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  • ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Director Ron Howard Turns on JD Vance: ‘Surprised and Disappointed’

    09/07/2024 6:16:49 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 66 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/07/2024 | David NG
    15 Ron Howard made JD Vance’s bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy into a major Hollywood movie four years ago. Now the filmmaker has publicly turned on the GOP vice presidential candidate, saying he is “surprised and disappointed” by the “rhetoric that I’m reading and hearing.” At the Toronto Film Festival to promote his latest movie Eden, Ron Howard faced questions about JD Vance from multiple news outlets, some of which clearly had an ax to grind against Vance.
  • Brazil’s X ban drives outraged Bolsonaro supporters to rally for ‘free speech’

    09/07/2024 6:13:53 PM PDT · by McGruff
    CNN ^ | Sep 7, 2024 | Associated Press
    Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally Saturday, buoyed by the government’s blocking of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s X platform, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution. A few thousand demonstrators, clad in the yellow-and-green colors of Brazil’s flag, poured onto Av. Paulista. References to the ban on X and images of Musk abounded. Saturday’s march is a test of Bolsonaro’s capacity to mobilize turnout ahead of the October municipal elections, even though Brazil’s electoral court has barred him from running for office until 2030. It’s...
  • California's controversial rare beast that vanished over 100 years ago stages shocking comeback: 'We've been invaded' (gray wolf)

    09/07/2024 6:10:08 PM PDT · by Libloather · 23 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 9/07/24 | Alyssa Guzman
    An endangered predator has returned to California after vanishing more than 100 years ago. At least 44 gray wolves have been spotted in the West Coast state, including a record-breaking 30 new pups this year alone, according to Axel Hunnicutt, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's gray wolf coordinator. This is the biggest increase in a century, with the animals from seven different packs now in nine of the state's 58 counties, Marin Independent Journal reported. But not everyone is happy about the return of the the gray wolf and are concerned about the risk to farmers' livestock. Janna...
  • Deport illegals and alleviate housing shortage at same time

    09/07/2024 6:05:41 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/07/2024 | Noel S. Williams
    President Trump is such a refreshingly bold and honest candidate compared to Kamala. Regarding illegal aliens, he has made his intentions clear: deport them! Some meek and effete naysayers will immediately question the practicality of deporting millions of illegals, but there may be a way to efficiently transport them whence they came. Presuming they have been identified and corralled (a big presumption, perhaps), how do we transport so many of them? Well, tragically, illegal aliens seem to be familiar with the inside of freight containers. However, there's such an abundance of them that they don’t have to be packed in...
  • Remedial math at Harvard University

    09/07/2024 6:01:12 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/07/2024 | Mike McDaniel
    Teaching was my second career. I enjoyed teaching high school and college English, but there were frustrations. Among them were college teachers and administrators complaining about how unprepared incoming freshmen were. I know what you’re thinking: plenty of high school teachers are awful. It’s their fault when kids entering college can’t read or write or do math. Without question, there are some poor teachers out there. After all, 50% of people in every endeavor are below average. However, there are two arguably more important factors to consider. The first is the effort of each student. The greatest teacher in the...
  • Russian banks say they've run out of yuan as Chinese firms pull away from the nation

    09/07/2024 5:50:30 PM PDT · by Cronos · 35 replies
    Business insider ^ | 6th September 2024 | Jennifer Sor
    Russia's banks have practically emptied their stash of yuan, largely because Chinese financial firms are spooked from doing business with the nation. Lenders have urged Russia's central bank to address a yuan liquidity shortage in the nation, with insiders saying that access to the Chinese currency was running dry, Reuters reported. Russia's ruble dropped nearly 5% against the yuan earlier this week, Reuters noted. The drop came shortly after Russia's finance ministry suggested the Central Bank of Russia would shrink its daily yuan sales, with central bankers selling just $200 million a day, down from the $7.3 billion sold daily...
  • Ex-Mafia hitman who killed Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger sentenced to 25 years

    09/07/2024 5:28:20 PM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/07/24 | Chris Harris
    What’s another 25 years when you’re already serving a life sentence? Fotios “Freddy” Geas — the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence — was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning notorious New England crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger to death inside a federal prison in 2018. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury for the brutal attack on Bulger. Geas had been behind bars since 2011 for multiple crimes, including the 2003 killing of Genovese crime boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno. Prosecutors said Geas repeatedly battered the 89-year-old...
  • Police shut down Kentucky interstate following reports of multiple shot

    09/07/2024 5:21:19 PM PDT · by buckalfa · 111 replies
    ABC News ^ | September 7, 20025 | Ivan Pereira
    Police shut down Interstate 75 near London, Kentucky, Saturday evening following reports of an active shooter. "Numerous persons have been shot near I-75," the Laurel County Sheriff's office said in a statement at 6:36 p.m.
  • MSNBC’s Brzezinski Claims Vance Dismissed Shootings as ‘Fact of Life’ After Airing Video Showing Vance Didn’t Do So

    09/07/2024 5:16:34 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/07/2024 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) dismissed school shootings as “fact of life,” despite video that she played earlier in the segment that disproved her assertion and demonstrated that Vance advocated for stronger security at schools to help prevent shootings and said that it’s a “fact of life” that deranged people know schools are soft targets. Brzezinski played video of Vance, in which Vance said, “What is going to solve this problem, and I really do believe this, is, look, I don’t like this, I...
  • Welcome Aboard: College Profs Backing Trump

    09/07/2024 5:16:03 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 13 replies
    PJ Media ^ | September 05, 2024 | Lincoln Brown
    A group of university professors are circulating a petition and a statement among their colleagues to support the Republican ticket in the upcoming presidential election. The project is titled "Lesser Evil." These professors are not MAGA-hatted hardcore conservatives, but citing Adam Smith, they have reached the logical conclusion that fundamental freedoms will be better preserved under a Republican administration than a Democratic one. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Klein, a professor at George Mason University, and Daniel Mahoney, professor emeritus of political science at Assumption University. ...[link to video omitted]The group is looking for tenured professors at American...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION ~ 08 September 2024

    09/07/2024 5:06:59 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 48 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION During my second month of night school, our professor gave a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Obviously this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper leaving the last question blank. Before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count on...
  • Operation Demoralize – Shake Out of It and Get Yourself Together

    09/07/2024 4:57:07 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 7 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | August 14, 2024 | William A. Jacobson
    We are still in Operation Demoralize. It’s working just like it does every summer that we’ve tracked it. Shake out of it and get yourself together. There are legitimate concerns that people need to address, but this hyperbole and this hair-on-fire reaction is ridiculous. So carry on.[The] August 2, 2024, video Don’t Fall For ‘Operation Demoralize’ has received a big reaction.So I decided to do a follow up, with the benefit of how things have gone the past 10 days.[Link to video omitted] A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to you about Operation Demoralize. It’s something we’ve been tracking...
  • The Russians cut off several Ukrainian brigades in one move - They have only two options!

    09/07/2024 4:45:52 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 58 replies
    Serbin Info News Aggregator ^ | September 7, 2024
    The Russian army is currently focusing all its efforts on isolating the combat area in and around Pokrovsk. In particular, a few days ago the Russian Armed Forces took the western exits from the city under strict fire control, and now there are reports of serious damage to the bridge on the E-50 highway, which the Ukrainian army used to transfer cargo and personnel from the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region. As experts explain, it was along this overpass that the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred personnel, equipment and ammunition to Pokrovsk.
  • Biden’s astonishing vacation total revealed — prez took 48 years worth of leave in 4

    09/07/2024 4:44:31 PM PDT · by Libloather · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/07/24 | Rich Calder, Steven Nelson
    President Biden spends almost as much time on R&R as he does running the country. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has racked up 532 vacation days in less than four years — about 40% of the 1, 326 days he’s been in office. It would take the average American — who gets 11 days a year of vacation — approximately 48 years to accumulate that number of days off, according to shocking data compiled by the Republican National Committee. “The image of Biden fast asleep and lying flat on his back in his chair at the beach while America and the world...
  • Las Vegas woman arrested after stealing casket with body inside: Police

    09/07/2024 4:00:16 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 40 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/5/2024 | Greg Wehner
    A Las Vegas, Nevada woman has been arrested after she was allegedly seen on surveillance video breaking into a funeral home and stealing a casket occupied by a corpse, before leaving both items in front of the business, according to police. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested 47-year-old Patricia Sierra at about 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 and charged her with grand larceny of more than $1,200 and less than $5,000; burglary of a business; and removing, transferring or disturbing human remains. Officers responded to the Affordable Cremation & Burial Service of Las Vegas on Charleston Boulevard on...
  • Turkey's Erdogan: Islamic countries should form alliance against 'Israel's growing expansionism'

    09/07/2024 3:55:39 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 31 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | September 7, 2024
    Erdogan said in July that Turkey would extend an invitation to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "any time" for possible talks to restore relations between the two neighbors. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel. He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing by Israeli troops of a Turkish-American woman taking part in a protest on Friday against settlement expansion in the West Bank. "The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state...
  • Northern Illinois stuns No. 5 Notre Dame for first win ever over a top-10 team

    09/07/2024 3:55:37 PM PDT · by C19fan · 91 replies
    Yahoo Sports ^ | September 7, 2024 | Nick Bromberg
    Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame 16-14 with a late field goal by Kanon Woodill on Saturday. Woodill kicked a 36-yard field goal with 31 seconds left as Notre Dame couldn’t stop the Huskies after a second interception by Riley Leonard. It's Northern Illinois' first win ever against a team ranked in the top 10 of the AP Top 25.
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Sacred Page: Jesus the "Reverse Psychologist"?: The Readings for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

    09/07/2024 3:40:54 PM PDT · by fidelis · 2 replies
    The Sacred Page Blog ^ | September 07, 2012 | Dr. John Bergsma
    "Reverse Psychology" describes the attempt to motivate individuals to action by telling them to do the opposite of what is actually desired. The method is based on the assumption of the perversity of human nature. Since we tend to do disobey whatever commands we receive, why not command what is wrong, and then our natural "disobedience" will result in good? It sounds fine in theory, but I've tried it with my kids: "Don't do your chores. Don't finish your schoolwork. Eat up all the remaining ice cream." Reverse psychology doesn't seem to work in practice. In this Sunday's Gospel, though,...
  • This is the dangerous Venezuelan gang infiltrating the US that you probably know nothing about but should

    09/07/2024 3:33:21 PM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 46 replies
    CNN ^ | June 10, 2024 | Rafael Romo, Belisa Morillo and Laura Weffer
    (CNN) An alleged multistate human trafficking ring forcing immigrant women into prostitution. The mysterious killing of a former police officer in South Florida. Attacks against police officers in New York. The arrest of a drug dealer in Chicago. Local and federal officials say these apparently unrelated crimes have a common denominator: Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison and has slowly made its way south and north in recent years. They say it’s now operating in the United States. The scale of its operations is unknown, but crimes attributed to alleged members of the...
  • Two opposing views on affirmative action: Supporters of affirmative action focus on admission rates, whereas opponents of opponents of affirmative action focus on graduation rates.

    09/07/2024 3:18:36 PM PDT · by grundle · 15 replies
    Wordpress ^ | September 7, 2024 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
    https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2024/09/07/affirmative-action-3/Two opposing views on affirmative action: Supporters of affirmative action focus on admission rates, whereas opponents of opponents of affirmative action focus on graduation rates.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)September 7, 2024Here are two very different points of view on affirmative action.This 7 minute video from MSNBC is called “MIT diversity data confirms ‘worst fears’ about end of affirmative action.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIyZL_I0ysQThe MSNBC video includes this chart:This article from the Atlantic is called: “The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action: Why racial preferences in college admissions hurt minority students — and shroud the education system in dishonesty.”https://web.archive.org/web/20121004223026/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-painful-truth-about-affirmative-action/263122/Now here’s my take on...