NEXT THE WAPO WILL BE CELEBRATING PEOPLE WHO SHUT DOWN CRITICS WITH RACIST EPITHETS: ‘OK, boomer’: 25-year-old lawmaker shuts down heckler during climate change speech.
The reason the left celebrates a cult of youth is that young people tend to be ignorant and gullible, and that’s the kind of people who tend to buy the left’s bullshit.
IT’S AS IF ALL THIS #METOO STUFF WAS JUST BULLSHIT:
Story here.
Well, to be fair, they were serious about it when they thought it would help them beat Trump or block Kavanaugh. But once the torpedoes circled around to take out people on their team, well. . . .
NOT JUST IMMIGRATION: On Democrats and Immigration, It’s the Hard Left vs. the Loony Left.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Shouldn’t Ever Go for the Cheapest Brake Pads.
AT AMAZON, save on Snow Removal.
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH VIRGINIA? Newly Elected Virginia Senator Had Been Jailed for Having Sex with Teenager.
UGH: Three killed in Baghdad protests as military bans live ammunition. “Iraq’s military says security forces have been ordered not to use live fire on demonstrators as UN voices criticism.”
MORE: Iraqi forces kill four protesters in Baghdad, southern port blocked.
PREDICTIONS ARE HARD, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FUTURE: 2019 as Precursor to 2020? Results Say Yes, No, and Maybe.
JOHN ADAMS: Mining ‘The Green New Deal.’
If these energy technologies are to be the ships, tanks and planes of this modern mobilization, consider what the American home front achieved during the war years. Author Victor Davis Hanson, writing on mobilization during WWII, observed that “American war production proved astonishing. At the huge Willow Run plant in Michigan, the Greatest Generation turned out a B-24 heavy bomber every hour. A single shipyard could mass-produce an ocean-going Liberty merchant ship from scratch in a week.”
At scale, this meant American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war. American factories produced 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. In just a four-year period, America’s industrial production, already the world’s largest, doubled. No other country, ally or enemy, came close to equaling this effort.
America became a factory. Notably, U.S. resource self-sufficiency drove the engine of production. While oil, natural gas and coal proved essential to the effort, U.S. hardrock mines provided the critical minerals and metals needed for the dizzying array of materials required by the machines of war. America’s vast natural resources and our robust mining industries became the foundation upon which the mobilization could happen.
Today, the U.S. hardrock mining industry – absolutely essential to any green energy mobilization – is a shadow of the behemoth it once was. America’s vast mineral wealth still exists but hardrock mining has been the victim of adversarial policy that has pushed mining investment and production elsewhere. While complete self-sufficiency in this era of global interconnectedness is unnecessary, U.S. mineral import reliance is spiraling out of control, doubling over the past two decades.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. is now 100 percent import reliant for 18 essential minerals and 50 percent or more import reliant for another 30.
Given the modern Left’s hostility to any sort of domestic extraction industry, the Green New Deal looks just like every other attempt to “save” the climate: A massive transfer of wealth from the First World to the Second and Third.
GOV. KAY IVEY ANNOUNCES 16 GOMESA-FUNDED PROJECTS FOR ALABAMA: “Ivey announced Wednesday at a press conference that $28 million would be spent on 16 projects, which are supported by funds from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (GOMESA).”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Coming Soon to a Kitchen Near You: Scowling Greta.
HAS ANYBODY CHECKED JOE BIDEN? 5-Inch-Long Tapeworm Lived in Man’s Brain for More Than a Decade.
YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A SMALLER BLOG: The mesmerizing mediocrity of Trump’s opponents.
As Bill Whittle has been quoted as saying, if Republicans had to run unopposed, they’d lose every time.
LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR: The Berlin Wall Fell 30 Years Ago. Where Did It Go?
The wall spanned 96 miles, encircling West Berlin. It stood for nearly three decades until November 9, 1989, when East Germany suddenly opened its borders and crowds began tearing it down.
In the 30 years since, chunks of the wall have made their way to some 237 locations in more than 40 countries, according to records from a German government foundation tracking them.
The wall’s migration is surprising given the size and heft of its pieces. Most of the barrier was built from segments measuring roughly 12 feet high by 4 feet wide, and weighing 2.6 tons.
The wall was in fact two barricades: an inner wall facing East, and an outer wall facing West. Because the Eastern side was heavily guarded, graffiti was only on the outer segments.
Seeing the wall from both sides in 1984 gave me an appreciation for graffiti I’d never had before.
DONALD TRUMP JR. SPARS WITH THE VIEW CO-HOSTS IN HEATED DEBATE: “‘ABC is right now chasing down a whistleblower about all of the Epstein stuff because those stories were killed. So if we’re going to have the conversation about the outrage about whistleblowers, you work with CBS,’ said Trump Jr. who appeared on the show with his gal pal Kimberly Guilfoyle to push his book, ‘Triggered: How The Left Thrives On Hate And Wants To Silence Us.’”
More here: Donald Trump Jr. drops ‘rape-rape’ on Whoopi Goldberg, ‘blackface’ on Joy Behar during View appearance.
Joy Behar was reduced to insulting her own audience: ‘This is not a MAGA rally!’: Behar snaps at audience applauding for Don Trump Jr.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Many consult social media to diagnose STDs.
HEADLINES FROM 1932: Sure, just do it — embrace socialism!
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Sorry, but men cannot have periods.
GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T COMMIT JOURNALISM HERE – THIS IS A NEWSROOM! ABC News Conspires with CBS to Get Whistleblower Who Leaked Amy Robach Video Fired:
So, in summary:
- ABC News protected Jeffrey Epstein
- Amy Robach complained, on camera, about the network protecting Jeffrey Epstein
- An ABC employee had access to the clip of Robach’s complaint, and it made its way to James O’Keefe
- That employee, who has since moved to CBS News, has been fired
If you were still under the impression that journalists are in the business of giving you the news, this might come as a surprise. For those of us who’ve been paying attention, it’s just another day. Here, put this on a coffee cup:
More here: “Looks like two media outlets conspired to retaliate against a whistleblower. Meanwhile, they’re claiming Resistance talking point that merely identifying Ukraine leaker — even though he’s protected from retaliation— is unacceptable. Interesting.”
Earlier: The House of Stephanopoulos Airbrushes Jeffrey Epstein Down the Memory Hole
Flashback: Jennings and Brokaw Defend Rather Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.
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