ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Sarah Silverman Turns on PC Culture After It Comes for Her.
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July 27, 2018
MAYBE IT’S LACK OF TESTOSTERONE? Researchers studying why more women than men get Alzheimer’s.
At least, low testosterone has been linked to Alzheimer’s in men.
AND NOW IT’S KATHLEEN McKINLEY’S TURN IN THE PENALTY BOX TWITTER RESERVES FOR MEDIA CONSERVATIVES. “Yes, her tweets are visible, but she’s unable to tweet. Last time she tried to tweet, they added 3 hours to her suspension.”
Last week, Twitter dispatched Jim Treacher there. And speaking of Treacher, at the PJM mothership today, he writes, “Remain Calm, All Is Well (Unless You Want to Watch ‘Animal House’):”
When you see generation after generation of humorless scolds wagging their fingers at you like this, it might make you want to give up. You might say: “What the hell we s’posed to do, ya moron?” But you can fight back. There’s only one thing to do when some busybody like this tries to tell you what to do and how to think:
Point at them and laugh.
I guess that’s two things. Forget it, I’m rolling.
He is, and Senator Blutarsky has approved his message, so read the whole thing.
IT’S COME TO THIS. CNN Guest: ‘This Was A Good Week For Trump’ Outside Of ‘CNN Land.’
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Pensions devour school budgets, flatten teacher pay.
ARE YOU SURE IT WAS A MISTAKE? Amazon Facial Recognition Confuses Members of Congress with Criminals.
HUH: Cannabis Oil Helped 80 Percent of Autistic Children, Israeli Study Finds. “It improved both behavior and communications in the children enrolled in the study.”
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Today is National New Jersey Day.
CA POLICE CHIEF: WE’VE ARRESTED THE SAME PERSON 83 TIMES.
Prop 47 – deceptively (of course) monikered as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act – reduced the threshold for felonies, categorizing most non-violent crimes as misdemeanors in an attempt to reduce the prison population. The result has been an increase in petty crimes as most go unpunished. Police are unable to hold those committing petty crimes and thus the perpetrators are simply released back into the population to continue their offenses. Petty criminals know this and have been offending with near complete impunity over the last few years.
The measure was intended to expire by 2017 but Governor Jerry Brown has extended it until 2022.
Oh sure, complain about Proposition 47 all you like – but you’ll be glad it’s there once you’re out on bail for drinking from a plastic straw.
But who or what caused the wipeout of the Democrats’ farm team?
RONAN FARROW STRIKES AGAIN: Married CBS Chairman Les Moonves accused of unwanted kissing and touching in sexual misconduct expose, causing company shares to fall seven percent.
As Richard Fernandez has said, the torpedoes the Democrats put in the water to sink Trump keep circling back on them.
GROWING RESPECT FOR THE .380 ACP.
THE DIRECT LINE FROM OBAMA, HOLDER, RICE, LERNER & CLINTON TO FBI SCANDALS: Each of four huge scandals from the Obama era — Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS Targeting and Hillarymail — had distinguishing characteristics, all of which came together in the FBI’s combined Clinton email/Russia Collusion debasement. It’s amazing how clear the present becomes when viewed through the lenses of the recent past.
Here’s a taste:
“Just as Obama, Rice, Powers and Clinton lied about Benghazi, so did Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (appointed by Trump), former FBI Director James Comey (appointed by Obama), and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe (promoted by Comey) — when they signed the FISA applications and thereby certified the credibility of the material included in the documents.”
Check it out here.
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TYLER O’NEIL: Twitter Scandal and Facebook Stock Drop Are Just Symptoms ‘of a Larger Backlash Against Big Tech.’
Reminder: Instapundit items are still curated, written, and published by human beings.
THAT’S NOT WHAT NEWSWEEK TOLD ME IN 2009. Democratic Party, Socialist? Maxine Waters Says No:
Representative Maxine Waters said Wednesday that the Democratic party is not becoming socialist, despite the rise of several popular socialist candidates and congressmen.
“I just don’t think that our party should be identified because we have a few people who seem to be to the left of the left. Yes, Bernie Sanders calls himself . . . a Democratic socialist, but he votes with the Democrats. He does not want to get out of the Democratic lane,” Waters told CNBC. “I think — I consider him basically a Democrat who is focused on Wall Street and talks about Wall Street an awful lot and wants to make sure that Wall Street is not taking advantage of the average citizen.”
She added that Republican warnings that the Democratic party is shifting to the left are an “exaggeration.”
“The Democratic party is not a socialist party,” she stated.
Oh the fun that would have ensued had CNBC asked Waters what’s wrong with socialism.
WELL, A BUNCH OF THEM PROBABLY SHOULD BE: Amazon is under fire after the ACLU found that its facial recognition technology identified members of Congress as people who have been arrested.
IMMIGRATION: Record high number of foreign college graduates taking US jobs. Weird that foreigners keep wanting to come to the racist, misogynistic, authoritarian hellscape that is Trump’s America.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Twitter Stock Drops Sharply on Lower Monthly Active Usage.
That “lower monthly active usage” just might have a connection with this: Twitter: Of course we don’t shadow ban (okay, maybe a little).
In case you missed it on Wednesday, It’s been a rough week for social media: Facebook plunges more than 24 percent on revenue miss and projected slowdown.
I’M PRETTY SURE THIS IS SATIRE, AT LEAST FOR NOW. Judge: Medicaid Must Also Cover Race Reassignment.
“WHO DO THEY EXPECT TO BELIEVE THIS STUFF?”: This really is a cute video of Mitch McConnell.
THIRD WORLD UNMANNED: Iran-Backed Houthi Rebels Claim Strike on Abu Dhabi Airport by New Long-Range Drone. “Terror groups have been experimenting with drones in order to increase their fighting capacity, with ISIS stepping up their research and development.”