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  1. The President pretty much stated in the first year of his term his plan was to slow the economy down. Mission accomplished. (6 - 8 months ago) A reliable historic bellweather to the economy is the RV industry. Historically - What happens in the RV industry leads the greater economy by about 9 months to a year. The RV industry began it's retreat in May of 2022. Today it is shipping less than 1/2 of 2022 product with deep layoffs that hit last year and deeper ones this year. Companies still producing are running 1 week on and 2 weeks off with limited staff. Elkhart County unemployment is over 5% leaning on 6%. Get ready - SF believes this is where the rest of the economy is heading.
  2. So the geriatric members of the House and Senate are making their intentions known for the upcoming 2024's..... Nancy's in.....at 83..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12496957/Nancy-Pelosi-83-confirms-running-Former-Democrat-speaker-reveals-wants-two-years-Congress-help-San-Franciscos-recovery.html Nancy Pelosi, 83, confirms she is running AGAIN: Former Democrat speaker reveals she wants two more years in Congress - and to help San Francisco's recovery 'Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery,' Pelosi wrote on X The former House speaker stepped down from her leadership position last year San Francisco is experiencing a major crime wave including smash-and-grab robberies and carjackings
  3. SF doesn't think Mayor Adams is wrong.....but aware that this has been going on for decades in TX, AZ, CA & FL. The phrase "The chickens have come home to roost" comes to mind.....But farmer Joe and his farmhand Kamala appear oblivious..... https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/nycs-first-day-of-school-sees-influx-of-migrants/ The first day of classes kicked off in New York City on Thursday as schools grapple with the influx of migrant students, with some buildings turning away kids as 21,000 children seeking asylum inundated already jam-packed classrooms. The line to get inside Newcomers High School in Long Island City stretched around the block early Thursday as frustrated teachers vented that the building had already hit capacity, pushing students at Gotham — a different school inside the building — to a facility across the street. “It’s a capacity issue,” a teacher told The Post. “They should have worked this out two days ago!” Many of the migrant students were beaming and proudly wearing their Queens shelter IDs around their necks.
  4. NYC Mayor is complaining about 110,000 migrants out of the almost 5 million that have crossed the border since January, 2022. He's asking for more money when he should be asking for the President to actually finish the border wall. The border states governors are finally letting these sanctuary cities share the struggles the administration is choosing to ignore..... https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/nyc-mayor-adams-says-migrant-crisis-will-destroy-the-city-during-town-hall/ Mayor Adams warns migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ NYC, rips Biden for failing to help. “Started with a madman down in Texas who decided he wanted to bus people up to New York City.” The first migrant-filled bus from Texas arrived at Midtown’s Port Authority on Aug. 5, 2022, and thousands more in the rest of the five boroughs in the following months. “110,000 migrants we have to feed, clothe, house, educate the children, wash their laundry sheets, give them everything they need, health care,” Adams said. Texas has sent over 13,000 migrants to New York, according to data shared by Abbott earlier this week. The mayor said the Big Apple receives around 10,000 migrants a month, at first from Venezuela but then Ecuadorian nationals and Russian-speaking individuals came up from Mexico as time went on.
  5. With our current President's adherence to the left's climate agenda, SF can see this coming potentially before he leaves office....... https://www.wsj.com/articles/real-climate-change-catastrophism-hasnt-been-tried-biden-emergency-global-warming-environment-b485421a?mod=hp_opin_pos_6#cxrecs_s The Climate-Change ‘Emergency’ Is Coming for You We’ve not fully arrived at crazytown. But the urge to curtail individual freedom is visible in countless blueprints for a controlled future. Two years ago during Covid lockdowns, I wrote about climate control freaks, facetiously anticipating a future headline: “Bad CO2 Day, Lockdowns Enforced.” A joke that would never happen, right? Well . . . Last month President Biden was asked on the Weather Channel if he was ready to declare a national climate emergency and responded, “We’ve already done that.” Asked again if he declared a climate emergency, he said, “Practically speaking, yes.” There is no official emergency, but the president certainly thinks we need one. The fawning press gave him a break—he didn’t really mean that, did he? But the notion of a national emergency today isn’t farfetched. The United Nations website blares: “What you need to know about the Climate Emergency.” The European Parliament has declared one. So have hundreds of jurisdictions in at least 39 countries, including the U.K., Canada, Japan and Bangladesh. Climate-activist teenager Greta Thunberg gave away the game in 2019 when she said, “I want you to panic,” and, “I want you to act as if you would in a crisis.” Emergencies are an excuse to do whatever you want. U.S. presidents can declare national emergencies, as spelled out in the 1976 National Emergencies Act, but they must be explicit: “When the President declares a national emergency, no powers or authorities made available by statute for use in the event of an emergency shall be exercised unless and until the President specifies the provisions of law under which he proposes that he, or other officers will act.” I’ve searched far and wide for such provisions and can’t find them. No matter, we’re living as if we’re already under emergency conditions. As of Aug. 1, the Biden administration has halted the sale of lightbulbs with less than 45 lumens of brightness per watt. Incandescent bulbs don’t make the cut and are now banned. Thomas Alva Edison is rolling over in his grave. Will electricity be rationed next? Oops, too late. In September 2022, the California Independent System Operator—which runs the state’s power grid, attached to sporadic renewables—declared an “energy emergency alert,” urging residents to ration power from 4 to 9 p.m. In March, the European Union mandated energy consumption be cut by 11.7% by 2030. Brits are urged to turn their heat off at night for “emissions savings.” The Swiss considered jail time if your thermostat is set above 66 degrees in the winter. Sit in the cold and dark and like it! And wait till you see the menu. The EU already allows crickets and mealworm larvae as food. Are high-protein maggots next? This nonsense could never happen in the U.S., could it? Well, in 2016, New York University professor Matthew Liao suggested, “possibly we can use human engineering to make the case that we’re intolerant to certain kinds of meat.” He even suggested deploying a “Lone Star tick where, if it bites you, you will become allergic to meat.” Add to the mix the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, which has an “ambitious target in 2030” of no meat, no dairy, no private vehicles and only “three new clothing items per person per year.” Plus one short flight every three years. That sounds like climate lockdowns to me. Who are these kooks? “A global network of nearly 100 mayors” including 14 in America: Austin, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New Orleans; New York; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Washington and Seattle. Michael Bloomberg is president of the board. Better stock up on socks while you can. When you declare an emergency, anything goes. The Biden administration pushes electric vehicles, and this summer we had a glut of them—inventories were 92 days, double what is typical. As of midyear, Ford had 116 days of unsold Mustang Mach-Es. Maybe because saner Americans are becoming preppers and loading up on good old gasoline-fired cars before California’s Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations, which other states follow, outlaws them in 2035. Vroom, vroom. Emergency-preparedness edicts abound: Gas stove bans. No plastic bottles for sale at San Francisco Airport. A new proposal from New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection would effectively ban coal- and wood-fired pizza ovens. A city official reports that fewer than 100 restaurants would have to install prohibitively expensive emissions controls, so it must be a real emergency if New York is tracking down these last few ounces of carbon. Climate lockdowns still sound like crazytown, but the urge to curtail individual freedom is visible in countless government, media and think-tank blueprints for a controlled future. Saner minds should prevail—the Climate Emergency Act of 2021 evidently died in committee—but we need constant vigilance to stand guard against the climate-excuse assaults on our liberties. To show how adolescent this has become, last year Swiss Environmental Minister Simonetta Sommaruga suggested that residents “shower together” to save energy. OK, now we’re getting somewhere. Write to kessler@wsj.com.
  6. Wondering if you would get arrested for indecent exposure for mooning or flashing one of these things? Asking for a friend.......
  7. Yeah, the former VP had nothing to do with Hunter's business........Yeppurs....Influence peddling? Nawwww....... https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/1000-emails-exchanged-between-hunter-bidens-firm-and-vp-office/ Hunter Biden’s firm, Joe’s VP office exchanged more than 1,000 emails: records Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm traded more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden’s office during his time as vice president — and hundreds remain hidden because of executive privilege asserted by the White House, documents released by the National Archives show. The 861 emails that reference Rosemont Seneca were sent or received by the Office of the Vice President between January 2011 and December 2013, according to America First Legal, which obtained the messages from the National Archives and Records Administration and released them on Wednesday. The White House refused to allow the release of 200 emails referencing Hunter Biden’s firm, citing executive privilege. “Release would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors,” NARA informed America First Legal in response to its records request. Hunter Biden and his business associates frequently used their direct line of communications with the Office of the Vice President to leverage access to the Obama White House, the trove of emails show. White House guest lists, seating assignments, and biographies of guests for various official events, including the 2012 United Kingdom State Dinner, the 2013 Turkey State Luncheon and the 2014 France State Dinner, were shared with Rosemont Seneca employees. One email contains an invitation forwarded to the White House for then-Vice President Joe Biden to attend an event at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and another invites then-second lady Jill Biden to participate in a World Food Program campaign. Invitations from the White House for several events that Hunter Biden presumably attended or had requested tickets for guests for are also shown in NARA’s document dump.
  8. Liberal idiots are always trying to re-write history to further their agendas.......
  9. How can anyone be surprised? https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/migrants-entered-us-with-help-of-smuggler-who-has-ties-to-isis-report/ The FBI is reportedly scrambling to find more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who sought asylum in the US earlier this year after intelligence officers discovered they traveled to the southern border with the help of a smuggler who has ties to ISIS. Officials are working to “identify and assess” all of the individuals who gained entry into the country, National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson told CNN. They are also scrutinizing a number of migrants as possible criminal threats, two unnamed federal officials told the news network. But authorities say no specific ISIS plot has been identified. “There was no indication — and remains no indication — that any of the individuals facilitated by this network have a connection to a foreign terrorist organization, or are engaged in plotting a terrorist attack in the United States,” Watson stressed. Authorities say the migrants requested asylum at the border with Mexico earlier this year and were screened by Homeland Security. Nothing in any of the intelligence community’s databases raised any red flags, CNN reported, and they were all released into the US pending a court appearance. It was only later that the FBI learned of a smuggling network helping Uzbeks into the US — which involved at least one individual with ties to ISIS. The bureau began a nationwide search for the migrants, and also worked with Turkish authorities, who apprehended the smuggler and other members of the network, the report said. It has since received more information from that unnamed smuggler to aid in the bureau’s investigation, officials said. Ever since, Homeland Security has been detaining, vetting, and ultimately expediting the deportation of migrants who “fit the profile associated with individuals who were facilitated by this network,” Watson said. The ISIS-linked smuggler is not believed to be a member of the terrorist organization, but is rather an independent contractor who has personal sympathies with the organization, the NSC rep said. The intelligence community also says it is unlikely he was assisting the migrants at the behest of ISIS, and most are simply believed to be seeking a better life in the US. But many have not yet been located, and more than 15 who have been tracked down are still under scrutiny as possible criminal threats. The discovery of the ISIS-linked network has set off alarm bells in Washington, at a time when Republican presidential candidates harp on the security of the southern border. An urgent classified intelligence report was circulated to President Biden’s top cabinet officials in their morning briefing book, CNN reported, and the revelation kicked off a slew of urgent meetings among top national security and administration officials. Staff on key congressional committees have also been informed.
  10. Man, this Biden administration is not trying to gain any new fans...... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-alcohol-czar-says-us-may-follow-canada-limit-beers-two-week?fbclid=IwAR2gOsPAyAXie8xqRlTpuvcNPm9knEZew4ePw4ZQ7I_fxA_1p4fHNLSSQps President Biden's alcohol czar says Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week. Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) George Koob told the Daily Mail on Thursday that the U.S. may follow Canada's footsteps on alcohol guidelines.
  11. ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME? the move ran afoul of the Finish It Act, featured in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 demanding that the administration either use the materials for their original purpose or give them to border states. https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/senate-republicans-demand-biden-halt-selling-border-wall-parts/ Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee are demanding the Biden administration cease auctioning off unused border wall components. “We are deeply disappointed to learn that rather than using construction materials that were purchased to secure the southwest border for that purpose, the Department of Defense has begun auctioning these materials off for other purposes,” Republicans on the panel wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a letter dated for Tuesday. Republicans on the panel led by Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) stressed that the move ran afoul of the Finish It Act, featured in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 demanding that the administration either use the materials for their original purpose or give them to border states. The GOP group stressed that the move ran afoul of the Finish It Act, featured in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 demanding that the administration either use the materials for their original purpose or give them to border states. Last week, The Post reported that the administration was auctioning off material for the wall acquired under former President Donald Trump. This included the auctioning off of 81 lots of steel “square structural tubes” for border barriers for about $2 million since April. There were 13 additional lots set to be auctioned on Aug. 23 and Aug. 30. Republicans on the panel demanded Austin halt those planned auctions to immediately investigate the matter, provide a full accounting of the border wall material disposed of and provide details about how much the department has paid for storage. Austin has a Sept. 5 deadline to comply with their requests for information, and they expect him to cease planned auctions and investigate the matter immediately. They further noted that they will “not consent” to a confirmation hearing for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy until they receive an adequate response. All 12 Republican members on the panel signed the letter. “The Biden administration canceled border wall projects and left materials to rack up dust,” signer Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), said in a statement to The Post. “As I have worked to hold him accountable for wasting taxpayer-funded parts and use them to actually secure our border — President Biden is shamelessly auctioning them off for pennies on the dollar!” she added. “This is a clear signal he does not take border security seriously. President Biden cannot get away with subverting Congress’ work on this.” As much as $300 million worth of border wall components have been left to rust since Biden ascended to the White House, Republicans have claimed. Meanwhile, US Customs and Border Protection recorded a record-breaking 2.4 million encounters at the border in fiscal year 2022. So far, there have been 1.97 million encounters at the border for fiscal year 2023, which ends at the beginning of October.
  12. The man who threatened Putin, huh?......Yeah - anyone that believes this was "accidental" probably still believes President Biden actually got more votes (legally) than any other President in history...... https://nypost.com/2023/08/24/yevgeny-prigozhins-jet-appeared-fine-before-deadly-crash/ Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s jet appeared fine 30 seconds before crash amid rumors bomb was hidden in a wine crate
  13. The Biden Crime family at it's best, led by the witless wonder himself....... https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/joe-bidens-ukraine-defense-falls-apart/ President Barack Obama famously warned fellow Democrats in 2020, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.” The warning was ignored by many as an almost brotherly reference to Biden’s habit of making false claims (like being arrested when seeking to see Nelson Mandela) or his continual verbal gaffes. Biden has always had a certain penchant for bragging, whether it’s claiming a dead man told him he reached a million miles on Amtrak, being a cross-country trucker or fighting off some “bad dude” named Corn Pop. But one of those bravado moments may have revealed more than vanity. Ironically, it’s the one controversial story that appears entirely true. In a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden bragged that he unilaterally withheld a billion dollars in US aid from the Ukrainians to force them to fire Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin. The Ukrainians balked, but Biden gave them an ultimatum: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”I The response from the Washington elite was rapturous, though the story was not only impolitic but embarrassing for an ally. The Ukrainians were Joe’s new Corn Pop, and he recounted how he stared them down in a “High Noon” diplomatic moment. A State Department memo is shedding disturbing light on that account and shredding aspects of Biden’s justification for the action. Indeed, the ultimatum may have been the quid in a quid pro quo agreement as part of the Biden influence-peddling scandal. The premise of the story is that Biden took this extraordinary stand because there was little hope for the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine if Shokin remained prosecutor. That is now questionable. The Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizes the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee that was handling the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine: “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee.” One senior official even complimented Shokin on his progress in fighting corruption. So Biden was told to deliver on the federal aid but elected to unilaterally demand that Shokin be fired. When the firing occurred, Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma Holdings, an energy firm that paid Hunter Biden a huge amount of money. The State Department had identified it as a corrupt company engaged in bribery. Recent testimony from Devon Archer, a business associate of Hunter Biden, revealed that Burisma executives made the removal of Shokin a top priority and raised it with Hunter. He described how the need to neutralize Shokin was raised with Hunter and how “a call to Washington” was made in response. President Biden has insisted, “I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that’s what we should be focusing on.” Indeed, that will now be the focus, including the close correlation of the money and demands going to Hunter and the actions of his father. There is evidence the State Department was alarmed by Hunter’s work and its impact on anti-corruption efforts. While Joe was portraying his work as fighting corruption, some officials were warning that the Bidens could be part of the problem, not the solution, in Ukraine. Leading diplomat George Kent wrote then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, “The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine [because] Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules.” As part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, Democrats largely dismissed earlier accounts of these misgivings and portrayed Shokin as a thoroughly corrupt prosecutor perpetuating corruption. Biden’s Ukrainian Corn Pop story was celebrated as a gutsy moment of leadership. During the impeachment, Kent said Biden’s demand was consistent with US policy. Yet we now know the State Department had found progress was being made on corruption and Shokin was praised in private correspondence. The demand for the replacement of the equivalent of the attorney general in another country is an extraordinary move. We give massive amounts of money to countries with rampant corruption and authoritarian records. But Biden decided Shokin had to go and used public money to make that happen. The memo also highlights the flaws in the Trump impeachment. When I testified before the House Judiciary Committee at the only impeachment hearing, I told the committee it should not depart from history and proceed to an impeachment without fact witnesses on the grounds for impeachment. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others refused. It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial. Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing. I still do not believe Trump should have raised the matter in that call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This evidence may not have made a difference to some senators, but it demonstrates why impeachments should proceed after fact hearings. Instead, in the second impeachment, the Democrats went one better. They used what I called a “snap impeachment” without even a hearing on the impeachment standards and articles. The House could now have little choice but to hold the very hearings the Democrats blocked during the earlier impeachment — with a different president under constitutional scrutiny.
  14. So, the Biden administration still insists border is secure.......? Yeah, those welded open "gates" are to allow water flow (in the desert?) during the monsoon season.....aaaaannnnnd migration of an endangered species of antelope.......Yeah, that's why we opened it up! Yeah - that's the ticket! https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/arizona-borders-open-floodgates-allow-thousands-into-us/ The door to America is wide open. Thousands of migrants are flowing across the US border in Arizona every day — literally through open floodgates that have made the Tucson post the busiest point of illegal entry into the country, The Post has learned. US officials have inexplicably welded open 114 massive gates along the Arizona border to allow water to flow freely during the annual monsoon season and for the migration of an endangered species of antelope, officials said. But the move is also letting an average of 1,400 migrants from as far away as China casually walk into the country daily — with overwhelmed and outnumbered border agents practically helpless to stop them. “We thought the agents were going to tell us something,” one Ecuadorean migrant said. “But we just walked in.” Said another from Cuba: “It was so easy to get into the US. “Nothing like our journey through Mexico. That part was hard,” she added. “I thought there was going to be more security.” Video taken by The Post shows a group of around 50 migrants strolling through the opened gates and into the US, with nobody stopping or questioning them. Smugglers are capitalizing on the floodgate blunder, driving migrants by the busload to the border and dropping them off as if they were casual tourists. Once across, they turn themselves in to border agents and say they are seeking asylum. Border Patrol agents call them “give-ups.” Last month, 42,561 migrants were encountered at the Tuscon border post, a huge jump over the June number of 27,294. Tuscon now tops traditionally busier border spots at El Paso and Laredo in Texas, where 24,352 and 26,627 border crossings, respectively, were reported in July. “We haven’t seen this many migrants since about 2008,” said Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the advocacy group Washington Office on Latin America. “With the end of Title 42, in a way that nobody oversaw, it seems to come back to Tucson. “What you’re seeing is a lot of large groups who want to turn themselves in,” Isacson said. “Tucson has also traditionally been where smugglers concentrate Mexicans and Central Americans who don’t want to be detected. Now they’re seeing 100 people at a time who are not running away. “It’s really becoming an epicenter,” he said. “This is big.” Each of the 114 gates in Arizona, which have been open for nearly two months, has 12-foot doors wide enough for a motorcycle to drive through. Smugglers drive busloads of migrants to the Mexican side of the border, where they get off and simply walk into the US. Border Patrol sources said the call to open the gates came from several federal agencies, including the National Park Service and the International Boundary and Water Commission. But because the monsoon season started late this year, they remained open for weeks before there was any rain — allowing migrants a dry path into the US. “We tried to shut the gates but the order came down that we had to leave them open,” one source said. “You wouldn’t leave the front door of your house open in a bad neighborhood.” The gates run along a 36-mile stretch near Lukeville, Arizona. Unlike the largely South American migrants who have been nabbed crossing into Texas, the immigrants coming to Arizona are from throughout the globe, including India, Egypt and China. And unlike many South American migrants, who are typically disheveled, exhausted and weary from a long and treacherous trek across the barren land, the migrants at Tuscon look more like vacation travelers. Understaffed border agents can do little to stop the flood. “Three nights ago, a big group of migrants were on the Mexican side,” one source said. “There were two agents on ATVs [all-terrain vehicles] and one line agent trying to stop them from entering. The agents blocked the gates with their quad [bikes]. The cartel guy just started pushing people. “They rushed the agents. You had people climbing over quads. You had people pushing the agents. Not a single one got charged.” The Border Patrol is severely understaffed. Agents from across the US were initially offered a $10,000 bonus to move to the remote town of Ajo, Arizona, to beef up the ranks. The bonus was upped to $20,000 when only a handful of trainees applied. “Everything changed since [President Biden] took over,” one source said. “This part of the border wall was built four years ago. Now we’re just letting people through. “Brutal,” the source added. “No one wants to do this. They [the migrants] commit a federal crime, we charge them, they don’t get convicted. They don’t get sent back. They get a credible fear interview, they get an [asylum] court date years from now. “We never hear anything more than that. The administration is not going to help us.”
  15. Shame - Today's wimpy, lame kids apparently can't handle song lyrics from Queen....... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12424449/We-woke-Classic-Queen-song-Fat-Bottomed-Girls-mysteriously-dropped-groups-new-Greatest-Hits-collection.html EXCLUSIVE: We will woke you! Classic Queen song Fat Bottomed Girls is mysteriously dropped from the group’s new Greatest Hits collection Fat Bottomed Girls has been dropped from the group's Greatest Hits collection The 1978 track has been enjoyed by generations of fans By KATIE HIND PUBLISHED: 17:01 EDT, 19 August 2023 | UPDATED: 17:15 EDT, 19 August 2023 It is one of Queen's best-loved songs but Fat Bottomed Girls has been mysteriously dropped from the group's new Greatest Hits collection. The 1978 track, which was written by guitarist Brian May, has been enjoyed by generations of fans as a humorous and hard-rocking tribute to a young man's appreciation of fuller-figured ladies. But 45 years later, it appears that lyrics such as 'left alone with big fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny, big woman, you made a bad boy out of me' and 'fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round' have been hit by the woke cancel culture. It was such a popular hit for Queen that it appeared fourth on the band's original 1981 greatest hits album along with Bohemian Rhapsody, Don't Stop Me Now and We Will Rock You. But last week it was nowhere to be seen when Universal Records announced they would be releasing a version of the record on Yoto, the new audio platform aimed at young people.+3 The 1978 track, which was written by guitarist Brian May, has been enjoyed by generations of fans as a humorous and hard-rocking tribute to a young man's appreciation of fuller-figured ladies But 45 years later, it appears that lyrics such as 'left alone with big fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny, big woman, you made a bad boy out of me' and 'fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round' have been hit by the woke cancel culture The move has left music industry insiders bemused, with bosses insisting that Fat Bottomed Girls has wrongly been singled out as it is 'merely a bit of fun'. One told The Mail on Sunday: 'It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured, fun song can't be acceptable in today's society. 'It is woke gone mad. Why not appreciate people of all shapes and sizes like society is saying we should, rather than get rid of it. The original sleeve for the song, which was taken from Queen's album Jazz, featured a scantily clad female riding a bicycle but was altered after some stores refused to stock it. The new version was the same image with knickers drawn over the woman. May told Mojo magazine in 2008: 'I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do, especially if you've got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls... or boys.' The newly released Yoto greatest hits album, released in collaboration with Queen's record label Universal, is aimed at introducing the band to a younger audience.
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