HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, AMERICA: If you remember Red Skelton, you will appreciate his explanation of the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. If you don’t, well then enjoy meeting an American classic.
Archive for 2019
July 4, 2019
FORTUNATELY, SHE GOT BETTER: Ocasio-Cortez Claims Border Patrol Agents Turned Her Into A Newt.
D*MN IT, BABYLON BEE! YOU HAD ONE JOB: Antifa Shatters Mirror In Attempt To Punch Nazi.
SO, WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IS THAT WATER LEVELS USED TO BE THAT LOW? Mysterious 3,400-year-old palace discovered as drought reveals ruins.
IT’S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE LOSES THEIR LIBERTY: Street Games.
TRUMP’S FAULT IN 3, 2, 1: Alert level raised for Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano.
DUH. LOOK AT CUBA: The Left’s Endgame Is Not Chaos. It’s Worse.
OH, YOU CAN VOTE IT IN. yOU’RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO SHOOT YOUR WAY OUT: The Perilous Mainstreaming of ‘Democratic Socialism’.
BECAUSE IT’S NOT EVEN A GOOD LIE. AND DETAINEES IS THE WRONG TERM. THEY CAN GO HOME ANY TIME: Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls out Ocasio-Cortez as a liar on detainees drinking from toilets.
SO… REALISTIC? Elizabeth Warren as imagined by Monty Python.
HE MISSED THE MOB BEHAVIOR AND THE FACT THAT THEIR TARGET ACQUISITION SUCKS. IF THEY WANT TO PROVE THEMSELVES, JOIN THE ARMY: Scott Adams errs badly about Antifa.
THEY HAVE A TRAGIC LACK OF MIRRORS: So, who’s the Fascist?
WILL THEY DUMP HIM IF I CRAY STUPIDITY? Nike Dumps Betsy Ross Sneakers Because Colin Kaepernick Cried Racism.
FASTER THAN A TOP: Gallagher Not Guilty & the Liberal Media Spin Begins.
July 3, 2019
AT AMAZON, deals on Power & Hand Tools.
OPEN THREAD: Ring in Independence Day.
FREE SPEECH IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
THE THING IS, GERMANY IS ON THE LATITUDE OF CANADA, NEW YORK IS ON THE LATITUDE OF SPAIN. AND KNOXVILLE IS ON THE LATITUDE OF MOROCCO. Germany Scorned Air Conditioning—Then Came the Heat Wave: America’s fondness for artificially chilled air was long viewed as wasteful, unnatural and wimpy, but record temperatures have some Germans rethinking.
Natalie Mayer knows why Germans disdain the air conditioner, or the Klimaanlage—literally, climate apparatus.
“People here don’t like air conditioning. They think it’s a waste of energy, it’s bad for the environment, and people say it makes them sick,” said Ms. Mayer, a Californian who has lived abroad for more than a decade, including the last four years in Berlin.
She also knows it’s easy to be anti-A/C until getting punched in the face by 100-degree weather. Summer is barely a week old, and heat records in Germany are already getting busted right and left. . . .
High temperatures are known to make people act out of character. Police in the German state of Brandenburg stopped a man riding naked on a motorcycle. He said it was too hot for clothes.
Whenever there’s a heatwave in Europe, the European fashion for mocking American air conditioning and iced drinks is exposed as climate chauvinism.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION:
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— The New Republic, during the government sequester in the fall of 2013, when the GOP controlled the House, and Obama was president. As Jim Geraghty tweeted at the time, “The New Republic: Your first choice for violent, authoritarian, eliminationist rhetoric!”
WHY NIKE’S CAPITULATION TO KAEPERNICK MATTERS:
Colin Kaepernick has made a fantastic living out of protesting the America flag. That’s fine. No political speech should be inhibited, not even pseudo-intellectual historical revisionism. But let’s stop pretending that kneeling during the national anthem at sporting events is really about “respecting the flag” or criminal justice reform or any fixable policy problem.
Whatever the underlying causes for Kaepernick’s popularity—some of them certainly legitimate—these protests are acts of contempt toward an irredeemable nation created in sin. This view of our founding is an increasingly popular position on the left. And if it ever takes hold in mainstream American life, we’re in real trouble.
After pictures of Nike’s Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July edition were released online, Kaepernick, who “sacrificed everything” by making tens of millions of dollars as a corporate-sponsored activist, complained to company officials that the Betsy Ross flag on the back of a proposed sneaker was an offensive symbol because of its “connection to an era of slavery.”
That’s true, but not in the way that Kaepernick thinks:
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Mock Frederica Wilson and Go to Jail.
After reading his post, I hope Jim writes and tells me where to deliver the cake with a saw inside of it.