:
The trans perp “proceeded to molest her while she slept and talked constantly about how he wanted to use his sex toys on her” — wait, WHAT????? Washington state allows prisoners to have sex toys? While they’re incarcerated?
I would not be surprised. WA state prison advisory board is now taking advice from sex offenders and other criminals. You just cannot make this stuff up.
I think it is more than clear now that many(?) trans males are violent sexual predators. The females wanting to be male are in a whole other category. Or that's what I think now.
Honestly Louisa, I think there are many different categories of psychological disorders that come under the banner of “trans”. For males, they include autogynephilia, body dysmorphia, autism spectrum, inability to accept their own homosexuality (choosing instead to “become” the opposite gender, and therefore not “gay”), and sexual predators (like the perp in the WA prison who is “gaming” the system for his own criminal ends — which isn’t “trans” at all).
For girls/women who choose to be “trans”, issues include fashion/social contagion, self-hatred/guilt/desire to be higher on the “victim scale” (which brings prestige/privilege), body dysmorphia, inability to accept their own homosexuality, autism spectrum, depression, and other mental health issues.
The tragedy of all this is that, regardless of whether the person is male or female, the group that is “trans’ing” has an enormously high rate of coexisting psychological problems. Why we’re allowing these very vulnerable people to do such damage to themselves with virtually no gatekeeping is beyond me!
Thanks Orwell's Rabbit. I don't disagree with a thing you are saying, and I recognize the complexity and the mental issues. I was just making a (yes, general) distinction that the male "trans" seem to be where violence lies and the females to male as a group don't seem to be violent. Something has to be changed with the legal situation that allows full blown developed males to just declare themselves females in order to get into female spaces, right?
To the left, a trans male IS a woman, and if you disagree with the loony left, they pillory you.
This is flat out crazy, and there are millions of Dem/Soc who do believe trans males are really women, millions.
MILLIONS! The Dem/Soc isn't just a political party; it is an asylum, a loony bin full of crazies, and they want to run the country. They believe that Islam is a religion of peace and genocide is OK as long as it is carried out against the Jews and Israel.
The news leaves me nonplussed. I, too, cannot wait for the transition. Unfortunately, I fear it won’t be peaceful. By the way, any further word on those drones in NJ? I also marked in my calendar the release of Congress’s report on the Butler assassination. Every month since September, “Assassination report-fallout?” pops up on my screen. Has one head rolled? Did I miss something?
I didn’t know Linda Lavin died. Interesting obituary
Anyway, the compendium today could be entitled Awful New Year and really was shitty. I think the main theme running through all is balls were dropped by either stupid incompetence or malicious incompetence.
Also both Boise State and Oregon were woefully overrated. In BSUs case, they really played no one of note and weren’t ready for major competition. When they join the PAC 2, making it the PAC 6 or 8, it won’t get any better for them.
I try very hard not to lament about how things were much better in the "old" days, but today's incompetence, whether it's driven by stupidity or malicious intent is hard to deny.
So if you are soft on crime, soft on radical Islam, soft on the mentally unstable, soft on illegals, what do you expect to get?
I think Trump will escalate a much needed national conversation on America demanding that we rid ourselves of radical Muslims, violent illegals, shoplifters. We need to make it OK for victims to use force against criminals. We need to make heroes of the Daniel Pennys.
The cyber truck explosion. Trump’s enemies will destroy the value of his properties. They wrecked Trump SoHo by boycott, but this time they are doing damage by violence. I don’t know why the man wanted to be president.
Another NYC subway shoving incident. Friends, if you use public transit in NYC, be alert. Do not glue your eyes to your phone!
The video of that poor man being shoved onto the tracks is incredibly disturbing, but ought to serve as a public service announcement. He's standing at the very edge of the platform, practically leaning over the tracks, reading his phone.
Good to hear he was pulled out alive and should recover.
There has always been a faction of disturbed people in the subway. I take it less often, but each time I get on, there's someone sleeping under pile of filthy belongings, or -- like last night -- the foulest smelling, probably homeless man panhandling.
While these are two separate issues, one cannot help but wonder about housing so many "migrants" en masse in hotels and shelters, while so many Americans are in need -- a need that appears to be increasing as housing becomes financially unsustainable for so many.
On that note, when my mother, who lives on social security, moved back to Chicago from Southern California, a co-signer was required in order to get a lease on an apartment with what amounts to very low rent. What if no co-signer was available? How would she have obtained a place to live -- in her 80s, no less? Renting an apartment should not require equity. Isn't that the point?
Perhaps they are not the majority? It's extremely puzzling why we don't hear much condemnation from the majority of moderate Muslims and their leaders.
I remember Italian Americans staging multiple events decrying their association with organized crime and the Mafia. For lack of a better word, they were pissed. They waved American flags, supported the NYPD, etc., etc.. One event filled Shea Stadium, in Flushing, NY, to capacity. They refused to be guilty by association.
It appears to me that being a Muslim makes one a Muslim but being Italian does not make one a mafioso. And being an "apostate" Muslim can get you killed.
There you have it! They are scared to death of their masters wrath if they speak out. Just like the moronic dems who are afraid to insult THEIR masters. At least dems won't kill their own traitors...at least not yet. But just give them some time.
Didn't the mosque that the terrorist attended already come out and warn its members to not speak to police or media? (If I'm wrong, I can't keep up with all the news coming out.)
Gee, and yet we haven't seen any of those Islamaphobic incidents Obiden keeps insisting are happening.
Imagine a religion that flat-out states they plan to kill us and then receives support from the sheeple who believe themselves to be racist if they don't want to be killed. (insert head slap emoji)
It's very, very similar to how women are accused of 'transphobia' when they are concerned about being in enclosed spaces with mentally ill, biologically intact males--the same ones who make rape threats and death threats against women who express concern!
This (incredible, if sad) news roundup brings two thoughts:
1.) My optimism from yesterday still stands. It's why I view they outside world with a side eye. Someone please share something that they most look forward to this year (preferably personal and not political).
2.) The obituaries got me thinking about who I will be sad to see has left this mortal world. And the first person that came to mind is Dr. Richard K. Bernstein. Born in 1934, he absolutely has to be the the longest living Type 1 diabetic ever. His story is amazing. If diabetes (Type 1 or Type 2) is in your life, look him up.
I look forward this year to reaffirming that I belong to the earth. I look forward to finding ways to appreciate the space created by so much loss. I look forward to freeing myself from the pretzel twisting burden of not saying things that need to be said. Much has ended with this old year, I look forward cautiously to what will arise in it's place - praying fervently it will not lead to yet another endless game of Whack- A -Mole ! But perhaps best of all, I look forward to laughing ever more loudly at the inevitable insanity of what it means to be human.
Well I guess I look at the New Year like a just born baby - I don't want to put too much expectations on it. I'm just glad to have survived the birth and that the baby is alive! And well for me the existential IS personal. For instance- reaffirming I belong to the earth means getting my loudly complaining body out into the world at first light and doing sunrise ceremony, singing medicine songs at the top of my lungs to strengthen myself, and cripple hop jumping into the cold wild water most days and praying I can get back out again without falling down! It means carefully and painfully building a ceremonial fire, making offerings and giving thanks to the Spirit Which Moves Through All Things, It means feeling the trauma of all the places where humans have forgotten that they belong to the land around them and reminding myself NOT to forget that when they clearcut the last old growth forest up here, the spirit of those trees will still live on in me and those roots that remain will still be part of the land itself. I cannot say I am actually looking forward to all that, as it is a helluva lot of hard work, but I am committed to it and I do value the opportunity in this new year to continue doing what is most important to me. I mean other than hoping my husband will outlive me (which is totally selfish I know) and that I will continue to have warm dry shelter, healthy food and a decent vehicle and remain somewhat functional until the end of my own life, I just don't have big visions for the future. When you get old ,you realize that so many of the big important things you thought you might be able to help fix, are just not really fixable. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make things better, but the expectation bar is lowered to a more realistic level. Humans would have to have a radical shift in consciousness on a massive scale, so basically a gigantic global miracle, for me to turn into an optimist at this point.
Maybe optimism was the wrong word to use. Perhaps I should have said my excitement still stands. There’s a big difference between being optimistic about the future with human beings in charge of things and being excited about some upcoming personal life event(s). I was going more for the latter.
2024 was a good year for me. I intend to learn new things, love more (even if it's from afar) get my hands dirty in the soil (after freeze season). So many late in life firsts need to be finished.
What new thing will you learn first? And what will you grow? I’ve always wanted to start a small aquaponic garden. I’m hoping when my kids get old enough, we can learn how together. Start praying for the poor fish now!
I planned on making a bog garden (in my excessively dry yard!) this Fall, but time got away from me. I've got a few native carnivorous plants that I'm keeping alive over the Winter and I'm going to build my bog in the Spring. Those carnivores eat mosquitoes!!
Sounds neat! I’d never heard of a bog garden before. We get some pretty bad mosquitoes where I live, but we’ve never tried to spray for them because we also get a pretty awesome variety and display of lighting bugs. The Blue Ghosts are my favorite, but it’s also really cool to watch our trees light up like Christmas trees for a couple of weeks every June. I’d be curious to know if the bog garden makes any difference in the mosquito population.
Relearning the guitar, building an Art library and starting Hillbilly Martha Stewart gardens with herbs (35 seed packets ready to be started indoors) abundant flowers and will add to my trees. I have to learn to care for everything. Maybe some lessons in plumbing too. 2025, come on down!
I would have looked forward to retirement but I still like to eat. I do look forward to more knitting, only the first of the year and I already have a request list for numerous items to be made. And more games to play with the grandkids.
When my grandparents came to visit, we would always play dominoes and Rummikub. One time they came and my Grandma put 6 dice in an old makeup jar and taught us all how to play Bupkis. I only have a few memories of having that much fun as a kid, and that one definitely stands out!
I am looking forward to the challenges my new role (a promotion) will bring. I have some butterflies, which I'm filing away as normal for anyone who cares about doing the best work they can.
Alan, been thinking about your request. As I’m a glass half empty person by nature, being positive is not my thing. However, in no particular order, I’m looking forward to…
1. Our annual trip to Miami for sun and fun!
2. My hair getting longer. I’ve been growing out very short hair for 13 months now.
3. Taking, and hopefully passing, part 2 of the CMA, which in turn…
4. A new job where I’m not at home all day and making more money.
Best of luck on your exam! I remember those days. Constantly wondering if you’ve done enough to prepare while simultaneously not really knowing what else to do. So much fun. And may the new job be everything you hope for! Thanks for sharing.
This year, after 11 yrs., I look forward to moving back to the city and being with my family and friends, and, hopefully, it will be my last move after a lifetime of moving from place to place.
I am and we've been living on the outskirts of a small town about 3 hrs. South of Bangkok. It's peaceful but we miss our family and friends, and the medical care here isn't the best. I'm 86 and my wife is 76 and being isolated isn't a good idea.
Yes, into Bangkok. We'll be looking at a condo this month and if all goes well, we'll move in April. If not, we'll keep looking. I can't afford to live in the US as a single person, let alone with a wife, and they way things are now, I have no desire to return. I like peace and quiet and not being involved in the political morass. Although Thailand is a political mess, it doesn't really concern me, as I have no vote and the only thing that affects me are the immigration laws, as long as I obey them there's no problem.
We are a serious country. We have allowed evil to take over not merely the government but arts, academia, and even science. Still gonna be a rough slog, but maybe...
No serious country allows the things to happen that you list here. We are so distracted by the glitter of ephemera that we have ceded the battlefield of ideas to folks who are serious about their agenda not the nation's well-being.
I guess that I see The Country as that sea of red counties with the blue dots that are highly populated by density-warped lemmings. Hopeful, but not optimistic, I guess, by the areas of light that can be seen even here in the PRNJ. Yes, good men MUST stop doing nothing.
Believe that the source of all our problems always comes back to a people addicted to spending.
Whether it is defense or welfare. if we had to pay for the goodies we want folks would demand that spending be curbed.
But because we can push the consequences of deficit spending off to future generations neither politicians nor citizens need to feel the pain associated with their avarice, the insane expenditures go on and on and on.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats have as yet demonstrated the testicular courage needed to say NO to more spending.
Perhaps the Trump administration will but for now like you I remain hopeful but not optimistic.
Not just the rich. You could hold a convention in a telephone booth (if they still existed) of folks who are willing to sacrifice to get spending under control and still have a lot of empty space.
"Hopeful but not optimistic" is about all I can summon up at this point. The Republicans are all too likely to make a mess of things, and the Left is ready to 'pounce.'
Republicans have raised the circular firing squad to an art form. Some things should be settled behind that useful invention known as a "door." It's not rocket science.
I'd say you're both correct; we are a serious country but currently being governed by idiots. I hope the tide has turned against them, but that remains to be seen.
We have serious problems because we are not a serious people. Until we seriously tackle the issue of debt we will never be able to claw our way out of the hole we have dug for ourselves.
I disagree with the broad brush that "we are not a serious people". On the issue of debt, that will be hard; we've conditioned so many to expect handouts; just look at the money cities have spent on illegals! At the top, and in almost every economic sector, crony capitalism has circumvented competition in favor of a few large competitors. At the governmental/fiscal policy level, printing more money just leads to devaluing the dollar driving more and more people into debt. Addressing each of those will take a different solution.
And that is only one issue; the societal rot of "at any time without apology" and letting men pretend to be women are still problems that need to be stopped. I have, perhaps naively, hope that the majority of people have serious problems with how the left has jumped the shark with their positions on these cultural issues. Everyone now has seen the collusion of the media, swamp and bureaucrats to steal an election to keep their hold on power. Time will tell if Trump, Elon, RFK et al can make a difference.
We'll agree to disagree since we both agree on the problems. Serious people address their serious problems in a serious way. I don't see us doing that. BUT I am willing to suspend disbelief while I wait to see what Elon and Vivek do. Unfortunately I think most folks left and right will squeal like a stuck pig anytime their pet projects are threatened.
For the life of me I can't understand what on earth motivates people with these ideas--in the face of where they have gone. There are many explanations out there, but none seem to really explain it. BTW, Tucker's interview with Aaron Siri (ICAN lawyer) includes them trying to understand it in various ways. That interview is a must for anyone who does not understand the legal history of our current vaccine policy.
It … who is running the country??? Bari & company know.
PS There are 7 judges in NJ & PA that Obama while *actually* in office who seem to be dismissing cases by plaintiffs who were harmed by pharmaceutical jabs … just saying
This wave of Islamic jihadi terror attacks have just begun. They are looking for “ soft targets” to terrorize the masses. Are they trying to derail Trump’s inauguration?
Listening to an Ex CIA expert last night - she said they( terrorist groups) have a new explosive vest system that cannot be detected by routine TSA screening at airports. Dogs are not trained to detect the explosives yet. Only if the vest is removed and put through the machines can the explosives be detected. But they will be worn as a piece of clothing.
the shooting in Queens had nothing to do w/ Islamic terrorists (from what I can tell!) It was at a memorial for a teenager who was killed in a shooting. Prob. something Latino gang related. Tragic and very sad, but not part of some possible plot to mess w/ Trump.
One of you most informative pieces. Thank you.
Nice summary of not-so-nice news.
Re: the New Orleans case, Townhall.com has a video clip of an FBI agent saying the agency will take the lead on the investigation and “this is not a terrorist event,” but they have found IEDs that could be “viable.” Not a terrorist event, the agent declares at the outset, despite the ISIS flag conspicuously affixed to the truck. Shake my head.
The same gang of idiots who failed to connect the dots on 9-11, failed to protect our young gymnasts from a serial sexual predator and use SWAT teams of cowards to arrest harmless older men and "dangerous" Catholics who want to attend the Latin mass. Thank heaven for Kash Patel.
The same idiots who perpetrated 1/6.
No, not the same, but idiots, nonetheless.
It's interesting that CNN and the NYT are both strongly implying this is a terrorist attack. Which makes me naturally suspicious.....
It’s come out that he converted to Islam about a year ago and promptly began to radicalize. There’s evidence that he didn’t act alone. Reportedly, a different driver brought the truck across the border from Mexico two days before the vehicle assault, and surveillance cameras appeared to show others planting IEDs in NOLA’s French Quarter, which fortunately didn’t detonate. The FBI has raided his residence in Houston, which is a block from a mosque.
As usual, powerlineblog.com is on the case with fresh updates.
Edit: The FBI now thinks he did act alone. It’s been confirmed that he placed the IEDs, not somebody else. Perhaps an example of reporters trying to be first without waiting to be right.
From everything I've read, he grew up at least nominally Muslim, but he seems to have had a burst of fervor after his last divorce.
The truck crossing the Mexico border appears thus far to be unrelated, since the truck was a rental vehicle.
I haven't gotten more detailed info the IEDs yet.
It was reported early on that the electric Ford truck crossing the border at Eagle Pass had the same license plate as the assault truck. They know this from plate-detecting cameras at the border.
Yes, that was reported, and is likely true. But since it was a rental vehicle, it is less likely to be a factor in the attack.
So possibly an FBI setup of some sort?
I have no clue, but both the content and timing of any information on CNN --MSNBC---NYT etc is always suspect to me. Color me paranoid.
If they are out to get you, you're not paranoid.
Out law enforcement on fed and local level has to get serious quickly. We knew that the Trump coalition will have a lot on its plate. And coalition by definition has diverse views on solutions. That in itself should prove to the left that President Trump will not be a dictator.
Mr Lederman: Disagreeing with the left from a position of authority is the leftoid definition of dictatorship!
Did you see in the WSJ that over 60% of Dems think there will an economic catastrophe and dictatorship under Trump? These people are simply ridiculous.
Sheep.
I don't need the WSJ; I can get that from my lady friend!
Amazing they remained oblivious to the economic catastrophe and dictatorship rampant under Obiden!
No one knows what will happen. World events and the response cannot be accurately predicted.
The contrast between the Las Vegas and New Orleans law enforcement is startling. I have no doubt that the Nevada cops will resolve this in short order while the New Orleans midwits seemed to be trying to out-grieve each other. We get it, it’s tragic. The NOLA police chief’s responses were ridiculous.
Until Trump actually takes office, everything said about him and what he's going to or not going to do, is speculation.
Yes the NOLA attack is shocking.
They are looking at a link between that one and the one in Las Vegas.
Apparently they found pipe bombs etc in coolers near the site. This points to more people being involved. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/01/02/new-orleans-terror-attack-us-islamic-state-louisiana/
Were the Viking raiders just 'returning home' generations after moving to the North? A new DNA study appears to show that there was northward movement of people before the Vikings emerged. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/01/viking-migration-british-ancestors-returning-home-dna/ or https://archive.ph/lDNYF
Thank you for the link. This could possibly explain my Scandinavian DNA.
The worldwide jihad has started. Fasten your seatbelts, kids. They're going to keep surprising us until no one feels safe anywhere.
I'm very concerned about the number of muzzies who work at airports and in pharmacies. It would be SO easy for them to take out a lot of us in those venues.
It started on 9/11 and has grown in scope and intensity since then. Until every non-Muslim country stops letting them in, and keeps track of those already in, the Jihad will continue. I think that in the future, it will come down to China vs. the Jihadists for world domination, and at that point, the US will have to choose a side.
It's baffling why Western countries let muzzies in. They have made only negative contributions to every country they've entered.
Bleeding hearts can't be the only reason they're being allowed to immigrate in droves. Money must be changing hands somewhere.
I just saw a list of, on you tube, of 10 countries that don't allow Muslims to enter.
I don't think it's money changing hands, I do think it's the bleeding heart club that allows them in, that and the Muslim worms inside the government. I'm curious as to how many Muslims in influential, decision making postilions are in the federal govt.
Which countries? I’m sure China is one of them. They know better.
I just saw a list in Just the News. There are 4 muzzies in our government. Way too many.
Well....that was depressing. Although several common themes emerge. The religion of peace isn't. The "benefits" from illegal immigration are figments of a liberal's imagination. And...duh...being soft on crime simply encourages more crime.
Cannot wait until January 20, when sanity again prevails.
Your optimism is refreshing and welcome. Just the official beginning of a beginning that seems to be afoot already, Let us hope for a minimum of the internecine warfare, now and later.
I kind of like the intra coalition spats. As long as both sides of it agree that when the bout ends, we shake hands and the winner's arm gets raised, then we leave the ring together to start walloping on the stuff that matters. The spats allow for voicing of differences, coming to better, more cohesive answers. A fake "cohesive front" with simmering differences just kicks the can for exploitation by the left later.
Yabbut there's this nifty invention called the "door" behind which it might be wise to at least dial down the heat.
Can't help but wonder if the recent unexplained drone surveillance is related to Intel about possible Isis and other terrorist attacks re nuclear etc. It's interesting that my husband who doesn't watch much news, got right away that it was a terrorist attack, probably coordinated with others. Maybe the useful idiots who have been supporting these intertwined terror groups and excusing them as oppressed freedom fighters will finally get a clue! WA state has lost it's gender loving mind. How much more proof do the idiots need that this shit is completely toxic?
Apparently the WA prison system is crazier than anyone could imagine:
The trans perp “proceeded to molest her while she slept and talked constantly about how he wanted to use his sex toys on her” — wait, WHAT????? Washington state allows prisoners to have sex toys? While they’re incarcerated?
I would not be surprised. WA state prison advisory board is now taking advice from sex offenders and other criminals. You just cannot make this stuff up.
I think it is more than clear now that many(?) trans males are violent sexual predators. The females wanting to be male are in a whole other category. Or that's what I think now.
Honestly Louisa, I think there are many different categories of psychological disorders that come under the banner of “trans”. For males, they include autogynephilia, body dysmorphia, autism spectrum, inability to accept their own homosexuality (choosing instead to “become” the opposite gender, and therefore not “gay”), and sexual predators (like the perp in the WA prison who is “gaming” the system for his own criminal ends — which isn’t “trans” at all).
For girls/women who choose to be “trans”, issues include fashion/social contagion, self-hatred/guilt/desire to be higher on the “victim scale” (which brings prestige/privilege), body dysmorphia, inability to accept their own homosexuality, autism spectrum, depression, and other mental health issues.
The tragedy of all this is that, regardless of whether the person is male or female, the group that is “trans’ing” has an enormously high rate of coexisting psychological problems. Why we’re allowing these very vulnerable people to do such damage to themselves with virtually no gatekeeping is beyond me!
Thanks Orwell's Rabbit. I don't disagree with a thing you are saying, and I recognize the complexity and the mental issues. I was just making a (yes, general) distinction that the male "trans" seem to be where violence lies and the females to male as a group don't seem to be violent. Something has to be changed with the legal situation that allows full blown developed males to just declare themselves females in order to get into female spaces, right?
As long as they are adults, the choices are theirs. If not adults, the choices should be made by their parents.
To the left, a trans male IS a woman, and if you disagree with the loony left, they pillory you.
This is flat out crazy, and there are millions of Dem/Soc who do believe trans males are really women, millions.
MILLIONS! The Dem/Soc isn't just a political party; it is an asylum, a loony bin full of crazies, and they want to run the country. They believe that Islam is a religion of peace and genocide is OK as long as it is carried out against the Jews and Israel.
Imagine a religion whose adherents flat-out state they're planning to kill us, then call us Islamaphobic when we don't want to be killed.
Start the deportations already!
A short but to the point. The Koran calls for death to the infidels. This is something the left ignores.
Only after they have been given the choice of converting to Islam or not.
truth!!
I guess they seized his bag of sex toys when they moved him to another cell.
Washington State is further left than Karl Marx. ( A little exaggeration but not too far off the mark.)
No - I think you are closer than one would fathom.
More like a psycho utopia, Lonesome.
Good point.
The news leaves me nonplussed. I, too, cannot wait for the transition. Unfortunately, I fear it won’t be peaceful. By the way, any further word on those drones in NJ? I also marked in my calendar the release of Congress’s report on the Butler assassination. Every month since September, “Assassination report-fallout?” pops up on my screen. Has one head rolled? Did I miss something?
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/peters-paul-blumenthal-and-johnson-release-bipartisan-report-examining-u-s-secret-service-security-failures-and-assassination-attempt-on-former-president-trump/
The local local Cranberry Eagle had pages on the ass-sination attempt & I’ll scan it in if I can’t get a non paywalled link. A lot of blah blah blah…
Drones are our government searching for nuclear devices. This is not good.
The terrorists are just in the warm up phase...
That’s what I’m afraid of….
I didn’t know Linda Lavin died. Interesting obituary
Anyway, the compendium today could be entitled Awful New Year and really was shitty. I think the main theme running through all is balls were dropped by either stupid incompetence or malicious incompetence.
Also both Boise State and Oregon were woefully overrated. In BSUs case, they really played no one of note and weren’t ready for major competition. When they join the PAC 2, making it the PAC 6 or 8, it won’t get any better for them.
Go Buckeyes!!! 💪🏽⭕️🙌❗️⭕️!!
I try very hard not to lament about how things were much better in the "old" days, but today's incompetence, whether it's driven by stupidity or malicious intent is hard to deny.
THANK YOU very much for describing the events correctly (unlike our friends at the FP).
-- The truck didn't drive into the crown in New Orleans - it was driven.
-- The truck didn't explode in Las Vegas, it was loaded with explosives that blew up.
Trucks kill people.
That was a good one.
Hey Jenn !
Maybe trucks are people too.
I think it was reported somewhere that the truck identified as they/them.
Check with the Supremacist court for the answer.
Therefore, trucks should be banned. (Because mentally ill or evil people wouldn't use something else as a weapon.)
Only electric trucks.
That's a good reason to ban trucks.
So if you are soft on crime, soft on radical Islam, soft on the mentally unstable, soft on illegals, what do you expect to get?
I think Trump will escalate a much needed national conversation on America demanding that we rid ourselves of radical Muslims, violent illegals, shoplifters. We need to make it OK for victims to use force against criminals. We need to make heroes of the Daniel Pennys.
No kidding. I sure as hell want the Daniel Pennys of the world in my corner.
At (the very least) in my subway car.
That made me smile.
Ditto 😍
poor guy- I'll bet he never gets on one again!!
Well put 🙏
AMEN!!! From your keyboard to God's ears, Maureen!
No, not the same, but idiots, nonetheless.
The cyber truck explosion. Trump’s enemies will destroy the value of his properties. They wrecked Trump SoHo by boycott, but this time they are doing damage by violence. I don’t know why the man wanted to be president.
Another NYC subway shoving incident. Friends, if you use public transit in NYC, be alert. Do not glue your eyes to your phone!
The video of that poor man being shoved onto the tracks is incredibly disturbing, but ought to serve as a public service announcement. He's standing at the very edge of the platform, practically leaning over the tracks, reading his phone.
Good to hear he was pulled out alive and should recover.
There has always been a faction of disturbed people in the subway. I take it less often, but each time I get on, there's someone sleeping under pile of filthy belongings, or -- like last night -- the foulest smelling, probably homeless man panhandling.
While these are two separate issues, one cannot help but wonder about housing so many "migrants" en masse in hotels and shelters, while so many Americans are in need -- a need that appears to be increasing as housing becomes financially unsustainable for so many.
On that note, when my mother, who lives on social security, moved back to Chicago from Southern California, a co-signer was required in order to get a lease on an apartment with what amounts to very low rent. What if no co-signer was available? How would she have obtained a place to live -- in her 80s, no less? Renting an apartment should not require equity. Isn't that the point?
So much has been terribly disturbing & I don’t think we’ve even gotten close to what we might see between now & the I_Day 🙏
unfortunately. Faith- I think you're right!
If Trump didn't become President, he'd be facing the rest of his days in court and possibly prison.
Where are all the “ moderate Muslim communities ant their imams we are told are out there and are the majority?
Why aren’t they marching with signs that say” Not in My - Our Name”
What aren’t their imam leaders doing interviews and podcasts to renounce their jihadi brethren???
Why why why
Ex Muslims are speaking out loudly and clearly and tell us tha5 jihadism is part and parcel of Islam .some do it the rest support it
Exactly.
Good questions.
Perhaps they are not the majority? It's extremely puzzling why we don't hear much condemnation from the majority of moderate Muslims and their leaders.
I remember Italian Americans staging multiple events decrying their association with organized crime and the Mafia. For lack of a better word, they were pissed. They waved American flags, supported the NYPD, etc., etc.. One event filled Shea Stadium, in Flushing, NY, to capacity. They refused to be guilty by association.
It appears to me that being a Muslim makes one a Muslim but being Italian does not make one a mafioso. And being an "apostate" Muslim can get you killed.
I don't think it's puzzling. Those who speak out against the jihad and their entire families would be killed. That's how it works.
There you have it! They are scared to death of their masters wrath if they speak out. Just like the moronic dems who are afraid to insult THEIR masters. At least dems won't kill their own traitors...at least not yet. But just give them some time.
Italianism isn't a religion.
Didn't the mosque that the terrorist attended already come out and warn its members to not speak to police or media? (If I'm wrong, I can't keep up with all the news coming out.)
Supposedly true, cat, as reported on X: https://x.com/brotherrasheed/status/1874648008392163640?s=61
Nobody can keep up with the news. It’s exhausting.
Not to mention hard to keep trying to figure out what's actually news vs propaganda!
Gee, and yet we haven't seen any of those Islamaphobic incidents Obiden keeps insisting are happening.
Imagine a religion that flat-out states they plan to kill us and then receives support from the sheeple who believe themselves to be racist if they don't want to be killed. (insert head slap emoji)
It's very, very similar to how women are accused of 'transphobia' when they are concerned about being in enclosed spaces with mentally ill, biologically intact males--the same ones who make rape threats and death threats against women who express concern!
Yes, just like all of those white supremacists running around chopping off heads and burning people alive.
So true Disa!! Where are they when you need them??
Originally, Jihad was meant to be a self-cleansing exercise, then Isis, et all, got hold of it and it spread to the killing of non-Muslims.
This (incredible, if sad) news roundup brings two thoughts:
1.) My optimism from yesterday still stands. It's why I view they outside world with a side eye. Someone please share something that they most look forward to this year (preferably personal and not political).
2.) The obituaries got me thinking about who I will be sad to see has left this mortal world. And the first person that came to mind is Dr. Richard K. Bernstein. Born in 1934, he absolutely has to be the the longest living Type 1 diabetic ever. His story is amazing. If diabetes (Type 1 or Type 2) is in your life, look him up.
I look forward this year to reaffirming that I belong to the earth. I look forward to finding ways to appreciate the space created by so much loss. I look forward to freeing myself from the pretzel twisting burden of not saying things that need to be said. Much has ended with this old year, I look forward cautiously to what will arise in it's place - praying fervently it will not lead to yet another endless game of Whack- A -Mole ! But perhaps best of all, I look forward to laughing ever more loudly at the inevitable insanity of what it means to be human.
Anything less existential and more personal? No pressure or anything. 😉
Well I guess I look at the New Year like a just born baby - I don't want to put too much expectations on it. I'm just glad to have survived the birth and that the baby is alive! And well for me the existential IS personal. For instance- reaffirming I belong to the earth means getting my loudly complaining body out into the world at first light and doing sunrise ceremony, singing medicine songs at the top of my lungs to strengthen myself, and cripple hop jumping into the cold wild water most days and praying I can get back out again without falling down! It means carefully and painfully building a ceremonial fire, making offerings and giving thanks to the Spirit Which Moves Through All Things, It means feeling the trauma of all the places where humans have forgotten that they belong to the land around them and reminding myself NOT to forget that when they clearcut the last old growth forest up here, the spirit of those trees will still live on in me and those roots that remain will still be part of the land itself. I cannot say I am actually looking forward to all that, as it is a helluva lot of hard work, but I am committed to it and I do value the opportunity in this new year to continue doing what is most important to me. I mean other than hoping my husband will outlive me (which is totally selfish I know) and that I will continue to have warm dry shelter, healthy food and a decent vehicle and remain somewhat functional until the end of my own life, I just don't have big visions for the future. When you get old ,you realize that so many of the big important things you thought you might be able to help fix, are just not really fixable. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make things better, but the expectation bar is lowered to a more realistic level. Humans would have to have a radical shift in consciousness on a massive scale, so basically a gigantic global miracle, for me to turn into an optimist at this point.
Maybe optimism was the wrong word to use. Perhaps I should have said my excitement still stands. There’s a big difference between being optimistic about the future with human beings in charge of things and being excited about some upcoming personal life event(s). I was going more for the latter.
Got it.
Amen Rainbow!!
2024 was a good year for me. I intend to learn new things, love more (even if it's from afar) get my hands dirty in the soil (after freeze season). So many late in life firsts need to be finished.
What new thing will you learn first? And what will you grow? I’ve always wanted to start a small aquaponic garden. I’m hoping when my kids get old enough, we can learn how together. Start praying for the poor fish now!
I planned on making a bog garden (in my excessively dry yard!) this Fall, but time got away from me. I've got a few native carnivorous plants that I'm keeping alive over the Winter and I'm going to build my bog in the Spring. Those carnivores eat mosquitoes!!
Sounds neat! I’d never heard of a bog garden before. We get some pretty bad mosquitoes where I live, but we’ve never tried to spray for them because we also get a pretty awesome variety and display of lighting bugs. The Blue Ghosts are my favorite, but it’s also really cool to watch our trees light up like Christmas trees for a couple of weeks every June. I’d be curious to know if the bog garden makes any difference in the mosquito population.
Relearning the guitar, building an Art library and starting Hillbilly Martha Stewart gardens with herbs (35 seed packets ready to be started indoors) abundant flowers and will add to my trees. I have to learn to care for everything. Maybe some lessons in plumbing too. 2025, come on down!
I would have looked forward to retirement but I still like to eat. I do look forward to more knitting, only the first of the year and I already have a request list for numerous items to be made. And more games to play with the grandkids.
When my grandparents came to visit, we would always play dominoes and Rummikub. One time they came and my Grandma put 6 dice in an old makeup jar and taught us all how to play Bupkis. I only have a few memories of having that much fun as a kid, and that one definitely stands out!
I hope to get a sweatshirt for my upcoming birthday that says: I read books, I knit, and I know things! Stitch on, good Rhaine!
Yes - gardens, sunshine, flowers 💐 🙏
I am looking forward to the challenges my new role (a promotion) will bring. I have some butterflies, which I'm filing away as normal for anyone who cares about doing the best work they can.
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Love it. Congratulations!! And thank you for sharing.
Alan, been thinking about your request. As I’m a glass half empty person by nature, being positive is not my thing. However, in no particular order, I’m looking forward to…
1. Our annual trip to Miami for sun and fun!
2. My hair getting longer. I’ve been growing out very short hair for 13 months now.
3. Taking, and hopefully passing, part 2 of the CMA, which in turn…
4. A new job where I’m not at home all day and making more money.
Best of luck on your exam! I remember those days. Constantly wondering if you’ve done enough to prepare while simultaneously not really knowing what else to do. So much fun. And may the new job be everything you hope for! Thanks for sharing.
This year, after 11 yrs., I look forward to moving back to the city and being with my family and friends, and, hopefully, it will be my last move after a lifetime of moving from place to place.
I thought you were settled in Thailand?
I am and we've been living on the outskirts of a small town about 3 hrs. South of Bangkok. It's peaceful but we miss our family and friends, and the medical care here isn't the best. I'm 86 and my wife is 76 and being isolated isn't a good idea.
So are you moving into Bangkok? I remember you saying that moving to the U.S. was not really an option.
Yes, into Bangkok. We'll be looking at a condo this month and if all goes well, we'll move in April. If not, we'll keep looking. I can't afford to live in the US as a single person, let alone with a wife, and they way things are now, I have no desire to return. I like peace and quiet and not being involved in the political morass. Although Thailand is a political mess, it doesn't really concern me, as I have no vote and the only thing that affects me are the immigration laws, as long as I obey them there's no problem.
BUT...BUT...BUT.... Islam is a Religion of Peace.
BUT...BUT...BUT....Trump is _____________________ (fill-in the blank).
We are not a serious country.
We are a serious country. We have allowed evil to take over not merely the government but arts, academia, and even science. Still gonna be a rough slog, but maybe...
No serious country allows the things to happen that you list here. We are so distracted by the glitter of ephemera that we have ceded the battlefield of ideas to folks who are serious about their agenda not the nation's well-being.
I guess that I see The Country as that sea of red counties with the blue dots that are highly populated by density-warped lemmings. Hopeful, but not optimistic, I guess, by the areas of light that can be seen even here in the PRNJ. Yes, good men MUST stop doing nothing.
"Hopeful, but not optimistic,"
Exactly my take.
Believe that the source of all our problems always comes back to a people addicted to spending.
Whether it is defense or welfare. if we had to pay for the goodies we want folks would demand that spending be curbed.
But because we can push the consequences of deficit spending off to future generations neither politicians nor citizens need to feel the pain associated with their avarice, the insane expenditures go on and on and on.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats have as yet demonstrated the testicular courage needed to say NO to more spending.
Perhaps the Trump administration will but for now like you I remain hopeful but not optimistic.
Trump has already said that he wants to extend the debt ceiling. The one thing the rich are good at is spending money, usually, other people's money.
Not just the rich. You could hold a convention in a telephone booth (if they still existed) of folks who are willing to sacrifice to get spending under control and still have a lot of empty space.
"Hopeful but not optimistic" is about all I can summon up at this point. The Republicans are all too likely to make a mess of things, and the Left is ready to 'pounce.'
Republicans have raised the circular firing squad to an art form. Some things should be settled behind that useful invention known as a "door." It's not rocket science.
I'd say you're both correct; we are a serious country but currently being governed by idiots. I hope the tide has turned against them, but that remains to be seen.
We have serious problems because we are not a serious people. Until we seriously tackle the issue of debt we will never be able to claw our way out of the hole we have dug for ourselves.
I disagree with the broad brush that "we are not a serious people". On the issue of debt, that will be hard; we've conditioned so many to expect handouts; just look at the money cities have spent on illegals! At the top, and in almost every economic sector, crony capitalism has circumvented competition in favor of a few large competitors. At the governmental/fiscal policy level, printing more money just leads to devaluing the dollar driving more and more people into debt. Addressing each of those will take a different solution.
And that is only one issue; the societal rot of "at any time without apology" and letting men pretend to be women are still problems that need to be stopped. I have, perhaps naively, hope that the majority of people have serious problems with how the left has jumped the shark with their positions on these cultural issues. Everyone now has seen the collusion of the media, swamp and bureaucrats to steal an election to keep their hold on power. Time will tell if Trump, Elon, RFK et al can make a difference.
We'll agree to disagree since we both agree on the problems. Serious people address their serious problems in a serious way. I don't see us doing that. BUT I am willing to suspend disbelief while I wait to see what Elon and Vivek do. Unfortunately I think most folks left and right will squeal like a stuck pig anytime their pet projects are threatened.
Idiots is way too kind! These people are downright evil, greedy, demons!
For the life of me I can't understand what on earth motivates people with these ideas--in the face of where they have gone. There are many explanations out there, but none seem to really explain it. BTW, Tucker's interview with Aaron Siri (ICAN lawyer) includes them trying to understand it in various ways. That interview is a must for anyone who does not understand the legal history of our current vaccine policy.
Yes an excellent source.
Yes - Casey, you are absolutely correct & add the medtech complex mirroring the military complex.
It … who is running the country??? Bari & company know.
PS There are 7 judges in NJ & PA that Obama while *actually* in office who seem to be dismissing cases by plaintiffs who were harmed by pharmaceutical jabs … just saying
This wave of Islamic jihadi terror attacks have just begun. They are looking for “ soft targets” to terrorize the masses. Are they trying to derail Trump’s inauguration?
Listening to an Ex CIA expert last night - she said they( terrorist groups) have a new explosive vest system that cannot be detected by routine TSA screening at airports. Dogs are not trained to detect the explosives yet. Only if the vest is removed and put through the machines can the explosives be detected. But they will be worn as a piece of clothing.
This is an enormous threat.
pressing the like button on this comment seems oxymoronic ...
The jihadi's have been clear about their mission, and the war has begun.
I don't think they care whether they derail DJT. They want the whole world.
Ever notice how many muzzies work at airports? And now suddenly in pharmacies? I've been voicing my concerns for years. It's really scary!!!
There was a mass shooting las5 night in Montenegro many killed including children
There was a mass shooting last night in Queens NYC
the shooting in Queens had nothing to do w/ Islamic terrorists (from what I can tell!) It was at a memorial for a teenager who was killed in a shooting. Prob. something Latino gang related. Tragic and very sad, but not part of some possible plot to mess w/ Trump.