Hey, he's from way up Allagash, Maine way, where a virgin is described as a girl who can run faster than her brothers — this guy showed real restraint

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and you don’t even want to ask about virgin wool

“WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF MAINE UNTIL WE CAN FIND WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE” :

Maine Dems Swap Nazi Senate Candidate for Guy Who Fathered Kids With His Second Cousin

Maine politics on the Democrat side of things is truly fascinating. To begin with, we had Graham Platner running for Senator. He was a Nazi, cheating, women abusing weirdo and was finally pushed out of the race. The Democrats likely breathed a sigh of relief because now they could replace that hot mess with a more viable candidate. SIke!

As someone who's been known to post a few fake pictures himself, I find this story hilarious (Updated)

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That doesn’t look like Coach shanahan; in fact, it lokks like, Oh, my, God!

Faux Photo: WGN Airs Fake Pic of 49ers Coach in Hospital Bed Flanked by Mitch McConnell’s Wife

WGN viewers were doing a double-take on Thursday morning. The station was airing a report on San Francisco 49ers NFL football coach Kyle Shanahan, who is recovering from injuries sustained in a recent car crash. A pic used during the newscast featured Shanahan in street clothes on a hospital bed, flanked by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao. The AI-generated pic was a meme based on a proof-of-life photo of McConnell, who was recently hospitalized. The fabricated photo first appeared online on Tuesday. Posters are now debating whether the inclusion of the pic was a mistake or an intentional joke.

I’m going with mistake, because making light of an accident that so seriously injured someone seems a bit harsh for a brand name broadcaster, but mistake or intentional, other stations across the country picked it up and ran with it as a legitimate story. Hee hee hee.

Here’s the original, actual photo of McConnell and his wife:

And here’s the spoof that was mistakenly picked up by several clueless “news” programs:

As one commenter posted on X, “He broke multiple ribs, had 40 stitches in his face, broken hand, severe concussion, why is this image oh him in perfect condition fooling them so badly?”

UPDATE: Reader Flipside reminds us of the all-time classic in this line:

An argument that's been made here for years: what’s compassionate about letting 5% of a class prevent all from learning?

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For that matter, what’s compassionate about tolerating inner-city schools that produce graduating classes with 96% illiteracy rates, thereby condemning their students to a lifetime of hopeless poverty? You’d almost suspect that there’s a group out there with a vested interest in creating and expanding a class of government dependants.

Seen on InstaPundit:

‘Restorative Justice’ Brings Violent Schools.

The Education Department will no longer count racial disparities in K-12 school suspension rates as proof of discrimination, it announced on July 23. This is a welcome change, but it won’t automatically restore order in the thousands of schools pressured by the Obama and Biden administrations into adopting “alternative discipline” methods whose chief objective is race equity. Many such programs have come at the cost of student safety and education.

These methods go by many names, like “restorative practices,” “social-emotional learning” and, most telling, “restorative justice.” In lieu of suspensions, administrators invite offenders to reflect in a soothing place on the feelings and trauma that led them, say, to hit another student or disobey a teacher. Students may also be invited into a “restorative circle” with school staff and other students, where they can share their feelings, and others in the circle can talk with them about how peace in the community might be restored.

Reality often falls short of this vision. Concerns about restorative justice emerged soon after the Obama administration began pushing it. Public schools in Philadelphia that implemented it experienced “skyrocketing truancy, serious misbehavior, and declining achievement,” Manhattan Institute researchers observed in 2017. Other cities experienced similar results.

Read the whole thing.

Reminder: you need a satisfactory background check to buy a gun, take and pass a driver's test to get a license, but any (biological) woman can become a “parent”

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My children do not do homework and they’re never going to do homework,” a mom of three, ranging in age from 6 to 12, ranted to 162,000 virtual viewers. “They’re not going to go sit at school all day, for eight hours, come home and do homework.”

If you want to fail them because of it, fail them because of it. Then you’ll be the reason why they don’t graduate,” she barked. “Teachers think they run s- -t and they don’t. I’m the parent, not them.

And the other 60% of the public refused to believe anything said contrary to the government claims if it wasn’t reported on NPR or in the NYT

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Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit; they’re happier that way, and more manageable

And they still won’t, because those same outlets are busy ignoring or, if they can’t do that, whitewashing everything now coming out that proves our assertions were true.

And his original headline, until it was "softened"(?) by his editors was "Why Shouldn't We Dance On The Graves Of Anti-vaxxers?"

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Michael Hiltzik. Smug little bastard (okay, smug fat bastard)

Suicide of the West

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John Cooper (?) offers words of encouragement

'Jail Won’t Fix His Heart': NYU Student Defends Letting Rapists, Including Her Own, Stay Free

It’s not about fixing hearts, honey, it’s about protecting citizens from the worst predators. A society that won’t defend itself is doomed.

More like this fool every day:

Unfortunately, they are. One of them is now the Mayor of NYC. Several will be going to Congress from New York. One of them is about to win Governor of Wisconsin. It's possible yet another will be going to the Senate from Michigan. These people are gaining power. 

And where does this “compassion” lead?

Heartbroken mom of 12-year-old killed by stray bullet in The Bronx says NYC has only gotten safer for criminals

July 30, 2026 | 12:55pm

The anguished mother of a 12-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet outside a Bronx bodega said the city has gotten more dangerous because criminals no longer fear consequences,

Absolutely — hang her high

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After it was announced as under consideration but before it was imposed, many — including here on this inconsequential blog — were denouncing the Wuhan Flu lockdown as, not ily useless, but predicting it would cause devastating harm to the country.. But “The science” prevailed.

Who was right, who was wrong? South Carolina’s governor took the lead in rejecting this invented panic by ending the lockdown, reopening the schools, and rejecting the “expert’s” demand for the mandatory wearing of useless paper face masks and the, as Fauci later admitted, based-on-nothing’ 6’ spacing rule.

Gov. McMaster refuses call for state mask rule, pushes reopening as SC ‘hot spot’ surges

On Wednesday, the Columbia Republican — who shut down the state’s economy in April and, just as quickly in May, reversed nearly every closure order he’d issued — urged school districts to restart full-time, in-person instruction by Labor Day week. The welfare of children was his top priority, he said.

…. Yet McMaster reiterated, again, he won’t be closing businesses back down or requiring South Carolinians to wear masks — two solutions other governors have adopted to slow the spread of COVID-19 in their states. A chorus of critics rang out — from health experts and hospital officials to religious and local government leaders and educators, who said clustering people together without a concrete plan of how to do it safely could result in higher daily case counts.

And many more of us were there long before

“This is the moment that radicalized many people”: