HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED: Eric Ciardamella or Voldemort?.
My question: why is Ciardamella’s name so feared?
(I busted my own link. Sorry, fixed now.)
Archive for 2019
November 11, 2019
HARSH, BUT FAIR. “So the digital age has given us two ‘gifts.’ The technology used for playback sounds terrible and our recorded music no longer has any monetary value.”
NOT THE ONION: San Francisco’s New Socialist, Soft On Crime D.A. Is The Last Thing The City Needs.
[Chesa] Boudin’s political leanings are fairly unsurprising. San Francisco’s newest DA and self-proclaimed socialist is the son of former members of the violent revolutionary far-left group Weather Underground, an organization that rose to infamy in the 1970s and carried out as many as two dozen bombings of government properties. Both of Boudin’s parents were imprisoned for murders related to a robbery they conducted as Weathermen, and Boudin’s father David Gilbert is still serving time.
In his parents’ stead, two other militant Weathermen, known as leaders within the organization, raised Boudin. Indeed, in an interview with Jacobin (yes, that Jacobin), Boudin spoke positively of how his four parents’ “activism” has inspired his own work, despite the “mistakes” they all made—a supposedly “charming” detail that is fundamentally grotesque.
As a Yale-trained lawyer, Boudin eventually left the United States to work as a translator for Venzuela’s now-deceased socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, an outrageous resume data point that ought to get someone laughed out of political office (for those unfamiliar, Chavez’s socialism eventually transformed Venezuela into a failed state). But predictably not so in San Francisco, where behemoth, yet ineffective government is fetishized to the point of allowing piles of human feces in the streets.
Why doesn’t San Francisco make it official and simply elect Bane to be their D.A.?
HOW DARE YOU! San Francisco’s Greta Thunberg Mural Equipped With Laser Eyes That Shoot At SUVs.
When the lasers were first activated, they immediately targeted the carbon-emitting hydraulic cranes and aerosol paint sprayers used to create the mural. The glitch has since been fixed.
Sources confirm the lasers will be suspended when Al Gore and other climate activist celebrities visit San Francisco and drive through town with their fleet of Suburbans and Escalades.
From the Babylon Bee, America’s Paper of Record. If Big Sister’s lasers could be reprogrammed to eradicate poop on the sidewalk below the mural, SF could really be onto something!
DOUBLE STANDARD: Liberals Demand Conservative Justices Recuse Themselves From LGBT Cases.
Bias is in the eye of the beheld, bub.
MCNUGGETS AREN’T THAT BAD: McDonald’s addict loses almost 100 pounds without giving up McNuggets.
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I SHOULD BE DOING THIS TOO: Mark Pulliam is voting with his feet.
JON GABRIEL: Millennials and Gen Z think they invented ‘OK, boomer?’ Wrong. Gen X hated you all first.
Blaming the post-WWII generation for all the world’s ills is nothing new. Gen Xers like myself pioneered the technique in the ’90s only to watch millennials and Gen Zers co-opt it for their own cohorts.
They’re even using the same arguments. We’re the first generation to have a lower quality of life than the generation before, college is too expensive and the climate is going to kill us. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
It stings a bit to see my generation skipped over, but we haven’t yet had the chance to lead. Every president since Clinton has been a boomer, as are the main contenders for the Democratic primary. Actually, Bernie is pre-boomer, born before Pearl Harbor was bombed and socialism was discredited.
On Saturday, the New York Post had the headline, “Michael Bloomberg’s entry cements Baby Boomer dominance of Democratic race,” but Bloomberg, like Joe Biden, was born in 1942, thus making them also pre-Boomers. As Glenn noted when William Shatner, 88, got the “OK boomer” treatment on Twitter last week, “it’s telling that the milennials don’t actually know what a boomer is, but use the term with smug contempt anyway.”
TOXIC MASCULINITY: My Neighborhood Was on Fire. My Neighbors Came Together to Save It.
As Virginia Postrel noted on Facebook, this story has a real Army of Davids feel to it. Mostly I’m surprised that the NYT would present such a glowing vision of male cooperation and bonding, not to mention the scene where a good guy with a gun saves the day.
NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: Mysterious Laser Turret Appears On US Navy Destroyer USS Dewey. “The system is likely the service’s new ‘ODIN’ laser dazzler that is meant to blind enemy optics on ships, boats, aircraft, and missiles.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON THE LOOMING 1984 ELECTION:
In his own way, Trump also fights back in 360-degree fashion, from the existential to the trivial, railing against Colin Kaepernick, tit for tatting Hollywood stars, weighing in on radical abortion, open borders, power outages, the homeless and subway jumping. The result is not just that there looms a choice between two different agendas, but two quite different American lifestyles and experiences—and histories.
Like it or not, 2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four. One side advocates a complete transformation not just of the American present but of the past as well. The Left is quite eager to change our very vocabulary and monitor our private behavior to ensure we are not just guilty of incorrect behavior but thought as well.
The other side believes America is far better than the alternative, that it never had to be perfect to be good, and that, all and all, its flawed past is a story of a moral nation’s constant struggle for moral improvement.
One side will say, “Just give us more power and we will create heaven on earth.” The other says “Why would anyone wish to take their road to an Orwellian nightmare?” The 2020 election is that simple.
Read the whole thing.
REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT CLIMATE, IT’S JUST WEATHER. Veterans Day beginning to look a lot like Christmas as cold sweeps nation; freeze coming to Florida.
GOOD LUCK, EVERYONE.
IT ISN’T A WITCH HUNT; IT’S A PURE POWER PLAY: Sara Carter Slams the Deep State for Targeting Trump: ‘This Is Witch Hunt 2.0.’
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Track and Photograph Secret Spacecraft.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Don’t Laugh Too Hard At Bloomberg Or He Might Not Run. “Where is the groundswell of support behind this pint-sized presidential aspirant? Perhaps the Democratic consultants who didn’t sign up with one of the other goofy candidates are happy. The micro-zillionaire may not have charisma or a vision or actual human support, but he’s got endless bucks to squander on electoral parasites.”
Well, he’s welcome to run ads on InstaPundit by the millions.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for November 11, 2019. “Bloomberg is getting in, Holder is thinking about it, Yang boosts Williamson, the Steyer campaign commits a felony, and Biden keeps bide bide biding along at the top of polls.”