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Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frédéric Bastiat
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Today is Saturday, December 3rd, the 337th day of 2022. It is Let’s Hug Day, Make a Gift Day, National Green Bean Casserole Day, National Roof Over Your Head Day, and International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
On This Day
In 1775, the USS Alfred became the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag, the precursor to the Stars and Stripes. It was hoisted by John Paul Jones.
In 1818, Illinois became the 21st state.
In 1901, in his State of the Union message, President Theodore Roosevelt asked Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits.”
In 1910, modern neon lighting was first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
In 1960, the musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway.
In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
In 1984, a methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 3,800 people and injured 150,000-600,000 others.
In 1997, in Ottawa, representatives from 121 countries signed a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The U.S., China, and Russia did not sign the treaty.
In 1999, NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere.
In 2012, at least 475 people were killed after Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the Philippines.
Today's Birthdays
“Ozzy” Osbourne is 74. Actress and eco-loon Daryl Hannah is 62. Actress Julianne Moore is 62. Actor Brendan Fraser is 54. Actress Holly Marie Combs is 49. Actress Anna Chlumsky is 42. Actress Amanda Seyfried is 37.
The Links
New Publication: Unvaccinated Are Responsible For All The Vaccine Adverse Effects! (NoTricksZone)
“Climatology is not the only field plagued by really pathetic junk-grade science. As the recent pandemic shows, virology and epidemiology are also suffering massively from data trickery, coverups, deception and political and business corruption.”
US federal government pays $5M for software to turn citizens into online “misinformation” responders (Reclaim The Net)
“Journalism group Hacks/Hackers was awarded $5 million by the National Science Foundation … to develop software that would encourage ordinary Americans to warn their friends and family about misinformation in their online speech. Users of the software would confront alleged misinformation by replying with text recommended by the software.”
Hunter Biden laptop bombshell: Elon Musk’s Twitter drops Post censorship details (New York Post)
“Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.”
Credit rating agency warns recession could trigger property tax hikes (The Center Square)
“Fitch Ratings said … that the outlook for state and local governments was ‘deteriorating.’”
“Hollingsworth ended up not only being arrested, but fined, stripped of his hunting license, and sentenced to probation after his home was searched by armed state wildlife agents. Hollingsworth's case illustrates an overlooked limitation to Fourth Amendment protections, in which nominally private property quietly becomes a tool of state surveillance.”
DEA Whistleblower Claims Mass Fraud and Corruption. Is Anyone Surprised? (American Institute for Economic Research)
“Since its founding in 1973, the DEA has intercepted a fraction of one percent of illicit drug trades. Drugs have never been stronger, cheaper, or more available. Meanwhile, the global economic and human costs of ‘enforcement’ keep rising.”
Diversity actually (spiked)
“Such hysterical criticism is all too common these days. Arguably, no film that is more than a few years old can live up to the impossible standards of today’s woke moralisers. Sadly, many Hollywood productions nowadays bend over backwards to appease the wokest person in the room. What we have ended up with are preachy, right-on films, which endlessly tout their diverse credentials (while losing studios bucketloads of money in the process).”
Air Travel Consumer Report: September Consumer Complaints Down 15.6% from August, Yet Remain Three Times Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels (U.S. Department of Transportation)
“The Department is taking other actions to address flight delays and cancellations, including monitoring airlines’ operations to ensure that airlines are not engaging in unrealistic scheduling of flights and are complying with aviation consumer protection requirements.”
Energy Shortage Could Lead to Blackouts Across Middle America (Power the Future)
“It stated, ‘a large portion of the North American bulk power system is at risk of having insufficient energy supplies during severe winter weather.’”
Asia Splurges On Record Oil Imports Ahead Of Sanctions On Russia (Oilprice.com)
“Asia imported a record 29.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in November ... . To compare, Asian imports stood at 25.6 million bpd in October and 26.6 million bpd in September.”
Green Energy Cabal Blind to Africa’s Medical Horror Show (CO2 Coalition)
“Africans need electricity now. Not someday in the future, after their chance to survive a hospital surgery is denied by a policy maker enamored with fanciful visions of a carbon-free world.”
Former Senior U.S. Navy Employee Sentenced for Bribery Conspiracy and Lying to Investigators (U.S. Department of Justice)
“According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Xavier Fernando Monroy, 65, of Brentwood, New York, engaged in a conspiracy to commit bribery with the owner of DK Marine, a South Korea-based company that provided services to the U.S. Navy, as well as with a former MSC captain, to steer U.S. Navy business to DK Marine.”
Does the Pentagon report on China’s military correctly judge the threat? (The Brookings Institution)
“The Pentagon also harps on the fact that, by ship count, China now has the world’s largest navy — generally failing to note that, because U.S. ships are typically much bigger, America’s naval tonnage exceeds China’s by a ratio of about two to one. Neither of these metrics is conclusive, and others are important too. But the frequency with which Washington complains about the number of ships in China’s navy wrongly implies that fleet size is the central standard of excellence for modern maritime capability, and that China therefore has somehow malevolently moved ahead of us in overall strength.”
F-15Es Brandish Live Munitions During Drills With Israel Aimed At Iran (The War Zone)
“What’s especially interesting about the accompanying photos, however, is that the four F-15Es are fully armed. While we have seen IAF fighters carrying live armament while escorting U.S. Air Force bombers in the recent past, it’s uncommon for U.S. fighters to be seen carrying live munitions during maneuvers with the IAF.”
Want A Dog For Christmas? Rescue One Left By Its Family At Biden’s Border Disaster (The Federalist)
“These dogs can’t survive on their own. We were really shocked at just how big the problem was and how much these animals were suffering.”
Your Turn
1. How confident are you in Pete Buttigieg’s ability to reduce “flight delays and cancellations”?
2. Are you a hugger?
3. Make a gift or buy a gift?
4. Ever been to Illinois?
5. Camelot, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, or Man of La Mancha?
1. How confident are you in Pete Buttigieg’s ability to reduce “flight delays and cancellations”?
Gay Boy BUTTigieg is the perfect fit for the completely incompetent Biden administration. He's done absolutely nothing in his role of Secretary of Transportation, just like he failed as a Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, so badly that the City fell apart during his time as Mayor! After his scandals with his Police Department, instead of fixing the problems, he demoted the Black Police Chief and caused an immense black backlash in his city! As Secretary of Transportation he has the blame of all the supply-line breakdowns, the Railroad Labor Strikes, Airline failures to maintain good travel times and personnel and has done nothing to improve infrastructure in the US, as he was supposed to! He's been absent on the job for most of his tenure during critical times! Someone should transport him to a Greek Gay Bar where he will fit right in with his Dumb Ass!!
2. Are you a hugger?
More of a Slugger!!
3. Make a gift or buy a gift?
Make a Friend or Buy a Friend?!
4. Ever been to Illinois?
I like to stay out of poorly run Democrat States, and now I realize I'm right in the middle of one of the Worst, If not the Worst!! Certainly, the most unconditionally corrupt!!
5. Camelot, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, or Man of La Mancha?
Ask Pete Buttigieg!!