Says the man who got his job solely because of his sexual preference, and then bungled it completely

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2021: Took a two-month “paternity leave” in the middle of a spiraling supply-chain crisis, but who could fire a married gay man? On the other hand, what good would he have done in Washington?

Not just from the river to the sea, take them entirely off the face of the earth; all of them (Updated)

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Oddly, the mainstream media doesn’t seem to mention the cheering crowds bit; goes against the narrative. PJMedia does:

In a dusty plain outside the ruined city of Khan Younis, Hamas put on a show. The stars of this show were the caskets containing the dead bodies of four Israelis, including 32-year-old Shiri Bibas and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir. 

Kfir was nine months old.

The coffins carrying the dead Israelis were placed on the stage, each with a picture and the text “date of arrest: 7 October 2023.” 

"Date of arrest"? Goebbels is smiling in his grave.

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were on hand to cheer the spectacle as spritely martial music played in the background. 

UPDATE:

Ben Shapiro: “Sometimes, Moral Clarity Isn’t Difficult.” “This is evil. If you side with those who deliberately kidnap babies and hold them for ransom, you are siding with evil. If you demand concessions to those who perform such atrocities, you are siding with evil. From college campuses to the streets of London, from the United Nations to the International Criminal Court, we can see just who sides with evil. And as Israel lays to rest the corpses of the Bibas family, we should be reminded that those who side with evil share its moral consequences.”

It seems to me that most of the left, including many Jews, are at least sympathetic to the Palestinian “cause”, and many are cheering them on.

But Elon Musk is a Nazi.

UPDATE II: It’s no wonder no country in the Arab world wants these savages. Green light signal to Israel to do what it needs to do?

UPDATE III

(I wouldn’t know a grand mufti from a Royale with cheese, so I looked it up: sounds like a big deal, in the Muslim world)

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    To provide legal interpretations of Islamic law (Sharia) by issuing fatwas on complex religious questions posed by individuals or the community. 

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    The title originated in the Ottoman Empire and has been adopted by many modern Muslim countries. 

  • Significance:

    The Grand Mufti's opinions hold significant weight in Islamic society and can influence legal decisions within a country. 

There's Science, and then there's government cheese

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and there will be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth

Ever since the Babylon Bee was founded in 2016, something uncanny has happened: the world has become even more absurd than the imaginings of its writers. 

As with The Simpsons, if something appears in the imagination of Bee writers, it soon shows up in our newsfeeds as a real thing. 

For instance:

A grant to study how to “safely” discuss the sexual preferences of cancer patients? Sure, we got that:

David Stom, as usual, has it right:

…. But of course, we know the truth: the money was being pushed out the door not for scientific reasons but to check a genderqueer alphabet research funding box. Bureaucrats up the chain wanted to fund things in this space so somebody invented a "study" to fit the criteria, and the money flowed. 

This wasn't cancer research. "Cancer" was the funding hook.

And from some Philistine of a reader, this:

DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

EPA chief Lee Zeldin says revelation 'extremely concerning'

The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.

Power Forward Communities' grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government's oversight of the program.

The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin's team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration's green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris.

It also appears to validate concerns expressed for years by Republicans that Biden administration allies would prop up organizations that were specifically designed to receive federal funding under programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created to operate as a "green bank" by Democrats' behemoth Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

…. "As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been," the EPA administrator continued. "It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue."

Power Forward Communities and Abrams did not respond to requests for comment.

Well, Maine (UPDATED)

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UPDATE: Maybe Maine’s problem is that it’s too close to Canada. This, from October 2024:

Trans Trudeau aide defends running female race and beating girl aged TWELVE to the fastest time

A transgender aide to Justin Trudeau's minister for women has defended her participation in a race where she beat a 12 year-old girl to the 'fastest female' title.  

Nathanielle Morin won a women’s 5km road run by almost six minutes in Ottawa, Ontario in February 2024, demolishing the rest of her competition in the 30-39 year-old female category with a finish time of 25 minutes and 32 seconds. 

The second fastest runner across all women's tournaments that day was 12 year-old Saoirse Hoogenraad with a time of 26 minutes and eight seconds, who ran in a separate age group to Morin. 

But the runner-up in Morin's age category, Maude Bisson, finished a full five minutes 44 seconds behind Morin, in 31 minutes 16 seconds.

Good One

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Did I mention we should hang these people?

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To protect the public, scientists must unite against administration’s encroachment

The Trump administration is brash in fighting science and evidence that does not fit its COVID-19 ‘messaging.’

Why yes, I believe I did, just two days ago. So bring them down, and hang them again.

Now She Tells Us...

David Strom:

Saying what Deborah Birx just did to Piers Morgan got people banned across social media, called "conspiracy theorists," "vaccine deniers," and accused of killing grandmas. 

We are in the "now it can be told" phase of history, in which all the liars who made their fortunes and reputations by lying to you are now increasing their fortunes and reputations by admitting that they lied to you. 

Nobody's gonna steal MY house!

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Or, apparently, buy it. 29 Lockwood Drive, Old Greenwich, spent 208 days on the market before its listing expired December 31st. It’s back again today, at that same failed price of $4.495 $4.995 million. I’ve written on this house before, back when it took its first and so far, only price “adjustment”, and I’ll probably have occasion to revisit it again — perhaps in June? :

September 30, 2024Chris Fountain

After 116 days on the market, a 2% price cut

29 Lockwood Drive, slashed from $5.095 million to $4.995. 4,566 sq. ft. plus an additional 1,587 sq. ft. for, it is claimed, “garaging” that will accommodate 8 cars. The house itself is outside of the flood zone — barely — so we’ll assume that your underground Ferrari collection will stay dry, maybe; not so sure about that backyard pool, but isn’t it in the nature of pools to be wet?