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Nolte: Politico perverts word ‘misspeak’ to protect serial-liar Tim Walz
Breitbart.com | 10/4/2024 | John Nolte

… Lying is when you deliberately say something you know isn’t true to get what you want, or to puff yourself up into something bigger than you are, or to weasel out of trouble. Walz has serially lied for all three of those reasons.

Repeatedly claiming you retired from the National Guard at a higher rank than you actually did is not misspeaking. It’s lying. People know what rank they retired at.

Claiming you carried weapons of war into battle when you were never in combat is not misspeaking. It’s lying. People remember if they have been in combat or not.

Saying you were in Hong Kong during the summer of the Tiananmen Square Massacre is not misspeaking. It’s lying…

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Friday Night Open Thread: Helene Earth

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Hurricane Helene

Longshoreman’s Strike (on pause)

War: Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, and whatever China’s doing in Taiwan

Illegal Aliens — some of them terrorists, others just run-of-the-mill murderers — coming in through porous borders

Amnesty for illegal aliens

Funds and handouts to illegal aliens

Student loan forgiveness

Harris and Walz lying about every single thing

Assassination attempts on Trump

Rampant voting fraud

Prison for anyone who investigates or questions voter fraud

Lawfare against anyone the regime doesn’t like

Underground pedophile rings

Vaccine mandates

EV mandates

Soaring national debt

Constant inflation

… Oh, and:

Monster X-class flare launches massive solar storm towards Earth — and could trigger auroras this weekend
Live Science | 10/02/2024 | Harry Baker

.. but it doesn’t seem to be SMOD.

Straight Line of the Day: OK, Boomers …

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See if you can make light of this …

Navy launches USS New Jersey, first gender-neutral submarine in US fleet
Fox News | Sep 15, 2024 | Stephen Sorace

The U.S. Navy commissioned a new submarine on Saturday, the first vessel in its fleet designed to fully integrate male and female sailors.

… without using the word seamen or making fun of the author’s name.

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Democrat Politics Are a Perfect Storm

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FEMA is Out of Money for U.S. Hurricane Victims After Its $640 Million in Migrant Funding
Shore News Network | 10/3/24

While FEMA scrambles to find funding for hurricane survivors, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has just allocated over $640 million to assist with the arrival of noncitizen migrants. Yes, you read that right. Of that amount, $300 million will be distributed through the State and Local Assistance Program (SSP-A), while $340.9 million is set aside for competitive funding.

What does “competitive funding” mean? Competing with whom or what?

… While Congress did recently approve a $20 billion boost to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, it’s clear that this won’t be enough to cover the costs of recovery, especially with more storms on the horizon. Mayorkas was blunt: “We do not have the funds to make it through the season, and another hurricane is imminent.”

Straight Line of the Day: What Does Your Car Know About You?

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It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
The Mozilla Foundation | Sept 6, 2024 | Jen Caltrider, Misha Rykov and Zoë MacDonald

… besides how you know Jen, Misha, and Zoë …

… all the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.

Car makers have been bragging about their cars being “computers on wheels” for years to promote their advanced features. However, the conversation about what driving a computer means for its occupants’ privacy hasn’t really caught up. While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines. Machines that, because of all those brag-worthy bells and whistles, have an unmatched power to watch, listen, and collect information about what you do and where you go in your car.

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label — making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.