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FTC Commissioner Warns New Report Could Be Used By Big Tech To Justify Censorship

 

A U.S. Federal Trade Commission official is concerned that a new 129-page report penned by her agency could be easily construed by Big Tech companies to justify the partisan censorship that has plagued their sites for years.

In its “A Look Behind the Scenes: Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services” report published last week, the FTC suggests Amazon, Facebook, Google’s YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), Discord, Reddit, and WhatsApp are guilty of participating in a “vast surveillance” operation.

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In her Sept. 19 response to the findings, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak agreed that the findings represent “a major step forward” in the fight to protect Americans’ privacy from the Big Tech companies eager to invade it. Yet, she expressed “grave” concern that the report “is unclear exactly how its analysis or recommendations will affect free speech.”

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Holyoak noted, however, that the FTC’s repeated calls for “more stringent testing and monitoring standards” without defining what that means or what content it applies to could put Americans’ First Amendment rights at further risk of infringement.

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Holyoak also noted that FTC Chair Lina Khan is aware of how Big Tech companies are “‘susceptible to coordination with — or cooptation — by the government,’ and that dominant social media companies ‘allow[] a small number of executives to determine whose views are amplified or silenced.’” Yet the report Khan signed off on “fails to account for potential effects on free speech.”

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She also warned that the social media censors euphemistically referred to as “trust and safety professionals” could easily use use the FTC’s report to rationalize shutting down dissident speech.

The FTC’s disdain for certain viewpoints posted to Big Tech social media sites is no secret. In July 2023, the agency, cheered on by corporate media, Democrats, and X employees, weaponized itself against Elon Musk’s X for “seceding from the censorship complex.”

“I am concerned that such suggestions and recommendations may further limit free speech online, even where the intent is not directly to suppress free speech,” Holyoak concluded.

 

 

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51 responses to “Tuesday Open Comments”

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    FIRSTICUS!

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Surgically precise airstrikes in Lebanon.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      If the US had a Free Press, the first couple of minutes of this video would be aired on prime time TV.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; About my reply to Bone’s @ 6:58 AM, I don’t think that the IDF should have warned the savages that lived in the houses hiding the missiles. It seems to me that if you’re willing to help the terrorists you are one of them.
    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’d say that the coffee musta’ hit. 😉
    I saw this neat old picture over yonder and what got my attention was the fine old Savage 99, with a scope no less. You don’t see 99’s much anymore but there is one, in a gun vise, on my Murphy table right now. I just got around to mounting and bore sighting my Vortex 2.5-10 40 MM scope on my beautiful old Savage 99 in .358 Winchester.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Beautiful.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    So you think that being able to institutionally recognize mental illness is an easy thing? Watch this and re-evaluate your position.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I met the grooviest chick at the bar last night. I think that I will dedicate a song to her on the radio. 😀

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Miranda Devine and Melania Trump.

    The media downplayed this frightening event, when BLM-Antifa rioters overwhelmed police and Secret Service agents protecting the White House and firebombed historic St. John’s Church in Lafayette Square during the violent riots that engulfed the country in the summer of 2020.

    More than 50 ­Secret Service officers were injured when they were pelted with bricks, rocks, Molotov cocktails and bottles of urine while defending the White House. We never hear about them.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Know this: The Biden/Harris administration has brought heavy pressure on Brazilian authorities to disrupt and threaten Elon Musk’s companies.

    Elon Musk has been at war with the hard-core leftist thugacracy running Brazil. X (Twitter) and Starlink satellite internet service has vastly increased internet access across the huge nation and X has become the main platform delivering news and opinion there.

    The tyrants running the country are infuriated because they can’t control it and public opinion. Elon Musk has refused to allow censorship so now they issued warrants for Musk’s arrest and seized millions of dollars from the 2 companies’ accounts.

    Yesterday, it was reported Musk has started to cave on the dispute. His chief legal counsel resigned because she was terrified they would throw her in prison. I’m sure all of X and Starlink employees have received the same threat and Elon Musk isn’t going to risk that happening.

    This is a very disturbing article by JD Tuccille. There is a worldwide war on the freedom of speech.

    An example of eroding support for free speech around the world can be seen in a recent public letter by academics and writers from several countries supporting Brazil’s government in its battle to ban the X social media platform and punish Brazilians who evade restrictions. It’s not that it’s surprising to see intellectuals endorse authoritarianism—many do so, more often than not. But it’s disappointing to see their ranks include prominent individuals, including one who has a reputation as a civil libertarian.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Daily Mail organized a focus group of undecided black voters in Georgia. Video at the link.

    NEW: Black undecided voters in Georgia say the economy was better under Donald Trump, think Kamala Harris is weak.

    The focus group was conducted by Daily Mail pollster J.L. Partners’ James Johnson.

    The voters voiced their concerns that Harris is a “weak” leader who keeps changing her positions.

    Some notable quotes from the focus group:

    1. “If you look at the statistics now, we’re far worse now than we were before. Everything is worse now with Biden and Harris.”

    2. “Even though Trump didn’t make all the right choices, the economy just worked better under him. I think it was the overall business mindset that helped.”

    3. “She kept saying that she’s a warrior but I don’t think she is a warrior.”

    4. “If you put her next to Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton, it’s like there’s no comparison. They would eat her up.”

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Foundation for Freedom Online has a report about the indoctrination of American children in public schools. This is some serious crap.

    “Media Literacy,” which teaches school children which information sources to trust and which to avoid, is expanding at the state level.

    Ed-tech platform Newsela, which is used in over 90% of American schools, is a leading provider of media literacy educational material.

    Newsela makes news articles readable for children of different reading levels, but it only partners with legacy media institutions like the New York Times and Washington Post to source content.

    Facing public distrust and declining viewership of mainstream media, Newsela’s legacy media partners have shared financial interests in the growth of state mandated media literacy education.

    Newsela has been increasing their advocacy for media literacy instruction ahead of major elections.

    One of the nation’s largest and fastest growing educational technology platforms, Newsela, is also a foremost provider of “media literacy” lessons for schools. The platform started in 2013 has experienced tremendous growth. Its educational products are used in over 90% of schools.

    In an educational context, the term “media literacy” is intended to conjure the politically neutral image of educators helping students become more fluent and well-read, but the actual field bears little resemblance to traditional literacy.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      More straight up propaganda and brain washing. You will not think independently, you will think and decide what we tell you.
      They are deliberately poisoning children’s minds with the goal of obtaining more political power. That they are actively destroying individual lives and the long-term viability of the country is irrelevant to them.
      They will burn in Hell for their crimes against humanity.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    As only Ace can tell it. The background on “slutbag”* Olivia Nuzzi and the sabotage of RFK Jr to ruin his endorsement of Trump. It’s a long one, but Ace left nothing out – it’s full coverage.

    *Nuzzi once worked for congressman Anthony Weiner in NYC and the woman who was his chief of staff called Olivia Nuzzi a “slutbag”.

    Olivia Nuzzi is a “star” reporter, which means she worked for the unprofessional scandal sheet The Daily Beast. Only in a sh**hole country would that Animal House of trashcan Marxists be considered a journalistic outlet which could launch a career.

    She then began working for New York magazine. That is itself a Democrat propaganda sheet (and celebrity gossip site) masquerading as “journalism.”

    She’s now been suspended for having formed some kind of “personal relationship” with a subject she was covering — RFKJr. — and not informing her bosses about it.

    She was engaged to another trash leftwing propagandist, Ryan Lizza, who got booted out of The New Republic for #MeToo type allegations.

    Another leftwing propagandist and gossip, Dylan Byers, describes both Nuzzi and Lizza as fame-chasing star-f**kers.

    I don’t know what to think here. 

    I guess, first of all: Journalists are a mentally-ill, morally rotten lot. They tend to be psychopaths or borderline psychopaths. They routinely deceive people into revealing personal information that they then use to destroy those people. Yes, this is the job, but what kind of psychopath wants that kind of job?

    Second, one of these stories reports that New York Magazine knew about this “relationship,” whatever it was, for months. So why reveal it now? Well, you reveal it now to destroy RFKJr., to keep his endorsement from helping Trump.

    Third, the affair, or almost-affair, between “reporter” and “source” is common in DC. The entire town is filled with sluts, adulterers, cads, and outright perverts. But the DC press corps refuses to report on this out of “professional courtesy,” and Mutual Assured Destruction.

    But they decided to risk the M.A.D. because it was really, really important to them to Get Trump.

    95% of all press behavior (and bureaucrat behavior) of the past eight years is explained by this. They keep breaking all rules and violating all codes of ethics — or, here, a prudent group agreement to keep all of their many, many affairs and grotesque sexual deviancies private — because the imperative of stopping Trump is more important than any ethic, rule, or prudent social compact about hiding everyone’s affairs.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      And haven’t they conveniently changed the definition of “affair” for this case, too?

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Everything (or everyone) is spinning out of control…

    The son of Ryan Routh, the man arrested in connection with the second apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, has been taken into custody on federal charges of possessing child pornography.

    Investigators say they discovered “hundreds” of files with child pornography during a search of Oran Routh’s residence in Guilford County, North Carolina, on Saturday conducted “in connection with an investigation unrelated to child exploitation.”

    The two charges he faces include receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Send the wild monkeys after all these child molesters and pornographers !!

    Maybe the perverts will get Monkeypox.

    [T]he man was seen on CCTV leading the child, who is only 6 years old, down a lane in Baghpat, near New Delhi, over the weekend. The suspect then proceeded to pull her into an abandoned house, where he undressed her and began to sexually assault her.

    Fortunately, a troop of local monkeys put a stop to the rape after seemingly witnessing what was happening. In what has been perceived as a heroic effort to protect the child, the pack of primates rushed towards the rapist all at once, scaring him off and letting the girl escape unharmed.

    I never thought I’d say this, but monkeys can be national heroes.

    ‘My daughter would have been dead by now if the monkeys had not intervened,’ the girl’s father told local media. The father also noted that the attempted rapist had threatened to kill him, and that he had picked up the girl when she was playing outside.

  14. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Somewhere in Texas yesterday, Matt Gaetz was speaking at some event for Texas Youth Action and then this happened…you gotta watch the video.

    BREAKING An obese trans person tried to storm the stage during a Matt Gaetz speech today.

    They were immediately removed.

    Wait for Gaetz at the end: “Was that Liz Cheney?”

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Saw that. Cracked me up.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally checking in (two rosaries this morning) and reading up on all of the evils of the world.

    As I was stringing beads, I listened to an “Armor of God” podcast about Halloween. AoG is one of my subscriptions on YT, and the format is usually a lot of clips from interviews with priests and exorcists.

    Given the upcoming day, the discussion was about the Satanic events that surround the “celebrations”. Not only are animals sacrificed, but humans as well. People disappear just before the day and are never seen again. Perusing some of the comments, one guy commented to two of his friends disappeared, and a gal friend was abducted by Satanists and will not discuss what happened to her. The guy reporting this subsequently straightened out his personal life and began his Christian journey.

    Fr. Carlos Martins, an exorcist, said that people are inviting the demonic into their homes by participating, especially if they glorify the residents “down under” by costumes portraying them or using sexually suggestive outfits. Or decorating their homes to celebrate them.

    Personally, I stopped participating years ago. I understand it may be hard to explain this to young kids when all of their friends are raking in the bags of candy.

    So, if you have pets or people you love, keep them close to you, the closer we get to the end of October.

    PS: There was also mention of video (and one non-video) games that kids are playing that also involve calling up evil. Ouija boards, “spirit boards,” some kind of pentagram game, etc. I can vouch for the Ouija board thing, y’all have heard my story on that. So, watch out for what the young kids in your life are accessing online. I’ve heard one exorcist say that he’s had several cases of possession from just reading the Harry Potter stories; I hear that some of the spells are actually based on real incantations, so that tracks.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Your roundup today includes: reporting on experts’ plastic scam over plastic recycling picks up momentum; plastic isn’t nearly as good for you as experts originally assured us; Trump shooter news as evidence tumbles out, including a bizarre handwritten confession letter; Representative Gaetz claims at least five assassination teams including one from Ukraine; the thing that isn’t happening is happening again somewhere else; and the best news of the week proves shame still exists.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is huge and a big smackdown of wind and solar fantasies and the Green New Deal.

    BREAKING IN NYC: WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR

    Banks and funds totaling $14 TRILLION in assets have just signed an unprecedented statement in support of nuclear power.

    They’ll be presenting the pledge to support the goal of tripling nuclear THIS MORNING at the Rockefeller Center in New York City to kick off NY

    Climate Week.

    A few of the names:

    Bank of America

    Barclays

    BNP Paribas

    Brookfield

    Citi

    Credit Agricole

    Goldman Sachs

    Morgan Stanley

    Rothschild & Co

    The pledge comes after Microsoft signs deal to buy $16 billion in electricity from a revived Three Mile Island nuclear plant alone over 20 years to fuel its AI ambitions.

    I’ll be covering live today from the top of the Rockefeller Center, famously built with oil profits, as this unprecedented show of support for the next great energy source overcomes long-held financing barriers.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I know that I’ve linked to Penn & Teller’s “Bullwiss!” show before, the one that discusses the fallacy about environmentally friendly recycling. The upshot of their investigation was that the only items worth recycling were aluminum cans – a good recycling candidate – and some glass, under certain circumstances. Otherwise, the recycling process uses more resources and is more polluting than using virgin materials.

    I’m all for conservation, but it needs to make sense. I store food in both Mylar bags and glass jars, but I like jars because they can be reused indefinitely. Mylar bags can be reused by lowering the seal level after being washed out. I compost what I can in my backyard, and use cardboard boxes for weed control in the aisles of my garden. I wash my plastic forks and reuse them, and when I remember, I grab one of my cloth napkins instead of a paper towel. It’s not that I’m an environmental nut, I just don’t see the practicality of not being frugal with resources, especially when it reduces the amount of waste. I am uncomfortable with just throwing stuff away when it can reused. Maybe it comes from my childhood, with Mom struggling to feed her tribe on a shoestring budget.

    ***

    The article’s facts were much more interesting than its weak narrative framing. It turns out that Exxon holds California’s largest contract to recycle plastic. Cradle to grave! They make the oil that makes the plastic, then they get paid again to remove the plastic when we’re done with it, and the plastic cycle of life starts all over again.

    At least, that how it is supposed to work. But guess what? According to the Journal, only eight percent (8%) of California’s plastic waste gets ‘recycled.’ The rest —over 90%— goes right in the landfill.

    Exxon’s performance was actually above average. An Energy Department report from 2022 found that only about five percent (5%) of plastic waste is recycled, nine percent (9%) is burned, and the rest gets dumped. California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta told the Journal, “The truth is: The vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled.”

    Now they tell us. You’d think this would have been bigger news.

    ***

    Why tell us the truth when the lie is so much more profitable?

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The next story is related to Mr. C’s first story about the recycling lie. I read an article recently that nanoplastics are being found in human brains – it seems we can actually BREATHE THEM IN!

    It looks like we’re breathing the microplastics in, right out of the air. Then they can go straight to the brain.

    “The olfactory pathway is a potential major entry route for plastic into the brain, meaning that breathing within indoor environments could be a major source of plastic pollution in the brain,” explained Professor Thais Mauad, lead researcher from the University of São Paulo.

    The list of potential health problems is staggering. Cancer, endocrine disruption, cardiac damage, cognitive decline, and … wait for it … decreased fertility. Of course. It always shows up in the list.

    The alarming article began with a strong call to action: “Global scientists and campaigners are calling for immediate action on plastic’s impact on human health.” Haha, good one. This global health emergency is nothing like covid, when global governments shifted into overdrive to deal with a broad health problem affecting everybody.

    This time, there are no fortunes to be made getting rid of plastic. Just the opposite, actually. So, don’t hold your breath. (Get it?)

    Fortunately, I can think of a ready solution, that’s right at hand: [insert image of the little elf in a mask]

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

       “Global scientists and campaigners are calling for immediate action on plastic’s impact on human health.” 

      Any quote from so-called experts, public health officials or academics containing the phrase “are calling for immediate action” pegs out my Bull Sheet Meter.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next, Mr. C. is dubious concerning the “letter” that the WBA (“wanna be assa$$in) left behind. Like – seriously? Months before his attempt, he leaves a “failure letter” behind? And why was this first page (second page not disseminated by the FBLie) so quickly made public? Could it have something to do with the $150K offer for someone to finish his work?

    Again, this smells, along with his other questionable life events – trips to Ukraine, his get-out-of-jail-free history, etc.

    Finally, from a purely legal standpoint, including the letter in yesterday’s proceeding made some sense. The DOJ’s case for pretrial detention was much stronger with the letter, to prove Routh’s murderous intent beyond any reasonable argument. It may be true that DOJ could’ve made the case without the letter, or could have redacted the more objectionable parts, but that just circles the argument back to disclosure.

    Now they should disclose the rest of Routh’s letter. And they should disclose another letter allegedly found near Routh’s sniper’s nest addressed to the New York Times, which was mentioned during yesterday’s hearing but not produced

    Further down, continuing the discussion:

    The letter was so devoid of personally identifiable detail and so blandly unoriginal that it literally could have been written by anyone. I’m not saying it looks planted, but if it were planted, that’s exactly what you’d expect it to look like.

    Slightly more interesting was Routh’s offer to buy an assassination. First of all, where’d he get the money to offer $150,000? It felt like another throwaway, a psyop meant to cause controversy but create no evidence that could be checked. For instance, it mentioned no details about how to collect the fee (again, not on the first page).

    But if it was a psyop, whose psyop?

    Perzackly.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We have one, that’s right ONE, refueling oiler ship in the entire Middle East and it just ran aground.

    The ship’s sad story has all the elements that are now bedeviling the Americans it serves thanks to the malevolent, arrogant, indifferent clowns who currently rule over us.

    Almost a year ago, I wrote something I headlined, “US Maritime Woes: God Forbid We Go to War.” I was trying to shine a light on the utterly shameful, almost downright criminal neglect with which the Biden-HARRIS administration had treated our US Merchant Marine Fleet. It operates under the auspices of the US Maritime Administration (MARAD), which belongs to the Department of Transportation (aka Mayor Pete) – perhaps you’re already beginning to sense part of the problem if you don’t remember or haven’t read the column. 

    The administration has an “admiral” named as head of MARAD, one RADM Ann Phillips, who has performed exactly as damn near any other Biden cabinet secretary, particularly Mayor Pete – they haven’t seen her.

    and,

    …Maritime matters were a priority during the GHW Bush years, but really got revved up during Trump’s term.

    …During President Trump’s administration, Maritime Administrator Commandant Mark Buzby instigated a tidal wave of change. He allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for training ships, activated the entire ready reserve fleet in significant naval Turbo Activations, personally handled media inquiries, engaged with sailors nationwide, and attended major events as a headline speaker.

    

    Biden’s current administrator, in contrast, has been so little engaged, she’s earned her own call-sign, and it’s not a compliment – “…who some call the Ghost Admiral.”

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Revisiting the expose video from Crowder’s undercover Mug Club citizen journalist about Dr. Varna having sex parties during the lockdown – the story has had some results:

    It was absurd all right. The good news is shame still exists. It turns out that shame has been badly underrated.

    But even better was yesterday’s New York Post headline: “Ex-NYC COVID czar fired from job after copping to drug-fueled sex parties during pandemic.” Boom!

    After leaving his lucrative taxpayer-funded job wrecking New York City, Dr. Varma landed another lucrative job with a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, SIGA Technologies. Yesterday, SIGA unemotionally notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that it fired Dr. Varma.

    And the outrage in New York has reached the steps of City Hall. If only they’d protested over the lockdowns themselves, but better late than never, IMHO.

    Now, almost five years later, officials like Dr. Varma are still being brought to account. I get it, it should be jail, but there’s a bigger message being sent to all the other so-called covid and vaccine experts. They probably thought we would forget and move on, what with everything else going on around the world and here at home. But we haven’t forgotten, and these so-called men of science are still taking the online bait and getting set up to be taken down.

    We haven’t forgotten, and we won’t forget. Never.

    You have to admit, disgusting Dr. Varma’s firing is a little encouraging.

    May the slow wheels of justice continue to grind the guilty.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Found a comment about nanoplastics in the brain:

    Did “the experts” consider the possibility of microplastics being found in the olfactory bulbs of cadavers from all of that mask-wearing of 2020-well, present (for some)??

    Good question.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Where we are headed, if the left wins elections:

    A prominent economist at one of China’s top think tanks was placed under investigation, detained and removed from his posts after he allegedly criticized leader Xi Jinping’s management of the world’s second-largest economy in a private chat group, according to people familiar with the matter.

    The investigation of Zhu Hengpeng, who for the past decade was deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, comes as the Communist Party ramps up efforts to suppress negative commentary about China’s economic health.

    Because dissent is “misinformation”.

  25. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    i listened to an interview with Jim Jordan on Chris Salcedo’s ksev show yesterday.

    it was the usual uninspiring republican’t montage of we can’t do this and we can’t do that.

    He listed all the things the totalitariancrats are doing but forgot to mention the pull my finger party is funding all of it and doing nothing to stop it.

    he even mentioned them sending one of their infamous letters about an issue. I bettencourt guffawed so hard I almost blew my eardrums out.

    they don’t wanna win and they don’t want Trump to win.
    they’re the quintessential compromised sellouts.
    the eternal pull my finger party.
    Zee Deep state says vee have zee photos

    they throw the games, all games, on purpose and for their own survival.

    Perpetual losers eating totalitariancrat peanut shells.
    not gonna waste my vote on these losers.
    Trump-yea
    the rest- nay

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The RNC is more legally active this time around:

    RNC Sues Over Mail-In Ballots in Red State Where Almost No One Uses Mail-In Ballots… But It COULD Be a Smart Move.

    But the move could trigger challenges in other states where mail-in ballots matter far more.

    Currently, around 20 others, including Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, California, and New York, allow the counting of mail-in ballots received days after the election if they meet arbitrary postmark deadlines. The RNC’s move is a marked change from past election legal strategies—this time, it is suing in a state with a relatively friendly appellate division and potentially setting up a quick Supreme Court hearing before the November election.

    Pre-emptive strike, it seems.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just finished 30 treadmill minutes, just shy of 1.75 miles. Breathing through my nose, not my mouth. I feel better. I could’ve pushed through to two miles, but I’m not enthusiastic about pushing right now. My thighs are better than yesterday, but still recovering my efforts on Sunday to protect my knees during my sudden downward trajectory.

    Progress.

    I’m looking forward to the forecasted cool front, due to blow through soon. The weekend is looking to be very nice weather. Maybe I’ll try to clean up the back porch.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Everything you ever wanted to know about bovine myology and how to cut your own beef. I’ve been catching some videos over yonder of butchers and meat scientists touting the money savings involved in getting big chunks of meat such as a “ribeye roll” and cutting my own steaks. One Australian meat scientist pointed me towards this site.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Trump trolls the Cackler over french fries.

    I guess bovine musculature kills da blog.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    An insiders look at a Box family reunion.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Super Dave better buy a boat and get ready to evacuate. That hurricane is coming straight for his house.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      We’re hoping for some rain out of it for sure.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Did anyone else here notice the US military flew Ukraine’s Zelensky to Pennsylvania on a USAF C-17 where he disembarked and immediately started giving campaign speeches for Kamala Harris ? He criticized Trump and called JD Vance a radical.

    How in the hell is this legal ? How is this not a violation of the principle of a politically neutral, agnostic US military ? This is so effing outrageous. It’s time to clean house at the Pentagon, seriously.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The Pentagon, State Department, DOJ, CIA all need a thorough investigation and house cleaning. Top 5 layers at least all need to go.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I saw that, unbelievable. But we’re living in a different time, Bizarro World as it were.

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Listened to the wascally wimpy wAbbott interview on Chris Salcedo’s show today.

    dr Phil good’s take is we’re done if the election is stolen again.
    he has no game plan or backup plan for Texas.
    he sounds like a very scared wAbbott.
    the pull my finger party has lost the country on purpose.
    I bet people would be shocked at the dirt the deep state ducks have on them.

    325k kids missing and they don’t say or do a thing about it.
    we have zee photos comrades and vee vill vuse zem eff nveed be.

    does 1+1 =2 or 3?

    someone?
    anyone?
    Ferris?

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It looks like this interminable, damnable Summer is coming to an end tomorrow night.
    Thank God.

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TEXPAT: Did you hear about this? Retired Orange County, NY judge self terminates as the FBI was coming to arrest him for bribery. The judge resigned suddenly earlier this year.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Saw the headline, didn’t read the story. Had a flashback to the prison warden scene from “Shawshank Redemption”.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yeah, I heard about it on local news. The guy ended his life, ruined his reputation, embarrassed his family for a measly $63K bribe. Really ?

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was just reading an article about these neighborhoods in Haifa last night. Now they are being carpet bombed by Hezbollah.

    Haifa’s northern suburbs (Kiryat Bialik and Kiryat Yam) are now under massive Hezbollah attack as is Akko (Acre).

    Me: I asked a senior IDF commander today whether to push back Hezbollah to the Litani River Israel needs to send in ground troops. He said no. Israel needs to start hitting Beirut and Lebanese major cities and destroying the country’s power grid and other key infrastructure targets. I imagine that’s coming next.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Congrats Astros!!

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Marc Zell

    @GOPIsrael

    Haifa’s northern suburbs (Kiryat Bialik and Kiryat Yam) are now under massive Hezbollah attack as is Akko (Acre).

    Me: I asked a senior IDF commander today whether to push back Hezbollah to the Litani River Israel needs to send in ground troops. He said no. Israel needs to start hitting Beirut and Lebanese major cities and destroying the country’s power grid and other key infrastructure targets. I imagine that’s coming next.

  39. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    More good stuff today presented in the Comments section. Thank y’all for doing this and supplying real info that likely will not show up much in the newspapers or the TV news programs unless it is way too big to be buried. Or the British media have already reported it, and they can’t be ignored. 🙂

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