Highlights of the News

Bentley news tomorrow. Here's the news for today.

ITEM 1: Kenosha County Eye tweeted, "In a very bizarre statement, Kenosha Assistant District Attorney James Kraus tells Wisconsin Lawyer Ethics Investigator that he and T. Clair Binger are NOT homosexual lovers."

Binger's even too ugly for Kraus.

ITEM 2: The Daily Mail reported, "White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was forced to defend her boss Joe Biden on Thursday amid questions over the timing of his covid-19 test expansion and accusations that he acted too late to stop massive delays in testing and results just two days before Christmas. 

"Hours later a report emerged in Vanity Fair that the Biden administration had rejected a roadmap to getting at-home rapid covid tests to every American to avoid the holiday surge currently wreaking havoc on people's Christmas plans. The ambitious blueprint called for 732 million monthly covid tests—far more than what Biden promised would come in January."

His response to covid is so weird that it is as if covid bought paintings from Hunter.

ITEM 3: Breitbart reported, "The World Health Organization warned Tuesday there is too much at stake to celebrate Christmas this year, cautioning it is better to either cancel or postpone the annual festivities than risk the death of a loved one."

Not gonna happen, ace.

Amid a smallpox epidemic and in the middle of the night, Washington and his men rowed across a freezing Delaware River to attack the British on Christmas.

It's a Christian holiday and it's an American holiday.

WHO didn't tell the Saudis to call off the Hajj.

ITEM 4: Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "Fairfax County police have seized electronics and hard drives of Rick Saleeby, a CNN producer for Jake Tapper, in light of FaceTime calls and texts showing solicitation of fiancé’s underage daughter photos."

If Saleeby needs a lawyer, Michael Avenatti is available. 

I know what you are thinking. He's in prison.

Nope.

Politico reported, "VENICE, Calif. — Inside a two-bedroom apartment, 11 blocks from the ocean, there is a man in free fall, though he has nowhere to go. He wears a monitor on his right ankle, government-issued, blinking green beneath his tapered track pants. He doesn’t leave, except for court appearances and medical appointments. He makes calls on a red flip phone, designed for seniors by a company called Jitterbug: big buttons, no internet, cell service from Cricket Wireless. His old iPhone — the one where he handled his TV bookings, tapped out tweets and called reporters, wresting each story into the version he wanted, with charm, with pure aggression, with whatever the day required — now goes straight to voicemail. Maybe you had his number. Back then, for a while at least, who didn’t?"

BLM is wrong. The problem is not white privilege. It's Connected Liberal privilege.

ITEM 5: Fox reported, "Annual inflation is running at the hottest pace in nearly four decades as widespread supply disruptions, extraordinarily high consumer demand and worker shortages fuel rapidly rising price increases.

"Prices soared by 5.7% in the year through November, according to the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index data released Thursday morning. That topped the previous month's rate of 5%, becoming the fastest pace increase since February 1982, when the gauge hit 6.17%."

Don't hoard but stock up. This week's regular prices will be next month's sales prices.

ITEM 6: But there are signs that inflation may die down.

The Wall Street Journal reported, "Consumer spending rose more slowly in November, raising risks of a broader economic slowdown amid the latest wave of Covid-19 cases.

"U.S. consumer spending rose 0.6% last month, after climbing 1.4% in October, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Holiday shoppers snatched up gifts earlier than usual this year in anticipation of product shortages, helping to boost spending in October while contributing to a November sales slowdown, economists say."

There's nothing like a recession to stop inflation.

ITEM 7: Yahoo reported, "A jury has found former Brooklyn Center, Minn., Police Officer Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in the death of black motorist Daunte Wright, following a two-week trial and 27 hours of deliberation by the 12 jurors.

"Potter fatally shot Wright, 20, after she and an officer trainee pulled him over in the Minneapolis suburb on April 11. They, along with a third officer, attempted to arrest him when he tried to take off with his girlfriend in the car.

"Potter’s bodycam footage shows her threatening to use her Taser multiple times during the struggle to remove him from the car. She then fired off a shot but grabbed her gun instead of the Taser. In the video, Potter exclaims: 'I grabbed the wrong f***ing gun.'"

Sad case.

Cops should be very careful with their weapons.

And no matter what the color of your skin is, when the cops pull you over cooperate. The life you save may be your own.

ITEM 8: AP reported, "A former Boston College student who prosecutors say drove her boyfriend to take his own life with thousands of text messages pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter.

"Under terms of a plea deal, Inyoung You, 23, received a 2 1/2 year suspended jail sentence and 10 years of probation and was barred by a judge in Suffolk Superior Court from profiting from her case in any way. The sentence means You can avoid time behind bars if she adheres to all the terms of her probation, which includes continued mental health treatment and community service."

That sounds like a sentence Potter should get.

ITEM 9: The Hill reported, "Ted Kaczynski, commonly known as the Unabomber for terrorizing people with homemade bombs, has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility, according to The Washington Post."

Looks like his multiple life sentences are about to end.

ITEM 10: Big League Politics reported, "Ted Cruz argued he is well-positioned to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

"He pointed to his second-place finish behind Donald Trump in the Republican Party’s 2016 primary."

Asked if he would run again, he told the Truth Gazette, "Absolutely. In a heartbeat.

"You know, I ran in 2016. It was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. We had a very crowded field. We had 17 candidates in the race — a very strong field. And I ended up placing second.

"There’s a reason historically that the runner-up is almost always the next nominee. And that’s been true going back to Nixon or Reagan or McCain or Romney that has played out repeatedly. You come in with just an enormous base of support."

I find him acceptable but only if he keeps the beard.

ITEM 11: Zero Hedge reported, "Now that the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial is in the hands of the jury, lawyers representing some of Epstein's accusers are asking why just four victims were called by prosecutors (led by the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey)."

How do you know the fix was in?

Maxwell didn't kill herself.

All of Epstein's blackmail material is in the hands of the FBI. 

That's scary.

ITEM 12: UPI reported, "McDonald's targets kids in lower-income countries with social media posts, study finds."

Of all of life's mysteries to study -- including the origin of the universe, the cause of cancer, and whether the string theory is correct -- the bozos at BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health chose to study who McDonald's target audience is.

One phone call to McDonald's PR department could have answered the question.

ITEM 13: The Daily Mail reported, "Man, 19, facing federal charges for 'carjacking Dem Rep. Scanlon at gunpoint' was awaiting trial for stealing another car and has a string of arrests: Teen 'accomplices' aged 13 to 16 have been released back to parents."

Democrats want cities to become crime centers so they can create a police state.

There are never unintended consequences when it come to Democrat policy. There are only unadvertised consequences -- often denied when conservatives predict them.

ITEM 14: The Desert Times reported, "Arizona’s enigmatic U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema remains opposed to weakening the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for moving ahead on legislation, even as other Democrats are floating the idea of making an exception to the chamber’s rules to pass major voting rights measures.

"In a statement to States Newsroom, a Sinema spokeswoman said the senator supports the voting rights bills but fears that changing Senate rules would ultimately undermine the bills’ goals and Americans’ faith in the legislative process. 

"Sinema’s fellow Senate Democrats renewed calls last week to bypass the 60-vote threshold for voting rights legislation as the end of the year and a holiday recess loom."

States run elections. Congress does not. If Congress did, there would be no need for it to use a constitutional amendment to drop the voting age to 18. It could have simply passed a law.

ITEM 15: Radio host Hoppy Kercheval, dean of the West Virginia press corps, interviewed Manchin this week and got some national ink on it.

The press missed the most important thing Manchin said. Goons had surrounded his Maserati and later his yacht. Manchin did not like that.

He told Hoppy, "They figured, ‘Surely to God we can move one person. Surely, we can badger and beat one person up. Surely we can get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough they’ll just say, ‘Okay, I’ll vote for anything. Just quit.’

"Guess what? I’m from West Virginia. I’m not from where they’re from, where you can beat the living crap out of people and they’ll be submissive.'"

50-plus years ago, Manchin was the starting QB for the Farmington High Farmers. A knee injury shortened what would have been a good college career at WVU.

Don't mess with the man. He's big. He's got bad knees but he will kick your ass.

ITEM 16: Just the News reported, "The California Department of Education's equity project manager has resigned due to the fact she lives in Texas.

"Pamela Kadakia worked for the California state department while living in Texas, according to Politico. Additionally, the Lone Star State is on California's state-funded travel ban list.

"California law mandates that state employees live there unless they need to live in another location for their work, such as lobbying in D.C.

"Kadakia is the second California education equity official to depart in recent weeks. The Golden State's first superintendent of equity, Daniel Lee, resigned earlier this month. Politico reported how Lee lived in Philadelphia while collecting a salary of more than $161,000 from the state of California."

Which shows 1. California is so bad, even state officials won't live there, and 2. people who actually live in California are not fit to hold state government jobs.

ITEM 17: Del Bigtree tweeted, "Please Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Unvaccinated. I Was Born That Way."

He is "Host of ‘The HighWire with Del Bigtree’, Producer of Vaxxed, CEO of Informed Consent Action Network, Former Emmy winning producer of The Doctors on CBS."

ITEM 18: Country Music Family reported, "2 Babies Found Alive In Upside-Down Bathtub After Kentucky Tornado."

Grandma was watching them. She put them in the tub ahead of the tornado, along with a blanket, a pillow, and a Bible.

ITEM 19: Life Site News reported, "DC announces vaccine passport system that will take effect just days before 2022 March for Life."

My body, my choice only applies to killing babies.

ITEM 20: The New York Times reported, "Thousands of would-be travelers received the same troubling message on Thursday: a last-minute cancellation of their Christmas Eve flight because of the recent spike of Omicron cases.

"United Airlines canceled at least 131 flights scheduled to leave dozens of airports on Friday — along with 28 more that were supposed to take off on Saturday, according to Flight Aware. Other airlines, including Delta, JetBlue and Allegiant, did the same."

Santa came to say, Rudolph with your test so bright.

Get the hell off my sleigh tonight.

FINALLY in 2020, Donald Trump took 25 states, and Biden took 25 states and D.C.

Via Citizen Free Press, 20 states and DC lost population last year.

Biden carried 14 of those losers. 7 were Trump states.

Trump carried 18 of the winners. 12 were Biden states.

The two biggest losers were California (minus 367,299) and New York (minus 352,185).

The two biggest winners were Florida (plus 220,890) and Texas (plus 170,3017).

West Virginia gained 2,343.

That's pretty good because for 84 years (1930 through 2014) Democrats controlled the state. The population was stagnant as the state dropped from 6 congressmen to 3. It just lost another congressman but who knows what will happen during the next redistricting 10 years from now? With a return of Republicans to power, the state is growing.

Readers interested in moving here should consider the Eastern Panhandle. It is beautiful and has amenities and proximity to larger cities that Poca does not have. Housing is affordable.

Meanwhile, cue the Temptations. They're on.

People moving out.

People moving in.

Why? Because of Joe Biden...