Archive for 2017
April 3, 2017
I HAVEN’T HAD THIS PROBLEM, FORTUNATELY, BUT PLENTY OF PEOPLE DO: Got A Boy Who Hates to Read? Check Out These Book Recommendations!
REVEALED: COLONEL MUSTARD WAS REALLY SUSAN RICE.
Oh, and by the way, “Rice is married to an ABC [News] producer, Ian Cameron,” the BBC noted in her 2013 profile.
But then, who in the DNC-MSM isn’t related to someone in the former Obama administration?
THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE SEGREGATED PLAYGROUNDS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Mother Expelled From ‘Multicultural Playgroup’ Because She’s White. “We’re in a pretty progressive area, it’s very accepting of all people. But I feel like I’m excluded.”
Well. “Multicultural” means all the cultures but one.
EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Not Attracted to Someone? You May Be a ‘Casual Racist’
SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD APPOINTMENT TO ME: Report: New Head of Federal Anti-Rape Agency Is a ‘Libertarian Feminist’ and Clinton Critic; Candice Jackson will allegedly become deputy secretary at the Office for Civil Rights. “A conservative legal activist known for defending the women who accused President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment has been tapped to head the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on a temporary basis. OCR is the agency that regulates Title IX compliance, and is responsible for the recent effort to compel schools to police sexual assault internally.”
(Except of course that nobody believes Reid’s injuries were caused by an exercise machine.)
JACK DUNPHY: No, Decriminalizing Traffic Laws Is Not a Great Idea.
MEN TELL WOMEN WHAT THEY WISH THEY KNEW, female editor explains that they’re doing it all wrong. You can’t parody this stuff. And one of the worst characteristics of feminists is their complete lack of empathy.
CHANGE: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system.
Microsoft isn’t even an also-ran in mobile.
WHITE SUPREMACY: YOU’RE REALLY DOING IT WRONG! Ayaan Hirsi Ali cancels Oz visit after being threatened, called “white supremacist(!)”.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Hackers Can Easily Hijack This Dildo Camera and Livestream the Inside of Your Vagina.
Found via Sonny Bunch, who tweets, “The future, as best I understand it, is basically Philip K. Dick by way of Pornhub.”
SOONER, PLEASE: Hypersonic Attack Drones by 2040?
Developing recoverable drones is much more challenging given the level of autonomy and re-entry needed for hypersonic vehicles to descend and perform ISR missions.
“A booster sends it into the atmosphere and then it dives down to its target,” Zacharias said. “A re-entry vehicle would need to be maneuverable with sufficient wing area so it can avoid counter-missiles. We need to design that chamber and make it stable to allow for maneuver.”
The advantages of hypersonic ISR drone flight are multi-faceted.
“You could fuel one of these to go for 1,000 miles in ten minutes. It speeds up the kill chain,” he said.
While today’s cruise missiles travel at speeds up to 600 miles per hour, hypersonic weapons will be able to reach speeds of Mach 5 to Mach 10, Air Force officials said.
“Faster, please” felt a little presumptuous for a headline about a Mach 10 attackbot.
NOT AS EXTINCT AS WE THOUGHT? Extinct creature sightings are piling up in Australia.
OUCH: Ford, Chrysler Sales Disappoint as Cars Plunge Despite Discounts.
Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV reported the biggest declines and automakers’ U.S. sales trailed analysts’ estimates, as heavy incentive spending failed to keep struggling sedan and compact models from plunging.
Deliveries slumped 7.2 percent at Ford and 4.6 percent at Fiat Chrysler last month. General Motors Co. sales climbed 1.6 percent, a smaller gain than analysts projected, while Honda Motor Co. reported a surprise drop.
The early results cast doubt on estimates that industrywide U.S. auto sales would rise in March compared with 2016’s weakest month, when results were depressed by the early Easter holiday. Automakers are using heavy discounts to try to trim inventory that’s swelled to the highest level in more than a decade.
Detroit has been indulging itself (again) in channel-stuffing and subprime auto loans, but those can keep the good times going for only so long.
HMM: Pyrethroid pesticide exposure appears to speed puberty in boys. This says it’s because pyrethroids boost testosterone. But aren’t testosterone levels in adult men — who presumably would be exposed, too — falling? “Liu’s research team found that a 10 percent increase in 3-PBA was associated with a 4 percent increase in the boys’ levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). Both these hormones spur production of testosterone in males.” This is in China, of course, so it may not apply here to the same degree.
The Obama administration openly shared classified information with political appointees about Donald Trump in the summer of 2015, and likely earlier. The citation.
Obama’s attorney general sought warrants to spy on President Trump’s campaign team last June, and was denied last June by a federal judge. The citation.
Obama’s attorney general sought warrants to spy on a server at Trump Tower last October and was granted one by a federal judge. Ibid.
The Obama administration spied on President Trump’s transition team. The citation.This information alone — supported by mass media news reports — is enough to warrant a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, as well as a civil rights investigation into Barack Obama’s possible violation of Donald Trump’s right to seek the presidency.
It is a felony to conspire to “injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States.”
Related: Susan Rice unmasked? Previously said “I know nothing about” Nunes allegations.
SO MUCH 21ST CENTURY IN JUST ONE HEADLINE: Rachel Dolezal actually thinks she’s similar to Caitlyn Jenner.
IN INMAN MAJORS’ UNDERAPPRECIATED NOVEL, THE MILLIONAIRES, a political consultant says that there are only two real themes in politics: “Bright New Day,” and “Back to Basics.” This Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. commercial suggests that the Trump Era is all about “Back to Basics.” The theme of an older guy who built a business and knows how to do stuff, coming back to clean up the mess left by a callow youth too distracted by media to run things competently, well. . . .
JOHN HINDERAKER: Susan Rice In Crosshairs as Potential Felon.
SUSTAINABLE, CARBON-FREE ENERGY: MIT’s Nuclear Lab has an Unusual Plan to Jump-Start Advanced-Reactor Research.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Why Your Extra-Safe Car Costs More to Insure.
Enabling the safety tech are cameras, sensors, microprocessors and other hardware whose repair costs can be more than five times that of conventional parts. And the equipment is often located in bumpers, fenders and external mirrors—the very spots that tend to get hit in a crash. Insurance companies, unwilling to shoulder all the pain, are passing some of the cost off to buyers.
Jeff Woods, a professor in Illinois, recently bought a 2017 Volkswagen Passat to replace a two-year-old model. It was loaded with so-called active safety equipment. So he wasn’t expecting his State Farm insurance policy to spike 20% to $1,200 a year.
“I was told by the car dealership all the technology would improve the cost of insurance,” Mr. Woods said. “Instead, it went up.” Volkswagen AG declined to comment on Mr. Woods’ experience but said it is “proud to offer advanced-safety technology systems on our vehicles.”
Mr. Woods ended up negotiating a price reduction with State Farm.
Don’t accept the first number they give you.