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Animal’s Daily Bat-Eating News

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Before I get into this, check out the latest installment of The Crider Chronicles – Forest over at Glibertarians.

Now then; I don’t know how common this might be in Arizona or anywhere else, but it’s a certainty that there’s no good place for a bat to fly into one’s mouth.

A Massachusetts woman had a scary encounter while traveling to Arizona to visit her father. 

Erica Kahn was in Northern Arizona with her dad last August to take their annual pictures of the sky.

“We like to take photos of the night sky and the stars, and it’s something we’ve been doing for the past 10 years now, but this was the first time this incident occurred,” said Kahn to FOX 10.

“I had my strap around my camera around my head so that it wouldn’t fall down, and because of that, it kind of got trapped between my mouth and the camera,” said Kahn.

Now, bats are significant rabies vectors, so Ms. Kahn was understandably worried; but then, she tried to game a health-insurance company, and that didn’t go so well.

Kahn knew she needed to be checked for rabies immediately — and was shocked to learn that her treatment was not covered, she said.

Since she’d lost her job, she took out a new health plan with an insurance firm.

“They kind of lied to me on the phone when I said, ‘I need to go to the emergency room … tomorrow. Is this gonna be effective? Is this gonna cover [me] if I need rabies shots?’ And [the person] said, ‘Yes, yes, it’s gonna cover it. You’re good to go,’” Kahn said.

Kahn was unaware of a 30-day waiting period for coverage to kick in — which left her with a bill of over $20,000.

Should have kept up that COBRA insurance.

Honestly, who doesn’t read the fine print? Well, apparently, most people, but as far as I’m aware every health-insurance plan in the known universe has a waiting period, and it’s to prevent precisely the kind of thing that Erica Kahn attempted; waiting until there’s some emergency, then signing up in a rush. It backfired on her, and she shouldn’t be surprised. Still, she got her shots, and will presumably be OK – physically, if not fiscally.

The bat’s condition, on the other hand, remains unknown.

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Animal’s Daily Man Bites Dog News

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Before we get into this odd tale, check out the latest chapter of The Crider Chronicles – Forest over at Glibertarians.

Now then – here’s a man-bites-dog tale for the ages.

Police in Kansas nabbed a naked man after a “bizarre and violent encounter” with officers outside a general store Wednesday.

Officers with the Lawrence Kansas Police Department (LKPD) responded to Casey’s General Store around 3:00 p.m.  after a report of a man with a dog inside the store bathroom who was refusing to leave, the LKPD said on Facebook.

Upon entering the bathroom officials discovered the man was naked and apparently engaging in a sexual act with himself. Responding officers attempted to arrest the individual after he refused to stop. At that point, the man allegedly began to fight the officers. Officials used a taser on the man twice but he allegedly continued to fight the officers.

“Eventually, officers were able to get the man in handcuffs, but he continued to resist being restrained, and while still in the cramped bathroom, the man bit onto his dog’s ear and neck, refusing to let go,” police said. During the encounter, the man also allegedly bit an officer.

Well, there’s something you don’t see every day.

And you have to admire the linguistic restraint shown in this piece. The man, according to the Daily Caller, was “naked and apparently engaging in a sexual act with himself,” as a polite way of saying he was jackin’ it in the bathroom. And the taser – where, precisely, was that taser targeted? Because it’s a safe bet that if it was applied in the same area the naked man was… applying his attention to, that would have taken the fight right out of him.

I’ve seen some weird news stories in my day. But this one’s right up there in the top hundred.

 

KooKoo, Science, Totty

Rule Five Sperm Races Friday

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Back when we were deployed for the first Gulf War, in those long spaces of boredom that lay in between our frantic bursts of activity, some of the guys in our unit cobbled together a wooden race track and held gerbil and scorpion races. It was something to pass the time, and interesting enough to bet on.

But now I see that apparently, amongst the wealthy, the thing now is sperm races, and no, it’s not what you might think.

Men with a lot of time and money on their hands always seem to end up doing weird things, don’t they? This time, it’s a group of millionaire teenagers. What are they doing, you ask? Oh, just pitting sperm samples against one another in a microscopic sports-style match complete with leaderboards and play-by-play commentary in an arena filled with 4,000 people. And they’ve already raised $1.5 million to pull it off.

The company putting on the competition is appropriately called Sperm Racing and was started by Eric Zhu, Nick Small, Shane Fan, and Garrett Niconienko, all of whom all young and involved in various finance-bro things like tech, crypto, and venture capital. The contest appears to be exactly what it sounds like: Sperm from two university students go head-to-head in racetracks meant to mimic the uterus. Since the entire event will be too tiny to see with the naked eye, the competition will be tracked by “high-resolution cameras” and livestreamed to viewers at home, according to the company’s website. Riveting.

What. The actual. Fuck.

So, I wonder, who contributes the samples? Are these guys betting on their own sperm? Someone else’s?

However it works, they’re channeling their inner Elon Musks, perhaps.

The event is meant to be fun and turn “health into a competition,” per the group’s manifesto. “It’s about making male fertility something people actually want to talk about, track, and improve. We’re taking a topic no one wants to touch and making it interesting, measurable, and weirdly changing this paradigm.” Actually, rich men talk about fertility a lot. Pronatalist Elon Musk — who has 14 kids and counting — has said low birth rates mean fewer workers and claimed that “if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble.”

OK, well, I’m way past the point where my fertility matters any more, at least as far as making babies, and my dear wife is likewise beyond that point. We’re grandparents, and in the next few years, may well be great-grandparents.

But I would bet that things would have to be tedious indeed before I’d get drawn into betting on sperm races. I’ll stick to gerbils and scorpions.

Still though. Weird.

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Rule Five Joke Candidate Friday

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What would happen if you held an election and nobody came? Well, it may look something like Kamala “Queen of Word Salads” Harris’s attempt at running for Governor of California. Turns out that even in deep-blue Californey, she’s about as popular as chlamydia.

California policy influencers are “indifferent” about former Vice President Kamala Harris running for governor in the state, a nonprobability-based survey conducted by Politico and UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center found.

The nonprobability poll surveyed California registered voters and a selected group of policy insiders, who included lawmakers, as well as state and federal government staffers. California’s registered voters were more enthusiastic about Harris than the policy insiders, with 33% reportedly feeling “joyful” about the possibility.

Thirty-six percent of the policy influencers said they felt “indifferent” about Harris running for governor. Just 4% said they would be outraged, 22% said they were “mostly excited” and 20% said they were irritated by the potential gubernatorial bid.

Harris has not officially declared her candidacy in her home state, but has vowed to remain active in politics since losing to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. She is also weighing a bid for the presidency in 2028.

I would guess she would have better luck in California than in trying another presidential run, but hey, it might be amusing. She’d have to face the full primary field, from the entire assmblage of nitwits, halfwits, dimwits and nincompoops that makes up the Democrat’s field, although this go-around there won’t be anyone as quick and as smart as Tulsi Gabbard to defenestrate her in the debates.

And Harris is losing support across the board.

The former vice president received a low level of enthusiasm among independent voters in California, with 21% saying they felt “hopeless” about Harris potentially running, and 26% saying they felt “irritated” by the possibility.

Voters of color gave a mixed reaction to the possibility of Harris running. While 35% of Black voters felt “joyful” and 38% said they were “mostly excited,” other voters of color weren’t as enthusiastic. 

Nineteen percent of Latino voters said they felt “hopeless” about the former vice president running in California. Eighteen percent of Asian voters said in the survey that they felt “irritated” by Harris possibly launching a bid.

“Joyful.” Yeah, that’s a priority for selecting a president.

Kamala Harris doesn’t have another Willie Brown to give her a leg (or two) up this go-round. Her husband, Doug “The Slapper” Emhoff, is, if anything, a liability. She was the worst presidential candidate in living memory, and that’s a memory that includes Michael Dukakis. She’s a terrible speaker, her grating cackle is even more annoying than Hillary Clinton’s, and she’s frankly not very bright.

It’s past time Kamala Harris called it quits.

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Animal’s Daily DEI News

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Before I get into this stupidity (see headline) make sure to check out the latest installment of my buddy UnCivilServant’s Prince of the North Tower as well as my next chapter of The Weavers over at Glibertarians.

Now then: If you didn’t need another reason to get rid of the unconstitutional federal Department of Education (ED) then here’s one anyway. It seems that over the last few years, the ED has poured $200 million into DEI programs at American universities.

Holy. Shit.

A new report from Parents Defending Education alleges that since 2021, the Department of Education has awarded over $200 million to forty-eight universities injecting DEI content into counseling courses that include topics on antiracism, microaggressions, white privilege, and whiteness.

“The federal government spends billions of dollars on mental health initiatives each year – but it’s imperative to investigate how counselors and social workers are trained, because some practitioners may do more harm than good,” Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital. “As the Trump administration looks to eradicate DEI from American institutions, these education and training programs merit close scrutiny, as do the professional associations overseeing such work.”

Yeah. Shut it down. President Trump, if you’re listening, work with Congress, do whatever you have to do. Take it to the courts – the 10th Amendment actually precludes Washington being involved in education. Take it to Congress. Whittle down their budget to next to nothing, so they don’t have $200 million in taxpayer’s money to spend on this foolishness.

We need to cut spending. Our government spending and debt are out of control. There’s a lot to cut, but cut this first. The ED is clearly too stupid to continue.

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Rule Five And Under The Bus She Goes Friday

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Never let it be said that Bernie Sanders, that daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, is afraid to say what’s on his mind. The problem is, what’s on his mind is usually kookoo for Cocoa Puffs.  In his latest misadventure, he’s out there assuring Democrat voters that Kamala Harris is lying about her support for Israel and that she’ll change her mind after the election. And what’s worse, he may be right.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) promised that Vice President Kamala Harris would change her position on the war in Gaza if she wins the election. 

Harris has faced pushback from many pro-Palestinian voters frustrated that she hasn’t unveiled a policy agenda for U.S. actions in the Middle East distinctly different from President Joe Biden’s largely pro-Israel stance. With time running out to persuade this voting bloc to support the vice president, Sanders made a final appeal.

“I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree with Biden and Harris on the terrible war in Gaza. I am one of them,” Sanders began in a post to X. He then explained, however, that he continues to support Harris because he believes she will change her position after the election. 

“I promise you, after Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change U.S. policy toward [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,” the Vermont senator vowed.

“Let me be clear. We will have, in my view, a much better chance of changing U.S. policy with Kamala than with Trump,” Sanders continued.

What a loon. Here’s the other side of the story:

Former President Donald Trump and his allies, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have argued instead that it is Hamas, in fact, that has caused the deaths of Palestinian civilians because the terrorist group has used civilians to hide from Israel and its efforts to eradicate the group after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

Is daffy old Bernie really this obtuse? Not only is he apparently incapable of looking at reams of photographs and hours of video of Hamas armories and headquarters complexes literally built in tunnels under playgrounds, hospitals and the like, but is he really engaged in telling the Democrats’ anti-semitic, pro-Hamas wing, “Oh, don’t worry, she’s lying about all that; once she’s elected Hamas will be free to go on slaughtering Jews.”

And are Democrat voters dumb enough to buy it? Never mind, I already know the answer to that one.

Look, if Israel is engaging in genocide here, it’s the most incompetent genocide in the history of genocides.  Not only are they resorting to using things like “roof knocker” explosives to warn people out of buildings that are about to be destroyed, but they have, at great risk, had the IDF open corridors so Gazan civilians can leave the area where fighting is taking place.

We can conclude two things from this: 1) Bernie Sanders is a nut, and b) Israel still and always will have the moral high ground here.

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Goodbye, Blue Monday

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Goodbye, Blue Monday!

Thanks as always to Pirate’s Cove, Bacon Time, The Other McCain, and Flappr for the Rule Five links! And please, if you can, toss a little help to our blogger pal Doug Hagin over at The Daley Gator.

Now here’s a genius for you.

Green Party member U.S. Senate candidate for New Jersey Christina Amira Khalil went viral after posting a theory to social media that the earthquake that rocked New York and New Jersey on Friday was caused by climate change.

Prominent social media users mocked the post, which also received an X “Community Note” fact check providing the real reason for the event.

Khalil took so much criticism for the post that she ended up deleting it and switching her account to “protected” mode so that the public couldn’t view her posts any longer. 

Following the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that was felt New York, New Jersey, and other northeast U.S. states, Khalil posted on X, “I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes. The climate crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever.”

The aspiring politician’s theory went viral only hours after it was posted, gaining millions of views thanks to the help of big accounts sharing it for the sake of mocking it on their feeds.

I don’t know what I could say that would make this nitwit look any dumber than she already does.  But an X/Twitter commenter, Paul Szypula, summed it up very nicely.

It’s true, folks; just when you think these people couldn’t possibly get any dumber, someone goes and drops the bar lower still.  At this point, it’s somewhere around the bottom of the Marianas Trench.

It’s belaboring the obvious to point out that this idiot is in no way fit for a position as Third Assistant Dogcatcher in Bumfuck, Lower Slobovia, but I’ll point it out anyway.  She’s beyond parody – and nuts.

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Rule Five Great Replacement Friday

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There is a thing called “replacement theory,” wherein it’s hypothesized that (at least part of) the reason for the Biden administration’s blithely allowing in a few million illegal immigrants is to, essentially, stack the census by artificially inflating the population of the predominantly urban blue cities and states. The thing is, intentional or not, that’s sure as hell what’s happening.  Issues & Insights has the news.

Earlier this week we reported on our findings about net domestic migration trends in the U.S. based on voting patterns in the 2020 elections. (See: “The Great Divorce: 3.7 Million Have Fled Counties That Voted For Biden.”)

But we realized there was a discrepancy in the numbers. For example, while more than 483,000 people have moved out of Los Angeles County since 2020, the county’s population only declined by 351,000. Over the past three years, more than 88,000 Americans left Harris County, Texas, yet its population actually increased by 104,000.

And, while we found that, overall, 3.7 million people moved out of Biden-voting counties since the 2020 elections, the population of these counties went down by less than 1.5 million.

Why the difference?

Were those who stayed behind particularly fertile and long-lived?

No. The difference is almost entirely from what the Census Bureau calls “net international migration.”

It’s important to note that the census doesn’t just count citizens – it counts everyone who lives in each state, and those numbers are used to determine the apportioning of Congressional representatives.

Overall, the country saw a net gain of 2,534,150 people from international migration from 2020 to 2023, Census data show. These are presumably what Census describes as “lawful permanent residents.” (A separate report shows that in 2021 and 2022, there were 1.8 million people who obtained lawful permanent resident status, and the average per year is close to 1 million. So that would easily account for the 2.5 million net immigrants.)

Where are they coming from? Census data show that 35% are from Central and South America, 37% from Asian countries (including 6% from China, and 12% from India), 8% from Africa, and less than 7% from Europe.

Here’s the onion:

Of the more than 2.5 million international migrants, more than 2 million went to counties that voted for Biden. Which means fewer than 500,000 of them ended up in counties that voted for Trump.

Here’s another way to look at it:

Of the 100 counties with the largest gains from net international migration since 2020, all but eight of them voted for Biden in 2020.

At the other end of the spectrum, of the 100 counties with the lowest levels of net international migration, only five voted for Biden.

You can see the complete data set that we compiled here.

It’s hard to see this as anything but deliberate.

I’m generally inclined to see anything bad the Biden administration does – in other words, anything at all that the Biden administration does – is the result of stupidity and/or incompetence rather than malice.  But this situation just stinks a little too much to be random stupidity.

No, this seems an awful lot like a calculated tactic to raise the odds of keeping the United States House of Representatives in Democrat hands.  And, as we’ve seen in all the news of late – you can see a lot of my own coverage of this linked in yesterday’s Red Thursday post – this uncontrolled, unchecked illegal immigration isn’t really a good thing.

The Biden administration has let in millions of illegal aliens, and we have no idea who most of them are, where they intend to go, or what they intend to do when they get there; we are, effectively, setting ourselves up for our own Crocus City Hall/October 7th event.

Nothing about this will end well.

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Animal’s Hump Day News

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Happy Hump Day!

Housekeeping note:  Since my Wednesday links posts have always been long, and are getting longer, I’m going to try sticking the actual links below a “Click to Read More” tag.  This will help me to keep my already crowded front page a tad less cluttered while I consider how to go about a more involved revamp of the site. I’m still using the 2014 theme for WordPress, and while I like the looks of it, it may be time to update.  It’s been almost ten years since the last major site revamp, so we’ll see.  And, of course, please do let me know in the comments if you like/dislike and changes or have any other comments.

And so…

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Animal’s Daily Stupid Idea News

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Before I get into today’s topic, check out the first episode of my new series, License to Kill, over at Glibertarians.  And if you like my fiction work, you can find a whole bunch of it here (publisher) or here (Amazon).

I have discussed, from time to time, how stupid the whole idea of “muh reparations” is.  It’s pleasing to see that California voters agree, returning some stunning poll results in reply to the once and former-Golden State’s  idiotic California Reparations Task Force Report.

The majority of California voters oppose offering cash reparations to the descendants of African American slaves, a new poll has found.

Fifty-nine percent of California voters oppose cash payments, while 29% of voters support the idea, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll that was cosponsored by the Los Angeles Times. A total of four-in-ten respondents reported they “strongly” oppose cash reparations.

The poll comes after Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2020 that established the California Reparations Task Force, which was launched to explore how the state could lead the nation on a potential reparations program.

Do I really need to point out that slavery was never legal in California?  Not to worry; America’s own walking “hair products for men” spokesman, Gavin Newsom, has an explanation:

“As a nation, we can only truly thrive when every one of us has the opportunity to thrive. Our painful history of slavery has evolved into structural racism and bias built into and permeating throughout our democratic and economic institutions,” Newsom said at the time. “California’s rich diversity is our greatest asset, and we won’t turn away from this moment to make right the discrimination and disadvantages that Black Californians and people of color still face.”

What an utter and steaming load of absolute codswallop, balderdash, flapdoodle and poppycock.

There is no justification – none – for paying reparations for slavery to people who have never been slaves, after taking the money away from people who have never owned slaves.

Have there been injustices in the past?  Yes.  If not, there’s a good chance I’d be living now in the Scottish Highlands, given that several of my Jacobite ancestors wouldn’t have found it necessary to flee to the New World to keep the English from removing their heads.  Examples abound, but for some reason no one talks seriously about reparations for the Irish for all the years that the English literally treated them as second- or third-class citizens.

Let’s be honest:  California Democrats are, as politicians in general always do, pandering to a certain demographic (which one is left as an exercise to the reader) to implement one of the most transparent and egregious vote-buying schemes in modern history.  Rightly, it seems, California voters are seeing through the scam.

Whether this overstep will result in California voters spewing the Democrat Party out of their mouths is another issue; frankly I’m not too sanguine about that prospect.