Star Trek's Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, dies at 89

Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on the original Star Trek series and six movies, died today according to her son. 

When I was a convention service manager at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, we hosted many Star Trek conventions. I met Nichols at one of them. She was born in Robbins, Illinois, just a few miles from Palos Heights, where I grew up. We talked about Chicago, the southwest suburbs, and more. Nichols couldn't have been any nicer. She was a real class act. 

Rest in peace.

From Da Tech Guy: Fact-checkers are gaslighting Americans over definition of a recession

My friends, not only are you being lied to, but the biggest liars are fact-checkers. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Fact-checkers are gaslighting Americans over definition of a recession.

Eric Clapton: Stand and Deliver

Last Thursday on Fox News' Gutfeld, Eric Clapton and Van Morrison got shout-outs from the host for being unlikely rebels, considering both musical legends are in the mid-70s. 

The current young generation is simply a bunch of wimps. 

Here's Clapton from last year singing a Morrison-penned anti-COVID lockdown song, "Stand and Deliver." 

This is a lyrical segment of note:

Magna Carta, Bill of Rights
The constitution, what's it worth?

You know they're gonna grind us down, ah

Until it really hurts.

Is this a sovereign nation 

Or just a police state? 

You better look out people 

Before it gets too late

 

The phrase "stand and deliver" was, or as legend has it, the British version of America's "stick 'em up," the warning from robbers to get ready to be robbed of your valuables. "Highwaymen" plagued the UK countryside in the 18th century, one of the most notorious of them was Dick Turpin. 

Here's the last line from the song, "Dick Turpin wore a mask too."

With the WHO and local and national governmental bodies exaggerating the monkey pox outbreak, we need to be worried. 

Again. 

Related post of mine at Da Tech Guy: 

Van Morrison continues his attack on lockdowns and government overreach on his tremendous new album

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY: "Evidence from Hunter's laptop" suggests Joe Biden DID know about his business deals

Joe Biden is the head of a Chicago-style influence peddling ring. Hunter Biden's laptop betrays "the Big Guy."

ABC: Americans should "get ready for a Halloween candy shortage" as the Biden economy flounders

Hershey is warning of a candy shortage for Halloween. 

Who will Joe Biden blame? Big Candy?

Certainly Sleepy Joe won't blame himself or his anti-capitalism policies.

The Cliffdivers (Cover Nick Lowe - Marie Provost ) live @ Royal Bondi Sydney

A band I haven't heard of, the Cliffdivers, perform here Nick Lowe's "Marie Provost." Lowe got a few things wrong on this otherwise remarkable tune. Marie Prevost, not Provost, was one of those silent movie stars whose career didn't survive the industry's transition to talkies.

An alcoholic, she died nearly broke and alone in a hotel room in Hollywood, not on July 29 as Lowe wrote--yes, that is today's date--but on January 21, 1937.

Enjoy all the song written by "the Basher" all the same!

Kudlow: This would make George Orwell proud

Larry Kudlow, the former director of the National Economic Council, explains why we are in a recession, despite the Orwellian talk from the Biden White House.

From Wirepoints: CTA crime problem begs for real deterrence: Half-measures won’t do

The last time I rode on a CTA train, a thug acted psychotically and half the passengers on the car I was riding on meekly left. I stayed because I refuse to be bullied. Over at Wirepoints Matt Rosenberg has more: CTA crime problem begs for real deterrence: Half-measures won’t do.

The Biden recession: US economy falls 0.9 percent in second quarter

The Democrats and the Biden administration can't define what a woman is. Now they are trying to re-define what constitutes a recession. 

For a second straight quarter the United States economy shrank, this time by 0.9 percent. For decades a recession has been defined as declining GDP for two straight quarters. 

Joe Biden inherited an economy recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. And by printing money and declaring war on energy, Biden ruined it. 

This is news to think about when you vote in November.

The View hosts apologize for smearing Turning Point USA with Nazis

The View apologized this morning for very misleading reporting on "Nazis" at a Turning Point USA conference last weekend in Florida.

Like the Jussie Smollett hoax, here was a story that was too good for some dishonest journalists to pass up. 

Nazis! At a conservative event! What a boffo story!

But this morning one the hosts for the ABC show was forced to issue a correction after Turning Point USA's lawyers issued a cease-and-desist letter. "We wanna make clear that these demonstrators were gathered outside the event and that they were not invited or endorsed by Turning Point USA."

The View, or its staff, didn't do its job of--wait for it--by investigating the story before airing it. As the old saying goes in the honest days of journalism, "If your mother says she loves you--check it out."

In my opinion, and Dan Bongino brought this up in his podcast Monday, the Nazi "protest" at the Turning Point event, what occurred in Florida seems eerily similar to the attempt to recreate the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year as Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Youngkin, campaigned there last fall. The Lincoln Project, an anti-Donald Trump group, later claimed responsibility for the stunt.

UPDATE 9:30PM:

 Fox News' Outnumber has their take here.