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Straight Line of the Day: Other Ways In Which Walz Will Treat the Country As He Treats His Mother: …

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Walz says 90-year-old mom lives off social security check, during North Carolina rally
FOX | 17 Oct 2024 | Stepheny Price

On the first day of early voting in North Carolina, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz hit the campaign trail in Durham on Thursday evening, making a personal revelation about his mother.

During his campaign rally, Walz said that his mother has to wait for her social security check every month to feed herself.

According to Forbes, Walz has an estimated net worth of over $1 million….

“When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that’s how she’s going to feed herself. That’s how she’s going to get things done…” Walz claimed.

The guy’s a millionaire, I hear.

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Eegah!

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(For you MST3K fans)

2-Billion-Year-Old Rock Found Harboring Microbes – And They’re Still Alive
IFL Science | October 09, 2024 | Maddy Chapman

Aaugh! (For you Charlie Brown fans)

The microbes were found within a sealed fracture in the ancient rock, which was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa – a rocky intrusion that formed when magma slowly cooled below the Earth’s surface. The enormous complex covers an area roughly the size of Ireland, and contains some of the richest ore deposits on Earth including around 70 percent of the world’s mined platinum. It has remained relatively unchanged since its formation, providing perfect conditions in which ancient microbial life can survive.

Such organisms, living far below the Earth’s surface, evolve incredibly slowly, and have an exceedingly slow metabolic rate, meaning they can persist in igneous rocks over geological time scales – for up to 2 billion years as the latest research has demonstrated.

Egad! (For you Sherlock Holmes fans)

Dear scientists: please watch Jurassic Park before you do anything.

Everyone else: always be sure to thoroughly wash your platinum before use.

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Hooray! Now I Can Get Some of That Blackmail — I Mean, Black Male — Money!

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The Most Unserious Presidential Candidate Of All Time?
Manhattan Contrarian | 16 Oct, 2024 | Francis Menton

… in recognition that she is polling poorly with black men, Harris yesterday announced by Tweet a set of new policies to pander to that demographic group. Excerpts from the Tweet:

Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. . . . Kamala Harris will create an Opportunity Agenda for Black Men. . . . Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. . . . Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers. . . .

Could Harris and her campaign not have realized that racially-segregated government handouts like this are wildly unconstitutional? They would not survive challenge before even the most left-wing politicized federal District Court judge. Today the campaign realized its error. The headline from today’s Wall Street Journal is “Kamala Harris’s ‘Agenda for Black Men’ Will Be Open to All, Campaign Says.”

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Straight Line of the Day: Worst Wedding Songs

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I read some news article about how some bride had banned certain songs at her reception, and someone chimed in saying that they’d been to a wedding where the bride forbid “Having a Good Time” by Queen (I can’t see the problem with it; perhaps she’s just been to too many weddings where it was played).

Anyway, I thought I’d throw it out there as a Straight Line.

Either at the ceremony itself, or the reception.

“Revolution 9” or anything by Yoko Ono, of course, top the list.

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News You Can’t Use: Cat Videos From Space

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The NASA Cat Video Explained

jpl.nasa.gov | 1/29/24 | Ota Lutz

… NASA beamed a cat video from space. It was all part of a test of new technology known as Deep Space Optical Communications. While the video went down in cat video history, the NASA technology used to transmit the first ultra-high-definition video from deep space also represented a historic advancement for space exploration – the potential to stream videos from the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Governments screw up everything. The cat video (a link to it is at the source article) isn’t remotely (heh!) funny. It’s just a cat chasing a laser-pointer red dot.

Plus, they’ve got it backwards; they should be sending cat videos to deep space. Distract the aliens so they’re too busy to attack! Beam each video in a different direction, so the addicted aliens have to chase them around like — well, a laser-pointer red dot.

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Could’ve Been Any One of Us

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Today Marks Jeremy Brown’s 4th Birthday Behind Bars Since His Arrest After He Released Video of FBI Agents Requesting He Work as an Undercover Agent on Jan. 6 – Jeremy Brown Did Nothing Wrong
Gateway Pundit | Sep. 30, 2024 | Jim Hoft

Jeremy Brown did nothing wrong.

Jeremy Brown, a former Green Beret, is a political prisoner of the Biden-Harris regime.

THREE YEARS ago this week, the US government arrested Jeremy Brown on two misdemeanor trespassing charges.

The arrest was executed by the very same federal agents who were part of an attempt to recruit former Green Beret Jeremy Brown to spy on law-abiding citizens as a paid confidential informant in the weeks prior to January 6, 2021.

MSG (Ret.) Jeremy Brown became a target of the FBI after he released the recording of the conversation he had with the FBI JTTF agents who tried to recruit him. Brown has been a political prisoner of the weaponized U.S. government every day since his arrest. The arrest warrant for misdemeanor trespassing charges–which wasn’t even issued until NINE months after January 6th and TEN months after the attempt was made to recruit him–was executed by the SAME TWO agents who tried to recruit Brown to become a paid confidential informant.

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Jeremy’s arrest and the five-and-a-half-hours-long raid on September 30, 2021, took place one day before his October 1st birthday. This year will be the fourth birthday (his milestone 50th!) that American hero Jeremy Brown will spend behind bars.

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Fourth Amendment? Are There Really Four?

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If You Think Student Loan Forgiveness Is Bad…
nysenate.gov

NYS Senate Bill S6181A 2023-2024 Legislative Session Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid (by the various social programs).

In other words, DSS, Section 8, and all the other myriads of social programs will NOT pay back rent during the pandemic period to present (beginning March 13, 2020) so the landlord must forgive/eat the losses. It does not specifically state that landlords must wipe any arrears but can that be far behind?