YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Another Week, Another Black Man Taken Down by White Liberals. But the white people who took Kyler Murray and Kevin Hart down aren’t bigots, because they’re liberals.
The “it’s different when we do it” party strikes again.
Archive for 2018
December 10, 2018
. . . THAT’S WHAT WE’LL SAY WHEN SOMEONE INVENTS IT: Finally, the drug that keeps you young. I mean, there’s some progress with nutraceuticals like resveratrol and quercetin, and drugs like metformin, rapamycin, and even Viagra or Cialis, but at most these will help you live longer until a real anti-aging drug comes out.
TYLER O’NEIL: Kavanaugh Support for Planned Parenthood May Doom Hopes of Roe v. Wade Repeal.
It’s a scene right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.
NO, JUSTICE SCALIA WAS NOT A DIRTY, RACIST SCUM BUCKET: This week in history (well … assuming that something that happened in 2015 can be viewed as history), Justice Scalia was accused of being a racist for bringing up, at the Fisher v. University of Texas oral argument, why race-preferential admissions end up making many of their intended beneficiaries worse off. If you aren’t familiar with the studies he was trying to refer to, please take a look here or for a somewhat more detailed version here.
THE PEOPLE’S PARTY: Establishment looks to crush liberals on Medicare for All.
This is Politico, so what could have been a straight reporting piece on an important fissure in the Democratic party instead reads like a Medicare-for-All-or-Else screed.
DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? Our New Atomic Clock Is So Precise That We Need a Better Understanding of Gravity To Use It.
JIM GERAGHTY: James Comey, Democratic-Party Cheerleader.
Back when I reviewed former FBI director James Comey’s autobiography, I wrote:
The notion that everyone around Comey at the top level of the FBI hesitated to keep his promise to inform Congress because it could help Trump win the election doesn’t exactly dispel Trump’s claim of widespread bias against him. In Comey’s late-November private Oval Office meeting with the president, he blurts out to the outgoing Obama, “I dread the next four years.”
This is not a conspiracy of shadowy cigarette-smoking government men out of The X-Files, but it points to a disconcerting groupthink: Just about everybody at the top levels of the FBI, Department of Justice, U.S. national-security agencies, and the Obama administration thought Trump was a corrupt, deranged loon. No doubt Trump earned a lot of that criticism, but that groupthink meant the FBI’s top brass was ready to believe the worst about Trump, no matter the origin.
Around that time, I separately reported that retired FBI agents were . . . less than thrilled to see a former director becoming a hero of “The Resistance” and joking around with Stephen Colbert about the president. Other than Louis Freeh’s tempestuous relationship with Bill Clinton, most retired FBI directors retained nonpartisan reputations and largely stayed out of the spotlight after leaving law enforcement.
But that was then; today, Comey has become indistinguishable from the usual Democratic National Convention speakers.
Comey’s retirement from public service looks set to be surprisingly comfortable for a public servant.
IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING (SPECIFIC, NOT JUST “SOROS!”), HELP RON COLEMAN OUT: “I’m interested in articles and information concerning the funding of and providing of support to Antifa in NYC.”
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: ‘Screen time’ causing, exacerbating childhood psychiatric disorders.
Related: Social Media as Social Disease.
AT AMAZON, 12 Days Of Deals, Day 9.
HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY: ‘Self-Policed’ Nature of Google to Be Probed at CEO Hearing. “What about the privacy of Americans? How long do they keep those searches that are supposed to be private that you go through?”
There’s room for bipartisanship on privacy issues, but will incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Silicon Valley Money) allow it?
WHY IS OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT DOWN? WONDERS THE NYT. Turns out it’s expensive, there are better alternatives, people don’t like it, and it isn’t mandatory anymore.
WILL HOUSE DEMOCRATS SCRAP TERM LIMITS FOR COMMITTEE CHAIRS?: There is evidence that they will.
LIGHTNING DEAL: The Air Fryer that you need.
FAILED (SOCIALIST) STATE: Brazil makes official intervention in state bordering Venezuela.
Brazilian President Michel Temer has signed a decree making official a federal “intervention” in the state of Roraima which borders Venezuela, the government’s official newspaper said on Monday.
Waves of Venezuelan migrants have entered the border area in recent months, seeking refuge from poverty and hunger in the neighboring country. The thousands of refugees are straining public services and the state’s finances.
Racism, straight up.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The U.S. Military’s Cryptic Letters, Numbers, and Symbols, Explained.
HUFFPO: Conservative Columnist Has A Wild Prediction For Trump’s Final Minutes In Office.
The “conservative” in question is Jen Rubin.
NEIGHBORLY: Russia building up forces near Crimea amid tensions with Ukraine, satellite photos show.
In the images taken on Saturday, three Russian Ilyushin -76 cargo planes were spotted in the Dzhankoi airbase in Crimea.
The images, captured by Imagesat International, appear to show that Russia is continuing to step up and consolidate its military forces in the Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
According to social media reports in Russia, Four IL-76 planes departed on December 6 from Anapa airport in Novorossiysk and landed in Dzhankoi.
One of those airplanes returned Saturday to Anapa, while the three remain on base.
Ilushin-76 cargo planes are used by the Russian Army to deliver outsized or heavy cargo unable to be carried on the ground. The cargo planes are also used for mobilizing large numbers of troops.
The best that could be said is that Moscow is merely trying to intimidate.
YOU GET ONE GUESS: Ocasio-Cortez Spox Refuses To Divulge Where She Stands On BDS Movement.