First Car

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Conservatarian shared this:

 

“Not to brag, but my first car was a Chevy Vega. And not just the sedan. The 2-door station wagon baby!”

 

. . . .Which got me thinking.

What was the first car you bought — really bought, and did not inherit?

 

(I only qualify it thus, because I personally went through numerous hand-me-downs, before I bought one with my own cash.)

 

I am not sure. My memory conflates different cars. I think it was a tan, 2-door, hatchback Honda Accord, manual 5-speed. What a glorious thing for a high-school(?) or college (?) guy to have! Independence! But I also had a green Bug around the same era. $500 bucks it cost me. What an un-Biden time it was!

 

What do you credit as being your first car?

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Your Honor, I Must Object

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Damn near had a habeas corpus.

Judge Judas:

Modus Operandi? Pennsylvania Judge Suspected of Shooting Boyfriend…Five Years After Shooting Her Former Husband
Jonathan Turley | February 18, 2024 | Jonathan Turley

Dauphin County Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, is facing a case of modus operandi this week. However, the suspect showing the alleged pattern of criminal conduct is herself. McKnight is accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head while he slept. The shooting took place five years after McKnight was cleared in the shooting of her former husband in the groin.

Michael McCoy, 54, was left blind in one eye and, according to the New York Post, McKnight tried to convince him that he had shot himself while he was sleeping.

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McCoy said that he went to bed around 11:00 p.m. only to wake up later with “massive head pain” and unable to see. He said that McKnight came into the bedroom and asked, “Mike, what did you do to yourself?” …

For an alleged accidental shooting, the shot was remarkably well placed and should have been lethal. The bullet entered McCoy’s right temple and exited his left temple. He is still blinded in his right eye.

Police found a gun registered to McKnight and her hands tested positive for gunshot residue.

McKnight was also accused of lying about her movements. She told police that she did not leave the home but that is contradicted by a neighbor’s security camera. McCoy is reportedly suspicious that the judge may have followed him to the tavern.

McKnight is now suspended from the bench . . .

Oh. Goodie! Some progress is being made in our judicial system! But gunning for Trump is still admissible.

The arrest has brought new attention to the 2019 case.

Her former husband, Enoch McKnight, was shot in the groin after a history of domestic disputes and protective orders. He was helping McKnight move her furniture out of the home when he was shot. She had reportedly asked him to come over to help her. He claimed that she shot him and called him a “cheater.”

It is not clear from accounts of what her defense was in the earlier incident, . . .

. . . because courts don’t keep records of trials . . .

. . . but no charges were filed.

Beware of what this judge chambers.

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Just a Reminder

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Biden Imprisons His Rivals Until They Die, Too
Townhall | 02/21/2024 | John and Andy Schlafly

The hue and cry about the recent death of Putin critic Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison overlooks that Biden and the Deep State are trying to imprison Trump until he dies, too. Anti-Trumpers in our country have been misusing the legal system with a vengeance ever since Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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Biden’s prosecutors demanded a 33-year prison sentence for Enrique Tarrio for a January 6-related protest even though Tarrio was not even at the Capitol that day. Tarrio received a 22-year sentence, while other Trump supporters were sentenced to more than 15 years and it seems likely some will die in prison as Navalny did.

One killed himself.

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And the White House Continues With Its Big, Beautiful Wall — Around the White House — To Keep Illegal Invaders Out

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Chicago Mayor Extends Contract on Anti-Crime Program That He Campaigned Against As Racist
Jonathan Turley | February 17, 2024 | Jonathan Turley

… this week saw a particularly confusing moment when, after calling the anti-crime program ShotSpotter “racist,” Johnson asked the company to extend its contract beyond the upcoming Democratic National Convention. So Johnson will put an end to this supposedly racist program but only after the Democratic luminaries (and the most violent summer months) have passed. …

… Johnson first declared that ShotStopper was racist because it spots more shots in minority neighborhoods and is used by police to justify … investigations or charges.

The program has been widely credited for reducing violence and crimes. …

So ShotSpotter is now being extended for seven months. Johnson says that the police will then be transitioned away from the technology.

Why not spend another couple of million dollars on a “Robocop” robot to patrol sidewalks — but not stairs?

 

Remember Ukraine?

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Well it doesn’t look good for those plucky Ukrainians. Are they worth a further 100 Billion plus? How do you all feel about it?

The Russian Winter-Spring 2024 Offensive Operation on the Kharkiv-Luhansk Axis
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Riley Bailey and Fredrick W. Kaganwith Nicole Wolkov and Christina Harward
February 21, 2024 
Russian forces are conducting a cohesive multi-axis offensive operation in pursuit of an operationally significant objective for nearly the first time in over a year and a half of campaigning in Ukraine. The prospects of this offensive in the Kharkiv-Luhansk sector are far from clear, but its design and initial execution mark notable inflections in the Russian operational level approach. Russian efforts to seize relatively small cities and villages in eastern Ukraine since Spring 2022 have generally not secured operationally significant objectives, although these Russian operations led to large-scale fighting and significant Ukrainian and Russian losses. Russian forces likely pursued more operationally significant objectives during their Winter-Spring 2023 offensive, but that effort was poorly designed and executed and its failure to make any substantial progress precludes drawing firm conclusions about its intended goals. Russian offensives to this point have generally either concentrated large masses of troops against singular objectives (such as Bakhmut and Avdiivka) or else have consisted of multiple attacks along axes of advance that were too far away to be mutually supporting and/or divergent. The current Russian offensive in the Kharkiv-Luhansk sector, by contrast, involves attacks along four parallel axes that are mutually supporting in pursuit of multiple objectives that, taken together, would likely generate operationally significant gains. The design of this offensive operation is worth careful consideration regardless of its outcome as a possible example of the Russian command’s ability to learn from and improve on its previous failures at the operational level. Russian tactical performance in this sector, however, does not appear to have improved materially on previous Russian tactical shortcomings, a factor that may well lead to the overall failure even of this better-designed undertaking.

 

 

 

Cartoons and Memes

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“Morning Miss Welch. Guns out I see. So, who’s getting shot?”

“Everyone who voted for Number 2 can expect a visit from me.”

“And not a pleasant one?”

“Not a pleasant one.”

“You all been warned.”

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Feel-Good Story of the Day

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i.e., feel good that you’re nowhere near this:

Report: Woman Put Severed Chicken Heads in Boyfriend’s Bed
The Livingston Enterprise | Feb 14, 2024

Awwwwww … a Valentine’s Day story. How sweet.

A 34-year-old Billings woman accused of leaving chicken heads on her then-boyfriend’s bed, trashing his apartment, and vandalizing his car, faces potential jail time …

The key word is “then.”

“[The boyfriend] was only at the home a short time before he left during the verbal argument as he was concerned it would escalate out of control, especially after the damage that was done to his property and the chicken heads left on his bed.”

Excellent call.

A sheriff’s deputy responded to the home about two hours after the boyfriend’s report and observed smashed-up furniture in the yard and a car with its windshield smashed and at least two flat tires. Some of the furniture in the apartment also appeared to have been moved around, . . .

Oh, no!

. . . and there were chicken feathers throughout the house, according to the affidavit. 

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Well, I’m Not

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Biden Co-Chair: It’s ‘Unreasonable’ ‘to Expect Everybody to Be Happy and Excited’ Since Country’s in ‘Very Difficult Time’
Breitbart | 02/21/2024 | Ian Hanchett

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Mitch Landrieu stated that “The country is in a very difficult time right now” … And so, “to expect everybody to be happy and excited I think is just unreasonable.”

 

Columnist Howie Carr Listens to Fifth-Columnist Joe Biden So You Don’t Have To

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Howie Carr – The ‘putality’ of Biden’s mind: More greatest hits from the Weekend at Brandon’s chronicles
Boston Herald | February 17, 2024 | Howie Carr

All dialogue guaranteed verbatim.

That is my guarantee to you, the readers, whenever I present Dementia Joe Biden’s unedited, unexpurgated remarks for your edification.

Let’s begin this chapter of the Weekend at Brandon’s chronicles with some of his more recent comments.

On Friday, he denounced the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.

“What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin’s putality.”

May we quote you on that, Mr. President?

Speaking of foreign affairs, on Monday he met with King Abdullah of Jordan.

“He’s been a good friend, King Abdul, welcome back to the White House.”

Then he introduced the wife of his good friend whose name he couldn’t recall, King “Abdul.” He called the queen Rhianna. Her name is Raina.

Then Biden spoke movingly of the current Mideast war.

“It’s heartbreaking. Every life in Gaza is a tragedy.”

This was the day after the Super Bowl, during which Biden’s care-givers released his 40 second screed on “greedflation,” because he’s very angry about the price of Snickers bars, or something. …

“Did you see that article about the Snickers bar? Well it’s gonna stop! America, we’re tired of being played for suckers!”

A few days later, he elaborated:

“It’s about what happens with Snickers bars! You know that candy? Well, they haven’t raised the price of a Snickers bar, they just took 10 percent out of it!”

(“That’s supposed to be my job!”)

Here are some more of Biden’s recent Greatest Hits:

“Chris Coons who by the way he not only got a law degree at the same time he got a law degree he got a divinity degree at Yale University.”

“That cannot pertain!”

“Automobiles today require 3,000 chips of these chips to be made.”

“To date 4,000 infrastructure problems have been uh projects have been announced all across America.”

“Before the pandemic there were 750 48 roughly 750 billionaires in America.”

“By the way I make no apologize no apologies for being the most pro-union president in American history.”

“Growth is strong. Rages are wages are rising.”

“To all to all the county electrical workers in America election workers thank you.”

On Friday, after denouncing the “putality” of Putin, he finally made it to East Palestine, Ohio. During a heart-felt six-minute address, he promised “more staffing” on trains to prevent any future derailments.

 

Addition to the Motor Pool

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Cool! IMAO just acquired Bush’s speedboat!

Now what do we do with it?

Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat wins $435,000 at Library benefit auction
Fox News | 02/20/2024

Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat has a new owner.

The 38-foot “Fidelity V” was auctioned for $435,000 … a spokesperson said.

 

Misinformation

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“All pigs have antlers.”

If I post this opinion, there are media companies and even government bureaucrats who assume they should both have and use the power to censor the post. But why?

First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Second, why banish erroneous opinions from view and from discussion? Isn’t it best to refute them, to prevent them from recurring?

Third, the media themselves routinely publish things that are later discovered to be completely false. What is to be their punishment?

Susan Wojcicki was the Youtube CEO from 2014 to 2023. She resigned the day after the House GOP issued subpoenas for Big Tech CEOs at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. …

Under Wojcicki’s leadership, she urged more governments to enact speech laws to crack down on ‘unapproved’ online speech. …

In April 2020, Wojcicki announced that anything said about COVID that contradicted the WHO talking points would be taken down. Now we know that the WHO, like the CDC, was lying all along.

— Gateway Pundit | Feb. 18, 2024

Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Tech Peers Sign Pact To Combat Election-Related Misinformation
CNBC | 02/18/2024

A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections.

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