SEATTLE SEAHAWKS PROMISE PRE-GAME DEMONSTRATION OF UNITY: They’ll honor the country and the flag.
Former Seahawk and Green Beret veteran Nate Boyer also gave a hint at what may be to come with a Tweet reading “Talked to the Seahawks. What the team will do is a powerful sign of unification + respect for the Anthem + those that fight for our Freedom!”
The article quotes Boyer as saying ““I spoke with the players, and they realize that 9/11 is a very important day in our nation’s history.”
IF YOU MISSED THE FIRST WEEK, THERE’S STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO CATCH UP: Raise a Glass — Bourbon Heritage Month Is Upon Us!
THE ELECTION IN A NUTSHELL:
21st CENTURY HEADLINES. Dear Media: It Is Not News When ‘Transgender Men’ Get Pregnant — Time magazine thinks it’s surprising when women have babies.
REVIEW: 2017 Ford Fusion Sport. 325 horsepower, compared to, what, 220 in the original Ford Taurus SHO? Which was really fast.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW : Molson Coors Created an Amazon Dash Button for Beer.
The U.S. may lead the world in beer innovation, but the U.K. might have an edge when it comes to beer buying. Molson Coors brand Carling just unveiled a beer-ordering button for British fans, similar to Amazon Dash, that automatically orders a case of the blonde lager. Like Amazon Dash buttons, which can automatically order the foods that would accompany Carling (namely Doritos and Red Bull), or help clean up after you clean out a case a Carling, this beer button connects to your phone and helps you place an order.
It does fall a step short of Amazon’s one-click purchasing, however, as the beer button only places the Carling in an online shopping cart for one of the five retailers available. You’re also, very unfortunately, limited to Carling. You’ve maybe heard of Carling Black Label, a Canadian classic — depending who you ask. But this is the Canadian brewery’s U.K. offering, a four percent ABV adjunct (rice or corn) lager that’s received a score of 64 out of 100 on BeerAdvocate.com. That’s good enough for a “Poor” rating. The review scale on RateBeer.com is less generous, giving Carling a 1 out of 100. And no, that’s not the top score.
Oh.
The headline was much better than the story.
WELL, THEY GOT MCAULIFFE IN, SO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: DOJ decides not to retry former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. So we have Ted Stevens, Tom Delay, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, and this . . . and the GOP does nothing.
HONG KONG’S DEMOCRACY: As explained by The Economist. (If you hit a paywall, try this.)
I’M NOT SURE HONESTY IS A MISTAKE: Johnson Admits ‘Aleppo’ Remark was a Mistake, Espouses Honesty.
ANDREW McCARTHY: No, Classified Information Does Not Always Come with a “Header” – and Hillary Knows It.
Which is why her minions are busy working the refs good and hard.
HERE’S HOW THE CLINTON FOUNDATION DECEIVED THE IRS AND GOT AWAY WITH IT: A little lie here, another bigger one there, and in a few years, Clinton insiders transformed a presidential library project into a global network for selling political influence and access on a never-before-seen scale. NOTE: When I posted a link to the story on my Facebook page earlier today, Facebook promptly deleted it. Their notification offered the option of fill out a form to object. Can somebody please show me where that appears in the First Amendment?
UPDATE: Just received this from a Facebook spokesman:
“The post was removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate. Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. We’re very sorry about this mistake.”
AT AMAZON, savings in Sports & Outdoors.
SOMEONE TELL THE FBI OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IS CRIMINAL: Hillary’s BleachBit Timeline.
I’LL BET I KNOW WHICH WAY THE ERRORS TEND TO RUN: Tales from Comcast’s data cap nation: Can the meter be trusted? “Our meter is perfect,” Comcast rep claims. It isn’t—and mistakes could cost you. “The months of testing, without any firm conclusions, raise one question with no straightforward answer. If Comcast, the nation’s largest Internet provider, can’t determine what’s pushing its subscribers over their data caps, why should customers be expected to figure it out on their own? On top of that, few customers other than Brad receive such extensive testing. And even that testing would never have happened if his father hadn’t contacted a journalist.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Ben Barton: Good and Bad News From the ABA Futures Report.
I highly recommend his Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession, though he is perhaps a bit more optimistic than I am.
2016 AMERICA IN A SINGLE HEADLINE: Albertson’s Bakery Refuses to Bake ‘Trump 2016’ Cake.
UPSTATE NEW YORK RESIDENTS AFRAID VILLAGE WATER IS KILLING THEM:
Michele Baker is fed up with being ignored by Albany.
“We need to know who polluted our water, why it was polluted, and moreover why Governor Cuomo let us continue to drink contaminated water for 18 months,” Baker told Time Warner Cable News.
Baker wants to find out if New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) knew she and her family in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., were drinking water at home that was polluted with the PFOA chemical, and how long his administration might have covered up the answer.
Andrew Cuomo doesn’t have time to worry about one tiny town with a population of 3500 or so in upstate New York – he’s busy saving the entire planet singlehandedly: “Hey New York – You Do Realize It’s Global Warming, Right?”, Seton Motley asks at Red State:
“Since the energy mandate was approved, (New York Governor Andrew) Cuomo’s energy regulators have been dismissive of any cost concerns. PSC chair Audrey Zibelman has told members of the press that the energy mandate will actually benefit consumers. But how so, if no one denies that consumer prices will rise?”
Consumer prices rising — in the name of keeping global temperatures from rising. When global temperatures — aren’t rising. New York spending tens (hundreds?) of billions of additional dollars — and voluntarily, dramatically contracting its economy. To stop something from happening — that isn’t happening.
And let’s put New York’s exorbitantly expensive, destructive move — in its proper, global perspective. This is allegedly GLOBAL warming, after all.
The planet is home to some 7.4 billion people — who generated in 2014 a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $77.6 trillion. New York State’s population is 19.7 million — and their 2015 GDP was $1.4 trillion.
So New York’s GDP — is 0.02% of the world’s. Which means its global carbon footprint — is microscopic. If everyone in New York stopped doing any and everything — the impact on the world’s climate would be, for all intents and purposes, NIL.
Yet Governor Cuomo has consigned New York to commit this economic suicide. In order to have zero impact — on a problem that doesn’t exist.
I’m no politician — but that’s pretty terrible policy.
But it’s a textbook definition of what Victor Davis Hanson once dubbed “The Bloomberg Syndrome.” As VDH wrote in early 2011 when then-New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg failed to adequately remove a foot and half or so of global warming from his city streets:
It is a human trait to focus on cheap and lofty rhetoric rather than costly, earthy reality. It is a bureaucratic characteristic to rail against the trifling misdemeanor rather than address the often-dangerous felony. And it is political habit to mask one’s own failures by lecturing others on their supposed shortcomings. Ambitious elected officials often manage to do all three.
The result in these hard times is that our elected sheriffs, mayors, and governors are loudly weighing in on national and global challenges that are quite often out of their own jurisdiction, while ignoring or failing to solve the very problems that they were elected to address.
Quite simply, the next time your elected local or state official holds a press conference about global warming, the Middle East, or the national political climate, expect to experience poor county law enforcement, bad municipal services, or regional insolvency.
And quite possibly, a fair amount of “bad luck” to strike as well.
A READER EMAILED YESTERDAY ASKING ABOUT MY ALLERGY-SUPPLEMENT POST — SHE COULDN’T REMEMBER WHAT SUPPLEMENT I WAS TOUTING. It’s Quercetin. The Insta-Daughter takes it morning and night; I just take it in the morning. She’s living with roommates who have cats, and was a bit worried — she loves cats but has allergies. But she says that between the quercetin and this HEPA filter that she got for her bedroom, it’s like she doesn’t have allergies at all.
In other supplement news, I have gotten the Insta-Wife, who has always been anti-vitamin and anti-supplement, to start taking Coenzyme Q10, and she reports that she really does feel better, with more energy. Now working on getting her to take Vitamin D. . . .
FIND A LOVE THAT LOOKS AT YOU THE WAY THE PRESS LOOKS AT HILLARY, this viral tweet correctly notes:
Just look at the rapturous expression in their faces — you can see them as well in a slightly different angle in this tweet from Andrea Mitchell, who’s just glowing — she can feel her future boss is this close to the oval office.
But note that the “blob’s”* expression also contains a healthy amount of fear as well – the media is very much the battered spouse in this relationship: “Clinton campaign warns media to tread carefully,” the Hill reports. As Steve Green asks response, “C’mon, media — you going to take this lying down?”
Of course they are. Because we saw the above image before. We see it every four years:
Just think of them as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.
* Classical reference.
UPDATE: “Did Hillary just tell Andrea Mitchell, ‘you’re my kind of woman’?”
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