Open Thread – Saturday, 24 December 2022

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  1. Cold-Hands says:

    An unaffiliated attorney gives his summary of Day 2 of the the Kari Lake v. Katie Hobbs trial.


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  2. Steve trickler says:

    A great short film. Do check out the backstory. I’ll post the link below.

    ************

    Omeleto:

    Tereek — a young man trying hard not to reveal his lack of a home — is desperately looking for a bed for the night, texting friends in hopes that he can crash with them. But just when something comes through, he finds himself helping out Artie, a deaf-blind man waiting for a bus home.

    The encounter is anything but straightforward, not only due to their differences in abilities but also their different temperaments and ages. But as Tereek helps Artie navigate a ride home, he learns to see the world through another perspective beyond his own — and broadening his horizons in the process.

    Oscars: A homeless teen meets a deaf-blind man who changes his life forever… | Feeling Through


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  3. mh says:

    The Age

    INVESTIGATION
    Inside the Melbourne boxing gym with a neo-Nazi underbelly
    An investigation by The Age has uncovered links between Legacy Boxing Gym, in Sunshine West, some of Victoria’s most dangerous neo-Nazi activists, and a growing community of young men learning to box at the centre

    ***

    Could be future recruits for the Azov Battalion.
    The Age would support that.
    Look at the positives.


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  4. Mak Siccar says:

    A very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2023 to one and all, and thanks to Adam for this forum.


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  5. Shy Ted says:

    May you all have a delightful few days. Merry Christmas and thanks for all who keep this going and posters.
    What’s that? You want some offensive memes?
    Take that for turning my bro into sushi
    Naughty elf
    Not Dilbert


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  6. mh says:

    Steve Moore: $1.7T spending bill’s passage ‘is on the Republicans’

    Fox Business

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeaqLSiNZ5c


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  7. mh says:

    In House floor remarks last night, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), in a back-and-forth with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the US Congress was purposely timed to get the omnibus passed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-fFPhvtY-0


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  8. Shy Ted says:

    Quite a valuable bit of property you’ve got there, Mr Train
    Had.

    From elsewhere – So they lied. It wasn’t a welfare check.
    About 6 hours ago, Queensland police admitted they’d visited the Train property multiple times (its not clear how many times exactly) throughout the year, looking for former school teacher Nathaniel Train. He was being investigated for “crossing a state border illegally” (during covid lockdowns) carrying firearms registered to him.
    It’s becoming clear the Train family felt harassed, had (likely) travelled to attend protests against the lockdowns, were trying to evade arrest and had grown paranoid.
    Fair question:
    Why did the police lie to the press and the pubic for two weeks, fail to mention the warrant for Nathaniel’s arrest and pretend their last visit was “just a welfare check?” Following up a warrant and jumping a locked gate intending to find and arrest somebody isn’t a welfare check.
    What else are they hiding?
    Further adding to the suspicious nature of the event, after the Queensland Police Union declared on Tuesday that it intended to purchase the property on which the shooting occurred, last night a suspicious bushfire nearly destroyed the home of the neighbour who was shot during the gun battle. Both incidences will only serve to fuel suspicions of a cover up.


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  9. mh says:

    Why did the police lie to the press and the pubic for two weeks, fail to mention the warrant for Nathaniel’s arrest and pretend their last visit was “just a welfare check?” Following up a warrant and jumping a locked gate intending to find and arrest somebody isn’t a welfare check.
    What else are they hiding?

    Inquiring minds want to know.


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  10. mh says:

    Sobering

    Sen Lankford, GOP Senators hold a press conference on Title 42, border crisis 12/21/2022

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xx0bZXM1YU


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Swiss Government Rejects 3rd Gender Option

    The Swiss government on Wednesday rejected the idea of introducing a third gender option or no-gender option for official records, a position which differs from that of some neighboring countries.

    Responding to two proposals from parliament, the governing Federal Council said “the binary gender model is still strongly anchored in Swiss society.”


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    Voice to Parliament ‘wrong in principle,’ ‘bad in practice,’ ‘deeply counterproductive’:
    Tony Abbott says in stinging critique

    Speaking to Sky News Australia, the former prime minister said he was very worried the Voice would undermine a fundamental principle of our society, which “We’ve worked so hard to enshrine and succeeded in recent decades in adhering to.”

    “In Western countries, we’ve spent hundreds of years, millennia even trying, to get to a situation where we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, creed, gender, etc. Where everyone be they slave or free, gentile or Jew, male or female is as one,” Mr Abbott said.


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:

    Are there sleeper Woke agents still in charge of twitter?

    Elon doesn’t know what is happening. There are some other stories of Conservatives who are being locked out. If Elon is not able to work it out, and if he is truly in support of free speech, he needs to appoint a CEO who has the time and skills to get to the bottom of this. Get rid of all those government hacks still continuing with the blocks on conservatives and free speech.

    Jack Posobiec

    Twitter has locked @ALX for 12 hours for posting a comment about the Ukrainian flag in Congress

    Elon Musk

    Looking into it. That tweet doesn’t violate ToS.


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  14. kaysee kaysee says:

    I have no idea, at this stage, if DeSantis can prove himself to be a good Conservative future US President. But, on the action front, I came across these two articles.

    1/
    An investigation into the Covid vaxxes is long overdue. To get this underway at the level of state government and judiciary is a good sign.

    Florida high court OKs grand jury probe of COVID-19 vaccines

    The Florida Supreme Court will convene a grand jury at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request to investigate any wrongdoing with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines, the court announced Thursday.

    The Republican governor, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, earlier this month called for the investigation. He suggested it would be in part aimed to jog loose more information from pharmaceutical companies about the vaccines and potential side effects.


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/
    The Rise of the DeSantis Democrats

    Like Reagan Democrats once upon a time, these voters have already reshaped the political landscape in Florida. Can they do the same nationally in 2024?


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  16. Old bloke says:

    kaysee says:
    December 24, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    Are there sleeper Woke agents still in charge of twitter?

    Steve Trickler posted a few days ago that Doc. Coleman is still banned from Twitter. So too is Gonzalo Lira, he’s asked Twitter users to petition Elon Musk to lift the ban so that he can provide a live feed of the Russians coming into Kharkov on Twitter.

    2022.12.20 I Need A Favor From You (@GonzaloLira1968)


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  17. mh says:

    PerryJ says:
    December 24, 2022 at 9:40 am
    Moscow mocks Ukraine’s ‘new flag’

    Ukrainian UN envoy Sergey Kislitsa on Wednesday tweeted an image of the US flag with the stars and stripes displayed in the yellow and blue of his country. While supposedly an attempt to express US-Ukrainian solidarity, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described it as reflecting Kiev’s subordinate status in the relationship.

    Kislitsa tweeted the stock image as President Vladimir Zelensky visited Washington on Wednesday. The Ukrainian leader met with President Joe Biden and delivered a speech before US lawmakers, pleading for more support in Kiev’s conflict against Moscow. “They will stand together as long as it takes,” the tweet read.

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted by calling it “the new flag of Ukraine.”

    “The thing about which we have been speaking for many years, and nobody believed us, has happened. My congratulations!” she added.

    ***

    The Americans are fighting a war with Russia in Europe.
    They just haven’t got their own dying in the war, or not many. Not yet.
    Over 100,000 Ukranian soldiers dead though, according to Ursula.
    And plenty more Ukranian deaths to come.


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  18. Steve trickler says:

    Merry Christmas, everyone. Have a laugh at this…do watch until the end.

    *********

    Kate and Felix get a surprise visitor for Christmas – an older, drunken Felix, from 2044. He’s come back to visit his young family, when things were good. Before everything went to shizz.

    “Home in Time” by Patrick Hagarty

    Sci-Fi Short Film “Home In Time” | DUST | Starring Cara Gee


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  19. mh says:

    Nuremberg 2.0

    ZNeveri
    @ZNeveri
    Following the discovery that upwards of 30 percent of all deaths that he and his team have evaluated are linked to covid “vaccination,” VP of German Parliament Wolfgang Kubicki calls for full investigation into covid “vaccine” injuries and deaths

    https://twitter.com/ZNeveri/status/1606410444104769542?s=20&t=jDisqGNg1zJuP9ADriJSHA

    ***

    Clip from Bild tv.
    You won’t see a conversation like this on Aussie tv.


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    2022.12.20 I Need A Favor From You (@GonzaloLira1968)

    Would Elon have the time to go through all the tweets that are sent to him? But he read this one:

    Knew it! There are still sleeper Woke agents in Twitter Support, lying in wait, then suspending accounts when they get a call from their Woke masters

    And responded with:

    Curses!

    This should clue him in to the fact that there are many accounts being suspended even though they do not break rules.


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted by calling it “the new flag of Ukraine.”

    “The thing about which we have been speaking for many years, and nobody believed us, has happened. My congratulations!” she added.

    This is from 2 weeks ago, so not up to date.

    Visualizing U.S. Aid to Ukraine


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  22. Cold-Hands says:

    Fraudian slip

    2 of them?
    “For this is a fake assistance…” (0.02-03 seconds)
    &
    “financial assistance for our crime… er country” (0.07-08 seconds).


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  23. Old bloke says:

    It has often been said that the US will fight the Russians till the last Ukrainian, it looks like were already there. All male Ukrainians from 16 to 60 have been conscripted into their army, now that net has been increased to include 13 year old, 14 year old and 15 year old boys and the disabled!

    Will Ukraine ever have enough Fire Power? Col Doug Macgregor at 3:00p est TODAY – Judge Napolitano and Col. Douglas Macgregor – watch from the 12 minute mark.

    If this slaughter of Ukrainian’s future isn’t bad enough, these conscripts receive a 3 week basic training course in NATO countries before they are sent to their needless deaths. They are trained in Slovakia, Poland and England, these countries should hang their heads in shame for participating in this slaughter.


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  24. mh says:

    The additional $45 Billion will keep the Monaco Battalion in Maybachs for decades.


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  25. Cold-Hands says:

    Merry Christmas, everyone.

    Here’s Powerline’s Week in Pictures: Merry Christmas Edition.


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  26. Shy Ted says:

    Merry Christmas all. If you’re at a loose end or have annoying children running around, tune in to CH23ABC – Horrible Histories all day. And now a carol I invented just looking outside
    On the first day of Christmas it rained and rained and rained
    First it was torrential, then I had to stop the car cos I couldn’t see the road, then there was no power for an hour, and a cartridge in a pear tree (they’ll never find it there)
    Stay tuned for tomorrow’ exciting verse
    Drink for the day? This Don’t bend over to pick something up, ladies


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  27. Shy Ted says:

    There are 2 problems with the Roomba vacuum cleaner – hope you know this story
    The other


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  28. johanna johanna says:

    Merry Christmas to one and all, and thank you Adam.

    I especially thank those who have supplied links to stuff I would never otherwise find. That includes PerryJ, Kaysee and Coldie for WIP, and if I have forgotten anyone, it is a product of Christmas brain fuzz. Love the jokes!

    Also love that this site does not waste time and space on personal feuds. ‘Just the facts, ma’am.’

    Wishing everyone a happy and healthy and prosperous New Year. 🙂


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    👼
    Ponderables

    One
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    Two
    (Beach Art)
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    Three
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