David Strom of Hot Air on the possibility of Elon Musk buying the wretched MSNBC.
This idea is pure Elon Musk, mixing his quixotic sense of humor with a serious musing about something he could do to solve a problem he sees. Throw my head in a boatload of F-you money, and you get a pure Elon Musk idea.
Read the whole thing.
He can’t be thrilled by headlines like this, even if it’s Fox News.
One of the advantages a parliamentary system like Canada’s has over our constitutional federal republic is, an unpopular leader can be booted from office more quickly. If PM Trudeau were to lose a “no confidence” vote from the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, out he goes. No putting up with four dreary years of a senile dolt in the White House.
From the NY Post: the excellent columnist Rikki Schlott writes on how social media has contributed to the social ills of America.
I was probably about 9 or 10 years old when, on a summer night in a friend’s basement, a pal suggested we log onto a website called Omegle.
You can guess where this is going.
[W]e were . . . served up images of people cutting, adult men in dimly lit rooms telling us we were “cute” (we quickly hung up on them), and — a first for all of us — a guy masturbating.
Yuck. A marvel of our age, the Internet, concomitantly gives sexual perverts a convenient avenue on which to spread their filth.
Of course there are digital filters and the like available to block those god-awful souls, but they’re not foolproof and worse, more often than not block websites that are a far cry from being pornographic.
Ms Schlott continues:
That’s because, no matter how many parental controls and blockers you apply, filters are always porous enough to let the dark underbelly of the internet in through a laptop or cellphone screen.
Exactly. Read her entire column, it’s disturbing, but it illustrates and reminds us of our fallen nature. Matters might improve somewhat at least if laws against these gross-outs were toughened, so when busted and convicted of doing their thing publicly (including on the Internet), received long sentences. Counseling of course should be administered, but it doesn’t seem likely many of these lost souls will be cured of the perversions deep down inside of them. At least they will least be off the streets.
And to end on a lighter note, the late Tom Lehrer offered his take on this dreary subject some time ago.
From the New York Sun:
A co-host of ABCs “The View, Sunny Hostin couldn’t look more unhappy while reading multiple on-air “legal notes” regarding misconduct accusations againsat Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and George Santos. The legal notes were designed to shield the “View”, a production of ABC News, from legal liability for comments Ms. Hostin and her co-hosts made about the three men.
Gee whiz, that was almost painful to watch, but as stated in this blog many times, there has been a sea change in the country with the victory of Donald Trump. What is most remarkable is, after many years–decades, even–all the alleged news people who used to have absolute impunity when pushing their left-wing agenda on us are finally running scared,
Bickerstaff posted a blog item on November 7th, in which proclaimined: “They don’t scare us anymore,” He had no idea however his audacious proclamation would become manifest so early on in American media. Things are looking bleak for them, indeed.
h/t Susie
Eight weeks after Hurricane Helene blasted through western North Carolina, conditions are third-world like with no relief in sight. FEMA, perhaps the worst run federal agency (though there are so many competing for that honor) spent all the money allotted to them for the region, then ditched it long ago.
Major media has lost interest in this story and is nowhere to be seen even near the catastrophic mess (it might reflect poorly on the Biden administration during its closing days), save one and it should come as no surprise, Fox News.
Fox recently sent a reporter and camera crew to have a look at this all-but-ignored disaster. Have a look. It’s not pretty.
From here.
“Apollo 8 also delineated the differences between the Soviet vision of society and the freely religious American system. Yuri Gagarin proclaimed he saw no God in space. Borman, Lovell, and Anders saw him everywhere, and said so.”
Regardless of the mountain of evidence that resulted in his convictions, actor Jesse Smollett had all his convictions overturned today by the hard-left Illinois Supreme Court. The vote was 5-0.
The AP has a decent account of the case.
Smollett, who is Black and gay, made headlines around the world after he told police in January 2019 that two men assaulted him in his downtown Chicago neighborhood, spouting slurs, tossing a noose around his neck, and yelling that he was in “MAGA country,” an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” presidential campaign slogan. The report prompted a massive search for suspects by Chicago police before investigators announced that they believed the attack was a hoax
And of course it was a hoax. Just another supposed “hate crime” accusation made by another Trump hater, which nonetheless got worldwide attention, owing, in addition to Smollett’s minor fame as a minor actor, being gay and black. There is no doubt in this blogger’s mind this mediocre talent knew, regardless of his earlier convictions, he would eventually be cleared of the pathetic stunt which got him his 15 minutes of fame. Because Trump. Nothing else.
Read this mealy-mouth excerpt from the Illinois justices’s [sic] opinion.
We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the original case and believed it to be unjust,” Justice Elizabeth Rochford wrote in the court’s 5-0 opinion. “Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the state was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied.
And here’s Smollett’s lawyer reporting his completely unrepentant client’s reaction to the Court’s ruling..
Smollett was happy and relieved but also disappointed to have been “dragged through an unfair process.”
“Even though this is over now and Jussie just absolutely wants to move his life forward, people should start asking questions. How did this happen? Why should this even happen? What can we do to make sure this doesn’t happen again?” [attorney] Uche said at a news conference in Chicago.
We’ll let blogger Charlie Kirk have the last word.
Thankfully, Smollett’s stunt ruined his career and helped America wake up to the fact that hate hoaxes like his are common. Did you notice there weren’t nearly as many “hate crime” news reports after Trump’s win compared to 2016? That’s because now, people know they’ll be laughed out of the room if they try to say a MAGA supporter grabbed their hijab or waved a noose at them.
He’ll always be guilty in the court of public opinion, and no far-left court can fix that.
Welcome to early retirement, Jesse. You’ve earned it.
The excellent X blogress Laura Powell has compiled a list of holidays observed by different kinds of children, LGBTA activists, who must have been severly holiday-deprived in their youth.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Not to be confused with Trans Day of Visibility, which is in March.
Or Trans Day of Action, in June.
Yesterday was the last day of Transgender Awareness Week.
Trans Parent Day was earlier this month.
The California Legislature has declared August to be Trans History Month.
Pronouns Day is in October.
Also in October is Genderfluid Visibility Week.
Non-Binary People’s Day and Non-Binary Awareness Week are in July.
Here’s a holiday favorite, updated. Sing with me: why can’t every day be Transgender Day of Remembrance . . .
Hmm, that new lyric doesn’t seem to scan. Ah well, it’s the message, isn’t it?
From lifesite.news
A California judge has permanently stripped parental rights from Texas father Jeffrey Younger over his refusal to allow his 12-year-old son to be chemically and surgically castrated at the wish of the boy’s mom.
This is heartbreaking:
‘I lost all parental rights to my sons. Goodbye, boys,’ Younger wrote on X (formerly Twitter)
Bickerstaff believes those who espouse and commission these sadistic mutilations are a tiny, but disproportionately loud and complaining bunch of losers; who somehow have been brainwashed into believing the absurd notion human beings are not dimorphic, but that theirs and others’s sexuality may be changed willy-nilly as they please.
Of course, it is not easy as it may seem. Girls and boys not having reached their majority and supposedly desiring being changed into the opposite sex, must undergo brutal alterations by conscience-free surgeons who not long ago would have been rightfully expelled from their profession, as well arrested and charged with, say, assault and battery and perhaps even attempted murder against those which the common law deems infants, hence incapable of rational thought.
Bickerstaff professes libertarian-lite views on adult behavior. Should an adult wish to engage in perverted acts like sex changing, so be it. However that does not alter another libertarian belief, which is self-destructive behavior should not be rewarded via do-gooder laws passed by fellow travellers in the House, Senate, and state legislatures, that require private enterprise, educational and religious institutions, as well as governments to hire them or even tolerate them in the public square.
Alleged sex-changers, your Tatler believes, deserve no more empathy than the man who pleasures himself in front of children in the school yard. They are depraved individuals and if normal folk choose not to be in their company, too bad, that is their right and privilege.
THE TAOS TATLER. 