WHEN WILL THE MARKETS RECOVER FROM THIS ELECTION? A FIRST-PASS ANSWER IS NEVER. Pound SURGES to its highest level against the euro since 2016 just after the Brexit referendum and hits $1.35 as Boris Johnson sweeps to victory. Okay, I stole this from somebody in the comments, but it’s too funny.
Archive for 2019
December 12, 2019
DO YA THINK? Jersey City shooters driven by anti-Semitism, officals say. “We believe the suspects held views that reflected hatred of Jewish people as well as hatred of law enforcement officers.”
Flashback: James Baldwin on black antisemitism.
NOW OUT: Trouble in the Wind, an alt-history military SF anthology featuring our own Sarah Hoyt, along with Brad Torgersen, S.M. Stirling, Taylor Anderson, and many others.
OPEN THREAD: Make it your own.
JAMES O’KEEFE COLLECTS ANOTHER SCALP: CNN Politics Producer Steve Brusk Resigns Weeks After Project Veritas Video Accuses Him of Misconduct.
In October Don Surber wrote, “The allegations come after endless panels on CNN berated Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken for their conduct with women. Weinstein engaged in transactional sex with actresses (and apparently rape) while Franken pretended to grope a sleeping woman. If what Saleeby said about Brusk is true — and CNN is not addressing the accusation — then Brusk [was] harassing women while he was booking Michael Avenatti to appear on Tapper’s show to accuse President Trump of adultery.”
THAT’S CRAZY TALK, DEMOCRATS NEVER FACE RECKONINGS.
WHY IS LABOUR SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Ken Livingstone says it’s ‘the end’ for Jeremy Corbyn and blames ‘Jewish vote.’ The former London mayor said Jeremy Corbyn would “have to resign tomorrow” — adding the “Jewish vote wasn’t very helpful.”
I HOPE THIS FORESHADOWS 2020 HERE: Boris and Tories on track for massive landslide victory.
UPDATE: A friend on Facebook comments: “When Boris took over as PM, there was a real danger that Farage and the Brexit Party would eat the Tories from below and replace them. Instead, the opposite has happened — the Brexit Party has become a mechanism for uncoupling traditional Labor voters and moving them to the Conservatives by stages.”
I guess leaving Labour and voting Tory at one fell swoop was too much of a trauma to long-cultivated self image. So do it in steps.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS:
● Shot: AOC Joins the Left’s Swelling Ranks of Anti-Semites with Corbyn Endorsement.
—Steve Green at PJM, earlier today.
● Chaser: “Tonight’s exit poll has predicted that the Conservatives are heading for a bumper majority of 86 – a remarkable result. And while the exit poll is still just a prediction at this stage, that hasn’t stopped Labour’s various Corbynistas melting down at the result.”
—“Corbynistas react to the exit poll result,” the London Spectator, tonight.
● Hangover: American Leftists Believed Corbyn’s Inevitable Victory Would Be Their Model.
—Jonathan Chait, New York magazine, tonight.
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Thousands of ‘penis fish’ wash onto California beach.
(Classical reference in headline.)
Joe Biden’s son Hunter was arrested on Jersey Shore drug charges in 1988 and had his record expunged at a time when his father was pushing for the incarceration of drug offenders drawn disproportionately from minority groups.
Congressional records reveal that Hunter Biden, now 49, was arrested in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, where the Biden family has often holidayed over the years, in June 1988. Hunter Biden, then 18, had just graduated from the prestigious Archmere Academy prep school, which his father had also attended. The former vice president and his wife Jill have often been spotted on trips to Stone Harbor.
The arrest has not previously been reported. Republicans have recently highlighted Hunter Biden’s drug abuse, questioning why it was not taken into account when the lobbyist was appointed to a $50,000-a-month post on the board of the Ukraine oil company Burisma in 2014, when his father, as vice president, was the Obama administration’s lead official on Ukraine.
Related: Hunter Biden may have to reveal full Burisma, China earnings in child support lawsuit.
THIS IS SO MUCH FUN: American Leftists Believed Corbyn’s Inevitable Victory Would Be Their Model.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
I JUST FOUND OUT THAT TESSA MAJORS, WHO WAS MURDERED BY THUGS IN NEW YORK, was the daughter of Inman Majors, whose work I’ve mentioned here on several occasions. He and I have corresponded over the years, and I’m so very sorry for his loss.
WELL, HE’S GOT A LOT TO ANSWER FOR . . . OH, WAIT: Kim Kardashian West sues doctor over ‘Vampire Facial.’
AT AMAZON, save on Bestselling Jewelry.
“COONMAN” TRIES TO BUTCH IT UP: Northam Threatens “Consequences” For 2A Sanctuary Counties, Sheriffs. The timeline where Northam ends in Mussolini-fashion is still remote, but he’s doing his best to bring it closer.
I’M GUESSING IT’S BECAUSE THEY AGREE WITH HIM.
Res ipsa loquitur.
THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THERE: A Newly Digitized Menu Collection Shows Off America’s Lost Railroad Cuisine.
Alfred Hitchcock never intended 1959’s North By Northwest to be a documentary on culture in the late 1950s, but between New York City and the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited, it’s astonishing how much rot seeped in within a decade or so. (Vertigo works much the same way for ‘50s-era San Francisco.)