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Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« on: December 22, 2025, 11:48:34 AM »
Crockett to Vance: You're Only VP Because Trump Tried to ... What??

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/22/crockett-to-vance-youre-only-vp-because-what-n3810128

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Yes, this is bat-guano insane, but ... I must admit that I actually understood Jasmine Crockett's allegation. She couldn't frame it correctly, and it's the dumbest leftover conspiracy theory from the 2020 election cycle, and she spewed it on M-SNOW, where apparently it even non-plussed the panel. But just the fact that I grokked this at all has me reaching for counseling centers with reasonable rates as a Christmas present to myself.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Great Democrat Hope from Texas is upon y'all:
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CROCKETT: And that is actually what they are fearful of, is my authenticity, because it rings true with every single American, whether they're a Texan or not. It rings true that I am fighting for everyday real people, and instead of talking policy, when you're talking about 'the record speaks for itself,' baby, let's talk about your record, because the only reason you're the Vice President is because the current president tried to have his last president killed. Let's talk about qualifications.

Crockett can't even get the Dems' and Progs' moldy false claim correct. She's had nearly 6 years to practice it in order to get it correct. She might even manage to make Kammie look smart.

Trump did not try to get VP Pence killed. Trump told his supporters who might go to the Capitol to make their voices heard (= not do anything violent) peacefully. Trump offered National Guard assistance for 1/6 to the Capitol Police through Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Pelosiroo refused.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2025, 12:00:11 PM »
Parents Decry Electric School Buses As Iceboxes in Winter

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/22/parents-decry-electric-school-buses-as-iceboxes-in-winter-n4947375

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New York officials mandated that all school bus purchases be electric by 2027, and parents are already thoroughly disgusted with the purchases so far. Apparently, New York officials think they are saving the planet with buses that freeze kids like popsicles.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are always a disaster from start to finish, with their short-lived, expensive, and toxic batteries, which are so dependent on slave and child labor in Africa and China, and they simply don’t work the way they are supposed to. That includes heating in the EVs during icy winter weather.

While the electric bus rule is to apply across the state of New York, parents in the Lake Shore Central School District are the ones vocally speaking out. WIVB News4 reported last week that parents are worried about their children’s health as bus drivers turn down the heat in the buses or even turn it off altogether as they try to conserve battery life. In fact, that is a recommended practice for EVs, which perform very poorly in the wintertime. And that is exactly why they should not be used to transport children to and from school in freezing temperatures.

Putting it simply, bus drivers are turning down/off heat in the bus in order to reduce the very real risk of the buses getting stranded due to battery depletion with students aboard.

At least one EV bus manufacturer went bankrupt recently, so that mandated 2027 target date may not be achievable, not that envirocrats care about practical reality.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2025, 01:15:34 PM »
Wow! A real pedophile caught!

Former Virginia Democrat Finance Chair Busted in FBI Child Porn Case

https://www.lifezette.com/2025/12/former-virginia-democrat-finance-chair-busted-in-fbi-child-porn-case-watch/

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A former Democratic Party operative in Virginia has been arrested by federal authorities and charged with distributing child pornography following an undercover FBI investigation, according to court records filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Randon “Randy” Alexander Sprinkle, 30, was taken into custody after an investigation conducted by the FBI’s Manassas, Virginia, field office. Sprinkle previously held several prominent roles within Democratic political circles in the state.

He served as finance chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, was a leader in the Young Democrats of Virginia, and worked in 2025 as campaign treasurer for Richmond City Council Vice President Katherine Jordan.

According to a nine-page criminal affidavit filed Friday, Sprinkle was an active user of the social networking application Jack’d, which markets itself as “the premier social app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people” and reports having more than 15 million members.

But he's a gay and a Dem, so minimal local coverage will ensue (or is pretty much over).
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2025, 01:41:00 PM »
Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow

https://srnnews.com/russian-general-killed-by-bomb-under-his-car-in-moscow/

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MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.

Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s top criminal investigation agency. He was 56.

“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
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Just over a year ago, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building. Kirillov’s assistant also died. Ukraine’s security service claimed responsibility for the attack.

An Uzbek man was quickly arrested and charged with killing Kirillov on behalf of the Ukrainian security service.
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In April, another senior Russian military officer, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car parked near his apartment building just outside Moscow. A suspected perpetrator was quickly arrested.

Also, a Russian intelligence general was killed, possibly incidentally, when a Russian tanker was hit by drones recently in the Med between Greece and Sicily. Ukraine is dumbing down Putin's sounder. Using US terms, experienced army-, corps-, and division-level leadership in the Russian army has been very much hollowed out by the nearly 4 years of war. I suspect that similarly experienced senior non-coms have as well.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2025, 02:03:17 PM »
Jasmine, Jasmine Crockett, the Dem who don't know shit!

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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2025, 02:28:43 PM »
CUBA: Is Trump About to Do What No Other President Could?

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/12/22/cuba-is-trump-about-to-do-what-no-other-president-could-n4947376

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If you liked the pressure Trump's blockade put on the Maduro regime, you're gonna love the second-order effects it could have on Cuba.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that "Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned tankers — the kind that carry about 70% of the country’s crude." The story continued, "Were Venezuela’s oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating."

Cuban exile and energy expert Jorge Piñón told the Journal, "It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it."

Communist Cuba has relied on foreign benefactors to stay afloat, pretty much since Fidel Castro and his butcher boys like Che Guevara seized power more than 60 years ago. In recent years, the regime — ruled since 2018 by Communist party chief Miguel Díaz-Canel — relies on the largess of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro for cheap oil the country can't afford to buy at market price.
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Anyway, Venezuela is in such dire straits that oil shipments to Cuba already declined by two-thirds, from 100,000 barrels a day to 30,000. That was before we started pulling over their tankers and checking for license and registration.

Tanking the economies of both Venezuela would be a sweet two-fer!

Whether propped up by the USSR or by Venezuela, Cuba has been a hollowed out Potemkin Plantation for decades.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2025, 02:31:45 PM »
Brown University Custodian Says He Flagged Shooter to Authorities Before Shooting

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/22/brown-u-custodian-says-he-flagged-shooter-to-authorities-before-shooting-n4947384

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A Brown University custodian just dropped a bombshell by claiming he flagged the man who murdered two students to the authorities multiple times before the deadly shooting occurred.

Derek Lisi has worked at Brown University in Rhode Island for 15 years, and if he is telling the truth, the horrible and tragic shooting that cost the lives of two young students and injured multiple others could have been avoided. Lisi said in comments that The Boston Globe published that he saw a man walking through the hallways, looking into classrooms, and trying to avoid being seen by suddenly darting into a bathroom — all weeks before the shooting. Lisi saw the suspicious man at least 10 times and notified the campus security at least twice, but it appears that nobody took the behavior seriously.

The deceased man accused of gunning down Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, also murdered MIT nuclear science and engineering professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, according to Massachusetts authorities. Therefore, it seems two separate murders could have been avoided had authorities taken Lisi’s warnings seriously.

“I knew there was something off with him,” Lisi recalled of the man whom he saw casing the university building and whom he later recognized in photos of the accused shooter. “He’d been casing that place for weeks.”

I don't know how this might've played out had Brown taken seriously this custodian's reports that someone was casing their facility, but preventing three murders is a plausible possibility.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2025, 02:52:16 PM »
Brown University Custodian Says He Flagged Shooter to Authorities Before Shooting

Remind me again why lefty wants red flag laws.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2025, 06:14:12 PM »
Serial Criminal Who Blinded Woman Is ‘Transgender’

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/22/serial-criminal-who-blinded-woman-is-transgender-n4947392

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A violent serial offender who drove a screw into a stranger’s eye is now confirmed as “transgender.”

Some criminals appear to understand that leftists will be even more lenient to them if they pretend to be LGBTQ, because they then identify as victims instead of victimizers. Is that the case with Fale Vaigalepa Pea, facing charges for gouging out a random elderly woman’s eye? Or was Pea already claiming to be “transgender,” and this fed his mental illness and consequent violence?

Fale Pea stood next to public defender Kevin Robinson with a bushy beard on his face, listening calmly as Robinson tried to make the case that justice could not be enforced against his client because of mental illness. Ironically, Robinson affirmed the one type of mental illness that Pea definitely has by persistently referring to the bearded criminal as a female.

As Mrs. SVPete has wisely said many times, if a person is "not guilty" by reason of insanity then they should spend their lives in a mental facility.
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2025, 06:16:10 PM »
'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong

https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-who-cried-foul-over-delayed-immigration-piece-was-behind-intentionally-false-hit-piece-on-ron-desantis-that-even-democrats-said-was-wrong/

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A 60 Minutes correspondent is up in arms after CBS management delayed a story decrying the deportation of illegal aliens from the United States to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, accusing CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of caving to political pressure and betraying sacred journalistic principles. The correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, was behind an embarrassing 2021 flub at 60 Minutes in which she falsely reported that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) gave preferential treatment to a campaign donor to distribute coronavirus vaccines.

Alfonsi, in an email to her fellow 60 Minutes correspondents that was leaked on Sunday to numerous news outlets, accused Weiss of pulling her segment, "Inside CECOT," to appease the Trump administration. According to Alfonsi, the story cleared CBS News's famously thorough review process and was ready to air, but Weiss spiked the story at the last minute without explanation.
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In her leaked email to her colleagues, Alfonsi accused CBS News and Weiss of engaging in "corporate censorship" and of "betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism." Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported (it's unlikely that anyone will actually quit due to the fast-shrinking job market for television reporters).
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There's precedent warranting additional legwork on Alfonsi's segments. Alfonsi was the lead correspondent on a debunked story in 2021 that DeSantis gave preferential treatment to the supermarket chain Publix to distribute coronavirus vaccines because the company donated $100,000 to DeSantis's campaign.

"How is that not pay-to-play?" Alfonsi asked DeSantis when she confronted him after one of the governor's press conferences.

Alfonsi's producer for that story, Oriana Zill de Granados, also produced the "Inside CECOT" report.

Several Florida officials, including Democrats, blasted the 60 Minutes report, saying that DeSantis's office was not involved in awarding contracts to Publix.

Alfonsi and Granados need to be Dan-Rathered!
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2025, 11:06:20 PM »
On this day 81 years ago a response to a surrender message got a quite unique response....

The Battle of the Bulge has been raging for 6 days. The 101st Airborne Division was surrounded in the town of Bastogne when 4 German soldiers approached with terms of surrender. The message was as follows:

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"December 22nd 1944

To the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne. The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Ourthe near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands.

There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it over a term of two hours will be granted beginning with the presentation of this note.

If this proposal should be rejected one German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours' term.

All the serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well known American humanity.

The German Commander."

The message was relayed to the commander of 101st Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe. His reply to the German message was just one word:

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"December 22, 1944

To the German Commander,

N U T S !

The American Commander"

https://www.army.mil/article/92856/the_story_of_the_nuts_reply
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #11 on: Today at 08:37:48 AM »
I've heard that the reply might have been a bit more colorful. :-)
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Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/22
« Reply #12 on: Today at 02:08:24 PM »
'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong

https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-who-cried-foul-over-delayed-immigration-piece-was-behind-intentionally-false-hit-piece-on-ron-desantis-that-even-democrats-said-was-wrong/

Alfonsi and Granados need to be Dan-Rathered!

More about this:

Axios: 60 Minutes Lied About Trump Admin Response

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/23/axios-60-minutes-lied-about-trump-admin-response-n3810179

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Quelle surprise. Also unsurprising: Axios buries the lead here, although reporter Sara Fischer made sure to provide it on X/Twitter:
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Readers have to get to the bottom of the (Axios) story before they, er, get to the bottom of the conflict between Bari Weiss and 60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi:

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Between the lines: According to a source familiar with "60 Minutes" correspondence with the administration, the "60 Minutes" team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News.

None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios.

That's not a "between the lines" issue. That directly reveals why Weiss pulled the segment in the US. For some reason, however, the Alfonsi segment aired in Canada, which Fischer viewed. ...

What is clear is that Weiss turned out to be correct in her assessment of the segment. Weiss first responded to Alfons's claim about political motives for spiking the story by saying it "wasn't ready" for air. Weiss then sent a more specific memo to CBS News personnel laying out the reasons for the decision, which included the need to get principals on the record to address the allegations:
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Money quote: "Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don't tend to be shy. I realized we've emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record." Well, surprise again! According to Axios, Alfonsi did get principals to respond, including that same DHS spokesperson and more. Rather than include that input, Alfonsi not only lied in the segment about not getting a response, she or the producers of 60 Minutes misled CBS News management about it.

So Alfonsi, et al, lied in the 60 Minutes segment about not receiving responses from the WH, US State, and DHS, and repeated that lie to CBS management. Weiss yanking it from the US program saved CBS from at least some embarrassment (though airing it in Canada is at least odd ... there may be some unrevealed backstory to this). Alfonsi and Granados need to be Dan-Rathered for the lie in their segment and for lying to management!
If The Vaccine is deadly as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, millions now living would have died.

US Life Expectancy chart illustrating this, https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/life-expectancy