You know things have to be pretty bad politically at the Arizona border for its Democrat governor to challenge the do-nothing Democrat president

 

The Biden administration has failed to respond to Governor Hobbs’ request for reimbursement for border security spending.

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And Reuters.

Independent U.S. presidential candidate RFK Jr now has until March 5 to get on the ballot in Utah

 At a recent rally in Kansas City, Missouri, Kennedy asked the crowd of about 300 voters for help. The state requires independent candidates to collect 10,000 signatures by July 29 to appear on the 2024 general election presidential ballot. ...

The requirements for ballot access for candidates who are not the Democratic or Republican nominees vary widely from state to state, and the first deadlines are in early March, for North Carolina and Utah. Utah originally required independent candidates to file by Jan. 8, 2024, but earlier this month — soon after Kennedy filed a lawsuit against the state — it changed the date to March 5. ...

Kennedy's ballot access drive will also be heavily underwritten by the super PAC supporting him, American Values 2024. In December, the super PAC announced it would be investing $10 million to $15 million to put him on the ballot in at least 10 states . . ..

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The story likes to compare RFK Jr. to H. Ross Perot, but there's no way that RFK Jr. has anything close to the same appeal Perot once had and which still won him nothing.

Kennedy admits he's a spoiler, but most Americans still want a serious, positive candidacy, not a nattering nabob of negativism. 

 

World's largest shipping carrier MSC abandons Red Sea/Suez Canal travel, will divert vessels around Africa after Friday attacks by Iran-backed Houthi Rebels of Yemen, Biden administration dithers and jibbers

 MSC, the world’s largest shipping carrier, joins shipping giants Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk in Red Sea travel pause amid attacks :

 

 

 

MSC, the world’s largest shipping carrier, said it is no longer traveling through the Suez Canal after its container ship, the MSC PALATIUM III, was attacked Friday while transiting the Red Sea under a subcharter to Messina Line.  ...

In response to Friday’s attacks, in which three vessels were attacked, the World Shipping Council said it is deeply alarmed and concerned about the escalating crisis, and that it’s calling for decisive action to protect seafarers.

“The right of freedom of navigation stands as a fundamental right under international law, and must be safeguarded,” the council said. “The time for resolute international engagement is now.”

The U.S. government has been in discussions with countries of the 39-member Combined Maritime Forces to form a maritime task force to “ensure safe passage” of ships in the Red Sea.

U.S. Central Command, which oversees America’s military interests in the Middle East, has told CNBC discussions are ongoing.

Bezos already lives there

 BEZOS: WE'LL ALL LIVE IN OUTERSPACE...

Divided Democrats help more divided Republicans pass record high $886 billion NDAA which extends 5.2% pay raise to U.S. military, leaves woke policies intact, authorizes four more months of domestic spying authority

Congress passes $886 billion defense policy bill, Biden to sign into law :

 Congress has passed an NDAA for 63 straight years.

The roll call vote is here. 

 

This is a stain on the free nations of the world, which continue to tolerate Iran-backed Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea

Intercepting missiles is not enough.

Maersk to pause all container ship traffic through the Red Sea 

"we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice”

Maybe Trump is polling well because people remember a little actual food deflation under him, unlike now

 

Bloomberg/Morning Consult polling in key battlegrounds shows Trump the winner everywhere

 

There's a solution to the Boston mayor's no-whites-invited holiday party

 

Inflation rate at 4% year over year two months in a row is not the soft landing we were promised

 

Hiding the decline part two: Long-suppressed tree ring data discovered by Stephen McIntyre shows 11th century A.D. temperature to be much higher than in the 20th

Medieval Warm Period for the win.

 

OMG, video surfaces of IDF decapitating a plastic figurine in a toy store in Gaza

 AP Obama calls it

"destruction that is unnecessary for Israel’s security objectives" lol.

Sultan al Jaber keeps COP28 lunatics from taking the world back to the stone age lolz

 Anger and frustration as COP28 draft text omits fossil fuel phaseout

The burning of coal, oil and gas accounts for more than three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is for this reason that so many had pushed for the COP28 outcome to show that “we are truly at the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era.”

However, COP28 President Sultan al Jaber faced a backlash last week when he claimed there was “no science” behind calls for a phase-out of fossil fuels, and that such a move would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves.”

They always leave out that 82% of global energy comes from coal, oil, and gas.

You can't just wave a magic wand and make it all go away without committing global murder in the process.

 

Rufo only scratched the surface, Claudine Gay of Harvard reportedly has a long history of plagiarism according to Aaron Sibarium

 Along with her dissertation, the decades-long pattern paints a picture of sloppiness, at best, and willful dishonesty at worst.

The whole sorry business is recounted here. 

 

The plagiarism matter is entirely separate from the main show, however, in my opinion.

The character pattern of willfully omitting attribution involved in plagiarism is certainly related to the habit of Hamas defenders ignoring Hamas' crimes against Israel, of course, but it distracts from the issue which made Claudine Gay an issue in the first place.

She and the other university presidents could not bring themselves to say unequivocally that calls for a genocide of Jews violated their campus bullying and harassment policies.

Focusing on Gay's academic failings is already obscuring that.

It was a TRAP lol

 Presidents of America's top universities too stupid to see it coming!

 

Once a Nazi Barbie always a Nazi Barbie

". . . in the Middle East", but not in Israel.

 

See All the Photos of Taylor Swift and Her A-List Friends After Attending Ramy Youssef’s Comedy Show

All proceeds from the comedy show that Swift and her BFFs attended will go to support the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East

Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift enjoy a night out in Brooklyn. Photo: 

TheImageDirect.com

Published on December 10, 2023 07:30PM EST

Taylor Swift spent some quality time with her BFFs!

The singer, 33, enjoyed a night out with friends in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday evening, when she and several pals — including Selena Gomez, Cara Delevingne, Anya Taylor-Joy and Zoë Kravitz — attended a Ramy Youssefcomedy show.

Part of the comedian's More Feelings tour, the sold-out show took place at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and will see 100% of proceeds going to support the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East through the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA).

ANERA, per its website, is a non-governmental organization that provides aid to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Jordan. 

Keep reading to see all the photos from Swift's night out with her pals.

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Why does he frame it this way if he's got the goods on her?

 

Donald Trump 2023 is Bill Clinton 1992/1996 winning with a plurality because of third party candidates in Wall Street Journal poll

 

West's alignment with Hamas and Kennedy's openly stated purpose as a spoiler candidate combine to make them chiefly candidacies hurting the incumbent Joe Biden, but everything depends on them getting on the ballot in enough places.

Perot bled votes away from the incumbent George H. W. Bush in 1992, and from Republican Bob Dole in 1996, resulting in Clinton winning each contest but not with 50% of the popular vote.

 

Trump 37, Biden 31, Kennedy 8, West 3, Manchin 3, Stein 2, Mapstead 1

Boltneck sounds the alarm lol

 John F. Kerry, who served in Vietnam, let one go at the Dubai Climate Change Conference during his anti-coal spiel.

Wind energy. Bronx cheer. Emissions. Passing greenhouse gases. Loud fart. It's all here except for the skid mark.

Yeah right, like POC don't say that about whitey every damn day and get away with it

 God's chosen people strike again:

Maher on Anti-Israel Protesters: There Is No Other Group That You Can Say "F*** The Blank" And Have It Be Acceptable