[Red State] An iconic American institution has declared another champion, and this one’s especially historic.
In case you’re unfamiliar with New Hampshire’s Miss Greater Derry beauty pageant — officially known as the Miss Greater Derry Scholarship Program — here’s an explainer from MissDerry.org:
The Miss Derry Scholarship Program was created in 1986 as a community service project and incorporated in 1996 (*dba Miss Greater Derry). It’s success has been greater than we imagined. In 2000 we awarded over $16,000 in scholarships, making us the 3rd highest awarding local pageant in the United States. In 2003 we awarded $28,450.00. … Since our inception, we have awarded $328,310.00 in scholarships.
Our board of directors and membership consists of volunteers who donate their time and resources to furthering our mission.
“The Miss Greater Derry Scholarship Pageant,” the site points out, “is a preliminary event to the Miss NH and Miss America Pageant.”
As reported by South Carolina’s WPDE, the pageant welcomed a unique contestant this year: 19-year-old biological male Brían Nguyen. Brían went head-to-head with females in the areas of — per Miss Greater Derry — “scholastic aptitude, talent, character, community service and poise.” And in the end, entrants with uteruses were no match for the prostate-possessing person.
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^ Hidden under the extra chins
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A prostate possessing 'la persónne'.
No, it won't be going to Kherson.
Except maybe as rations.
Couldn't make a girl happy either.
Not even as a cheap frisson.
But at least it's bullish on fashions!
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And all the other contestants who were actual females, dutifully and enthusiastically cheered this on. Given this and the recent unpleasantness in PA and it's clear we are just too stoopid as a nation to survive much longer. The hyenas are already circling. Who has Taiwan in March '23 on their Bingo Card?
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it's clear we are just too stoopid as a nation to survive much longer.
In Greater Derry, New Hampshire, anyway. Let’s see how much farther this goes before condemning the entire nation.
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I dont think Woke America has thought this through. Most Alpha types that I know, are not going to risk their lives defending this garbage. The longer America remains Woke, the less likely the warrior types are going to step up. And I dont think limp wristed gen z and millennial soybois are up to the task of defending the nation.
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TW: I'm 1st Gen Cali boy for my family, my older brother having been born in Dearborn MI. Our family has watched the rot spread across the entire national body and tried and failed to escape. There's nowhere to go. FL? Someone was recently fired for suggesting surgically removing it from the nation. They weren't fired becuase it was offensive, but that it gave the game away.
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Ref #9 above
I'm looking at the climate and monsoonal seasons for extended sea and air support from the mainland. March might be too close to the early start of the poor weather, and winter seems less hostile than I thought. So maybe even earlier?
"The period May-September is very rainy throughout the country because of the summer monsoon, while in the other seasons, rainfall depends on latitude and slope exposure. However, winter is the least rainy season everywhere."
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#13 Very logical. I'm still looking at the period Feb-Mar as Congress will be in flux with the swapping out of committees and all the posturing that takes place. Our eyes will be off the ball and our response as such will be even more chaotic. Also both the Germans (DDay) and Allies (German Ardennes offensive) made huge mistakes in assuming that the enemy would not undertake major offensive action in bad weather.
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#13 Ref #9 above
I'm looking at the climate and monsoonal seasons for extended sea and air support from the mainland. March might be too close to the early start of the poor weather, and winter seems less hostile than I thought. So maybe even earlier?
"The period May-September is very rainy throughout the country because of the summer monsoon, while in the other seasons, rainfall depends on latitude and slope exposure. However, winter is the least rainy season everywhere."
"Male pilots and cabin crew at the airline now can wear a “touch of mascara and lip color,” false eyelashes and painted nails."
If the people guiding the aluminum tube into and through a sometimes-unforgiving environment are confused about whether to put on pants or a skirt (see article), I'll take my chances elsewhere.
[NYP] "Airplane!" director David Zucker doesn’t think the jokes in the 1980 comedy would fly today.
When asked if his Leslie Nielsen-led flick could be made in 2022, the 75-year-old filmmaker said yes, but "without the jokes."
"We could be as offensive as we liked," Zucker told the conservative group PragerU about his movies, which also include "Scary Movie 3" and "Scary Movie 4."
"We went where the laughs were. We never thought that we were offending anyone, but if we were offending people, we knew we were on the right track. As time went on, it got to be the ’90s and the 2000s and it did change ... We never worried about any of this stuff with the ’Naked Gun’ or ’Scary Movie’ films," he added in the video posted online this week.
Critics say "Airplane!" has not aged well. Racist bits are woven into the script, such as when two black passengers talk with each other on the plane as English subtitles appear on the screen to translate their "jive." "Critics" can blow me
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I remember seeing Don Rickles recommend electrolysis to a woman in the audience to the delight of the crowd. He wouldn’t last 30 seconds on a stage today unless he was opening for Chappel.
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More of these, not less.
Was trying to come up with the last "breaking taboos comedy" to be released and decent - Tropic Thunder?
Recent movies are so bland, Cruella and Space Jam: Snooze Legacy are considered comedies.
Young man I know was super excited to go watch the new Black Panther this weekend. Didn't have the heart to tell him the advertising has all the trappings of a bad movie (seriously what happened to Marvel's CGI department? Looks like 2010 ScyFi crap)....then came across the movie review link over at Ace's. I'm going to let him make the mistake and hopefully learn, but oh my.
[BenarNews] Voters in American Samoa this week rejected three amendments to the U.S. territory’s constitution that would have given it more autonomy from the federal government.
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior wields significant power in American Samoa, including appointing top judges and having veto power over judicial and legislative decisions. The U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday were a once-in-a-decade opportunity to change American Samoa’s constitution, but voters opted for the status quo.
The proposed changes would have given the territory’s governor authority to appoint the chief justice and associate justices and would have removed the interior secretary’s powers to override the High Court of American Samoa and its legislature.
"I told my children not to vote for those changes," said Leinafo Mua, an elder in the Manu’a Islands group. "There is nothing wrong with the way things are, why change it for the sake of changing it? The time will come for that, but now is not the time."
Unofficial results released Wednesday by American Samoa’s election office showed the amendments were defeated by ratios of up to two to one.
It is the only U.S. territory where the interior secretary has such "immense powers," said Tapa’au Dr. Dan Aga, head of American Samoa’s Constitutional Convention Office, adding that the three amendments were aimed at developing the local government.
The weight given to Polynesian traditions and local self-determination versus the U.S. federal government’s authority is an ongoing debate in American Samoa, which has seen its population decline over the past decade.
Home to about 50,000 people — down from 56,000 in 2010 — American Samoa has been a U.S. territory for more than a century. The islands, about 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii, were administered by the U.S. Navy until the mid-19th century, when control was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Logoitino Fonoti, a resident of Tualauta County, said the results showed a lack of faith in American Samoa Gov. Lemanu Mauga.
"The result sends a strong message against removing these powers from the secretary," she said. "Maybe in the future we will have a governor we can trust and our people will be confident to remove those powers from the secretary."
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The Stephen Keshi Stadium is a multi-purpose complex in Asaba, Nigeria. The main venue at the complex is the Governor Okowa Main Bowl...Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria
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Stadiums B Hard
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I thought this sort of sports saga died with Sadaam’s sons.
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[Breitbart] A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison by a UK court after being found guilty of violating Chinese coronavirus lockdown rules by selling mince pies at a shooting club and attempting to destroy evidence afterwards.
Maurice Snelling was found guilty of violating the tier-three lockdown restrictions put in place by the government in 2020 after he pled guilty to perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to six months in prison.
Snelling had claimed that his business had a Cheshire postcode, a county which at the time had been under tier-two restrictions which were less restrictive.
However the court found the Cloudside Shooting Grounds where Snelling served wine and mince pies actually lies just across the county border in Staffordshire, which only allowed takeaway or drive-through, the BBC reports.
The report notes that Snelling had tried to remove the hard disk from the venue’s CCTV system.
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This is a head fake. The fundamentals suck, and haven’t changed. PS the reported inflation numbers are bunk: their index undercounts the cost of shelter (rent, mortgage), which should be about 30% of the index. Account correctly for shelter, and the true inflation rate is double digits.
No way Powell can rein in inflation when the fed’s rate is barely HALF the true inflation rate.
This little bubble will burst soon enough. Buy NASDAQ puts.
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^ This. The CPI is calculated according to "a basket of products and services" that does not reflect actual consumer behavior.
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Paul Volcker had to ratchet rates up to mid-teens before Carter’s stagflation could be broken. We are nowhere near the end of this. When Nasdaq jumps 6% in one session, buy NASDAQ puts.
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The fundamentals suck, and haven’t changed.
Exactly. Even for those of us who bought a house before interest rates started to climb and who have paid off our cars, food costs hundreds of dollars more per month, gasoline is doubled, and thank goodness it’s been a warm autumn because this winter’s utility prices are a frightening thought.
[NYT via Red State] Turns out that one of the top people in the Oathkeepers — their vice president — was an FBI informant, according to the NY Times.
An F.B.I. informant who was embedded for months in the inner circle of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, is likely to testify as a defense witness at the seditious conspiracy trial of Mr. Rhodes in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I. about the group’s activities in the weeks and months leading up to the Capitol attack, according to two people familiar with the matter.
But that wasn’t all. Let’s read on.
Mr. McWhirter is the second known F.B.I. confidential source who was in a position to provide information to federal agents about the Oath Keepers before Jan. 6, raising questions about why investigators did not know more about the attack on the Capitol.
Near the start of Mr. Rhodes’s trial, Abdullah Rasheed, a former Oath Keeper from West Virginia, told the jury that he became alarmed by the violent language Mr. Rhodes used during a video conference with members of his group in November 2020 and provided the F.B.I. with a recording of the call.
"The more I listened to the call," Mr. Rasheed testified, "it sounded like we were going to war against the United States government."
Officials at the F.B.I. did not respond to Mr. Rasheed’s initial attempts to contact them and only reached out to him after Jan. 6.
The F.B.I. also had a confidential source in the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys in the months leading up to Jan. 6. That person, a low-level member of the far-right group, marched with other Proud Boys into the Capitol on Jan. 6. But in meetings with the government before the Capitol was stormed, he told investigators that the organization had not planned to attack the building and stop the certification of the 2020 election.
That was in addition to the fact that the head of the Proud Boys had also been a government informant in the past and just coincidentally was arrested before Jan. 6 so he wasn’t at the site of the riot.
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Mr. McWhirter is the second known F.B.I. confidential source who was in a position to provide information to federal agents about the Oath Keepers before Jan. 6, raising questions about why investigators did not know more about the attack on the Capitol.
Know more about? WTF, they were orchestrating it !
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If you know the identities or whereabouts of these two persons of interest, please call the Boston Office, FBI Special Agent In Charge at the number provided at the bottom of your television screen.
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This has been suspected for quite a long time. Much of the discontent in the local chapters was based on just such speculation going back to the 2016 street battles.
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Know more about? WTF, they were orchestrating it !
One would think the FBI had their hands full fomenting the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.
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Hopefully, Trump will be back with the added superpower of being able to fire more than just Comey. Cleaning house will also glut the market for leftist commentators which will screw Vindman.
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[ZERO] First two years of lame duck gridlock, now this.
Late on Thursday, a federal judge in Texas ruled that 80-year-old (ok, fine 79 for another 10 days) President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.
District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Donald Trump in Fort Worth, ruled in a lawsuit backed by the Job Creators Network Foundation on behalf of two borrowers.
Pittman in a 26-page ruling wrote that the HEROES Act - a law that provides loan assistance to military personnel and that was relied upon by the Biden administration to enact the relief plan - did not authorize the $400 billion student loan forgiveness program.
"The Program is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power and must be vacated," Pittman wrote.
[BenarNews] A seven-day overseas trip looks likely to prove the biggest test of U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... ’s foreign policy chops since he entered office last year, with four back-to-back summits culminating in what could be his first face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping as president.
Biden departs Thursday for Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP27 meeting. He then attends the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, and East Asia summits, which are this year in Phnom Penh, and the G-20 leaders meeting in Bali, Indonesia.
While the COP27 meeting will provide the president with a platform to promote his vision for fighting climate change, his administration’s capacity to make substantive pledges is expected to be restrained by shared power in Congress in the wake of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
More significant will be the summits in Southeast Asia starting Saturday.
Biden’s first task will be convincing ASEAN leaders in Phnom Penh that Washington remains a helpful counterbalance as Beijing seeks to assume the role of regional hegemon. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, and leaves the same day as Biden.
"Biden is going to Phnom Penh to demonstrate U.S. respect for and engagement with ASEAN, ASEAN-centrality and the role of ASEAN multilateral institutions in the security of the Indo-Pacific Region," Carl Thayer, emeritus professor at the Australian Defense Force Academy in Canberra, told Radio Free Asia, adding that China would be in focus.
"He will also try to assuage those ASEAN leaders who are swayed by China’s rhetoric that the U.S. is the root cause of regional instability," he said. "Biden will repeat longstanding U.S. policy that the United States will cooperate with China where it can, but resist China where it must."
During the summit in Phnom Penh, U.S.-ASEAN relations are expected to be upgraded to the status of a "comprehensive strategic partnership" — as China-ASEAN relations were during last year’s summit in Brunei — before Cambodia hands over the group’s rotating chairmanship to Indonesia.
The future of ASEAN member Myanmar is also expected to feature heavily during the summits, with human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups calling for the summit to enact embargoes on arms and jet fuel to Naypyidaw ...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese... .
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Comedic interludes on the Asian stage, coupled with the disastrous mid-terms outcome will convince friends and allies alike to rethink the strong-horse, weak-horse assessments for the Pacific and will further cement the fate of Taiwan.
Look for Xi to create another PR moment like the Hu Jintao removal, perhaps Xi just walking out on Biden after some impasse. Something to show dominance and loss of face for the clueless puppet.
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Every pivot towards foreign policy is more lighter fluid into the conflagration… then he can pivot back to destroying our economy and obliterating our values.
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[Yahoo Finance] The next Warren Buffett? *SNORT* This Fortune mag was on the table in a waiting room I was in yesterday
Editor's note: This story is developing. Check back for updates.
Crypto exchange FTX and many of its affiliated companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company announced on Friday, with FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried stepping down as CEO.
"I'm really sorry, again, that we ended up here," Bankman-Fried, a former crypto billionaire, said in a Twitter post that went out soon after the filing announcement.
John J. Ray III will take over as chief executive, while Bankman-Fried will assist during the transition. The filing for the affiliate, Alameda Research LLC, lists between $10 billion and $50 billion assets, between $10 billion and $50 billion in liabilities, and more than 100,000 creditors.
"The immediate relief of Chapter 11 is appropriate to provide the FTX group the opportunity to assess its situation develop a process to maximize recoveries for stakeholders," Ray, who has previous experience as a restructuring attorney and reorganization officer for companies like Enron and Fruit of the Loom, said in the statement. "The FTX group has valuable assets that can only be effectively administrated in an organized joint fashion. I want to ensure every employee, customer, creditor, contract party, stockholder, investor, government authority, and other stakeholders that we are going to conduct this effort with due diligence, thoroughness, and transparency."
The Chapter-11 filing is the latest development in what has been a catastrophic week for the troubled exchange, which has rattled the crypto universe with contagion fears.
Bitcoin sold off 4% after the release to trade below $17,000. Ether, which sold off by as much as 5%, is changing hands around $1,250. The total cryptocurrency market capitalization has dropped by 4% in the hour following the release from $880 billion to $857 billion, according to Coinmarketcap.
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They played their role to much success. They are no longer needed.
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OK, that's it. I'm putting my money in tulip bulbs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Red State] An iconic American institution has declared another champion, and this one’s especially historic.
[NYP] "Airplane!" director David Zucker doesn’t think the jokes in the 1980 comedy would fly today.
[Breitbart] A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison by a UK court after being found guilty of violating Chinese coronavirus lockdown rules by selling mince pies at a shooting club and attempting to destroy evidence afterwards.
[NYT via Red State] Turns out that one of the top people in the 
If you know the identities or whereabouts of these two persons of interest, please call the Boston Office, FBI Special Agent In Charge at the number provided at the bottom of your television screen. 
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
[Yahoo Finance] 
