EXXON KNEW! is the battle cry that has inflamed and inspired climate activists for decades.
But the activists lied, first about warming, now about recycling plastics.

[M]any types of plastics have little post-use demand or simply cannot be recycled. Others are integrated with electrical circuitry (motherboards and keyboards) or with paper or metal (laminates for food containers), making it impossible to separate and recycle them.

An excellent solution is to turn plastics and most other garbage into electricity for our increasingly power-hungry society – especially as AI and data centers proliferate, and politicians mandate that we convert our gas stoves, ovens, furnaces and water heaters to electric models.

A municipal waste-to-energy (WTE) / resource recovery facility can perform these wondrous conversions.

This just a short introduction; read the whole thing.

THIS RACE IS CLOSE only because the public education indoctrination mill has succeeded.

If a person goes to a surgeon needing both a cancerous tumor removed and a knee replacement, the patient doesn’t opt for the knee replacement in the hope that the cancer will go away. Yes, things will be a lot better, but that tumor keeps on growing. At this point in American history, voter fraud is the bad knee and public education indoctrination is the cancer.

True. Read it all.

LEFTOVER CARTOONS II:

Enjoy.

KURT SCHLICHTER HAS A TWO-FER:

The glory of America after Trump wins.

The nightmare of America after Kamala wins.

I much prefer the former to the latter. And if you believe the latter can't happen, I suggest you read Schlichter's Kelly Turnbull novels.

GETTING A LITTLE BIT TOO CLOSE TO HOME: Drug bust brings the border crisis to one rural Georgia community.

Walton county is only about 90 miles due south of our home.

PLAYING IN MUD AND DIRT can boost your child's immune system.

I think that's true. My wife and I both grew up in non-air-conditioned homes, without television (or internet, for obvious reasons), played outside in mud, sand, grass, weeds and farmland from morning past nightfall, had cats & dogs (and donkeys), and neither of us has ever had any allergies.

TOUGH. THEY CAN FIND ANOTHER JOB. Amazon employees send angry letter on return-to-office policy.

MAN? REALLY? Man admits that Donald Trump is the biggest obstacle in his life.

CAST OF 'THE VIEW' are all getting rabies shots after being bitten by Whoopi Goldberg.

Yes, it is the Babylon Bee, but I'm not sure it's satire....

SO BAN BLACK SPRAY PAINT? New York Attorney General Letitia James issues laughable warning on toy guns.

Maybe a better solution would be to ban real guns in the hands of criminals by long -- very long -- prision sentences. Just sayin'....

DINGELL PROVES SHE'S A DINGBAT: Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI] tells Jake Tapper he might 'have to visit' her in an internment camp if Trump wins.

Well, yes, there are some on the Left who should be institutionalized.

STOP SUBSIDIZING INSANITY: How to stage an intervention on 70 million TDS sufferers.

We'll save money, too.

THE 'WHITE DUDE' WHO NARRATES THE PARTICLE COMMERCIALS ON TELEVISION? What sort of man votes for Kamala Harris?

Or Tim Walz....

I VOTED:

The best revenge ... from this PowerLine post (read it all).

A LITTLE CARRIED AWAY? The extremists on the Left carried off the Democrat party.

SEN. TOM COTTON [R-AR] NAILS THE BIDEN-HARRIS ECONOMY:

Linked from this Instapundit post.

BIDENOMICS: Food bank lines in swing states growing longer.

It's all about government cheese: "They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please."

JOURNALISM? What's that?

CAN YOU CONCEIVE OF ANYONE doing this if they thought they depended on people to vote for them to retain power?

The Left has yet to plumb the depths of stupid....

PROGRESSIVES UPSET Kamala Harris is campaigning with Liz Cheney.

Who seriously thinks Liz Cheney is a Republican?

IF I STILL HAD A SUBSCRIPTION, I'd cancel it too after reading this article.

But I was about 25 years ahead of the time.

MORE: Schadenfreude soars as liberals cancel subscriptions over the Washington Post's non-endorsement of Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

It's just plain funny, but there is an upside -- without the Post they won't get any dumber. They may even get smarter.

THE DAILY CHART: behind liberal hatred.

ANOTHER RESOUNDING SUCCESS FOR 'JOURNALISM': NASA’s Crew-8 returns to Earth, successfully splashing down into Atlantic. “The four-member SpaceX Crew-8 aboard Crew Dragon Endeavour returned to Earth early Friday, completing their nearly eight-month mission in space. Their Endeavour spacecraft splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida near Pensacola at 3:39 a.m. EDT, after undocking from the International Space Station some 34 hours earlier.”

That was published on Friday, the 25th of October. Hmm. The last time I was there, Pensacola was still in the Florida panhandle on the Gulf of Mexico. I don't think it moved since I was last there.

Give them some credit: UPI (United Press International) did finally correct their article 7 hours later.

I wonder how many emails & tweets it took before they finally looked at a map....

GETTING AHEAD OF THE NEWS: IT HAD TO BE TRUMP'S FAULT. McDonald's E. coli outbreak expands.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Are there any sane people left in the United States? Or is America just one giant insane asylum?

MORE PROOF THE LEFT IS STUPID: The woman tore down Greek flags hanging outside an incredibly Greek restaurant named Efi's Gyro, all the while thinking they were Israeli flags.

Then she posted a video of herself tearing the flags down on TikTok. Police arrested her.

FALLING LEAVES 2024 WEEK 6: Here is this weeks threesome.

This week -- finally -- the colors are striking. The cold snap we had a week ago has caused a significant change. The yellow colors are much more vibrant, and the reds have made a comeback. We haven't really seen that much red in the past several years.

It was bright sunlight when this photo was taken, so take that into consideration, but even so there is almost no green down through the valley. That's truly rare.

Finally for this week, the elephant ear has decided to give up for the year and go into hibernation for the winter.

Until next week, then.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY: Garbage in, garbage out.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Kamala's inane talking points.

GETTING AHEAD OF THE NEWS: IT HAD TO BE TRUMP'S FAULT. McDonald's E. coli outbreak expands.

WELL, YES: Is Kamala an idiot?

She failed her moron exam....

BE AWARE: They’re going to try to kill Trump again.

The Left has plenty of nutcases out there, and the Kamala campaign is doing nothing to discourage them.

TIM WALZ unleashes his ‘Most Blistering Attacks’ on Elon Musk -- and is immediately laughed off the stage in the comments.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: ENSHITTIFICATION.

Maybe (but not likely) the soon-to-be Trump administration can do something about that.

"I'M SORRY, DAD'S HOME — and he's pissed!"

And I expect punishments. Force works....

TUCKER CARLSON announces he's joining Trump at Madison Square Garden rally.

Should be really, really interesting lively.

I GUESS 'WHITE DUDES DUDS FOR KAMALA' DIDN'T WORK. You'll be shocked that using Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz as examples of masculinity isn't winning over men.

Be prepared to laugh.

SUSIE MOORE'S Thursday morning minute. Read it all, especially her X post on October 24th (link repeated here).

IN A FIRE STATION, NO LESS: An electric emergency vehicle belonging to a fire department in Germany caught fire and burned down its new fire station.

Weren't they warned to keep the vehicle outside?

THAT SURE AS HELL DOESN'T SAY MUCH FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE: Twenty-three Nobel Prize winners back Harris' economic plan.

Reminder: Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and now a columnist for the New York Times.

THE LEFT NEVER THINKS THE POLICIES THEY SUPPORT -- and ruthlessly enforce on others -- will ever, ever come back to bite them on the butt. Until they do.

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT. Democrat in tight Senate race blasted by GOP rival for swipe at McDonald's after Trump visit.

To quote Ian Fleming (from the movie 'Goldfinger'), "Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action." I think that with Democrats we're well beyond three times.

ABSOLUTELY: Is this the video that should end the campaign?

The Harris campaign, that is.

OUR GOVERNMENT IN A NUTSHELL:

It's about control; it's always about control.

LEFTOVER CARTOONS I:

They mispelled 'Trump'.

Proof that Elon Musk was right when he cut 80% of Twitter's workforce to create X. It's called the Pareto Principle and should be applied ruthlessly to our government.

Obvious.

BELMONT CLUB: Excellence in the service of mediocrity.

My only quibble is with the word 'mediocrity' -- it's far too kind.

A POINT TO PONDER: the November 5th backstory.

PLAY TIME/JAIL TIME: What does it take for a parent to get arrested?

This is sick -- and more proof, if any is needed, that progressives are in desperate need of mental health intervention institutionalization.

JOSH HAWLEY SHOWS NO MERCY after shooting event hosted by Democrat opponent goes wildly wrong.

Guns should not be allwoed in the hands of children (without adult supervision) -- or Democrats (even with adult supervision).

IT'S ALREADY STARTED. If the ‘Trump Wins in a Landslide’ prediction is true, this will happen within 12 days.

THE MORE WE LEARN ABOUT THE DEEP STATE: New report reveals DHS official used social media to promote illegal immigration.

Notice that his political affiliation has been carefully hidden, but I think it's safe to guess....

RED STATE: Sources point to pro-Iran defense official as the leaker of documents on Israeli war strategy.

The Pentagon [of course] has denied the allegation. But they're 'on it'.

NEWS FROM THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE of rainbows and unicorns.

ELON MUSK RESPONDS to being labeled 'Enemy No. 2'.

IT'S COLD OUT THERE.

Our elephant ear has decided to fold up and hibernate for the winter.

Also the dogwood trees down in the valley are quitting for the winter a bit early as well.

A BIT LATE, but here's Red State's [Monday] Morning Minute.

Susie Moore's on a roll. Read it all.

RED STATE: Elon Musk's crazy, side-splitting shark story showcases government inefficiency at its worst.

DELTA AIRLINES F*CKS UP: Veteran allegedly forced to change out of 'offensive' shirt on flight.

The shirt in question read "Do not give in to the war within. End veteran suicide."

ATTENTION, HEZBOLLAH SHOPPERS! Israel announces a Blue Light Special at Hezbollah's secret treasure trove. And Hezbollah can't access it....

MORE GOOD NEWS: Israel says it killed Hezbollah official expected to be group's next head. Now Israel's going preemptive....

HEH:

Linked from the Fox News cartoon page.

WOW! WHAT A SURPRISE ... MSM hacks are too isolated and ignorant to grasp how many Americans despise them.

WHERE ARE THE FORD CROWN VICTORIAS? California cops are finding out Teslas are ‘nearly unusable’ as police cruisers.

I expecially liked that 'interference from advanced driver safety assistance systems' part. It's a pet peeve of mine as well.

HITTING EVERY SPOT: Why you should have a cat.

Mine are more demanding -- they insist on humans massaging them.

NICE RESTAURANT CHAIN YOU’VE GOT HERE - too bad if something were to happen to it.

HULK HOGAN predicts presidential election results.

I hope think he's right.

TIM WALZ SAYS he won't help his mother buy groceries.

According to Walz, the government, not him, should support her.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: Can we reform Social Security fairly?

Her idea is one I can support even though it would hurt me personally -- progressive indexing of benefits.

A better idea is to privatize Social Security. It would take a while to complete the transition, but the benefits are clear and obvious.

WELL, THEY ARE A 'BAND OF IDIOTS': Harris campaign team 'exhausted' by being called 'band of idiots'.

Sometimes the truth hurts....

THE PRESS KEEP SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD about illegal immigration and deportations:

In one of the most surreal displays I've seen on CNN, panelist Catherine Rampell recently told Scott Jennings that if Trump deports illegal aliens, there will be no one to "pick your crops."

My word, talk about not hiding the ball. Apparently, illegal immigrants are the only people in the country who can pick crops, process meat, and take care of old people. Who knew? Never mind that there are already work programs in place that allow seasonal workers to come in and "pick the crops."

So what's Rampell really saying? She's saying that it's more important to have illegal quasi-slave labor to ensure her standard of living than for the nation's laws to be followed.

Yeah, right. Their standard of living is more important than the Constitution or our rights....

'REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM' only permits abortion.

I'm sure Progressives believe they can get all the votes they need to remain in power from 18 years in public education but that may be a bit too long to wait. Thus (illegal) immigrants....

IN A WORD, NO: Does the government have the freedom of speech? Nor does it have a right to interfere with free speech.

Freedom of speech is not the government's to grant ... or restrict.

SO? Men have rights too.

MY THOUGHTS? Reopen Alcatraz (or maybe Guantanamo so they can join the rest of the terrorists).

Read the comments.

NEWSMAX: New Hamas (and Hezbollah) leaders top Israel's 'hunting list'.

Advice for both: don't bother 'checking six' -- Israel won't be coming from there....

BEHIND THE BLACK: SpaceX sues the California Coastal Commission for preventing future rocket launches from Vandenberg AFB.

When he wins, I hope Musk demands actual and punitive damages as well as having the state pay his legal fees. The sooner the state of California goes bankrupt the better.

WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE: Cuba's grid goes offline amid massive blackout after major power plant fails.

For the naifs among us, a 'thermoelectric power plant' is one in which the generators are spun by heat energy -- usually created by burning some kind of fossil fuel (wood, coal, diesel, natural gas, burnable waste, etc.).

THE DEMOCRATS’ GENDER GAP: “The signs of possible Trump strength among young men are obvious online."

ARE WE SURE IT WASN'T ON PURPOSE? Were Obama-Biden-Harris so astonishingly incompetent that they accidentally HELPED Israel?

FACES IN THINGS: Eerie discovery on Mars looks exactly like a human face.

It's not, but that isn't to say that it isn't a reminder that today may just be another phase in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I COULDN'T RESIST EITHER:

Found at Don Surber's Substack post.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON ELECTION 2024: Those who lecture versus those tired of being lectured.

I'm one of those who are tired. Very, very tired. As are most of the people I know....

THE FINAL SIGN OF THE PROPHECY: Here's how you'll know when the race is really over.

FALLING LEAVES 2024 WEEK 5: Here is this weeks threesome.

We've had a few cold (almost freezing) nights, so finally there's some significant color change from last week and the leaves are finally falling.

The dogwoods on the south side, usually somewhat protected this early, are beginning to show their colors.

Finally a Saturday afternoon view from the loft.

Until next week, then.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Sleeping dogs don't lie as well as the Harris campaign.

ON BRET BAIER'S INTERVIEW WITH KAMALA HARRIS: Team Kamala invoked the Mercy Rule.

DON SURBER WRITING ON HIS SUBSTACK: "Trump has a track record. Kamala does not even have track shoes."

RANDOM THOUGHT: On the television advertisement for Particle for men's grooming products (a normal man over 40 ...), doesn't the spokesmanperson look like he belongs to 'White Dudes for Kamala'?

WILSON THE RESCUE DOG found kids stranded in the Amazon Jungle.

Sadly, Wilson himself is now missing.

REALITY AGAIN DEBUNKS THE LEFT'S UGLY LIES about Georgia's election law.

TRUMP WILL BE IMPEACHED AGAIN if Democrats control Congress.

So let's not let them control Congress; vote Republican all the way down the ballot.

GAUNTLET THROWN, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: Now the Democrats are panicking.

TIM WALZ: the other reccord the Democrats don't mention.

If Walz’s Minnesota is a microcosm of what America under a Kamala Harris presidency is to become, America will be much worse off as a result.

POLL: Trump edges Harris in swing state early voting.

That was on Monday; today the margin is getting wider.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Israel confirms Hamas leader Sinwar killed in attack in Gaza.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: Get out there and vote!

We voted early yesterday (the first day of early voting in Georgia). The line wasn't long for us -- in and out in 10 minutes or so -- but election officials said over 300,000 voted the first day. In my neck of the woods, I'd suggest at least 10:1 Republican.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: California seeks to repeal the laws of economics.

Economic laws, like physical laws, are hard to repeal. Coercion, even government coercion, doesn't work well outside the Left's fantasy world of rainbows, unicorns, and ... pipe dreams.

THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T TAKE THE WOKE SERIOUSLY: they’re not serious people.

They're clowns. And they go out of their way to prove it every single day.

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT: Kamala Harris hosts a 'town hall' for a hired audience.

ONE AMERICA NEWS: Are colleges eroding the workforce?

The link says it all. It's to a video which -- to me -- proves that recent college graduates can neither read, write, nor comprehend standard English.

But they are emoji literate ... (I think).

STELLANTIS PLANS TO MAKE RAM PICKUPS IN MEXICO. Expect Ram sales to drop sharply.

SSHHHHH...BE VERWY VERWY QUIET ... Tim Walz is rwealy ... Elmer Fudd.

SO LET'S HEAR IT, JOE: If Biden really wanted to trip up Harris for backstabbing him, he only needs to say one thing.

'KAMALA HARRIS IS AN IDIOT' and other 'Just So Stories'.

PJMEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING: The idiot doesn't fall far from the moron.

ELON MUSK WORKS ANOTHER MIRACLE; lilliputial progressives snipe.

Prognostication: the first colonists on Mars will be from Texas....

KURT SCHLICHTER: Don't get complacent.

IT'S ALL THEY'VE GOT: The Left keeps fanning the flames of Trump hatred.

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: A University of Colorado (CU) Boulder 'professor' is arguing that buildings can be racist. Even open spaces surrounding the buildings.

On the bright side, 'academia' is loudly broadcasting to the normal world where not to waste its money....

IT'S 1776 AGAIN. Do you know where your country is?

SOCIETY HAS COME TO THIS? Meteorologists face death threats for debunking man-made hurricane theories.

PANDERING: The Democrat party writ large.

From the Fox News cartoon page.

THAT IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE: Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

FORMER JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CHAIRMAN, RETIRED ARMY GENERAL MARK MILLEY, fears that a Trump win in November will see him recalled to active duty and court-martialed.

Nah. Just fire the remaining DEI morons still on active duty and let Milley live in ignominy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Christopher Columbus.

Gov. Walz should move to Canada when Trump takes office....

FINALLY! Consequences.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has posted. My favorite:

My thoughts exactly. Now go see the rest.

(See)BS NEWS: 'Standards' are what we say they are.

Longish, but read it all.

IT’S A BAD IDEA to have morons in charge of guns. That goes for the government as well.

RANDOM COMMENT: I'm giving up on Fox News because of their incessant demand that I give them my email address in order to read their stories. NO. Never.

I've read their "privacy" statement and there is no way in Hell I'm going to submit to their pushing their crap to my spam filter -- it already collects more garbage every day than I take to the dump waste management site in a week.

FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE, SOME THOUGHTS on electronic health records and privacy.

I originally wrote that post on January 13, 2010 and in the last 14 years have been proven right on every single assertion. My health records have been compromised/hacked, most recently in January and February of this year and I have had spam emails in my inbox within hours (hell, minutes) of leaving my doctor's office. On my streaming television service over 60% of the advertisements -- and there lots of them -- are directed at senior health services.

In that earlier post, I wrote that "electronic health records are about control - not care." In that statement I was a bit off; I should have written 'government health care' in place of 'electronic health records' in the certainty that some progressive politician (Kamala?) would resurrect that Bernie Sanders nightmare.

REPORT: Artifical Iintelligence chatbots give increasingly liberal answers to questions on gun control and crime.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "artifical intelligence is no smarter than the dumbest programmer and just as biased." Its only saving grace is that it is fast.

JD VANCE'S REACTION to a woman's screams at his North Carolina rally a reminder of how good he is.

NO, FORCE IT TO LIVE WITHIN ITS CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: Congress must ensure full funding for FEMA.

REVENGE: What's up with Joe?

IT'S ONLY MONEY (which we don't have): Kamala Harris’s irresponsible proposal to expand Medicare.

NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD admits they 'rotor washed' a hurricane Helene relief site. But here's the nut graf: the North Carolina National Guard reports directly to Gov. Roy Cooper, who said

"Politicians, billionaires and grifters who peddle lies during a time of crisis should be held accountable." ... Cooper should definitely be held accountable. The "unprecedented response" he crows about had little to do with him and everything to do with billionaires like Elon Musk, the relief organizations, and the incredible Americans who entered the breach and were the first to respond. Instead, Cooper chose to cozy up to FEMA heads and play at CENTCOM from his cushy office and home in Raleigh, while the people he hindered and maligned were the ones doing the work of saving lives and offering hope.

If you can vote him out do so.

BREAKING: Third Trump assassination attempt thwarted.

And the suspect was released? YGBFKM!

JOHN STOSSEL on the real cost of free money.

THE "NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS FOR AMERICA" expose themselves as partisan agents with their ill-advised one-sided endorsements.

The 3-letter national 'securitiy' agancies are the Deep State writ large hiding behind their security clearance blanket.....

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DONOR who cut ties with his alma mater redirects millions to Israeli universities instead.

FALLING LEAVES 2024 WEEK 4: Here is this week's threesome.

I changed picture location a bit this week to get slightly better views up and down our road. Not a whole lot has changed. We haven't had any cold nights yet, so there haven't been any significant color changes and last week's breezes took down most of the dead leaves (and a few branches to go into the fire pit tonight), so -- not a lot of change.

I did go down to the pond yesterday and here are two pictures taken from our dock. No leaf fall yet, but at least some color change. I'm hoping for more.

Until next week....

KAMALA HARRIS just cut Trump's closing campaign ad for him.

Compare Harris' response with that of Vice President George W. Bush's response when he was campaigning to follow President Reagan (second bullet point).

HEH: Elon Musk speculated about why Vice President Kamala Harris is getting backed by certain billionaires: they may be connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

It's funny (in the ha-ha sense) but frankly I wouldn't be surprised. At it's core, the Deep State is very shallow.

EXPLAINING WHY GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE PUT ON A STRICT DIET: Government employees exceed the population of Florida.

According to Census Bureau data, Florida is the third most populous state.

ONLY AFTER THEY'VE GIVEN UP ALL THEIR WEAPONS: Hezbollah wants a ceasefire now.

WELL PAST ITS DUE DATE: U.S. considers Google breakup in landmark search case.

WELL, WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR? UCLA professor says $70,000 salary has left him homeless.

I'm not a betting person, but if I were, I'd bet his voting records all showed D's.

ISRAEL TO IRAN: take out your Hezbollah terrorists -- or we will.

WHY I AVOID THE CLOUD: Sexbots? In my cloud stack?

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about the Federal Emegency Management Agency (and the Harris-Biden administration).

FEMINIST LAW PROFESSOR will vote Republican after experiencing the ultimate betrayal by Democrats.

When hit multiple times with a sledgehammer, even concrete begins to crack....

AN OCTOBER 7TH ANNIVERSARY REMINDER: longer, link-filled, and eminently worthy.

WE’RE NOT LED BY THE BEST: Wretchard is on a roll today.

Linked from this Instapundit post.

OUR WORTHLESS RULING CLASS: Wretchard the Cat tweets.

AND YOU CAN THANK ELON MUSK: Hillary Clinton lets the cat out of bag on Democrats and controlling speech.

Someone should cut her chardonnay rations....

JUST ANOTHER ACADEMIA FAIL: Stop sending humans into space — it’s ‘imperialist.’

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS? Donald Trump has agreed to an upcoming town hall with Fox News.

Overall I think it's good news, since a town hall format has an in-person audience, one in which Trump thrives.

CANADA'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER: We could use a man like him.



Trump, possibly? Certainly no Democrat I'm aware of.

NOT EXACTLY A SURPRISE: The deep state is gunning for Elon Musk.

And shooting blanks....

THE NEW YORK TIMES: We should abandon the idea of masculinity.

Better to abandon the idea that the NYT is relevant.

NOT A SURPRISE: New poll suggests Kamala totally committed political suicide.

KAMALA HARRIS sends out Tim Walz to talk man-stuff to men about being manly.

UPDATE from The Drunk Republican and linked from this Instapundit post.

OUR DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AT WORK suing Virginia for daring to do its job on election integrity.

BECAUSE SHE'S A TERRIBLE CANDIDATE? Here is the reason Kamala Harris keeps doing terrible interviews.

IMPRIMIS: Our out-of-control federal law enforcement agencies.

To be blunt, our whole damn progressive federal government is out of control.

IT GETS IN OUR WAY. Tim Walz calls for elimination of the Electoral College.

No, Walz needs to go. We don't need an Autocrat (née Democrat) party.

DEROY MURDOCK: Kamala Harris could stop fracking without banning it.

With the power of a Democrat-fueled federal government, why not?

NO, THANK YOU. Make me a martyr.

LAUGHABLE SPIN FROM BRIAN STELTER tells us everything about Kamala's upcoming 'interview' schedule.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures supports hurricane Helene victims....

Now go see the rest.

INSTAPUNDIT COMMENTS on Schrodinger's election.

MEAN-SPIRITED, SNOBBY, AND UNFORGIVING: If you don’t believe in our values, bad things should happen to you.

ONCE ISN'T ENOUGH: Kamala Harris, FEMA and Pete Buttigieg victimize hurricane Helene survivors a second time.

I'D SAY 'FLAME UP': The EV flame out.

HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH ARE HIRING. Employment opportunities for liberal activists.

Free transportation (one way) can be arranged....

SO DO I: Joe Biden proves again he wants Kamala Harris to lose.

'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' so to speak.

HURRICANES AND DEMOCRATS: That was then; this is now.

MORE PROOF that academia is a lost cause.

YGBFKM: Ex-Obama adviser suggests Helene will help Harris win storm-ravaged North Carolina.

Democrats only care about Helene to the extent that it -- and their 'help' -- ensures that those damned rednecks don't vote November 5th.

FALLING LEAVES 2024 WEEK 3: It hasn't been cold enough yet to encourage the trees to go dormant, but we have had enough light winds to start the dead leaves dropping -- mostly, it seems, on the road. Here is today's picture threesome:

This photo is of the woods across the road from our driveway. We had two dead trees removed this year, and from appearances it looks like a couple more are going down based on the dearth of leaves in this picture.

This last picture is of the tree line along the highway in Blue Ridge, taken from our normal Sunday morning breakfast cafe. There is some brown showing, but the local area is still mostly green

Until next week....

ANOTHER WIN FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT: Las Vegas homeowner shoots intruder.

A HELICOPTER PILOT'S RESCUE OF A COUPLE shows everything wrong with the government's response to Helene.

AMMO GRRRLL: “You can lead a horticulture – but you can’t make her learn.”

When you (finally) stop laughing, read the whole thing.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why the slow collapse of Harris-Walz won't stop before Election Day.

I think we're past 'slowly' and into 'suddenly'.

I'VE NOTICED: Big brother (sister?) is watching your car, your license plate, bumper stickers, yard signs....

DECLINE IS A CHOICE, and our institutions have made their choice.

NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY 'SMART': Study finds AI-generated college admissions essays tend to sound male and privileged.

ONLY IF KAMALA LOSES: Joe Biden 'concerned' about peaceful transfer of power post-election.

ALLAH SPEAKS: Iranian Muslim cleric says Israelis had supernatural help to kill Hezbollah’s Nasrallah.

And helps?

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA cries for resources while FEMA lets them languish on the tarmac.

AGREED. Nobody listens to Biden-Harris anymore.

Other than to mock them.

THE PROBLEM is America has the most useless aristocrats in history.

'GENDER BIAS EXPERT' accuses JD Vance of 'mansplaining' at debate.

I'm reminded of an old definition of 'expert' -- a has-been drip under pressure.

THESE ARE MY PEOPLE: Dolly Parton joins Hurricane Helene relief efforts with $1M donation. Also Dollywood, $1M, and WalMart/Sam's Club/WalMart Foundation, $10M).

What has the Biden/Harris administration done? Other than not being on the ground and closing airspace to private aircraft, drones, and helicopters trying to help.

BELIEVE IT: The incompetence of the Biden/Harris administration is astounding.

SALENA ZITO: Trump hits all the right places and messages in his Pennsylvania tour.

PLANTS ARE PEOPLE, TOO. "Animal rights have been around for quite a while now, but I have spotted the next big thing for the misanthropic left: plant rights."

The author is a little bit behind the times; intelligent plant life has been a staple in the science fiction world for at least 50 years.

DONALD TRUMP TWEETS THE TRUTH:

I'm not quite that cynical; I think the backhoe hit solid granite with Kamala and can go no deeper.

SURPRISED? It's been a bad news week for lithium ion batteries.

Not.

HEH: School shooters distance themselves from Tim Walz.

Yeah, it's the Babylon Bee.

NEVER MIND BUYING POPCORN FUTURES. "If Harris and Walz win, I’m going very long on lettuce futures, because there’s no way we can produce enough to supply the four years of word salads we’d be in for."

Lifted from PowerLine's occasional Loose Ends post.

KAMALA-APPROVED! Because it’s good to be in the nomenklatura.

FROM THE PARTY OF 'SCIENCE': Natural disasters are a product of racism and racist policies.

Linked from Instapundit here.

CDR SALAMANDER'S THEORY quoted in full:

What can help explain the apparent federal level indifference to the nightmare brought from Florida’s Big Bend up to Appalachia from hurricane Helene?

I have a theory, and it has to do with Idaho that I think @ComfortablySmug would appreciate.

Let me take you back to season 5, episode 1 of Veep.

I looked for a video of the scene, but can’t find it.

So, I’ll quote the script:

“- KENT: Also, ma’am, catastrophically mudslides in Idaho. The governor is requesting a federal state of emergency.

– MEYER: How much did we lose Idaho by?

– KENT: Shellacked. Uh, well over 212,000 votes.

– MEYER: Then I declare a state of go f^ck yourself. I’m not spending money to scrape mud off a bunch of dirt roads.”

Ahem.

What are the polling averages for the states most damaged by Helene?

-FL: Trump +5.0 (NYT average) -GA: Trump +1.0 (NYT average) -NC: Trump +0.1 (NYT average)

Trump is so far ahead in SC and TN that no one is bothering to take polls.

You would think GA & NC would cause concern, but perhaps their internal polls tell the Harris campaign they’re already lost.

IDK… but the snark from the left to those trying to recover from Helene, and knowing who is on the Harris campaign team ... the Veep explanation is as good as any other I have heard of.

I'm inclined to agree with the above. Ever since Trump's election in 2016 the Left has been increasingly open, hostile, and vindictive toward those unwilling to 'bend the knee' to their delusions of moral superiority.

TRULY: Doug Emhoff is less masculine than a Ken doll.

THE DAILY CHART: How to tell the Ivies are cheating.

Kind of obvious....

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: America sinks into the abyss.

Linked from here.

WHAT? YOU EXPECT ME TO WORK? Secretary of Commerce Gena Raimondo admits "I haven't been focused on that [the longshoreman's strike]."

PROGRESSIVISM: JD Vance mocks MSNBC anchor for fact-checking 'most obvious hyperbole' about his sons' eating habits.

Richly deserved.

DEMOCRATS ARE FINDING OUT THAT LAWFARE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD: Republicans file numerous lawsuits before 2024 election.

DEI IS IN THE LEAD IN HURRICANE HELENE'S FEMA RESPONSE. Biden admin's FEMA 'equity' plan faces backlash amid historic hurricane damage.

SEE ALSO: Hurricane victims to get the Maui treatment from Biden-Harris administration.

I SURE HOPE SO. Is Iran's nuclear program next on Israel's target list?

AT LEAST THIS DEMOCRAT is honest about being as crazy as a March hare.

ISRAEL STOPS taking counsel from the Biden administration.

About time.

A LITTLE LATE: The chief medical officer for Britain has apparently acknowledged that perhaps they went overboard in warning people about the dangers of COVID.

Actually, far too late.

SELF DEFENSE IS A CIVIL RIGHT; 'being safe' is not.

But Vice President Kamala Harris believes the right to be safe is a civil right provided by government.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Watching Life, Liberty, and Levin Saturday night, I was reminded of Professor Irwin Corey. Kamala Harris must have studied under him.

SHALOM, Hassan Nasrallah. He's dead. Good riddance.

THEIR PROBLEM IS THE MARGIN OF FRAUD IS GETTING WIDER: Is this how Democrats are hoping to steal Arizona in November?

CHINA WANTS DOMINANCE IN THE PACIFIC -- but its latest attack sub has sunk. Dockside....

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump derangement syndrome meltdown of the week.

The Times Editorial Board is the ugly mean girl at the dance who's mad that the cute boy still won't notice her.

With any luck, she'll be going home alone on Election Night.

CAN WE REPLACE OUR CIA/FBI WITH MOSSAD? It certainly seems like Netanyahu recently gave Mossad a hunting license with no bag limit.

IS THIS A SURPRISE? The Harris campaign is straight-up delusional.

ACOPALYPSE NO: Resist the Democrats' attempts to make us despair.

A WORD FROM MIRANDA DEVINE: "Joe Biden is still president and, on Wednesday, when he appeared on ABC’s rancid talk show, 'The View,' he showed himself, yet again, to be morally unfit for the job."

She speaks for me.

WITH PROFESSORS LIKE THESE who needs political hacks?

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN THEY'RE NEVER PUNISHED? Art instructor who threatened journalist with machete chants about ‘slitting the master’s throat.’

SO STICK TO FACTUAL INFORMATION ONLY: Wikipedia employs left-wing groups to edit controversial topics.

THERE IS NOTHING MORE PEACEFUL than a dead troublemaker.

WHAT AN AMAZING CONCIDENCE. Nancy Pelosi's husband unloads $500K in VISA stock prior to antitrust lawsuit.

BECAUSE ECO-WARRIORS ARE STUPID: Why have eco-warriors gone to war with a rural Irish pub?

ACORNS, TREES: Would-be assassin's son arrested for child pornography.

CORRUPTION: Something has gone seriously wrong in America.

741 'INTELLIGENCE' CHIEFS Endorse Kamala Harris.

I want to publish the names of those 741 morons so they can be properly ridiculed.

Elon Musk killed off 80% ot Twitter jobs. That's not nearly a high enough percentage here.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Taxing unrealized capital gains is the modern day equivalent of slavery.

Get back on the plantation, you rich white dudes....

OH, SHUT UP: Leon Panetta calls the Hezbolla pager attack terrorism.

And go away.

SPILL THE MEMES:

Linked from Red State's Morning Minute.

THE DAILY CHART: Climate confusion.

Is global cooling returning from the 1970s?

MORE PROOF that Dimocrats are, um, dim.

JUST DESSERTS: Afghan men are feeling the effects of Taliban rule.

If they're not willing to stand up and fight, they deserve what the get.

OH YEAH, THEY TRIED TO KILL THE PRESIDENT ... I forgot about that.

THE HILTON HOTEL near Oakland airport closes its doors after 56 years amid crime crisis.

Read it all, then answer this question: "Should progressives to be confined to the cesspools they've created?"

TRUMP PROMISES FEDERAL RECOGNITION OF LUMBEE TRIBE IN NORTH CAROLINA SPEECH — and it could matter in November.

For what it's worth, in my view the U.S. and the native tribes would be better off if they were officially told "we won, you lost, get over it, we're all Americans now". Privatize the tribal areas and close the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It won't be quick, or easy, but it should be done.

THIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION is naifs, weaklings, idiots, and Marxists.

That's being kind.

BLUE STATE COUNTY BUCKS TREND ON HANDOUTS – and homeless population craters.

Sort of obvious, don't you think?

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: University of Michigan committee urges institutional neutrality despite official pronouncements on controversial matters suggest that those who disagree are unwelcome.

In plain English, "like us or shut the (you-know-what) up."

MEXICAN PRESIDENT blames us for the wave of cartel violence currently engulfing the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Apparently we had the effrontery to arrest one of their cartel honchos in the U.S.

Bad United States. Bad, bad United States....

DON'T BE LIKE ENGLAND: Don Surber writes on making a House (and Senate) seat an inheritance.

HOW DID ISRAEL PULL THIS OFF? This may be the most ingenious part about Israel's exploding pager attacks.

RANDOM THOUGHT: You're fleeing hurricane Helene and your Tesla's battery is running low....

Oops....

JIMMY CARTER TURNS 100: trying to make sure he's only rated as the third worst President in U.S. history.

I wish him well in his quest.