Fox News and Tucker Carlson had a quickie divorce over the weekend. Carlson’s top-rated show will no longer air on the network beginning immediately.

 

“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the company wrote in a statement.

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While the reason for Carlson’s departure from Fox is unknown, many conservatives have observed that his on-air coverage often appeared to be at odds with the headquarters and other media divisions within the firm. For example, there have been long-standing tensions between Carlson and 26-year Fox veteran and network CEO Suzanne Scott, Mediate reported. However, Carlson’s show continually landed at the top of the charts, raking in viewers and high ratings.

This is a massive loss for cable news and Americans who liked the content but can’t figure out how to get information anywhere but newspapers and the idiot box. Carlson, who founded The Daily Caller, has other means of delivering content at his immediate disposal so I don’t expect he’ll be away from video for long. Whether he creates a Glenn Beck-Like Blaze TV (another former FOX host shown the door) remains to be seen.

It’s only been a few hours since the announcement, but it will be a day remembered for lying libs and whiney rhinos across the ideological swamps of DC. They are glad to see him gone.

Unrelated and nowhere near the seismic a change as Carlson’s departure represents, CNN has announced that the troublesome Don Lemon has worn out his race card.

 

“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN,” Lemon said in a statement posted to Twitter. “I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network.”

 

Lemon had a show on CNN but got demoted to the third wheel on a morning show that didn’t need him. I don’t expect they will be looking for a replacement unless someone else misbehaves.

As for Lemon, maybe MSNBC has room for him on their sh!t wagon.

 

 

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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.  Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow.  Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

 

 

Just the other day I saw plane after plane with looooong trails that persisted.  I address chemtrails in the Thought Splinters 4 essay, link above.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

Remember that other expression, “To take no action, is an action”?

 

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Senator Cruz slammed Senator Jeanne Shaheen for not letting Dem.Nominee to answer questions #shorts

 

 

Shaheen is, IMHO, such a POS Commie stooge.

 

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I love his anti-Jab activism and now, as I have become an anti-vaxxer – and proudly-  his skepticism on vaccines in general.  But he’s also a climate change doom monger as I understand it.  Still better than The Potato of course.

Now, having said this… OOH, RFK Jr. will rile things up on the Left.  Good.  Confusion and distraction and infighting amongst our enemies.  OTOH, in general, I dislike political family dynasties.  And his one ad I’ve seen leverages the heck out of his father and uncle.  Having former relatives in office is not a qualifier IMHO.  (I had the same objection to “W” actually.)

 

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Data Scientist DESTROYS Racist Police Narrative with Real Data | The Larry Elder Show

 

 

I am very honored to have Larry Elder’s autographed-to-me picture framed and on the wall of my office.  I also have the late Walter E. Williams:

 

 

Williams had multiple good books.  He sent me this one during the course of our very limited correspondence:

American Contempt for Liberty

 

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This is an excellent Prager video:

 

Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism?

 

 

Also, not mentioned, the starvation of the Kazakhs.  Good site here:

Victims of Communism | Keep the flame of liberty alive

And don’t forget the grim history of Islam either:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

Both Communism and Islam put The State (whether secular or religious) above the individual.  That’s why they’re natural – albeit unlikely – allies.

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror

 

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Look, I don’t approve of the whole LGBTQ+ crap.  But I acknowledge the right of people to be so if they, as consenting adults, choose to participate in such activities.  That’s their business, and is between them and Hashem when they die.

My objections to all this really started when they decided to start pushing this into kids’ minds and targeting kids s*xually.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

As if there’s any doubt what their reaction would be.

 

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You Must Be Crazy: Election Fraud Claims Debunked with Democratic Media Bunk

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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OK, a month and a half in. My expected loss, due to illness last week, showed up. However, now I’ve been stuck at that weight for a few days now no matter what I eat – or don’t. I’m feeling better to the point of feeling normal (TMEW and the Grandson are still suffering the lingering effects, though) but getting “stuck” is a bit worrisome. Seems like my body has done the “reset” I knew would happen – just a few pounds too soon!  And all I can think of is going out for a nice Chinese dinner (sheesh!  Stop already!).

Tom is continuing on and broke a milestone weight for him – congrats! I’m hoping that it will put a hop in his step and the determination to “beat Skip!”.

Reminder that while we both have differing weight loss goals, we’re competing on percentage loss in trying to “normalize” things – it was clear that I could never lose as much as Tom just on pounds but we both knew that it’s going to be harder for me to lose that lesser weight as my “easy” weight started a couple of years ago.

As least my wallet is safe for a little while longer. I had promised myself a brand new wardrobe once I broke 185 and which I have now done. I’ve noticed that the double chin I once had has disappeared and my belts are no longer holding up my pants – I need all new belts as I’m on the last hole on all of them and they are still “wiggly”. That said, I’m going to put off that spending spree until this contest is over which will probably take a few more weeks.

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The entertainment industry is filled with Winston Smiths. Those tasked with – obsessed with – reimaging details to fit a BIPOC worldview in the name of social justice. A world where the color of the skin matters more than anything else.

Ironically, this is a considerable step backward: race, religion, skin color, and ethnicity have defined people for millennia. And we’d made good progress getting away from that – at least in America – until Barry Obama systematized the modern race war in the name of social justice. Everything has become about race, and the progressive entertainment industry, whose gig is to play house or make-believe in exchange for money, had taken this cue as an opportunity.

In the name of undoing a past injustice with which most of the people currently alive had nothing to do, they are balancing the scales no matter who they piss off. NETFLIX, a leader in the trend, has an ongoing docuseries that “educate(s) audiences on the fearless, captivating lives of [African] queens who were likely not part of their Western academic curriculum.” Do you know what else wasn’t part of the Western academic curriculum? A black Cleopatra.

And to be frank, I don’t care. As the actress chosen to portray Cleopatra reminds us, if you don’t like the casting, don’t watch, but won’t that harm my social credit score? Approved versions of history will be required viewing in the New World Order. One that, for now, has Egyptians annoyed.

Adele James, who is black, is cast as Cleopatra. She’s a fine actress, and I’m sure she’ll do the role justice, but is it social justice? According to “Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist, and former antiquities minister, … “This is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not black.”

 

Mr Hawass said the only rulers of Egypt known to have been black were the Kushite kings of the 25th Dynasty (747-656 BC).

“Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilisation is black,” he added and called on Egyptians to take a stand against the streaming giant.

NETFLIX has been color-washing history for years. And not just human history but fiction as well. And again, I don’t care. HBOs House of the Dragon has prominent roles described as fair-skinned in the source material with incredibly light hair portrayed by blacks, and I think they did a fantastic job. Top-shelf. I’m sure Adele James will do an excellent job as well. But Cleopatra is a historical person whose story is an integral part of the national culture, and you’re messing with it.

NETFLIX is projecting its liberal guilt onto the heritage of another nation. Or is that the point? Greeks should have never been there in the first place. Or they are as stupid as the average corporate media reporter. Egypt is part of the African Continent, so Cleopatra has to be black.” You know, to make up for all the white or light-skinned women who played a role in the past. This is a pendulum swing in the other direction to balance the scales.

I have no issue with that if the parts played are fictional, even if the fictional character would have likely had a different skin color from the actor portraying the role. But they either can’t help it or – like Anheuser Buch – there’ are some Soros-funded fanatics at a supposedly non-governmental organization who will give them a bad “score” if they don’t colorize or genderize everything.

And now the Netflix Series – independent of the acting – is not about the “captivating lives of [African] queens who were likely not part of their Western academic curriculum.” It is reimaging how history should be taught in Western curricula, which is undoubtedly what they were always after.

Exit question: Does the Netflix Docuseries on African Queens delve into that continent’s extensive history of slavery, or did they Netflixwash that too?

 

 

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I have painfully slogged through a number of Right-to-Know Court challenges and the process should have been much easier. Most Judges do not like citizen Right-to-Know cases as they are boring and burdensome.

But the only recourse is to seek the remedy through the Court. (The newly opened Ombudsman Office is starting up, but bringing Nashua’s mess into a start-up operation is a bad idea.) The Attorney General’s Office will not offer any assistance for matters involving municipal issues. Citizens have to stay within the Court system, and the Nashua Court system is a trainwreck lacking in due process.

My intentions through all of my work were to try to improve records access for the public and hold the government accountable. I failed miserably at this. The Mayor, the Legal Office, and the Board of Alderman have taken no responsibility to correct record deficits and process. The Mayor bellows out a cadenced-public message openly blaming me for employee departures, staffing increases to handle Right-to-Know matters, and increased costs to the taxpayers. In truth, his process has destroyed reasonable records access for all citizens. The Mayor publicly denounces Judge Temple’s ruling in my favor calling the orders unfair and claiming the Court is picking on the City. The one thing I have come to learn about this Mayor and legal office, they cannot permit the “enemy” to experience a single victory.

In Nashua, questioning the government is considered an act of hostility. Attorney Donchess and Attorney Bolton take challenges very personally, which prevents any effective negotiation. My work started off as a “mind my own business” effort. I wanted to fix our bad property assessment. I won that effort, but the Mayor started a war.

The Mayor is extremely effective in picking his Board of Alderman, funding and campaigning for his candidates. He has held a stacked single-party chamber for 8 years. When he engages in a war, he is, for the most part, effective and uniting his Board and State Representatives behind him. From his leadership position, he leads in establishing confirmation bias that is almost impossible to overcome.

But, if you go to City Hall and walk around, it is no longer a public building. The offices are locked, signs are posted “by appointment only,” and phone numbers are listed that ring to nowhere or, more typically, no one answers. People are still working remotely on a COVID protocol. Citizens, particularly those in opposition to the City, can no longer go to city hall and speak to folks in a department about records. We should all be concerned when such a basic right to access our public information and understand what our government is doing is being so easily taken away.

I cannot recall a single executive order or memorandum from the Mayor that would improve public access to information for citizens and recognize the need for change. The Mayor is the master of blame.

So, after more than three years, what did my sincere efforts bring? I lost my reputation and my freedom, all to accomplish nothing. Please reflect on your rights being taken away from you.

A lack of transparency is a symptom of dishonesty.

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We know that the Second Amendment doesn’t exist simply for self-defense but there are too many evil people out there that believe they can do bad things to you without retribution. Being closer to 70 than 60, there are a lot of younger men out there against whom I’d never stand a chance in a physical confrontation. Especially in the dark of night in MY home where and when these folks are not invited. So when I see a story like this, I smile (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Homeowner turns the tables on 2 armed crooks who cops say broke into his residence — shooting one dead and wounding the other

New Castle County police were called to the first block of Clipper Court in Glasgow just before 9 p.m. over reports of a shooting, New WindowDelaware Online reported. Detectives learned that two men — a 25-year-old who will be identified once his family is notified and 20-year-old Nadir Everett — broke into the victim’s house, the outlet said. A third man, 24-year-old Malik Dennison, remained outside the home as the getaway driver in the “targeted” attack, Delaware Online added, citing police. Investigators said one of the suspects knew the victim, WPVI-TV reported.  Everett and the 25-year-old male threatened the victim with a gun and “began removing miscellaneous property” from the house, police told the outlet.

Police told Delaware Online that the break-in victim got a gun of his own and shot at Everett and the 25-year-old male.

The 25-year-old male died at the scene, the outlet said, adding that Everett ran from the home after being shot “multiple times,” after which Dennison took him to a hospital. Police arrested Dennison and Everett at the hospital, Delaware Online said.

The homeowner had been shot in the “lower extremity,” the outlet said, adding that police began first aid on the homeowner before paramedics arrived. Police told WPVI he was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

“…Male died at the scene”. It’s clear that right and wrong played no role in the deceased and cronies thought processes. It was all about selfishness: I want something that isn’t mine. However, we are “stronger” and therefore have the right to take what is someone else’s. If the Civilian Disarmament Groupies get their way, that victim could have died.  It’s clear, though that the criminals didn’t think that anyone was going to fight back.

I still believe what Heinlein stated holds true: “An armed Society is a polite Society”. It is because the “unpolite” generally do not run into those that would enforce “politeness”, they can get away with their boorish behaviors.

The problem isn’t total disarmament, it’s the threat of being on the receiving end and being “being beaten to the trigger” by those who simply want to be left alone but are forced by evil people like Dennison and Everett to take action.

(H/T: The Blaze)

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Al Capone was a gangster and a businessman who lived and ruled over the streets of Chicago for the first half of the twentieth century. He grew up in organized crime, took over the Windy City Mob during prohibition, and amassed his wealth through bootlegging and enforcement.

His relationship with Mayor Thompson and the Chicago Police afforded him protection. That was until he called for killing seven mob rivals in broad daylight in what became known as the Valentine’s Day Massacre. The public turned on him and demanded he be taken down. The only offense that Al Capone was convicted of and imprisoned for was tax evasion.

Hunter Biden may not be a gangster, but he is an extortionist and manipulator and has used his family name for the last two decades to shake down foreign companies and governments. He has amassed millions for the Biden family, and evidence surfaced that as many as nine family members have shared in his money laundering campaign. This system of trading power for money only works if his father, President Joe Biden, remains in office. That is why the Biden family is pushing Joe for another term in the White House even though it is evident that he is not physically and mentally fit for the job.

Hunter Biden has a well-documented life of depravity and has no apparent skills to support the positions and contracts that he has been able to negotiate. Companies have paid him millions to sit on their boards, and countries have given him considerable sums to invest for them. All of his activities are a sham. He was selling exposure and influence with his father when Joe Biden was a Vice President and now as President. Hunter Biden is just the tip of the sword for the Biden Cabral, and the impact on the American political system is the actual crime to be answered for. It is safe to say that Joe Biden would not be sitting in the Oval Office without the concerted effort of the government to protect Hunter Biden. There appears to be a plan to sacrifice Hunter with tax evasion crimes rather than let the system expose the sins of the father and many high-ranking operatives in many facets of the D.C. political world. This is the comparison I make between Hunter Biden and Al Capone. The American people cannot let this American Crime Family, the Bidens, off on a simple tax code violation.

It has come to light that Antony Blinken, now Secretary of State, and Merrick Garland, now Attorney General, conspired to protect the Bidens by coercing fifty former members of the intelligence community to sign a letter acknowledging the claims of Hunter Biden’s activities and the infamous Hunter Laptop as Russian misinformation. The plan worked, attention was directed away from Hunter and Joe during the 2020 election, and Joe Biden went on to defeat Donald Trump for the Presidency. Unfortunately for the Bidens, the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2022. Behind the efforts of Jim Jordan and James Comer, House Committees are bringing the sins of the Bidens and the government to light. The evidence is mounting and clear, and the case against the Bidens is becoming too strong for the mainstream media to ignore. The media has been as complicit with the Bidens and as guilty as the government officials who played a role. And, by the way, the Hunter Laptop does exist.

The Bidens are guilty of embezzling millions worldwide to influence and compromise the man who has held the two highest offices in the land during their crime spree. They have influenced elections and have corrupted our Justice Department, Intelligence Agencies, and the White House with their actions. They have jeopardized our National Security because relationships with Joe Biden and our adversaries have been compromised by payoffs to the Bidens. It would be the crime of the century to allow these people to escape justice by letting Hunter Biden take the fall for cheating on his taxes. I fear our government may not be strong enough to police its own. The corruption goes so deep. We may be unable to find enough honest people to soil themselves to take down the Biden Crime Family.

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House Bill 639, to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana in New Hampshire, is being considered by the NH Senate Judiciary Committee and the following was my testimony this week in opposition to the bill.

I am a huge fan of Americans for Prosperity. They truly care about helping marginalized people succeed like the single mom struggling to pay the rent and the young man with a criminal record looking for work without success.

AFP believes that they can help these less well-off New Hampshire residents by supporting the legalization of recreational marijuana, but the truth is that those people they want to help are the ones that will be hurt the worst by it. 

From the study “Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated With and Prevalence and Frequency of Cannabis Use Among Adults in the US” published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association on November 30, 2021:

In this survey study including 387,157 US adults residing in 21 states conducted in 2016 through 2019, young, male, Black, and Native American individuals and individuals with low educational attainment and income were more likely to engage in higher frequency cannabis use.

Cannabis use, in particular use at least 4 days per week, is associated with neurocognitive deficits and poor educational and other social outcomes, especially in adolescents and young adults.

When I was handing out flyers to parents dropping off their children at our local elementary school recently in a neighborhood with a high density of impoverished families, I encountered a mom with slurred speech and her car wreaking of marijuana smoke. She was obviously not safe to drive. It frightens me to think how often she drives her young daughter while she is high.

From Alex Berenson’s 2019 book “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence.”

Dozens of well-designed studies have linked marijuana with psychosis and schizophrenia. Researchers have found marijuana users are much more likely to develop schizophrenia. People with the disease suffer more frequent and severe relapses if they smoke.

Most people will never have a psychotic episode while using marijuana. Some will have temporary breaks from reality. But an unlucky minority of users will develop full-blown schizophrenia. At this point, doctors have no way of predicting who they will be.

In “How Weed Became the New OxyContin, published August 30, 2022, Dr. Christine Miller, an expert on psychotic disorders is quoted: “One out of every 20 daily users can expect to develop schizophrenia if they don’t quit.”

Related: On Recreational Marijuana Legalization

My brother started smoking marijuana at a young age and developed full-blown schizophrenia. 

I haven’t had contact with him since before my youngest was born 27 years ago. We searched for him online and found a mug shot from when he was arrested for squatting on someone’s property. He can’t take care of himself, and he has been in and out of homeless shelters for decades.

On my drive to work in Massachusetts I go by multiple billboards promising me improved mental health, relaxation, and happiness if I shop at their cannabis stores. When I’m on my laptop at work I get digital ads from a nearby cannabis shop suggesting I stop in for a purchase. In Boston’s Financial District I saw ads on almost every street corner offering to deliver cannabis to my door.

Its horrifying. I know from painful, personal experience how much destruction Massachusetts has invited into their state. 

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