Sunday, December 11, 2022

Some Pictures From Virginia

Now that I have arrived back in Maryland, I have a few pictures from my recent stay in central Virginia.  Not far from my temporary undisclosed location is Izac Lake, where some people like to fish.  Perhaps they sailed their boat out of a floating dock like this one.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

A Saturday Sasquatch's Dozen-And-A-Half

On a cool cloudy Saturday in central Virginia, here are 18 things going on:

From National Review, has the platform Twitter really changed since the new Chief Twit took over?

From Townhall, the third batch of "Twitter Files" reveal what led to Twitter banning then-President Trump.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Facebook reverses its policy and now bans users from soliciting human smugglers.

From the Washington Examiner, here come California's stimulus debit cards.

From The Federalist, the third batch of "Twitter Files" shows the company's lead censor joking about collusion with the FBI.

From Canada Free Press, we've descended into the "theater of the oppressed".

From Free West Media, what was uncovered by the largest anti-terrorism raid in German history?

From EuroNews, ethnic Serbs block roads in Kosovo.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco reaches the FIFA World Cup semi-finals for the first time in history.

From The New Arab, Tunisians protest in the capital city of Tunis against President Kais Saied ahead of parliamentary elections.

From OpIndia, American Muslim Ibrahim Hooper blames "Hindutva" and "Islamophobia" after Indian Muslims beat up a Muslim couple for watching the movie Kantara.

From Gatestone Institute, when will the E.U. wake up about Iran's mullahs?

From The Stream, what was going on in the minds Twitter's censors?

From The American Conservatives, Ukrainian nationalists distort their country's history.

From BizPac Review, according to Fox News host Steve Hilton, the FBI "must be held accountable" for colluding with Big Tech.

From The Western Journal, a year ago, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated that the White House has expectations regarding social media moderation decisions.

From the New York Post and the "do as I say, not as I do" department, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander wants to outlaw businesses in the city from firing workers without "just cause", even though he himself has done so.

And from the Huffpost, in Cape Fear, North Carolina, two calves decide that they didn't want to take part in a live Nativity scene.

Friday, December 9, 2022

Friday Fuss

On a cool mostly sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the left distorts right-wing views about freedom.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden secures the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner from Russia, but leaves Marine veteran Paul Whalen behind.

From Townhall, inflation again exceeds expectations.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Kyrsten Sinema goes from (D-AZ) to (I-AZ).

From the Washington Examiner, more on the implications of Senator Sinema's exit from the Democratic Party.

From The Federalist, all of the times when Twitter executives lied to our faces.

From American Thinker, to allegedly save insects so that wild birds can eat them, the Netherlands decides to eliminate about 3,000 small farms.

From CNS News, which Russians currently held in American prisons could be exchanged for the aforementioned Paul Whelan?

From Red Voice Media, right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec points out how Saudi Arabia refutes a White House claim about the prisoner exchange involving Brittney Griner.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, hosts on The View go nuts over the aforementioned Senator Sinema's re-registration.

From Canada Free Press, will the Republicans ever learn?

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva designates five people to be cabinet ministers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, some myths and facts about hurricanes.

From Snouts in the Trough, more technocracy from the WEF.

From Free West Media, schools in Vienna, Austria sort students by religious background.

From EuroNews, Austria blocks Romania from joining the Schengen Area.

From Euractiv, under its new rules, the E.U.'s batteries will be the greenest in the world.

From ReMix, a 25-year-old Ukrainian woman tries to rob a bank in Przemyśl, Poland, but gets stopped by a 90-year-old Polish woman with a cane.  (The dziewiećdziesiątletnia kobieta, I mean, 90-year-old woman is thus awarded this blog's "badass" label.)

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia and Herzegovina will tighten its border controls to meet demands from the E.U.

From The North Africa Post, a German aid worker, abducted in 2018 in Niger, is freed in Mali with help from Morocco.

From The New Arab, a Syrian girl recounts her family dealing with cold and hunger.

From the Daily Mail, a Pakistani man admits that he killed his wife after she asked him for a divorce - 20 years ago.

From Sanatan Prabhat, Muslim students at Aligarh University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India declare that the school belongs to Allah.

From CultureWatch, if we want to respect the prophet Mohammed, shouldn't we learn some things about him?

From Gatestone Institute, supporting Israel should not depend on the results of its elections.

From The Stream, do some climate alarmists want us all to die?

From The Daily Signal, a court orders Southwest Airlines to rehire a flight attendant who was fired for stating her pro-life views on social media.

From Space Daily, SpaceX launches 40 Internet satellites into orbit - for its rival OneWeb.

From The American Conservative, a visit to the ancient site of Ephesus and its lesson for Christian in the post-Christian West.  (Full disclosure:  I visited the place while on a cruise in 2006.)

From The Western Journal, excerpts from the "Twitter files".

From BizPac Review, a Fox News reporter explains to congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) how Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) could become Speaker of the House.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit announces new features on Twitter.

From the Daily Caller, according to TV host Joe Scarborough, Biden's failure to secure the release of the aforementioned Paul Whalen from Russia is actually former President Trump's fault.

From Breitbart, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will allow the aforementioned Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) to keep her committee assignments.

From Newsmax, a judge dismisses charges against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) in connection to the water crisis in the city of Flint.

And from the New York Post, a girl in California is granted the first-ever license to own a unicorn.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Battle Of Port Republic Markers

In 1862 during the Civil War, Confederate troops under Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson defeated Union forces led by Major General John Frémont in the Battle of Port Republic.  Some of the fighting took place in an area called the Lewiston Coaling.  Today, a set of markers stands near U.S. Route 340 near Lynnwood, Virginia and recall the battle and the Coaling.  (Port Republic, VA is about three miles away.)  Here's a photo of the group of markers.

The Blue Ridge Tunnel

Near the small unincorporated community of Afton, Virginia is the Blue Ridge Tunnel, which was built to accommodate a railroad line going across the Blue Ridge Mountains.  The line was eventually rerouted through a more recently constructed tunnel, which resulted in the original tunnel being incorporated into a trail for hikers.  The tunnel was the longest and westernmost of four engineered by Claudius Crozet, who had emigrated from France in 1816 after serving in Napoleon's army, including two years as a POW after being captured by Russian forces in 1812.  He also had taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York and would later serve as the president of the board of directors at Virginia Military Institute.

Afton is located on Virginia Route 6 just off U.S. Route 250.  To get to the east end of the trail, I had to drive past a building that appears to have been a railroad depot, but today is privately property, as indicated by the sign on the right.  The still-active rail line is in the background on the left.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Stories For A Rainy Tuesday

As my undisclosed location in Virginia gets rained on, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Arizona certifies it midterm election results as gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) continues to allege fraud.

From FrontpageMag, Republican Senators plot another amnesty of illegal aliens.

From Townhall, one gas station owner in Philadelphia has had enough of the local criminals.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a nonprofit run by recent Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) could face criminal investigations for alleged unlicensed fundraising.

From the Washington Examiner, a Christian conservative group's reservation at a restaurant in Richmond, Virginia is canceled due it political beliefs.

From The Federalist, if the Chief Twit really wants free speech, he needs to end shadow banning.

From American Thinker, a brief history of Democrat voter fraud.

From CNS News, according to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), the Chief Twit's release of the "Twitter files" shows how Big Tech was weaponized.

From Red Voice Media, President Biden says the quiet part out loud by admitting that the safety and security of American citizens is not hit top priority.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to right-wing commentator Brent Bozell, left-wing billionaire George Soros's global media influence makes him dangerous.

From Canada Free Press, what will the Canadian government ruin next?

From Global News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claims that Canada's proposed gun-control reforms do not target hunters.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Chief Medical Officer Sir Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance are the U.K.'s "pandemic Pinocchios".

From Snouts in the Trough, should SitT call it a day?

From the (Irish) Examiner, 3,300 immigrants become Irish citizens at ceremonies held in Killarney, Ireland.

From The Brussels Times, according to a poll over 25 percent of people in Belgian commune of Flanders would vote for the party Vlaams Belang in 2024.

From Dutch News, mosques in the Netherlands file a complaint against Dutch Education Minister Dennis Wiersma over his plan to target Islamic schools suspected of fostering radicalism.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Euractiv, German media outlets reignite a debate about E.U. agricultural subsidies.

From the CPH Post, the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark is awarded The Council of Europe Museum Prize.

From Free West Media, the Swedish city of Gothenburg wants to settle migrants in its affluent neighborhood.

From About Hungary, the party Fidesz proposes a parliamentary resolution rejecting political pressure against Hungary.

From EuroNews, Hungary blocks the approval of a €18 billion financial aid package for Ukraine.

From Sputnik International, according to trade data, U.S. imports from Russia doubled from this past September to October.

From Balkan Insight, for the second consecutive day, traffic in the North Macedonian capital of Skopje is paralyzed by blockades from protesting bus drivers.

From the Greek City Times, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu makes new threats against Greece.  (My "character map" program loves this guy's name.)

From ReMix, in what might be capitulation to the E.U., Italy's new conservative government rolls out the proverbial red carpet for migrants.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco defeats Spain in the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, 3-0 in the penalty kick shootout after a scoreless tie in regulation.

From Sahara Reporters, in the Nigerian state of Borno, Boko Haram terrorists murder 33 wives of ISWAP terrorists.

From Egypt Today, learn more about Egypt's penalties for defamation on social media.

From The Times Of Israel, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett sues a rabbi for claiming that Bennett's parents weren't Jewish.

From Israel Hayom, The New York Times walks back a false story on the fishing industry in the Gaza Strip.

From The New Arab, Jordanian authorities arrest at least 30 teachers and activists, and an opposition politican.

From Rûdaw, a suspected ISIS suicide bomber kills two Popular Mobilization Forces fighters in the Iraqi province of Babil.  (The province is named after and includes the ruins of ancient Babylon.)

From Iran International, the aforementioned Prime Minister Trudeau is trying to figure out how parts form a Canadian company were allegedly found in Iranian military drones.

From News18, Iran has already executed as many people so far this year as in all of last year.

From Hasht e Subh, two men and a woman are publicly flogged in the Afghani province of Nangarhar on suspicion of having premarital relationships.

From The Hans India, Meghalaya becomes the first Indian state to use drones to transport medicines.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden is betraying freedom-loving protesters in China and Iran.

From The Stream, left-wing double standards about traditional beliefs.

From The Daily Signal, proposed amnesty of DACA recipients flunks the border security test.

From Space War, Lockheed Martin and the Israeli company Rafael sign an agreement to jointly develop a high-energy laser system.

From The American Conservative, yes, trust in the U.S. military has declined.

From The Western Journal, former congresscritter David Rivera (R-FL) is arrested at the Atlanta airport.

From BizPac Review, in a deposition in a suit filed by Louisiana and Missouri accusing the federal government of colluding with social media to censor speech, Dr. Fauci says "I don't recall" 174 times.

From The Daily Wire, a jury finds two entities under the Trump organization guilty of committing tax fraud.

From the Daily Caller, a top official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, run by Dr. Fauci, was "very impressed" with China's response to the coronavirus.

From Breitbart, according to a federal indictment, a Mexican drug cartel and its allies established a monopoly on commerce going across a bridge between Mexico and Texas.

From Newsmax, retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Blaine Holt explains the reason for Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia.

And from the New York Post, while visiting Luton, England, King Charles III has an egg-citing time.

Monday, December 5, 2022

A Few Things For Monday

On a cool cloudy Monday somewhere in Virginia, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the platform Twitter is bad for America, but in the way that the left thinks it is.

From FrontpageMag, a domestic terror group threatens churches, but the Biden administration does nothing about it.

From Townhall, read Dr. Fauci's deposition.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the U.S. loses to the Netherlands and is thus eliminated from a "meaningless" soccer tournament.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump's political death wish.

From The Federalist, will Coca-Cola apologize for lying about Georgia's voting law, now that the state has had record turnout?

From American Thinker, the left does not practice the diversity that it preaches.

From CNS News, congresscritter James Comer (R-KY) is thankful that the Chief Twit is providing evidence of Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

From Red Voice Media, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) explains how to recognize stupid woke people.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), people "need to know" the power of Google's monopoly.

From Canada Free Press, should we change historical narratives to fit them into our modern culture?

From TeleSUR, a Brazilian court suspends the Brazilian army's purchase of 98 Italian armored vehicles.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to UK Reform party leader Richard Tice, Britain was not wrecked by Brexit, but by the Conservative Party.

From Free West Media, according to former U.K. europarliamentcritter Nigel Farage, "immigration has massively altered our identity".

From EuroNews, prospects dim for Romania and Bulgaria to be admitted into the Schengen zone.

From Euractiv, the E.U. prepares measures to support the efforts of Western Balkan countries against illegal migration.

From ReMix, President Emmanuel Macron claims that mass migration is "part of France's DNA".

From Balkan Insight, bomb threats sent to Croatian courts might have had a link to Ukraine.

From The North Africa Post, the phosphate and fertilizer company OCP sets an example for a green transition by Moroccan industry.

From The New Arab, Iranians living in Iraq express skepticism over reports that Iran has abolished its morality police.

From OpIndia, a professor at Sweden's Uppsala University spreads misinformation about the alleged lynching of Muslims in India.

From Rediff, a terror group puts out a hit list of Kashmiri Pandits.

From Vice, Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who has lived in Sweden for the last few years, is feared dead.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. gives money to Arabs who want to destroy Israel.

From The Stream, what we have learned about censorship and suppression of free speech in America.

From The Daily Signal, what's really behind the FCC-approved sale of Spanish-language radio stations.

From The American Conservative, barbarians at the gates - of the Library of Congress.

From The Western Journal, President Biden's big plans for a network of vehicle charging stations collapses from a Tweet by the Chief Twit.

From BizPac Review, Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs (D) allegedly colluded with Twitter's "old guard".

From The Daily Wire, a Catholic bishop advises against listening to former First Lady'/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

From CNN, disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti gets 14 years in prison for stealing money from his clients.  (via The Daily Wire)

From the Daily Caller, during oral arguments in a 1st Amendment case, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson brings up racism and the movie It's a Wonderful Life.

From the New York Post, a woman is accused of animal abuse for making her dog look like the Grinch.

From Breitbart, congresscritter and recent gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is "seriously considering" running for chairmanship of the RNC.

From Newsmax, early voting in the Georgia senatorial runoff sets daily records three times.

And from The Babylon Bee, the DNC and the media collude to suppress a story about the DNC and the media colluding to suppress a story.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

A Late Dozen From A Traveling Sasquatch

Once again, I've hit the road, this time to an undisclosed location in central Virginia.  Now that I've settled in, here are 12 things going on:

From American Thinker, why we have monuments.

From Townhall, pro-abortion protesters disrupt a pro-life event, but first enjoy a free meal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about two-sport star Bo Jackson.

From National Review, as Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) begins her farewells, a look back at an article written about her in 2006.

From NewsBusters, The New York Times spent two years boasting how China beat the coronavirus by suppressing freedom.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why people kiss under the mistletoe, and a "sheep of the week".

From EuroNews, the Moravian Museum in Brno, Czech Republic will return a Beethoven manuscript, saved from the Nazis before World War II, to the heirs of its rightful owners.

From Arutz Sheva, Iran announces plans to disband its "morality police".

From The Times Of Israel, the Iranian government demolishes the house of a rock climber who competed abroad while not covering her hair.

From Gatestone Institute, some "boring" election issues can be quite dangerous.

From The Stream, the Chief Twit reveals more evidence that the fix was in.

And from the New York Post, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) makes a prediction about congresscritter Kevin McCarthy's (R-Cal) chances of becoming his next successor.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Saturday Stuff

As the cool cloudy weather continues on a Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Disney announces the closing of its Splash Mountain attraction due to its "racial stereotypes".

From Townhall, exactly one Democrat congresscritter was concerned about ethical issues in regards to Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the new communications chief at The Washington Post is also a board member of a far-left activist group.

From the Washington Examiner, Congress should not make the same mistake that Colorado did by legalizing marijuana.

From The Federalist, insider documents confirm that Big Tech leftists at Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.

From American Thinker, the ugly legacies of the "renewable" energy industries.

From Red Voice Media, an NBC "reporter" defends censorship on Twitter.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the media's "clown show" coverage of the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, California.

From Canada Free Press, the world is in turmoil.

From TeleSUR, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel starts a tour of several Caribbean countries.

From TCW Defending Freedom, when in the U.K., but on the lookout for out-of-control Albanians.  (As I go over to Snouts in the Trough to see what it has published, it's an article referring to two articles in TCWDF.)

From Free West Media, rats!

From EuroNews, the E.U.'s metaverse launch party draws only six people.

From The North Africa Post, German tourism professionals meet in Agadir, Morocco to discuss challenges and opportunities.

From The New Arab, people in Bahrain protest ahead of a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

From OpIndia, the platform Instagram refuses to take action against a user who claimed that a genocide against Hindus would not be a crime against humanity.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration goes Sgt. Schultz about the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown on protesters.

From The Stream, what pro-lifers can learn from the World Cup soccer players.

From The American Conservative, a writer says "farewell" to Washington, D.C.

From The Daily Signal, the Chief Twit shows the inside story of Twitter's censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

From The Western Journal, White House reported Peter Doocy reminds White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre why he's her worst nightmare.

From BizPac Review, the Pentagon unveils the first new American bomber in 30 years.

From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration is blasted for leaving Nigeria off of the religious violence list despite thousands of reported killings.

From the Daily Caller, Republican congresscritters are working on legislation that to ban the use of the Chinese app TikTok by federal government employees.

From the New York Post, victims of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting sue the city and its police and school officials.

From Breitbart, actor James Wood promises to expose the DNC over censorship on Twitter.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Dan Meuser (R-PA), the 87,000 new IRS agents will go after small businesses and consumers.

And from the Genesius Times, the Democrat-controlled lame duck House passes a law requiring home invaders to announce themselves.

Friday, December 2, 2022

Friday Phenomena

On a cool partly cloudy Friday, after I gave myself the first day of December off, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the truth about rapper Kanye West is now perfectly clear.

From FrontpageMag, Apple suppresses dissent in both the U.S. and China.

From Townhall, rural counties in Texas declare a "local state of disaster" due to illegal immigration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, systemic racism against Asians applying to college.

From the Washington Examiner, here comes a hard winter for American wallets, for which President Biden deserves blame.

From The Federalist, while the Supreme Court has yet to rule on Biden's student loan "forgiveness" program, it may have already succeeded in one sense.

From American Thinker, Republican leaders have failed and should be replaced.

From CNS News, more people drop out of the labor force.

From Red Voice Media, former President Trump sends a message to the January 6th defendants.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Twitter's former safety chief admits that censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake.

From Canada Free Press, we could say that with the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress is spending like drunken sailors, except that such a comparison is unfair to drunks and sailors.

From TeleSUR, the impeachment trial of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo will start on December 7th.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how a British woman survived her coronavirus vaccine injury, which was ignored by the National Health Service.

From Free West Media, sexual violence "outside the family" increased greatly in France during 2021.

From EuroNews, a row breaks out as a monument to Soviet-era soldiers is taken down in Vilnius, Lithuania.

From Euractiv, Russian President Putin makes "unacceptable" demands in order to have negotiations for peace in Ukraine.

From ReMix, the E.U. threatens to ban Twitter.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev hands a mandate to form a government to the GERB party, led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.

From The North Africa Post, 60 security officers from Guinea complete three months of training in Morocco.

From The New Arab, thousands of Egyptian lawyers protest against the country's new tax invoice system.

From the Daily Mail, an illegal migrant paraglides from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

From AP News, according to a report by a U.N. investigative team, ISIS committed crimes against humanity and war crimes against Christians in Iraq.

From the Hindu Post, a Qatari Islamic studies professor explains that war is only the third step of dawah.

From Gatestone Institute, World Cup riots in Belgium shows how its migration policy has failed.

From The Stream, archaeologists find a Christian monastery in the UAE.

From ZeroHedge, two different surveys disagree by a record amount when it comes to counting jobs.

From The Daily Signal, 10 things to do if you want to destroy the U.S.

From The American Conservative, the Dutch need farmers in order to be free.

From The Western Journal, a federal judge throws out a lower court's ruling which allowed a special master to review documents seized from Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

From Bloomberg, the Chief Twit suspends the aforementioned Kanye West.  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, a reparations task force decides that Californians descended from slaves are due reparations, even though California never allowed slavery.

From The Daily Wire, the Chief Twit plans to release the full details on the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

From the Daily Caller, the Nevada Democratic Party rejects Biden's call for South Carolina to hold the first primary in 2024.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, 54 percent of Britons think that migration is too high.

From Newsmax, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) urges automakers to continue including AM radios in their vehicles.

And from the New York Post, Russian President Putin has a bad day.