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NYC Is One Step Closer to Enacting 'Insane' Tax on Motorists in Manhattan New York City is one step closer to enacting its radical plan to charge motorists for simply entering Manhattan's Central Business District at 60th Street and below on weekdays and weekends. [...] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/12/08/nyc-congestion-pricing-tolls-n2632122

'A Marvel of Evasion': Hunter Indictment Intentionally Written by the DOJ to Avoid Implicating Joe Biden [...] Turley observed that "The steps taken by Hunter to evade taxes are impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the efforts of the Justice Department to evade any direct implications for his father, President Biden." [...] https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/12/08/a-marvel-of-evasion-hunters-indictments-carefully-written-to-avoid-implicating-joe-biden-n2167341

American Forces Attacked by Iranian Proxies 84 Times in 52 Days and Biden Does Nothing We allow Iranian proxies to lob rockets and mortar rounds at our troops. We've accepted, on average, one American casualty per day since October 17, and It is only a matter of time until Americans get killed. And the reason they do it is that there is zero risk attached to attacking Americans or American ships or aircraft because Joe Biden is so afraid of offending the Iranians that he'd rather see the coffins arrive at Dover AFB than have panties soiled under the man-dresses in Tehran. [...] https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/08/american-forces-attacked-by-iranian-proxies-84-times-in-52-days-and-biden-does-nothing-n2167354

He's Getting Worse: Joe Biden's Brain Breakage Reaches a New Low in Las Vegas He's getting worse, folks. I know that can be a bit of a loaded statement given Joe Biden can't go two minutes in public without showing his senility, but trust me, he's getting worse. [...] https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/12/08/hes-getting-worse-joe-bidens-brain-breakage-reaches-a-new-low-in-las-vegas-n2167350

Biden administration asserts power to seize drug patents in move to slash high prices [...] For the first time, officials can now factor in a medication's price in deciding to break a patent. [...] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/07/biden-administration-asserts-power-to-seize-drug-patents.html

Netanyahu Warns Beirut Could Turn Into Gaza If Hezbollah Starts 'All-out' War Israeli forces and Hezbollah exchanged fire across the Lebanese border on Thursday, drawing a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "If Hezbollah decides to open an all-out war, then with its own hands it will turn Beirut and southern Lebanon into Gaza and Khan Yunis," Netanyahu said. [...] https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/12/08/netanyahu-warns-beirut-could-turn-into-gaza-if-hezbollah-starts-all-out-war-n4924598

FBI = ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Man Fires Shots Outside Albany Synagogue, Screams 'Free Palestine,' FBI Working to Find Motive On Thursday afternoon, the day before the beginning of Hanukkah, a man named Mufid Fawaz Alkhader went to a synagogue, Temple Israel in Albany, N.Y. He was carrying a shotgun and fired two shots. According to police who went to the scene, he screamed "Free Palestine." The FBI is now hard at work, trying to figure out his motive. No kidding. [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2023/12/08/man-fires-shots-outside-albany-synagogue-screams-free-palestine-fbi-working-to-find-motive-n4924590

The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents It was a clarifying moment, wasn't it? The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania testifying for the House Education Committee about the wave of rabid antisemitism on their campuses. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York asked the same question of UPenn's Liz Magill, MIT's Sally Kornbluth and Harvard's Claudine Gay. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your campus's rule of conduct, yes or no? That was the question. [...] https://thespectator.com/topic/university-presidents-testimony-ducking-gay-magill/

Jonathan Turley. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Bunch of Lies': Biden's Clintonesque Denial Before a House Impeachment Inquiry Vote With a formal House vote on an impeachment inquiry expected next week, President Joe Biden was confronted this week about his knowledge and involvement in alleged influence peddling by his son and brothers. An irate Biden seemed to morph into Bill Clinton and — echoing his predecessor's "I did not have sex with that woman" denial of an earlier scandal — effectively declared that he did not have relations with "those people." [...] https://themessenger.com/opinion/joe-biden-bill-clinton-moment-lies-impeachment-hunter-influence-peddling-corruption

Thanks. Good news to hear that there's a crack in the Ulaanbataar armor. I wonder if the applicant had to bring translations of documents that were in Russian.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Husband Reaches Out To NSA To See If They Know What His Wife Wants For Christmas FAYETTEVILLE, AR — As the December days began to tick away, a local man grew so desperate in his attempt to buy his wife a great Christmas gift that he decided to reach out to the National Security Agency to find out what she wants. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/husband-reaches-out-to-nsa-to-see-if-they-know-what-his-wife-wants-for-christmas

Get the second line? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jewish Family Celebrates Hanukkah 2023 In Neighbor's Attic AMSTERDAM — Acknowledging the current hostile climate toward Jews around the globe, a local Jewish family decided to carry out their traditional Hanukkah celebration this year in the safety of their neighbor's attic. "Let's be frank here, it's not safe to celebrate out in the open," said Benjamin Cohen. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/jewish-family-celebrates-hanukkah-2023-in-neighbors-attic

Jews Advised To Protect Themselves From Violence By Not Being Jewish U.S. — In response to increasing displays of antisemitism across the country and around the world, authorities have advised Jewish people to protect themselves from violent attacks by no longer being Jewish. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/jews-advised-to-protect-themselves-from-violence-by-not-being-jewish

Is China Telling the Truth About the New Respiratory Outbreak? There's something ominous going on in China that has many similarities to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/12/06/is-china-telling-the-truth-about-the-new-respiratory-outbreak-n4924536

NZ Whistleblower Arrested for Exposing the Truth: Here's What They Didn't Want You to See Statistician and whistleblower, Barry Young, also known as "Winston Smith," 56, has been arrested by New Zealand authorities for exposing a damning database on COVID-19 vaccine deaths. [...] https://vigilantnews.com/post/nz-whistleblower-arrested-for-exposing-the-truth-heres-what-they-didnt-want-you-to-see

Did Hamas Short Sell Israeli Stocks Before October 7th? An analysis of trading activity on the stock market indicates that somebody knew of and invested based on the October 7th attacks on Israel. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/12/06/did-hamas-short-sell-israeli-stocks-before-october-7th-n596942

Interesting -- and not what I thought the article would be about, from its title. Thoughts about it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We Aren't Prepared For The Hell Democrats Will Put America Through In 2024 Sometimes coincidences happen in American politics, but what's happening right now with the Democratic Party [...] https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/07/we-arent-prepared-for-the-hell-democrats-will-put-america-through-in-2024/

That's great news. If it was posted here, I missed it. If you know the details, please post them.

Part of us wishes that we'd been a fly* on the wall at ex-Mrs.-T-B.'s casa, excitement man. *bilingual in Spanish, almost certainly necessary man

Thrilling Thursday report, see man: Snared miu from behind at beginning of breakfast and threw her into miu-carrier, devious we man. Miu was highly outraged, highly outraged miu man. Took miu to beauty salon for an all-wheel manicure, 2 months overdue man. Manicure cost $Many ($2x2x2x2x2 +2+2) -- si man, $Many ($2x2x2x2x2 +2+2) -- man. Miu objected on drive to casa, vocal miu man. Newly released miu reinvestigated casa suspiciously, what other deception lies herein man. Miu then finished her miu-breakfast, ingest miu man. We hastily prepared ourself for our own doc caucus, not far man. After caucus, went to Olive Garden for lunch special, ingest we man. While there, skool Assistant Principalette called, just touch base man. Returned to casa and phoned Mama T-B., still-alive senior she man. Got her to yell at us about old topics, good sign man. Siesta'd for 2 hours, overslept by an hour man. Arose to research financial topics demanded by Mama T-B., obey we man senior she man man. Din-din has been most of a Many-ounce ([2x2x2 +2]-oz.) can of mixed nuts, unwisely ingest we man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. called us several times after retrieving Mini-B., aysheep ex-she man. Mini-B. had spent his full in-skool suspension day doing the wrong Math-test review, man. We e-mailed the Math teechur as a priority, fortunately prompt response man. Aysheep ex-Mrs.-T-B. removed the PSMany (PS[2+2+1]) equipment from the wall, bye wee man's games man. Then, Mini-B. was found to have overlooked a second class assignment, different class man. Then, Mini-B. was found to have overlooked a Many'rd class assignment, different class man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. went even more aysheep and decided to suspend Mini-B.'s phone privileges, bye wee man's phone man. While ex-Mrs.-T-B. was heatedly telling us of this, Mini-B. texted us, text wee man we man man. "Can you pick me up from skool tomorrow, huh man? Mom's yelling at me and I don't want to be around her, no man," text wee man to we man man. We wrote back, "We have a conflict, Son, si man. The reason parents yell at you is because they love you and want the best for you, see and si man. Just look at how Grandma yells at us, si man," si man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. called again to tell us that she had found Mini-B.'s previous Math tutoress and had screenshotted every failed Math assignment to her, prepare ex-she man tutoress man. The tutoress can come every Saturday at a rate of $Many (2x2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2) per hour, man. We have rarely seen ex-Mrs.-T-B. more aysheep, aysheep ex-she man. We suspect that everyone in our family must now have high BP, conclude we man. We have itineraried Many (2+2+1) ESs for Friday, unsure if we can hit them all man.

Gracias, D ma'am. BP a bit more responsive today, whew man. Mama T-B. caucused with GP, who has ordered a Many-hour ([2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2]-hour) urine test for pheochromocytoma, cool name for nasty item man. We must arise at o'dark-Many to take Mama T-B. to a doc caucus at o'dark-Many, man. This presumes that Mama T-B. can make it down to the T-B.-mobile, uncertain man.

Sadly, Mongolia won't accept transfers from Russia. Small consulate (2 consular officers at most) and probably no way to verify the authenticity of Russian documents. Some of the -stan countries might also be unprepared to accept such requests.

It is Wednesday (well, it still is, in a couple of time zones) and therefore time for our Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: ================================================ GOLDFISH BURIAL Little Timmy was in the garden, filling in a hole, when his neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the youngster was doing, he politely asked, "What are you up to there, Timmy?" "My goldfish died," replied Timmy tearfully, "and I've just buried him." The neighbor was concerned. "That's an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn't it?" Little Timmy patted down the last heap of earth and then replied, "That's because he's inside your cat!"

Read the instructions carefully and interpret them literally.

Gracias, D ma'am. Mama T-B. can't last much longer at these stroke-level readings, no man. Interesting suggestion about hormones, si D ma'am. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. never responded about what punishment befell Mini-B., have to wait we guess man. We just confirmed that he probably won't be eligible to attend his year-end Band party, in the rules man. Mini-B. was upset, but seemingly because we paid on time and are now out $Many, concerned wee man. If so, that indicates some maturity, si man. We used this to reinforce the reality of "actions have consequences," worth more than $Many if it sinks in and sticks man. Miu is about 2 months overdue for a manicure, heavily armed miu man. We have placed the open carrier in a strategic spot, si man. We will probably have to seize her during miu-breakfast, betray miu man we man.