Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: AA reported, "Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that at least a dozen countries are interested in joining the emerging economies bloc BRICS."

The story also said, "Currently, the BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- are working out formal criteria for entering the bloc, Lavrov added."

Ah, Biden's economic sanctions against Russia are helping Red China expand its economic power. Whatever they paid him and the rest of the Democrat Party was just a few million compared to the trillions gained.

Putin does not need Ukraine now.

ITEM 2: Forward reported, "Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he believes a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is within reach and would effectively end the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"Netanyahu, speaking from Israel at an online event hosted by Temple Emanu-El’s Streicker Center, reminded an online audience of nearly 300 people that the Abraham Accords were negotiated by the administration of former President Donald Trump when he was prime minister."

Bibi said, "It didn’t happen without Saudi approval because those countries wanted to know what their big neighbor Saudi Arabia thought about it, I can assure you, it wasn’t negative."

Let the record show that the first plane to fly from directly from Riyadh to Israel was Air Force One under President Trump. It was the highlight of the best administration since Reagan.

ITEM 3: Breitbart reported, "Democrat Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) blew over $70 million in her bid to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), only to get utterly demolished by the incumbent Republican."

How much of that money went to friends and family?

Why do you think Beto and Crist keep running?

ITEM 4: Politico reported, "Crypto megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried helped bankroll Democrats’ overperformance in the midterms. But any friends he may have had in Washington won’t be there for him as his crumbling business empire threatens to torpedo the entire digital currency market.

"Bankman-Fried’s Washington influence — as well as billions of dollars of his personal wealth — nearly vanished in the span of 48 hours, after it emerged that the giant crypto exchange he founded was insolvent and unable to meet customer withdrawals."

Crypto megadonor? When I start Surb-coin my title won't be CEO and I won't be a crypto megadonor.

I'll be the Crypto Keeper.

ITEM 5: The Daily Mail reported, "Warren Beatty accuser, 63, tells how he 'raped and sodomized her on the set of film The Parallax View when she was a 14-year-old virgin and he was 36' -- in shocking video where she says she was emotionally damaged for life."

He was the handsomest man in Hollywood at the time. He could have any woman. He had no need to do this. I should find this hard to believe, but I don't.

ITEM 6: The Right Scoop reported, "A district judge in the Fifth Circuit has just vacated Biden’s new program bribing voters with money to pay off their student loans.

"Judge Mark T. Pittman ruled that Biden’s use of the HEROES Act – 'a law to provide loan assistance to military personnel defending our nation' – to establish this student loan bribery program is unconstitutional.

"The judge found that Congress had not given the executive branch clear congressional authorization to create a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program and thus shut down the program."

A Trump-appointed judge ends Biden's lawlessness.

ITEM 7: Just the News reported, "Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20 summit in person, the Russian embassy in Indonesia told CNN on Thursday. Whether Putin will participate virtually is still being decided on, Yulia Tomskaya, chief of protocol at the embassy, said."

So will they have to change the signs to G19?

ITEM 8: On this Veterans Day, we have more than 40,000 homeless veterans.

If this is an average day, 22 veterans will commit suicide.

As long as these numbers stand, there is no such thing as a Happy Veterans Day.

ITEM 9: The New York Post reported, "Construction at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has been temporarily halted after a noose was discovered at the worksite Thursday morning."

Jussie must be at it again.

ITEM 10: The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, "Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who once worked to rally African American support for Donald Trump, on Thursday publicly broke with the former president, saying it’s time for the GOP to move on."

The people saying move on want someone who can be MAGA and get elected.

ITEM 11: Post Millennial reported, "After a biologically male shop teacher, identified as Kayla Lemieux, began teaching class while wearing a blonde wig, tight bicycle shorts, and most notably obscenely large prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples, the Halton District School Board (Ontario) decided that, despite backlash, this attire would be permitted."

I would like to say there is a fine line between tolerance and stupidity, but the fact is it is a very thick and wide line and somehow this school board managed to cross it.

ITEM 12: Radar Online reported, "Staff writers are boycotting an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live after the program announced Dave Chappelle would be the next host, RadarOnline.com has learned."

Good. Maybe the show finally will have some jokes in it.

ITEM 13: Fox reported, "Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker hauled in $3.3 million in fundraising on Wednesday -- the first day of his Senate runoff campaign with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock -- according to candidate's advisers, who shared their figures first with Fox News. 

"And on Thursday, Walker upped the ante, bringing in $4.3 million, according to his team.

"Walker, who finished roughly 35,000 votes behind Warnock out of nearly 4 million votes cast in the Senate election in the battleground state of Georgia, returned to the campaign trail Thursday, teaming up with conservative Sen. Ted Cruz at a large rally in Canton, a small city about 40 miles north of Atlanta. Walker’s campaign tells Fox News that it plans to be back up on television with an ad later this week."

I hope he will spend the money on harvesting ballots.

ITEM 14: Just the News reported, "Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the Justice Department inspector general to review the FBI's management of sexual misconduct claims. 

"Sen. Grassley raised concerns about the FBI's mishandling of sexual misconduct claims back in October. Reports came out last month alleging that 665 FBI personnel have either retired or resigned in order to avoid being held accountable in misconduct probes over the past two decades, the AP reported. 

"The FBI had said they would get back to Grassley on his original concerns in October, but failed to do so. The Iowa senator is now calling for a full investigation."

The lawlessness of the FBI raises the question of why we have one.

It does not seem constitutional to me.

ITEM 15: BBC reported, "KFC has apologized after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken.

"The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead, and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship.

"It is widely seen as the beginning of the Holocaust."

The tweet said, "Commemorate Kristallnacht – treat yourself to more soft cheese and crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!"

Commemorate?

ITEM 16: Conservative Brief reported, "Alaska Senate Race Headed To Run-Off Following Midterms."

Come on, Kelly Tshibaka. Flip the state from RINO to red.

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