September 15, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Homeless Encampment Starts Massive Fire – Destroys Apartment Building, Flames Spread.
GOOD: Jewish group expresses support for man who shot anti-Israel attacker in ‘self-defense.’ People who defend themselves against lefty thugs should be supported, and prosecutors who go after people who defend themselves against lefty thugs should be held accountable.
LIKE CRITICS’ VS. AUDIENCE REVIEWS ON ROTTEN TOMATOES: First the pundits reacted to the debate. Then the people weighed in.
SPACE: Crew Dragon splashes down to conclude Polaris Dawn mission. “A Falcon 9 launched the Crew Dragon spacecraft into an elliptical orbit Sept. 10, initially placing it into an orbit of about 190 by 1,200 kilometers. Dragon raised its orbit later in the first day of the mission, reaching an apogee of 1,408.1 kilometers, according to SpaceX. That marked the highest altitude on a crewed Earth orbital mission and the highest altitude by any crewed mission since the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in 1972. . . . The highlight of the mission was the first commercial spacewalk, which took place on Sept. 12. All four crewmembers wore SpaceX-designed extravehicular activity (EVA) suits as the cabin was depressurized. Isaacman and Gillis briefly exited the hatch in the nose of the Dragon spacecraft in a “standup” spacewalk, testing the performance of the suits.”
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SOMEONE NEEDS TO START PRESSURING BANKS NOT TO DO BUSINESS WITH LEFTY ACTIVISTS: Climate Nazi Alert: Banks Urged to Stop Financing Livestock Production. “Over 100 climate groups are pressuring JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and other private banks to stop financing global meat and dairy companies. Agriculture Dive Dot Com says the institutions’ lending activities undermine their environmental commitments. An open letter from groups led by Friends of the Earth to some of the world’s biggest banks calls for a halt on any new financing that expands industrial livestock production and to add requirements that meat, dairy, and feed clients disclose their climate action plans. The letter calls out the banks by name for supporting the world’s biggest meat, dairy, and animal feed producers like JBS, Tyson Foods, and others.”
MY GUESS IS, THEY DON’T WANT TO CALL ATTENTION TO WHO IS DOING THE SHOOTING: Why is Chicago’s Mayor Dumping ShotSpotter?
FASCISM AT WORK: Peaceful ‘J6 Granny’ Gets the Federal Shaft in Sentencing.
September 14, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Happy Saturday.
LEO BEATS GEO: United Airlines bumps GEO operators off fleet for Starlink Wi-Fi.
United, which has more routes across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans than any other airline, plans to offer passengers high-speed, low-latency Starlink Wi-Fi for free.
“Everything you can do on the ground, you’ll soon be able to do onboard a United plane at 35,000 feet, just about anywhere in the world,” United CEO Scott Kirby said in a statement.
According to United, supported Starlink services would include live streaming, gaming and the ability to connect multiple devices at once under one user.
On the one hand, yay, progress. On the other hand, I usually don’t even connect to existing aircraft wifi because I enjoy reading my book in peace.
WELL, GOOD: This Drug Shows Potential to Stop Migraines Before They Begin.
I hardly ever get full-blown migraines anymore; if I get anything it’s generally an ocular migraine that goes away on its own after 15 minutes or so. But others aren’t so lucky.
FASTER, PLEASE: NEO Surveyor: NASA’s Next Leap in Asteroid Defense.
NOT JUST AT COLUMBIA: Bill Barr: Mob Rule and Moral Bankruptcy at Columbia.
UPDATE: There is some news in Barr’s post. His law firm is represent two Columbia custodians who were held against their will by the Hamasniks who took over a building last Spring. I hope the firm is suing not just Columbia, not just the students who directly held the custodians, but all of the students involved in the takeover as co-conspirators.
COLOR ME SKEPTICAL: Psychedelic therapy could benefit millions of depressed Americans, study finds.
I DIDN’T KNOW THE DODGE HORNET EXISTED: The slowest selling car in America. “Even with its appealing starting price of $42,530, dealers just can’t get them off their lots quickly enough. According to CarEdge dealer inventory data, the Market Day Supply—or the number of days it would take to sell all the models available based on its current sales rate—of the Dodge Hornet is up to 428 days. Dodge apparently has 14,596 Hornets on dealer lots, but has only moved 1,536 in the last 45 days. As we mentioned, it doesn’t get much better for other Stellantis vehicles, as the Jeep Grand Wagoneer is in the same 428-day supply boat with 2,214 units on lots with only 233 sold in the past 45 days.”
I vaguely considered a Grand Wagoneer when I was buying a new SUV a couple of years ago, but it seemed expensive and clunky to me. I guess I wasn’t alone.
WE NEED A FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTING SELF-DEFENSE: Blue States Can’t Ban Your Guns So They’ll Punish You For Using Them.
Also gun-rights groups need to target prosecutors who go after people who defend themselves. There should be an automatic outside-funded effort to oust them, and nonstop vilification nationwide of the sort lefties engage in routinely.
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JANE’S ADDICTION MORPHED INTO THE WWE SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Perry Farrell’s wife Etty Lau breaks her silence to reveal the REAL reason lead singer of Jane’s Addiction punched guitarist Dave Navarro on stage.
Related: “Dave Grohl Proves Rock Ain’t Dead,” Jim Treacher writes. “I know I’m jaded and probably more than a little evil, but I ain’t mad at Dave Grohl. It’s amusing to me. I just hope his new kid is worth giving up half of everything he owns in the divorce. Long live rock & roll!”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The research supports you taking a sick day. The science is settled!
WATCH: The Best Fact-Check of Kamala Harris in History, and You’ll Never Guess How It Ends.
Is this my most clickbaity headline in a long time? Probably. Am I about to deliver on every promise it makes? Absolutely.
The setup happened during the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and the topic centered on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. When pressed on the matter, Harris tried to pivot by claiming that there is not a single American service member currently serving in a combat zone.
HARRIS: As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.
That’s a bold proclamation, but is it true? That’s where this epic fact-check comes in, and be sure to watch the video so you can see the twist at the end. Be warned that while hilarious, there is some salty language used.
This is the greatest fact-check to ever exist. It will never get better than this. Savor it. pic.twitter.com/V6U6q4EF8t
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 14, 2024
Exit quote: “Harris doesn’t care about military members. That’s made clear by her choosing to cast them aside for political gain. For her, they are just obstacles on her way to the White House. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a Democrat.”
MATT VESPA: The Left Is Powerless in Stopping the Haitians Eating Pets Story…And It’s Amazing to Watch.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, though in this instance, it’s not a statement regarding some appalling examples of liberal media bias. For the Ohio Haitians ‘eating the pets’ story, it’s pure entertainment, maybe a touch of schadenfreude: the liberal media is being tortured in their attempt to neutralize the story. Contrary to the establishment press, this story hasn’t been debunked. There’s no way within 48-72 hours that authorities can verify dogs and cats are not being eaten by the tens of thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
As for the local birdlife, geese and ducks are being eaten, with police reports to corroborate the allegations. Even a fact check done by local media on that story’s angle hasn’t negated it. If anything, it might have shined a light that this problem has expanded. I’m talking about the viral picture of the migrant holding a dead goose—that was not in Springfield but nearby Columbus.
The inability of the media to suffocate this story alluded to the industry’s appalling lack of trust. No one believes them, no matter how hard they try. It only seems to further entrench people’s belief that Haitian migrants are running wild in Springfield. The consumption of pets needs to be verified, but many corroborating eyewitness accounts exist. Geese and ducks are being taken, driving out of control in the town. It’s led to fatalities.
Christopher Rufo goes in search of: The Cat Eaters of Ohio.
So, is there any truth to the charge? We have conducted an exclusive investigation that reveals that, yes, in fact, some migrants in Ohio appear to have been “eating the cats,” though not exactly in the manner that Trump described.
Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour’s drive away. We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque. “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” reads the text, referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on the video warning: “There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”
We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. “It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he said. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.”
We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units were occupied by other African migrants.
One of the residents told us that her former neighbors, also from Africa, had lived in the adjacent unit until last month. They had a blue grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. “Her dad was going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.” The current residents also showed us a blue grill of the same make and model as in the video, which the former neighbors had abandoned after they moved out. There were at least ten cats wandering around the complex and another resident complained that they were breeding on the property.
According to the original witness, whose son was friendly with the neighbors, there was no doubt about what happened last summer. “They was barbecuing the damn cat!” he said. His son’s mother had previously witnessed the family butchering a mammal on the street, but the cats on the barbeque put him in such a state of shock, he felt the need to film it.
To be clear: this single incident does not confirm the particularities of Trump’s statement. The town is Dayton, not Springfield; cats alone were on the grill, not cats and dogs. But it does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its “fact checkers,” who insisted that this has never happened, and that any suggestion otherwise is somehow an expression of racism.
Related: Trump Promises Mass Deportation of Springfield, Ohio Immigrants If Elected.
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