CALL IT GRIFTER GOVERNMENT. But don’t call it government of, by, and for the people. And be sure to follow the embedded I&I link.

I'm afraid the only way to be sure that Washington DC political corruption is fixed is to nuke it from orbit.

FOR JUST $83,140 (PER YEAR) Princeton University will train your son to be a drag queen.

I wonder: How much of that $83,140 tuition is subsidized by we the (taxpaying) people?

FUN IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN: Broadcasters should avoid ‘problematic’ shots of alcohol covering sporting events.

MORE PROOF (IF ANY IS NEEDED) that they're absolutely freaking nuts: Cornell renames English Department as part of ‘decolonization efforts'.

ANOTHER CASE OF FUMU (FUCK UP, MOVE UP). A new home for discredited liberals progressives.

Harvard must be so proud....

ANOTHER REASON to not let your child go to university.

Not only is it child abuse, it's a waste of time and money.

AMMO GRRRLL HAS THOUGHTS on things that are scarier than climate change.

HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU about the Democrats' battle with inflation?

This confident?

KURT SCHLICHTER: "A world without failure is necessarily a world without success."

OUR RULING CLASS HAS A LOT TO HIDE: Dr. Anthony Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters "without a record of entry" where he participated in the analysis to influence the Agency's Covid-19 investigation.

THE WASHINGTON POST MAKES STARTLING DISCOVERY: Texas has a lot of guns.

THE NINTH AMENDMENT: There are more rights than just what the Constitution spells out.

KURT SCHLICHTER: That annoying Gavin Newsom is measuring the Oval Office drapes.

Again? Or is it 'still'?

THE AIR HAS GONE OUT OF THE CLIMATE-CRISIS BALLOON: Even Bill Gates is backtracking.

It's those pesky unintended consequences again....

JOHN FETTERMAN CAN WEAR SHORTS; you can't.

Much more here.

DO THEY REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT 50% MEANS? Australia bans bad grades.

Australia morphed into Lake Woebegon so slowly I almost didn't notice....

UNHERD: Blue collar workers are our only hope.

Back in the dark ages when I was still working, we had the 80/20 rule (80% of the work was done by 20% of the workers). This is little more than a modern-day update.

WELL, DEMOCRATS, YOU DEMANDED IT: Philadelphia swarmed by looters targeting Apple, Lululemon, Footlocker, and other stores.

HEH. Commander Biden bites another Secret Service agent.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on Minnesota winters and Arizona summers.

THEY'RE LEARNING. It's a bit late but they're learning. San Francisco mayor announces plan to require drug testing, treatment to receive homeless services.

HOW WE KNOW GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED SOCIAL SECURITY IS FAILING: Desire for large families hits 50-year high in America.

Large families are privatized social security.

YOU ASKED FOR IT; YOU GOT IT: Seabound bandits terrorize San Francisco Bay.

BRAVO BLUE: More mush from the elites.

WHY ARE LIBERALS SUCH HYPOCRITES? Because they believe the rules don't apply to them.

Hell, that hypocrisy has been obvious to me for at least 50 years.

NOTHING: You won't believe what we're spending ONE TRILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000,000,000) to buy.

TULSI GABBARD LETS DEMOCRATS HAVE IT over weaponizing our justice system for political gain.

I'm torn between wanting her to switch parties and become a Republican or staying a Democrat and working to clean up that godawful mess the progressives have made of her party.

IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN, don’t be surprised to hear Democrats and Mainstream Media types crying about the sky falling.

It'll be hard to hear over the sounds of the rest of us cheering.

I AGREE WITH 'STUPID': Carville calls far-left 'most stupid, naïve people you can imagine'.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on appropriate attire for John Fetterman. Given the quality of our 'leadership' it ought to be the mandated dress code for all of Congress.

And the U.S. government as well....

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Why our Generals can’t think.

THAT BIG? George Gascón, moral pygmy.

A RANDOM THOUGHT from 5 years ago.

Still true today....

THEY’RE FINALLY RIDDING THEMSELVES OF THOSE NASTY CAPITALISTS: Berkeley retail shutting down just like San Francisco.

Well, they hate capitalism. They should be happy....

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Native American group wants NFL 'Redskins' team name back.

Lawfare works both ways. It's that double-edged sword thingy....

CITY JOURNAL: The Cluster-B society.

There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down. Healthy debate is replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence; violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as “toxic,” while men in dresses are celebrated in the public square. It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown.

When I was in college those many, many years ago, we used to call them 'clusterfuckers'. Read it all.

“IT’S THE CONSTITUTION, STUPID.” We have to destroy the First Amendment in order to save it.

WOKE POLITICS is only popular with neurotic well-off white liberals, which is not what they’ve been working to import for the last 20 years.

NO. YOU MADE YOUR BED, NOW SLEEP IN IT. Desperate plea for help by NY Governor Kathy Hochul.

I don't do bailouts....

HE'S REAL: The rarely seen reason Donald Trump supporters will not abandon him.

IS THE TIDE TURNING? Democrat mayor of Dallas switches to GOP. "American cities need Republicans."

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Liars. Nothing but liars.

Be warned.

FALLING LEAVES 2023. Episode 2. This week is something different as I highlight the damage done by the [hard] freeze we had earlier this year. This first picture is basically my 'pond from the deck' picture, only taken from the other side of the house to highlight the damaged tree just off the back deck. The leaves are already brown and I'm afraid the tree is mostly dead. It will probably have to be taken down this winter [that's our new Starlink antenna you can see at the peak of the carport roof].

The next picture is of the pond, taken from our dock. As you can see it's mostly green with brown evident in the tree canopy. Which is unusual for this time year as the pond is in the valley, mostly protected from winds and freezing weather.

The next picture is of our road, looking mostly north, with the trees on the opposite side of the road mostly (or nearly) dead. In a way, that's good since it gives our Starlink satellite internet a better view of the sky as the constellation satellites come over the horizon, but still ... I like trees.

The final picture this week is of our barn and the forest beyond to reassure everyone that it's still early Fall.

Until next week....

HOT AIR: Your daily dose of doomity doom doom doom.

And

We are already on a track for mandated divestment of children, personal vehicles, warmth in winter, lights in the darkness, meat products, cheese, and any general sense of comfort in our lives. What’s left to strip away, you ask?

Um, pets? And sanity?

I WOULD RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST that firing the top 4,000 might have a salutary effect on the rest....

EVEN THE FEDERAL RESERVE isn't immune from Bidenomics.

THEY WENT FROM PROBLEM SOLVING to problem creating.

THESE CHURCH SIGNS are so hilarious we're pretty sure we can hear God laughing.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on the state of education in America. Sadly, not even private schools are immune.

THE RIGHT HAND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE LEFT HAND IS DOING. The Biden administration is pushing solar panels while simultaneously looking to block sunlight.

SHE HAS THOUGHTS? Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris.

STUFF IT, GOVERNOR HYPOCRITE. Gavin Newsom flew from California to New York to tell the UN that burning gas is destroying the planet.

CHATURBATE NATION: We deserve better than porn stars and a zombie in public office.

Do we? Really?

“GOD DAMN THE PUSHER MAN.” The real data behind the new COVID vaccines the White House is pushing.

Since I have a somewhat continuing interest in living, I'll skip the White House/CDC advice for the next several years millennia.

IT'S A BIT LATE, but here's last Saturday's Week in Pictures from PowerLine. My favorite is this one

but only because this one wasn't in the stack.

Now go see them all.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON takes on Mao Zedong's the progressive Left's Cultural Revolution. What we've learned:

One, it depends solely on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others.

And two, dangerous zealots with titles before and letters after their names prove to be quite stupid -- and dangerous.

For the record, I gave up the letters after my name years ago. The final one proved to be a worthless waste of time and money....

SANCTUARY CITY'S LIBERAL MAYOR 'fearful' illegal aliens will seek sanctuary in her city.

Virtue is appealing to the Left only when it comes at no cost....

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU WANT. You're going get it good and hard anyway.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: A letter to our 'betters'.*

*Who incidentally are scum of the Earth....

BLAMESHIFTING? Blue city district attorney decries culture of lawlessness emboldening brazen criminals.

The DA seemed to understand the problem but the solution was (is always) someone else's responsibility.

THEY ALSO MAKE UGLY, SLOVENLY SLOBS: Clothes make the man.

DARK BRANDON IS DUMB, NOT COOL: Joe Biden has 'let them eat cake' moment plugging new 'Dark Brandon' mug.

THANK THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: The Fed is losing money and you’re going to foot the bill.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION hands $6,000,000,000 (that's billion, with a 'B') to terror sponsor Iran for hostages, in deal announced on 9/11.

BECAUSE TRUTH IS FATAL TO LEFTISM. Why are leftists against truth?

THE FARCE IS STRONG AT THE ATLANTIC: How to stop the minority-rule doom loop.

This article was written in April 2021, shortly after the Biden inauguration. They got the analysis right, just blamed the wrong party (it's called 'projection').

SHOE: Now we know....

KURT SCHLICHTER: "The country you grew up loving is no longer a potent powerhouse. It’s a pitiful punchline, and this joke isn’t funny anymore."

Read it all.

THIS IS WHAT THE RIGHT SHOULD DO MORE OF: UN leaders rail against emissions swarms of gas guzzling SUVs descend on New York City.

Highlight their hypocrisy. Publicly -- and loudly -- humiliate them.

I'M FINE WITH THAT: Gavin Newsom is going to destroy California.

Arizona and Nevada need beachfront property....

IF I HAD MY DRUTHERS, I'll go with the spineless sheep.

I. AM. NOT. MAKING. THIS. UP. Comic relief from the Left.

The clown show continues....

A MYSTERIOUS HIDDEN FORCE is generating water on the moon.

It's the Nazis.

SO PLEASE KEEP STRIKING: SAG-AFTRA union strike stopping artists from making 'worldview-changing' LGBT stories.

BUT FOR WHOM? If Biden is re-elected, “We will have saved American democracy”.

SO HOW LONG UNTIL REPARATIONS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS? New York City to consider creating a reparations task force.

HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: To be fair, you can see why she’s in favor of unearned accomplishment.

DOUBLING DOWN ON PROGRESSIVISM STUPID: Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store after Walmart, Whole Foods close stores in the city.

Can't target criminals; they're a protected class in Chicago....

PROGRESSIVES. What happened to the great West Coast cities?

Follow the embedded link to the full article.

SHE WANTS EVERYONE TO BE AS BAD AS HER: Kamala Harris says government must enforce ‘equal outcomes.’

LIBERAL SANCTUARY CITIES GET WHAT THEY VOTED FOR — and they're going broke.

Suck it up -- you'll get no sympathy from me.

WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S CALLED "AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD"? The time between a Babylon Bee satire and reality is now down to about 24 hours.

FALLING LEAVES 2023, Episode 1: It's been significantly cooler of late, and leaves are beginning to show up on the road, so it must be time for my annual 'Falling Leaves' series. I start with my usual views of the pond and fire pit from our carport deck.

There's still plenty of green around, but you can see in the upper right corner of the pond view there's a bit of thinning and brown in the trees, some of which I think is a remnant of the hard freeze we had at the end of last winter.

The roses and day lilies are still flowering along the fence line, but the grass is beginning to brown, as are some of the tree leaves at the left in this picture. We haven't (yet) had that bellwether image that starkly indicates the future.

Here's the house view from about halfway down to our pond. I didn't weedeat this year, so the ground cover is very dense. It'll slowly die out as the days progress and maybe this year I'll cut it down before spring springs.

The pond area around the dock is beginning to show signs of winter. The flowers along the water are clearly declining, and the trees along the back side of the dam are beginning to show significant signs of leaves browning -- no colors yet, though.

The pond, however, is still in (mostly) summertime mode. A little bit of brown along the tops of the trees is the only real sign of winter coming.

Until next week....

I TOLD YOU: Kurt Schlichter punches back.

THE PRICE OF VIRTUE SIGNALING: Massachusetts National Guard deployed to assist with spiraling migrant crisis.

TELL 'EM THE TRUTH -- LOUDLY. Here's how Republicans can get minority voters to abandon the Democrats.

As insane as the Democrats' progressive wing has gotten, I don't think 'loudly' is even necessary.

IN YOUR FACE: Ammunition company offers free shipping to New Mexico residents in defiance of gun ban.

The revolution is beginning has begun.

ARE TRANSGENDER KIDS just emotional support animals for adults?

I suspect there's more than a little truth to that question. Read it all.

AUSTIN, TEXAS, USED TO BE A BEAUTIFUL CITY: Videos show prized Austin greenbelt destroyed by homeless encampments.

I used to live there. It was a beautiful city. Then the progressives took over. I won't go back. Even for a drive-thru.

MORE LOOSE ENDS: Even the Washington Post is recommending that President Biden (and Kamala Harris!) not run in 2024.

We should be so lucky....

GLENN REYNOLDS on neurosis and the Curley effect.

The 'Curley effect' isn't mentioned until late in Reynolds' article, but I'm convinced it's less an effect than it is a deliberate Progressive strategy to maintain power (see, for example, California emigration).

BYE-BYE NET ZERO? "There has been no official announcement from the officials who preside over the official institutions of climate change hysteria and the glorious five-year plans for “energy transition,” but if you pay close attention you can make out the beginnings of an across-the-board retreat from the Net-Zero madness that has gripped governments everywhere."

I'M NOT. Are you down to die for the cultural imperatives the Chardonnay-swilling wine women set?

Read it all.

NOT EVEN HER OWN TEAM WILL SUPPORT HER: New Mexico Attorney General refuses to defend Governor Lujan Grisham's Second Amendment suspension.

Not only are the peasants revolting, so is the administration....

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA) leaves Liberals seething after he reads excerpts from Gender Queer during a Senate hearing.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Whenever I have the misfortune to tune in to a 'news' (opinion) show on television, the news (opinion) host is always asking the guest 'talk to us about...'. What happened to the simpler 'tell us about...'?

SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW? Democrats hate democracy.

SO VOTE REPUBLICAN

Preferably for Trump.

POWERLINE'S DAILY CHART: Time to start buying wheelbarrow futures -- if you haven't already.

AMERICA DOESN'T NEED AN ELECTION; it needs an exorcism.

I'd rather have an election but an exorcism will do....

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: The life you save may be your own.

I'm comfortable with that. I'm not comfortable with my own government trying to kill me.

LET'S DO IT: Maybe a temporary government shutdown is necessary.

For most of the government, permanent would be better....

SEPTEMBER 11TH EPILOGUE: The monsters within.

CANADA ASKS: "CAN HE STAY THERE?" Trudeau stuck halfway around the world after G20 visit goes wrong.

SEPTEMBER 11: Then and now.

THE BABYLON BEE is reporting straight news again.

THE MEANING of 'Never Forget'.

WE STILL REMEMBER:

Twenty-two years ago today.

NO NUKES ARE GOOD NUKES. Until the lights go out.

PUT NEW CURTAINS IN THE OVAL OFFICE. Kamala Harris knows what to do in case Biden doesn't make to the end of his term.

RANDOM THOUGHT ON THE NYC MIGRANT 'CRISIS': Virtue is much harder (and more expensive) than virtue signaling.

So suck it up, Democrats.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: As I saw it. Coverage begins at 9:00 into the video and lasts 2 hours.

A very grim reminder.

Linked from Instapundit here. I highly recommend also reading Salena Zito's 2022 rememberance in Instapundit's post. I've linked to it here as well.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: We will never forget.

Courtesy of Mallard Fillmore.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: New Mexico criminals excited to hear no one will be armed for entire month. Thanks to New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. I loved New Mexico when I lived there but the state has gone down the toilet since I left. Even the illegal migrants won't stay....

CLIMATE 'SCIENTIST' Yes, I cooked my Nature article on global warming.

More here.

Don't trust them. Don't ever trust them. They lie.

NO SURPRISE HERE: Bernie Sanders unveils plan to impoverish millions of Americans.

Not including him, of course.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE AWSOME, except when they break down and there's no one to fix them.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What the Left did to our country.

Obama's legacy isn't pretty. Read it all.

ALL TO SAVE A BARREL OF OIL: New ship puts wind in the sails of voyage to net zero.

The apocalypse is now....

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] on CDC leadership, the Biden administration, and Hamburger Helper.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Dooming is tiresome; start fighting.

IMPERIALISM: Lessons the Biden administration has yet to learn.

It's from Victor Davis Hanson, so be sure to read in full.

YES, THEY ARE 'LOONEY TUNES' CRAZY. MSNBC columnist demands Trump 'must die in prison' to protect democracy.

YA THINK? There is a lot of crazy on the Left.

I think it would be easier to just point out that there's very little sanity there....

OUR BACK YARD IS SACROSANCT: Yours, not so much.

'POOR CAT' IS NOW HATE SPEECH: Ammo Grrrll contemplates what might be THE NATIONAL DIVORCE.

YES. YES IT IS. Is higher education bad for America?

It destroys common sense. It used to enhance it....

LIBERALS GLOATED; then reality struck.

SORRY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS: The penguins are okay.

So are the polar bears.

SHE'S NUTS: Pelosi says many Trump supporters don't value human dignity for everyone.

We can thank our lucky stars that she's no longer Speaker of the House.

THE GREAT CHINA-AMERICA ABYSS: What happens when the tables are turned?

The answer is in the last paragraph. It's not pretty.

MAKING MONEY: Step right up for your doom loop tour. Only 30 bucks.

Where there are lemons, there's lemonade....

WHICH MAY EXPLAIN why academia is so dogged about maleducating our youth. Knowledge is sanity.

IF YOU'RE NOT A VICTIM, YOU DON'T COUNT: Another white lady(?) gets caught trying to pass for Native American.

But don't worry, she gets to keep the cash....

TRUTH: The deficiencies of Mr. Trump are different from those of Mr. Biden, but the latter’s personal culpabilities and political liabilities are what any normal, uninvested person would call grave.

"Grave' is an understatement. Read the whole thing.

I ALWAYS WONDERED about the origin of this poem.

NEBRASKA STATE SEN. MEGAN HUNT [D, now I] SUGGESTS RILEY GAINES IS A 'SORE LOSER'. Gaines responds: “Nebraska girls deserve better than you.”

RANDOM THOUGHT: President Biden stands so tall he could walk upright beneath a snake's belly.

THE ONLY QUESTION IS "WHOSE THUMB?" Is America under the thumb of a shadow President?

Frankly I think the Biden administration is too chaotic for there to be any single actor 'in charge'.

PROGRESSIVISM EXPLAINED:

Seen in The Daily Gouge.

WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY ARE A SOON-TO-COME TRAIN WRECK. Under current government policy, you and I are passengers on that train.

THIS HIGH SCHOOL PUT TAMPON DISPENSERS IN THE BOY'S BATHROOMS: You'll be proud of how they responded.

THANK YOU KURT SCHLICHTER. This political prosecution scheme is going to backfire hard.

I, too, favor retribution, but I shouldn't.

FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE DAY: Stray dog breaks out of animal shelter, hangs out at nursing home, gets adopted by residents.

The same with cats ... when my mother went to a nursing home they had an (adopted) resident cat who made the rounds daily.

BECAUSE THEY KEEP LEAVING THE PLANTATION? Why fo Democrats hate black Americans?

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: There's a new czar in town.

SO LOS ANGELES IS A SANCTUARY CITY by invitation only?

“LA has not extended an invitation asking for people to come. This is a political act,” [Mayor Karen] Bass said, despite declaring Los Angeles a sanctuary city in June.

It must hurt when your hypocrisy is exposed....

NATIVE AMERICAN LEADERS: 'Toxic ignorance' and 'racist White woke' academics fuel effort to erase imagery from sports.

We want our Redskins back.

IS THERE ANYTHING GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE CAN'T DO? Two hundred ship bottleneck at drought-stricken Panama Canal.

BIDEN'S BEEN IN OFFICE now for a bit over 2-1/2 years. Here's how he's doing compared to the first 2-1/2 years of the two prior presidents:

Trump is in red; Obama, blue; and Biden, green. The data is courtesy of the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index.

DEMOCRACY DIES in very public meltdowns.

Democracy has long been dead at THE Washington Post.

AMMO GRRRLL has a great idea:

I hear Jeffrey Epstein’s Pedo Island may be up for sale. That would be a great place for all men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men and white geezer professors pretending to be Indians and white women pretending to be black – to move to and organize your own little free-for-all pretend society. Oh, heck, we’ll even throw in Meghan Markle, a light beige, talentless ninny pretending to be oppressed, and a Player To Be Named Later.

Her comments on men -- and WOMEN -- are absolutely on point. Read it all.

WE CAN'T BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE so it must be white people.

I find it somewhat amusing that the NYT editorial board is majority white....

WHAT? CALIFORNIANS DON'T WANT TO FREEZE IN THE DARK? California to expand fossil fuel project Gavin Newsom said he was 'fully committed' to shutting down.

TOUGH SHIT, JOE: New Hampshire Democrats defy Biden, DNC ultimatum to ditch first-in-nation primary.

Suck it up.