NEWS YOU CAN USE? 5 New Year’s Eve Movies to Help Ring in 2019.
Number One is already a post-Christmas/pre-NYE tradition here at Villa Verde.
Archive for 2018
December 28, 2018
WELL, GOOD: FDA approves new child vaccine to guard against 6 diseases. “The regulatory agency green-lit VAXELIS Wednesday, pharma giant Sanofi S.A. announced. The company says the drug immunizes against diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomeyelitis, hepatitis B and invasive disease due to Haemophilus influenzae type B in children between 6 months and 5 years of age. Children take it in three doses.”
AT AMAZON, LED Keychain Flashlights. I just ordered more of these. I keep one on my keychain, and Helen keeps one on hers, and I replace them every year. Very handy.
IN AMERICA, THE YOUNG ARE ALWAYS READY TO GIVE TO THOSE WHO ARE OLDER THAN THEMSELVES THE FULL BENEFITS OF THEIR INEXPERIENCE:
● Shot:
“We must hold the older generations accountable for the mess they have created. … and say to them you cannot continue risking our future like this.” Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg calls on young people to use their anger as activism.
—Tweet from CNN, America’s hall monitor*, as spotted by Twitchy in a post headlined, “Teen climate activist calls on young people to tap into their anger at older generations who ruined everything.”
Chaser:
“In the first place, I would like to observe that the older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us. They give us this Thing, knocked to pieces, leaky, red-hot, threatening to blow up; and then they are surprised that we don’t accept it with the same attitude of pretty, decorous enthusiasm with which they received it.”
—John F. Carter, “‘These Wild Young People’ by One of Them,” the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.
(Classical reference in headline. *Also classical reference.)
AND YOU THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
—Twitchy, today.
● “Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to remind Democrats that even former President Barack Obama spoke out against illegal immigration. Trump dug up a 2011 tweet from former President Obama which said: ‘I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration.’ ‘I totally agree!’ Trump wrote, retweeting the former president.”
—The Daily Caller, yesterday.
—Hot Air, October 30th.
● Bill Clinton warns of “the large number of illegal aliens” coming into America, and explains his crackdown at his 1995 State of the Union address.
—Instapundit, January 31st, 2017.
To expand on Glenn’s comments at the time, clips from all of these Democratic party stalwarts should be rounded up into a campaign ad ending with “I’m Donald Trump, and I approve this message.”
I WOULDN’T MIND ONE OF THESE: Barrett Firearms REC10 in .308 Win. is now available.
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK: De Blasio’s plan to safely dispose of used needles is failing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have junkies toss their used syringes into special receptacles has failed to clean up drug-infested parks, and the bins are serving more as suggestion boxes — spreading the message that the city is OK with them shooting up there.
Unexpectedly.
(Classical reference in headline.)
Peggy Noonan has said that we are patronized by our inferiors. And they certainly were both patronizing and inferior this year.
GOOD: German company linked with Iran’s rockets stops business with Tehran. “Corporations realize that doing business with Iran means funding the IRGC’s terror strategy.”
A spokesman for the German company Krempel, which provided construction material to Tehran businessmen that was used in rockets produced by the Iranian regime to gas Syrians earlier this year, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that the global business firm has stopped trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Since several months ago, Krempel no longer delivers goods to Iran,” said Rainer Westermann.
“Corporations realize that doing business with Iran means funding the IRGC’s terror strategy,” US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell told the Post on Thursday. The IRGC stands for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the US designated as a terrorist entity last year.
Grenell is widely credited with causing German businesses to leave Iran and has been praised for his efforts in seeking to counter companies that aid Iran’s terrorism and cause suffering for Syrians and Iranians within the Islamic Republic.
I’m old enough to remember when Trump’s reckless foreign policy was going to drive our allies into the arms of our enemies.
REMEMBER OAKLAND MAYOR LIBBY SCHAAF? She’s the California official who took it upon herself to warn illegal immigrants in her city that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were about to launch a raid.
Schaaf has no regrets about compromising a raid that still managed to arrest 232 illegals, 180 of which were found to have criminal records. Townhall’s Cortney O’Brien reminds us that Schaaf said she was willing to go to jail when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned of the possibility.
YES. IT IS LIKE THAT.
THAT’S WHAT MAKES THEM SO MUCH FUN: Canadian Study Claims Video Gamers Perpetuate ‘Toxic’ ‘Neoliberal Masculinity.’ “Games such as Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and DoD.”
DAVE BARRY’S YEAR IN REVIEW: Is there anything good we can say about 2018?
We can summarize 2018 in two words:
It boofed.
We’re not 100 percent sure what “boofing” is, despite the fact that this very issue was discussed in a hearing of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. All we know for certain about boofing is that it is distasteful and stupid.
As was 2018.
Boof, err, sorry, read the whole thing.
SUSTAINABILITY: Federal Debt Up $1.37 Trillion Since Last Dec. 25; $10,743 Per Household.
That per household number jumps higher when you exclude households paying no income tax.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, MIZZOU JUST GETS STUPIDER EDITION: Mizzou official: Asking a smaller woman on a date violates Title IX.
The University of Missouri believes that asking someone on a date can violate Title IX in certain situations. Its officials can’t agree on which situations, however.
In a motion for summary judgment filed on Christmas Eve, Jeremy Rowles shared excerpts of depositions with Mizzou officials from his federal lawsuit against the public university.
They suggest that male students should avoid asking out female students at all, particularly when the male is physically larger than the female.
This is clearly a hostile educational environment on account of sex, based on the presumption that all men are rapists, made more problematic since the accused is a black male and the offended party is a white female. Shades of Emmet Till! The Department of Education should investigate.
REASON TV: The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco’s Housing Crisis.
Exit quote: “I followed the laws for four and a half years. I spent 1.2 million dollars following the laws and now at the last minute they break their own laws. If you’re wondering why housing in San Francisco is expensive, that is why they make it expensive here. It is intentional.”
Earlier: San Francisco Orders Property Owner to Build Exact Replica of Demolished Home.