MR.* VINDMAN’S INTELLIGENCE OPERATION AGAINST TRUMP.
Sorry: It’s Lt. Col. Vindman! Earlier: How did vets and enlisted people react to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s ‘Don’t call me ma’am’ moment? “Multiple combat veterans have told me they are livid at this attitude from Vindman, at his use of the uniform as a prop for the cameras, and at his obvious scheming against and insubordination towards his chain of command.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Human patient put in suspended animation for the first time.
BIDEN OFFSHORES ALL HIS ENERGY NEEDS TO UKRAINE: Biden Slams Tom Steyer: ‘I Don’t Need a Lecture’ on Climate From a Big Coal Investor.
AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: Vegan Sues Burger King Because Impossible Burgers Are Contaminated with Actual Meat.
IN THE MAIL: From reader George F. Walsh, A Fallen Marionette: I Was A Prisoner Inside My Own Body.
I’VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG THERE’S A MEAN UNDERCURRENT TO HIS PREACHINESS: Pete Buttigieg Twists Christianity: ‘Salvation’ Depends on Being ‘Useful.’
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ‘76! Democratic debates: Joe Biden says we need to ‘keep punching’ at domestic violence.
UPDATE: I should note that Columbia is claiming that the panel organizers didn’t follow the scheduling rules, and says it welcomes the panel if those are followed. Either I missed that when I scheduled the post, or it was added later.
KING OF COMEDY UPDATE: Jussie Smollett Suing City of Chicago, Claiming ‘Malicious Prosecution’ and That They Smeared Him.
(Classical reference in headline.)
FROM THE FORMER HOME OF DAN RATHER: Weld County Sheriff calls 60 Minutes’ reporting on Colorado’s Red Flag law “lazy.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Two arrested after ‘Antifa’ shuts down campus conservative event. Some readers yesterday were wondering why Trump isn’t prosecuting these people. One possible answer is that they’re helping to re-elect him.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Is Bobby Fischer Playing 3-D Chess As Impeachment Dems Play Checkers. “The only thing that has been crystal clear is that the Democrats aren’t getting what they want. The thing about the 2019 Dems is that they’re blissfully unaware of, well, most things. Thanks to the self-affirming noise their media mouthpieces can make for them, harsh realities don’t often reach them.”
The Boy in the Bubble couldn’t survive contact with the outside world.
STRYKER POWER: A U.S. Army Stryker M1128 Mobile Gun System assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment engages simulated enemy targets during a live fire exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. Photo taken on Nov. 08, 2019.
The U.S. home front has become a war zone under persistent attack by adversaries who employ an array of weapons and execute operations exploiting stealth, ambush, naivete and, in many cases, utter stupidity.
I’ll use the terror threat to make a general point.
“War on the home front” brings to American minds violent terror attack — and after 9/11, it should.
However, international Islamic terrorists opened their war on U.S. soil in 1993 with a truck bomb attack on the World Trade Center that killed six and injured several hundred.
Osama bin Laden and his terror gang warned us. The planet was their battlefield and killing Americans on American soil a premier objective. Few bothered to pay attention. Naivete and stupidity exacted a terrible price.
I suggest you read the entire essay.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF “NAME THAT PARTY” AND THE MEMORY HOLE: CBS Fails to Note Party ID of Corrupt Democrat Baltimore* Mayor as ABC, NBC Ignore.
Evergreen:
* Baltimore’s last Republican mayor left office over a half century ago.
#JOURNALISM: When the villain is Obama, not Trump, news suddenly becomes not worth reporting.
So the United States has “the world’s highest rate of children in detention.” Is this worth reporting? Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless, Agence France-Presse, or AFP, and Reuters did report it, attributing the information to a “United Nations study” on migrant children detained at the US-Mexico border.
Then the two agencies retracted the story. Deleted, withdrew, demolished. If they could have used one of those Men in Black memory-zappers on us, they would have. Sheepishly, the two news organizations explained that, you see, the UN data was from 2015 — part of a border crackdown that had begun years earlier.
We all know who the president was in 2015. It wasn’t evil, child-caging monster President Trump. It was that nice, compassionate, child-caging monster President Barack Obama.
Zap. The story made Obama look bad. Hence the story was removed. Not updated or corrected, removed.
Well,
BIG UBER IS LISTENING: Uber to test recording audio of trips in effort to improve security.
The feature was first unveiled at an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, earlier this month, and will allow drivers and riders to record audio of their trip “before or during the trip in some regions,” according to an Uber blog post in Portuguese.
Uber confirmed to NBC News that it would be testing out the new safety feature in Latin America. The rollout will begin next month, according to The Washington Post.
It is unclear if and when the feature will make it to the United States.
The blog post stated that the audio is encrypted and stored on the user’s phone, but adds that only Uber will have access to the recording. Users will not be able to play back their recording.
I actually don’t have a problem with this, provided that either the data is eventually either deleted or anonymized, given the occasional safety issues inherent in ride-sharing.
SHOCKER: Paul Bedard: Confidence in Trump economy at record high, with no hit from impeachment.
Another poll finds that public support for President Trump has not waned in the face of House impeachment hearings, and the approval for his handling of the economy has hit a new record high.
In today’s Gallup survey, 57% approve of the Trump economy. That, said the survey analysis, is “by one percentage point, his best as president.”
It comes as the stock market is hitting new highs, and unemployment is at a low for several groups.
Meanwhile, Gallup found that Trump’s approval rating is at a near high of 43% for the year. The last time he was at that level was before the Ukraine phone call emerged.
Most importantly, Republicans still have strong support for the president, at 90%.
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH AIRBRUSHES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: When the villain is Obama, not Trump, news suddenly becomes not worth reporting.
Earlier:
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