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These losers (Hinderaker chief among them) want to normalize felony murder — as just free expression / peaceful protests.
And Hinderaker now wants America to blame… wait for it! — the FBI for J6 insurrection — and felony murder.
What a malign piece of crap he is.
Out.
It seems a member of the infected / host family, from which the two cases arose, was a recent traveler to Western Africa. It also seems all the members of the family (four, in total) have tested positive for Mpox Clade 1b (the more dangerous strain of Mpox). That’s… hard news.
In any event, here’s the latest, from EU newspapers:
…A school in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was closed as a precaution on Monday after two children were found to be infected with the mpox virus.
The mpox clade 1b variant was found to be present in four members of a local family. There have been placed in quarantine.
The two children attend school for children with special needs in the town of Rösrath, not far from the city of Cologne.
Following the infection report, the school was closed and lessons will be carried out online until Friday, authorities said….
We should expect to see more of these sorts of limited outbreaks, in all post modern economies. We didn’t get out ahead of it, when we could have — and now this is what viral bio-science looks like. Tough news — but to be expected. Onward.
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Today, by means of a summary list of orders, one line long (as to his petition), the Supremes dumped the idiot Peter Navarro out without any additional hearings, filings, or argument (see near the top of page three).
Stick a fork in him — he’s all done. This was his failure of a petition for cert., before the nation’s highest court. And as we indicated back when he was bounced on his presidential records theory — last year… he is (just another, in a long line of) disbarred and disgraced attorneys — who took fire for Tangerine 1.0 version.
Hilarious. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Suck on that, Hinderaker. John had claimed he would prevail at the Supremes. Not. So. Much.
Out.
We had predicted this move in early September of this year, when it became clear there was a global shortage of Mpox vaccine stocks, for the wildly-expending outbreak in Congo, and now at least 16 African nations, and 12 others dotting the globe. Outside Africa the cases remain in the single digits per country, but inside it hundreds of thousands are falling ill. So this capacity boost, and at an affordable price point, can come none too soon.
By way of background, the Serum Institute of India is the world’s largest producer of measles and diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus vaccines by volume. Founded in 1966, the Institute makes half of all the vaccines of various sorts that UNICEF purchases. It makes high-volume, high-quality vaccines — making basic vaccines to save the lives of millions of kids in limited means situations/countries — so this added capacity makes eminent good sense — and will doubtless save thousands of children’s lives. Here’s FiercePharma on it all:
…As Bavarian Nordic works to increase global access to its mpox vaccine, the company has inked a manufacturing licensing pact with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to produce MVA-BN for the Indian market.
Under terms of the agreement, SII gets access to the technology for producing the vaccine, which is marketed under the name Jynneos in the U.S., Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland and Canada….
There were no upfront or milestone payments under the agreement…. SII is responsible for seeking and keeping regulatory approvals in India, with both parties covering their respective costs related to the technology transfer.
“While there are currently no capacity constraints, scaling of global manufacturing is an important step to ensure the continued equitable access to the vaccine for all countries, and we are pleased to establish this collaboration with the Serum Institute….” Paul Chaplin, Bavarian Nordic’s president and CEO, said in the release….
Onward — smiling, as the Sonoran desert-highlands call, in two days… woot!
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It will be uncrewed.
It will be virtually controlled / automated / robotic return.
And a new supply module (also uncrewed) is due up there shortly.
Still — it seems a little odd to reschedule, so near the depart time… twice. Here’s the bit, for tomorrow’s likely live feed:
…NASA’s SpaceX 31st Commercial Resupply Services Undocking | Share | Add to Calendar — Coverage of the Undocking of the SpaceX CRS-31 Cargo Craft from the International Space Station, now 12.16.2024 (Undocking scheduled at 11:05 a.m. EST)….
Now you know. Onward. Be excellent to one another.
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It is clear that fewer of these “newest” voters, those just turning 18, in 2023-24, voted for Kamala Harris than we would have guessed, given Joe Biden’s strong win — in that age co-hort, in 2020.
[But the math is then pretty simple: if Mr. Biden won say 80 per cent or so, of the newest voters (recent 18 year olds), from the prior four years, in 2020 (and he did!) — that would be… yep about 15 million added votes, overall. Exactly the number that John claims evinces… fraud. What a putz.]
And it seems likely that some of them didn’t turn out to vote, at all, this time. [It seems clear that at least some of the younger voters were not as adamant about voting for Kamala as we expected.]
But for John Hinderaker to tonight churlishly extrapolate “massive fraud” on the part of the Democratic Party — in the 2020 cycle — solely from historically high turnouts (for both parties!)… is simply bonkers. It is insane; and it has been refuted in federal courts for four long years, now — by competent evidence. Damn.
The reality is that many many people deeply loathed Trumpian policies by 2020 — and they also personally hated Trump, by then — based on four years of hateful chaos. They were — in sum — very very motivated to vote (and vote against Trump). Moreover, my theory is that by 2024, too many people had too soon forgotten how bad he was, and so fewer turned out for Kamala in 2024, proportionately. Then, added to that idea is the one that a good six million new voters were mostly too young to really follow what Trumpism was doing to America, in 2016-20.
That very succinctly explains the chart John shows, tonight — without the need for some convoluted, tin-foil hat 2020 conspiracy against GOP voters, by Democratic Party operatives. No fewer than 60 separate courts found no evidence of Hinderaker’s, or Trump’s or Rudy’s imagined pervasive fraud story / lie from 2020.
But we see John once again tonight, licking the felon’s boots — because. he. must.
F U G L Y.
I might remark that whatever these drone sightings turn out to be, Mr. Trump is absolutely the last person on Earth who should be making fun of someone eating… too much fast food — or their body shape, generally.
But if he wants to “go there” — as my inset image suggests, there are plenty of mean memes, of his golf (and KFC!) addiction, in full on high dungeon to load up.
Even putting the childish nature of it aside, I am having a hard time accepting that nearly 43% of America’s registered voters would choose this malign knucklehead and reprobate as the leader of the free world, again.
Ah… so it goes. We live in a “post-truth” and largely… post-manners, world now. These next two years will… whiz right on by, just the same.
O U T.
This is just so… latter-days… Hinderaker. And so silly, I’ll only dash off a few hasty lines — and no new graphic — just the same old “fantasy” one.
Someone writes something less than caustic about what he imagines are his fellow EU fascists… and suddenly, that person will… rule the world. Last week it was the Tory minority leader in England.
Today it is the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
No John — your unicorns don’t fart rainbows.
Do take a seat — she will not be… what you imagine her to be.
Mostly because few in the EU proper see her in the way you fantasize they do.
Cheers.
Since none of these supposedly-favorable witness for Mr. Giuliani have answered the motions made by the two Georgia election workers, despite repeated opportunities to do so, the able USDC Judge Liman in Manhattan entered an unusual Saturday order, compelling them to comply with various subpoenas by this coming Wednesday.
It is highly unlikely that these witnesses will be enough to establish that Mr. Giuliani had, by 2023, abandoned his residence in New York, and taken up permanent residence in Florida. As such, the Florida condo too may be sold to pay the $148 million plus interest he owes the election workers. That’s where this is headed — and here’s the full text docket order entered just yesterday:
…Having received no response to Plaintiffs’ motion to compel from third-party subpoena recipients Dr. Ryan and Mr. Goodman, the Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion to compel at Dkt. No. [159]. Dr. Ryan and Mr. Goodman have until Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at 5 p.m. to produce all responsive documents in their possession, custody or control, or show cause why they should not be held in contempt for violation of the Courts order. Plaintiffs shall serve copies of this order on the third parties by alternate means as permitted by the Court’s December 10, 2024 order, and file proof of service on the docket.
(Signed by Judge Lewis J. Liman on 12/14/2024)….
This is one of those slow motion train-wrecks that is hard to look away from — once you know it is unfolding. He was purportedly a hero to New Yorkers after 9/11 — styled as “America’s mayor“. But some of us knew better.
We knew him before that, as a particularly cruel AUSA, and as a political opportunist, once he was leading City Hall. A guy who personally jailed entirely peaceful Democratic protesters, when the RNC came to the Big Apple, for a convention. Many of those, for over a week.
He plainly spat upon the freedom to dissent peaceably in the late 1990s — so it is somehow fitting that his own “freedom” from excessive possessions is being delivered to him, in the Manhattan courts — for his own intemperate, lawless and libelous speech. Speech that nearly got these two Black women… lynched, down in Georgia. Onward.
Separately, as a small footnote — his brief, in the Second Circuit, appealing the foreclosure orders, is now due in late February: “…Rudolph W. Giuliani Brief due date as 02/21/2025. Joint Appendix due date as 02/21/2025….”
Now you know.
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We’ve said it repeatedly here.
He’s without a doubt the best all-around college football player since… 1912, and Jim Thorpe.
In winning the Biletnikoff Award earlier today, given to the best offensive receiver — and now winning the Heisman moments ago… he becomes the only player in college football ever to win… BOTH.
And this is in addition to several lesser awards he’s won, as of season’s end. Earlier this week, Hunter was named both the AP College Football Player of the Year and the Walter Camp Player of the Year, and then won both the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s top wide receiver and the Chuck Bednarik Award as its top defensive player.
You’ll next see him in action against BYU in the Alamo Bowl — woot!
He will certainly be drafted No. 1 (or 2), come this Spring — with Shedeur Sanders, his QB, likely right behind (or in front) of him. Now you know!
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