My favorite beach has been invaded by Portuguese men o’ war. Not soldiers, but some kind of jellyfish that are not actually jellyfish. I would prefer if it were an invasion of soldiers — at least you drown them in the sea. There is no way to drown a jellyfish. And their sting, against all odds, stings. So I have had to spend a few hours thinking about my next course of action. I want to be a better person, at least by the standards of the New York Times, the Post, and other Agenda 2030–worshipping media outlets. So these are my resolutions, and if you don’t like them, I have others: I will be a better black woman every day. I will post less fake news on my social networks, especially on Tinder. I will smile as I pay my taxes. I will repair anything I have broken at home, with the exception of relationships more than 15 years old.  I will help a kitten cross the street.   When in Rome, I will do what African illegal immigrants do. I will never again imply that Kamala Harris has a problem with alcohol. I will do all transatlantic trips on foot, except when the weather conditions are adverse, and I can afford the help of a single-wheel electric scooter.  When traveling, I will also not produce my own emissions until I reach my destination. I will redistribute all my poverty. I will take no more planes than those taken by UN leaders when they go somewhere in the world to tell us not to take planes. I will have nothing, and I will be happy. If I feel like it.  I will donate my bonsai collection to Aunt Wendy, who hates bonsai, to become more inclusive. I’ll get monkeypox. And, in solidarity with chickens, avian flu. And, why not, if dying is free and the WHO recommends it, I will also contract foot-and-mouth disease, leptospirosis, and any other disease that would make Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tremble with delight. I will no longer throw any bags full of bottle caps to the bottom of the sea. At least once a week, I will drape a sheet over the Coyote sculpture on my desk in solidarity with the Roadrunner.  I will practice circular economy: I will show my ass to the bank manager every end of month. I will go to the doctor regularly for a wokeism blood test. If on any occasion the level is below six million woke cells per microliter, I will undergo a sex change operation by a Bolivarian shaman who only uses rum as an anesthetic. When I run out of 30 possible genders, I will jump to the animal kingdom, change into a dog, and bite the hems off Donald Trump’s pants. I will donate my collection of extreme right-wing books to the Democratic Party stokers. Zero Heating Challenge: this winter we will warm myself with a slap in the face. The first one will go to my idiot neighbor on the fourth floor. I’ll join the gym and give my membership card to the skinniest neighbor in the building. I will drastically reduce my water consumption. I will replace it with whiskey. I will never again call the bloodthirsty dictator Maduro a bloodthirsty dictator. I will hitchhike to work. And I will tell my boss to present his complaints to daddy Antonio Guterres. I’ll make myself a T-shirt with the most LGBT character Disney manages to shoehorn into its next children’s production. I will empower my female coworkers by inviting them to dinner and urging them to pick up the tab. Zero Paper Challenge: I will write my articles in the misty bathroom mirror.  I will go to work in a miniskirt on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.  I will no longer kill two birds with one stone. From now on, I will shoot them down with sustainable arguments. I will offset my carbon footprint by eating quinoa three times a week. On the days I eat meat, I will hug a cactus very tightly.  I will sit a progressive at my table every day. READ MORE: Politics Is Taking Over Life. The Way Out Is to Vote Wisely. Everything That Can Hurt You on the Beach Biden’s DNC Speech Revealed Kamala’s True Colors The post Resolutions for the Return From Vacation appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Thirty-nine days after launching her presidential bid, Kamala Harris finally allowed a journalist to interview her. Her decisions to bring along an emotional support human in Tim Walz and choose a no-Republicans-need-apply network in CNN reinforce the perception that she fears unscripted, uncontrolled environments. Dana Bash asked about her day-one agenda. Harris appeared flummoxed. “There are a number of things,” she answered followed by very little in terms of specifics. When pressed, she talked, again, in a general sense, of “implementing my plan,” “investing in the American family,” and “a number of things on day one.” She started an answer on her fracking flip-flop: “Let’s be clear: my values have not changed.” An honest translation might go something life: “Let’s be convoluted: political expediency is my ultimate value.” The talking-points mantra, relied at various points, clearly was “my values have not changed,” which perhaps works better as a retort than “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Her shortest answer worked as her best. When Bash asked her about Donald Trump’s calling into question her identity as a black woman, Harris offered: “Same old tired playbook.” Bash pressed her to expound on those four words, and a stingy Harris gave her just two more: “That’s it.” Whereas she pivoted from a chance to play the victim, Tim Walz rushed to do so. When confronted with saying he carried a weapon in war, the former public school teacher talked about his wife correcting him on bad grammar. Vice Caesar is not above the grammarians, either, but the controversy involved honesty rather than proper English. His mischaracterizations of his military record and the fertility treatment his wife used to conceive coaxed excuses rather than apologies. He declared that “I won’t apologize for speaking passionately” on guns and access to reproductive treatments, as though not his ethical lapses but political enthusiasms ignited the controversies. Harris confirmed that her upcoming debate amounts to her first time speaking to Donald Trump. She refused to disown the Biden economy when given the chance. She described the current president as “intelligent” and “smart”; Bash did not, in her big failing as interlocutor, ask her about his decline and when she first noticed it. She straddled the fence on the Middle East, saying, “Israel has a right to defend itself” as she conceded that “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.” Like so many of her answers, and the 39-day gap between announcing her candidacy and taking an interview question, it left viewers wondering what she actually believes. It all bespoke a strategy of running out the clock without trying to make a play before Nov. 5. If journalists won’t ask, Harris certainly won’t tell. And if she does, she will do so in her native tongue. Harris speaks, as her first language, Platitude. She spoke of “a new way forward,” blah, blah, blah, “the climate crisis is real,” blah, blah, blah, “It is important to build consensus,” blah, blah, blah, “Stand true to our principles,” blah, blah, blah, “spent my career inviting diversity of opinion,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That, in a word, sums up the interview. It was neither helpful nor damaging but blah. The most common verbal reaction to the much-anticipated conversation, which probably lasted 30 minutes or less given the periodic breaks before its 9:49 p.m. Eastern time ending, from friends and foes was that: blah. Performances, of course, can elicit worse reactions than blah. The last time a Democratic presidential candidate appeared on CNN, the party faithful, of course, muttered a four-letter word other than “blah.” The post America Waited 39 Days for This? The Blah-ness of CNN’s Kamala & Tim Show appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

from Sputnik News: ANKARA (Sputnik) – Russia and Ukraine almost reached an agreement at the talks in Istanbul in 2022, but a number of countries did not want the conflict to end, the speaker of the Grand National Assembly (parliament) of Turkiye, Numan Kurtulmus, said. At the end of November 2023, the head of the […]

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