Archive for 2019
September 26, 2019
A RABBIT HOLE FULL OF LSD: Do ‘Ya Ever Feel Like You’ve Fallen Into the Rabbit Hole?
IOW, IF YOU WANT IT, COME AND GET IT: The Complete American Disassembly Manual.
THIS. ALL OF THIS: A Message for Children About Climate Change.
LIVE BY THE VIRTUE SIGNALING, DIE BY THE VIRTUE SIGNALING: Some Absolute Toad From The Des Moines Register Digs Up Tweets From Carson King (The Iowa State Kid Who Raised $1 Million+ For The Children’s Hospital) And Plans To Expose Him – Internet Beats Him To The Punch With His Own Tweets Of Homophobia and N-Words.
FASTER, PLEASE: New hypersonic engine poised to cut London-Sydney flight times to just four hours by 2030s.
Although this is obviously fake news, since AOC, Elizabeth Warren, and Greta Thurnberg assure me that we only have 12 years — or less — left.
September 25, 2019
SAD NEWS: Cream’s Ginger Baker, 80, is “critically ill in hospital” according to family. “No further details about Baker’s illness have been disclosed at the time of writing. In 2013, Baker announced that he suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by smoking, and chronic back pain as a result of degenerative osteoarthritis. In July 2016, he underwent open-heart surgery after being diagnosed with a ‘major’ heart condition. He suffered a fall at his home four months earlier, which forced him to cancel shows with his band Air Force 3.”
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: DC government worker charged with dealing fentanyl outside his office.
I AM HE AS YOU ARE HE AS YOU ARE ME AND WE ARE ALL TOGETHER. LMAO: Russian Ship Gets Sunk By Angry Walrus… No This Isn’t Satire.
GREEN NUDE EEL UPDATE: Wyoming landfill begins burying turbine blades.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE AMERICAN LEFT CONTINUES APACE: Buttigieg Regional Organizing Director Praises Farrakhan on Social Media.
Deven Anderson, who began working on Aug. 27 as a regional organizing director in Columbia, SC, for the 2020 presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., has actively posted social-media praises of National of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of making anti-Jewish remarks such as “I’m anti-termite,” and that Hitler was “a very great man.”
Between April 2010 and August 2013, Anderson tweeted more than 20 times, lauding the black nationalist’s sermons and quoting him.
Anderson has since protected his Tweets so that only approved followers can see them, not surprisingly.
Related: In 2012, Farrakhan “responded to President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage calling him ‘the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid,’” according to the Huffington Post:
Throughout his speech, Farrakhan carefully points out that he does not condone homophobia, saying “I’m not your enemy. I’m your brother, and I do love you.” However, he said “sin is sin according to the standard of God.”
In July of this year, the Jerusalem Post reported: “Louis Farrakhan: pedophilia, homosexuality, sex trafficking is Talmudic. In a new video published by Minister Louis Farrakhan, he says that Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein committed their crimes because they felt entitled by Jewish law.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited a ‘fracking’ site in Colorado, and tweeted out a video that purported to show it was releasing toxic emissions. However, several hydraulic fracturing experts noted that no fracking was actually taking place at the rig, and that the camera was not showing emissions, but heat signatures. A Democratic politician tweeted back at Ocasio-Cortez, telling her that ‘we do ourselves no favors’ when Democrats deny facts and science.”
PETER SCHWEIZER ON BIDEN’S UKRAINE DEALINGS — SEVEN ESSENTIAL FACTS:
- Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in April 2014, according to RSB bank records. Hunter Biden had little background in energy. Over a 16-month period, Burisma paid $3.1 million to a bank account associated with Hunter’s business.
- Joe Biden led the Obama administration’s policy toward Ukraine when he served as vice president. Biden helped shape Ukraine’s energy and anti-corruption policies, issues that directly impact Burisma.
Read the whole thing. Related: Democrats Asked Ukraine To Investigate Trump In 2018.
Also related: ‘Well, Son of a Bitch:’ Ukraine Scandal Is About Biden.
CHUTZPAH ALERT: “Gov. Kim Reynolds signs proclamation for ‘Carson King Day’ in Iowa,” says the Des Moines Register, in a piece time-stamped “4:43 p.m. CT Sept. 25, 2019” (in other words: this afternoon), with no mention that yesterday, the Des Moines Register attempted to wreck King’s life by trolling through tweets he wrote eight years ago when he was 16.
Incidentally, good for the governor for stepping in to help un-cancel someone the paper tried to destroy. And kudos to a small brewery in Illinois using what Jessica Fletcher of the Daily Caller dubs “a genius marketing move…after [Anheuser Busch] severed ties because they are terrible:” “Illinois Craft Brewery Steps Up, Names Pilsner After Carson King.”
Well, just when we thought there wouldn’t be any new developments, the Geneseo Brewing Company in Geneseo, IL just put out a statement saying that, “We have witnessed the growth through your later social media content and accept your apology. We believe that your selfless act of raising funds for the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is truly a noble act. We as an Independent Craft Beer Company would like to continue your efforts by naming a new pilsner “Iowa Legend” and donating a dollar from every pint and 16-ounce can purchased to your cause until the batch is sold out.”
That’s pretty cool, especially coming from a company in Illinois. Here I thought it was just Iowans squabbling about Carson King, but it seems that it has grown into a story that affects more people than we could imagine.
Good to see further pushback on cancel culture.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman notes Trump has switched from ‘fake news’ to ‘corrupt news.’
As Mollie Hemmingway tweeted in response to Haberman, “I use this word myself because it’s hard to find a better one to describe our corporate media’s unabashed move from ‘communications arm of the left’ to ‘strategic leadership of the opposition to the country’s duly elected president.’ And no clean-up of this corruption in sight…”
And it’s far from the first time — as Andrew Klavan noted at the end of August: ‘Watergate’ Doesn’t Mean What the Press Thinks It Means.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: NPR: Cocaine Mitch may have to die before we fix climate change.
There were at least eight references to McConnell and/or other “older” Republicans dying in a very short period of time. Were we in more of a pouncing mode, I suppose we could suggest that this was some sort of veiled threat here that needs to be looked into.
The broader message they were pushing, death obsession aside, is the belief that there’s a whole generation of younger Republicans out there who are ready and waiting to climb onboard the Green New Deal train, but the tide is being held back by McConnell’s refusal to schedule a vote on Democratic agenda items. Frankly, that doesn’t sound terribly realistic. The majority of conservatives I know aren’t opposed to policies that are beneficial to the planet.
As James Lileks wrote in 2003, “For all these accusations to work, you have to believe that Republicans want poisoned water. You have to believe they drink different water than everyone else. And, of course, they do:”
Doubt it? Switch parties. Join the GOP, and see what happens: cheerful clean-cut uniformed men show up the next day, and take you off the city water lines. They’ll connect you to the special Republican water system that crosses the nation, supplying pure clean perfect water to GOP households. You can get it without Fluoride, too, as a sop to the Birchers and Goldie holdovers.
And there’s more! They’ll also install special GOP “screens” for your windows — they’ll trap airborne pollutants as small as three molecule across. You’ll also have access to rich, satisfying Republican sunshine, which tans you twice as fast — just look at Bob Dole! — and you’ll enjoy even-tempered Republican weather all year long. This is why Republicans don’t care about pollution, or bad water, or the ozone layer, or global warming: for all practical purposes, they’re not living on the same planet as the rest of the people, so they don’t care at all what happens to you.
True! All true! Invite a Republican over and hand him a glass of water. Watch him avoid drinking it — sometimes they spill it, sometimes they just say “I had water earlier today, thanks anyway” — and sometimes they sneak a little sponge out of their cuff, put it in their mouth and pretend to drink. Oh, they’re clever.
Well, if this isn’t true, then perhaps . . . maybe . . . there’s another side to this arsenic debate. Is it possible? Could it be?
Nahh, that’s crazy talk.
HOW TO REVIVE A CITY — AND HOW NOT TO: A Renaissance Runs Through It. No city has worked so hard for so long to reinvent itself as Pittsburgh. After master planners destroyed a once-thriving business district near my parents’ home, I left town and figured the city was a lost cause, but it has made a remarkable comeback, and its lessons are useful for cities everywhere. Now that young people are coming instead of fleeing, there’s a new problem: They’re voting progressive and putting a new breed of master planners in charge.
OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST: Rashida Tlaib argues with pro-vaping witness during hearing: ‘Are you a conspiracy theorist?’
QUESTION ASKED: Is Impeaching Trump Really About Kneecapping Joe Biden?
From Steve Green, at the PJ Mothership.