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Man in Dayton wins Father of the Year.
Donald John Trump is still our president.
ITEM 1: Someone blew up an RV in downtown Nashville, causing almost as much damage as a typical mostly peaceful protest this summer.
The FBI sent as many agents as it sent to find Bubba Wallace's Nascar Noose, so this must be a serious case -- unlike Hunter Biden's laptop of corruption.
The Daily Mail reported, "A 29-year-old mother who was given two homes worth $409,000 for free by the man identified as a person of interest in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing has said she had no knowledge of the property exchange, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
"Michelle Swing, who lives in Los Angeles, claims she was unaware Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, had signed the $160,000 Bakertown Road property raided on Saturday away to her last month via a quitclaim deed."
The FBI narrative is Warner was a nutball.
The story said, "According to WSMV Nashville, the FBI are working on tips that Warner was paranoid about the idea that Americans are being spied on using 5G, which could explain why the RV exploded outside of an AT&T transmission center."
Maybe.
Buried in the story was this: "Steve Fridrich told WSMV that Warner was a subcontractor who had done IT work for him for years. He claimed agents asked him about whether Warner had spoken about 5G in the past but he said no.
"'Nice guy. You know, he was a techie guy -- don't mean anything negative about that. He would do this thing and leave. He didn't bother anybody. He did his thing and left,' Fridrich said."
It does not sound like he was freaked out about 5G. He seems more like a disgruntled contractor.
I am still waiting to find out what the real story is on the 2017 Las Vegas massacre that left 61 people dead, including a man the FBI said shot 58 people.
Support your local police.
But after 20 years of Mueller, Comey and Wray, I am not supportive of the FBI.
"That’s the warning New York’s Democrat party boss has for the sophomore Congresswoman, who is rumored to be mulling a primary challenge to US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
"'I think it would be a primary driven by ambition more than by need,' Jay Jacobs told The Post.
"'Chuck Schumer has been a progressive force in the state for decades,' added the chairman of the state Democratic committee. 'She has a constituency that admires her and supports her, and they’re in her community, and I think it would be a loss for them if she were to do that.
"'And he would beat her,' he said."
The way we defeat the Uniparty in Washington is to elect Democrats and Republicans. I would rather have a Democrat who represents the people in the Senate than most of the Republicans we have in there who represent the highest bidder for their services.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders and President Trump have one thing in common. We got screwed this year.
ITEM 3: United Press International reported, "President Donald Trump on Sunday night signed an omnibus funding bill and an associated $900 billion coronavirus relief bill as unemployment benefits expired and a government shutdown loomed.
"The pandemic bill extends billions of dollars in coronavirus relief to millions of Americans."
It is a Christmas Tree of giveaways to slimeballs by slimeballs. For every dollar in relief there are ten dollars in waste.
But he had little choice.
People need aid.
ITEM 4: Zero Hedge reported, "All is not going according to plan in the biggest global rollout of what is arguably the most important vaccine in a century, and it is not just growing US mistrust in the covid injection effort that was rolled out in record time: an unexpected spike in allergic reactions to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (and now, Moderna too) may prove catastrophic to widespread acceptance unless scientists can figure out what is causing it after the FDA's rushed approval, and is also why as we reported yesterday, scientists are scrambling to identify the potential culprit causing the allergic reactions.
"Making matters worse, Europe rolled out a huge covid 19 vaccination drive on Sunday to try to rein in the coronavirus pandemic but even more Europeans than American are skeptical about the speed at which the vaccines have been tested and approved and reluctant to have the shot.
"While the European Union has secured contracts drugmakers including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, for a total of more than two billion doses and has set a goal for all adults to be inoculated next year, this is looking increasingly like a pipe dream: according to recent surveys, the local population has expressed 'high levels of hesitancy' towards inoculation in countries from France to Poland, with many used to vaccines taking decades to develop, not just months."
That the vaccines took months to develop instead of years shows that medicine has evolved just like every other industry.
We develop a new flu vaccine every year.
That said, I still ain't taking it because I don't like shots. My body, my choice.
ITEM 5: Just the News reported, "Gun-buying activity shattered records in the U.S. this year, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation recording both the highest number of background checks in its history and the highest increase of checks year-over-year in over two decades.
"Last month was the busiest November on record for FBI background checks in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, according to the Bureau's month-by-month data. Background checks were up 40% from the prior November, with over 3.6 million checks performed throughout the month.
"That number would be remarkable during any other year. Only one other month in NICS history prior to this year, December 2015, has broken three million. Yet November was only the fourth-busiest month for background checks during 2020 overall. In June, the FBI recorded 3,931,607 total checks, nearly topping 4,000,000 checks in a month for the first time and handily beating the previous monthly record of 3,740,688 checks set in March.
"The June record-breaker came amid widespread rioting, violence and unrest throughout the country driven by Black Lives Matter-led protests following the death in late May of black Minneapolis resident George Floyd while in the custody of police.
"Escalating murder rates in cities nationwide also likely played a role, with experts pointing to the fallout from covid lockdowns, economic shocks and crime policies as possible explanations for the rising number of killings."
There is a link between crime and guns.
More crime means law-abiding people stock up.
ITEM 6: The Epoch Times reported, "Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges."
Xi is not only chairman of Red China's Communist Party, but he is the de facto chairman of the board of Apple.
And Nike.
And the NBA.
And LeBron James.
ITEM 7: The New York Post reported, "Lawyers for the Girl Scouts claim the Boy Scouts of America have been stealing potential members over the past two years — while engaging in a highly damaging recruitment war, according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court.
"The bad blood between the organizations started when the Cub Scouts announced it would accept girls beginning in 2018. It intensified last year when the Boy Scouts also began welcoming girls into their program, causing the Girl Scouts to sue the organization over its move to rebrand as the gender-neutral Scouts BSA."
The feud goes to the beginning of the Girl Scouts when the Boy Scouts went to court to try to get them not to call themselves scouts.
Liberals took over the Girl Scouts years ago.
The Boy Scouts marketing themselves as gender neutral is genius. The Girl Scout objection is hilarious. Women wanted equality. Here it is.
ITEM 8: Wolf Richter reported, "The North American Class 1 freight railroads – BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Canadian National, Kansas City Southern, and Canadian Pacific – have been shedding employees since 2015, and in November they shed another 1.6% of their employees, from October, bringing the total down to 114,960 employees, according to data released by the Surface Transportation Board. It was the lowest headcount in many, many decades."
The story also said, "Employment in November was down by 36% from 1998."
But, Richter noted, "Shedding massive numbers of employees has a marvelous effect on stock prices."
The market cap value of those railroads are up 18.3% this year, according to Richter.
That makes sense because 1, railroads are cutting costs and 2, the Federal Reserve is pumping tons of money into Wall Street.
ITEM 9: The Blaze reported, "A family lost their home during the holiday season, but thanks to brave 7-year-old Eli, they didn't lose something even more precious — the family's youngest member.
"Dec. 8 was like any other night. Chris and Nicole Davidson fed their three children dinner and tucked them into bed by 8:30 p.m. However, the Davidsons were awakened in the middle of the night to the smell of smoke in their home in New Tazewell, Tennessee."
The father is a former firefighter.
The story said, "They ran outside, but their 22-month-old daughter was still inside the burning home.
"Nicole Davidson said the living room was engulfed by the inferno and prevented her from accessing the bedroom where her 22-month-old daughter was sleeping."
Her big brother braved the thick smoke and rescued her, after their father smashed a window. He could not get in so he sent his son.
Some boys dream of being a fireman when they grow up. Eli Davidson already is.
ITEM 10: ABC reported, "The search for a man shown in video shooting a suburban Pittsburgh police officer while handcuffed stretched into its second week Sunday as authorities announced the arrests of four people accused of helping him avoid being captured.
"The suspect, Koby Francis, 22, has managed to elude arrest for a full week since the shooting of Officer Gerasimos 'Jerry' Athans, 32, outside the McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Police Department. A $15,000 reward is being offered for Francis's arrest, and an all-hands-on-deck search for him has spread out to multiple states.
"Allegheny County Police arrested Jasmyn Henderson-Bracey, 25, Gesiah Grigsby, 21, Daniel Neal, 19, and Justine Kenyatta, 20, all of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on charges of hindering the apprehension of Francis."
Corporate America's embrace of BLM is pushing the notion that every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints.
ITEM 11: The Verge reported, "The ashes of the late James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on the original Star Trek television series, have been aboard the International Space Station for 12 years— and the Times of London has the fascinating backstory of how it happened. Doohan died in 2005 at the age of 85, and his family wanted to fulfill his wish of getting on the ISS.
"Official requests to bring Doohan’s ashes on the ISS were denied, but Richard Garriott— one of the first private citizens to travel on the space station— managed to smuggle some of Doohan’s ashes into the space station’s Columbus module. Garriott says he took a laminated a picture of Doohan and some of his ashes and put it in under the floor of the Columbus. He didn’t tell anyone about the scheme— only he and Doohan’s family knew until now."
Eat your heart out, William Shatner.
ITEM 12: KGO-TV reported, "Police are investigating after a bust of Breonna Taylor installed earlier this month in downtown Oakland was vandalized.
"The ceramic bust is displayed in downtown Oakland with the phrase 'Say Her Name Breonna Taylor.'
" Police say a report was filed and they are now investigating the vandalism."
Well, if they can rename a school in the Bay Area because Lincoln was not woke enough, maybe she failed their test for wokeness.
ITEM 13: Paul Joseph Watson reported, "Cambridge United football club is demanding fans who booed players taking a knee for Black Lives Matter undergo re-education lessons or face a stadium ban."
Looks like Chairman Mao won the Cold War.
We took out the Soviet Union. Now Red China is taking us and our allies out.
ITEM 14: MPRnews reported, "Demand for bus travel has fallen by more than 80 percent during the pandemic as public health authorities urge people to avoid travel where possible.
"That is raising concerns about the potential long-term damage to an essential transport method for millions of lower-income Americans even as air travel has shown signs of picking up since the Thanksgiving holiday period.
"And those who have to take the bus, for whatever reason, are finding fewer options, and often higher prices as a result."
Congress bailed out the airlines in March because congressmen, senators, and the donors they work for all use airplanes.
None of them ride intercity buses.
ITEM 15: Hal Turner reported, "The CDC quietly updated their guidelines to say that masks don't work if you've come into close contact with someone for 15 minutes or more, according to the CDC website.
"The media is almost completely ignoring this fact.
"According to the CDC, anyone who has symptoms or tests positive is a risk to others even if masks are worn."
Disinfectant works.
But at least the masks keep your face warm in the winter.
ITEM 16: It snowed in Poca, West Virginia. I let the sun do its thing and clear the drive 2 days later.
Others were not as patient.
Flamethrowers beat shoveling.
ITEM 17: Reuters reported, "New York State Health officials said on Saturday they are investigating a Brooklyn-based healthcare provider on suspicion it violated state guidelines for distribution of covid 19 vaccine.
"ParCare Community Health Network 'may have fraudulently obtained covid 19 vaccine, transferred it to facilities in other parts of the state in violation of state guidelines and diverted it to members of the public -- contrary to the state's plan to administer it first to frontline healthcare workers, as well as nursing home residents and staffers,' state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said in a statement."
I wonder what the going rate is for a vaccine, not that I would take one.
ITEM 18: Just the News reported, "President Trump said throughout the campaign that the Democratic Party took African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians for granted, and the message apparently got through to the increasingly powerful voting blocs.
"Detailed voter analysis by The New York Times released last week shows a massive influx of votes for Trump from the blocs. While Democrat Joe Biden still got the majority of votes from the groups, in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia huge swaths of the groups voted Republican."
They want us to believe that Donald Trump won with 8% of the black vote last time, but lost with 12% this time.
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