HURRAY FOR DEFIBRILLATORS: Two Larrys, two cardiac arrests, two survivors thanks to AEDs. We have cabinets with AEDs, and bleed control kits, in my law school now.
Archive for 2019
July 21, 2019
I’M GLAD TO HAVE MY GENERATOR: Severe storms cut power to 365,000 amid sweltering heat.
BECAUSE HE COULD: Buzz Aldrin: Why I Walked on the Moon.
CLARICE FELDMAN: Mogadishu Mon Amour.
The French movie Hiroshima Mon Amour is based on human memory and forgetfulness as recounted by two lovers. The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in political power rests very largely on complicity by the media’s airbrushing of her history because they thought this physically attractive African Moslem “refugee” was just the ticket to defeat Donald Trump. The media counts on our forgetfulness and ignorance.
Hard work by independent media, however, has exposed her and her media apologists and the Democrats have little choice: Condemn her and remove her from her committee assignments or suffer the consequences. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s repeated defense of her, (doubtless for fear of being targeted by the leftist nutjobs in her ranks) has placed her party’s continued majority in serious jeopardy.
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The President succeeded this week in nailing the Democratic Party to its four anti-American female harpies. As for Omar, I’d be astonished if the FBI hasn’t finally opened an investigative file on her. Voters have had more than their fill of political figures breaking the laws without consequences. It’s your party, Pelosi, you can cry if you want to.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Omar Refuses To Denounce Al-Qaeda, Islamic Terrorism.
JUSSIE SMOLLETT REDUX: Georgia Democratic Lawmaker Appears To Be Caught Lying About Alleged Racist Encounter.
As Roger Kimball wrote when Smollett’s story broke in February, “The less hate there is in the United States, the more hate crimes must be manufactured in order to keep the Fraternal Order of Victims afloat.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Here are 18 ridiculous bias complaints filed on college campuses.
IN THE #METOO ERA, IT’S TIME TO REVISIT TED KENNEDY’S LEGACY:
Only one of the most grievous miscarriages of justice, one of the grossest abuses of wealth and political power, and one of the most ill-deserved second acts in modern American history: July 18, 1969, the night a probably-drunk Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick and left a young, adoring campaign aide named Mary Jo Kopechne to die in about three feet of water, her horrific death a slow agony — one that took hours — as she doubtless waited for her hero, the young and virile Ted, to run for help.
Instead, he stumbled back to his hotel room, called down to the front desk to complain about noisy guests, and went to sleep.
Chappaquiddick: Never forget.
If that sounds overly dramatic, consider this: The screenwriters of last year’s excellent film of the same name said they had never heard of it — any of it — until 2008.
“I only found out about it five years ago,” said writer/producer Andrew Logan, “because the Texas public school system does not teach things like Chappaquiddick.” Up till then, Logan said, Ted Kennedy had been among his heroes.
How many other school systems don’t teach Chappaquiddick?
Jim Treacher’s evergreen tweet about journalism also applies equally well to the education system:
And as Treacher wrote on Friday: After 50 Years, the Press Is Still Whitewashing Chappaquiddick.
IT’S LIKE THE WHOLE THING IS A RACKET: A new study finds that universities have made little progress on faculty diversity despite pouring more money into inclusivity initiatives.
FLASHBACK 2001: Before Donald Trump The Left Accused Conservatives of Being “racist,” “homophobe,” “sexist,” “mean-spirited,” “insensitive” and much more.
Related:Years Before Trump Ran, Democrats Labeled Republicans As Sub-Human Haters.
The above two links only go back to 2001 through 2017, but FDR was retroactively insinuating that Calvin Coolidge was a Nazi in 1944, and Walter Cronkite was doing the same to Barry Goldwater 20 years later. A lie repeated for a three-quarters of a century by the side of the aisle that controls the culture just might gain a bit of traction eventually…
NOW OUT FROM FRANK J. FLEMING: Hellbender.
HAS ANYONE ASKED TOM FRIEDMAN FOR COMMENT? How China Turned a City Into a Prison.
TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY: Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach In Its History.’
Or maybe it’s a fake hack, and what comes out will be disinformation.
FROM 2009, TOM WOLFE ON APOLLO 11 AT 40: “One Giant Leap to Nowhere.”
How could such a thing happen? In hindsight, the answer is obvious. NASA had neglected to recruit a corps of philosophers.
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Kennedy made his famous oration before Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.” He neglected to mention Dryden.
INTUITIVELY, not consciously, Kennedy had chosen another form of military contest, an oddly ancient and archaic one. It was called “single combat.”
The best known of all single combats was David versus Goliath. Before opposing armies clashed in all-out combat, each would send forth its “champion,” and the two would fight to the death, usually with swords. The victor would cut off the head of the loser and brandish it aloft by its hair.
The deadly duel didn’t take the place of the all-out battle. It was regarded as a sign of which way the gods were leaning. The two armies then had it out on the battlefield … unless one army fled in terror upon seeing its champion slaughtered. There you have the Philistines when Little David killed their giant, Goliath … and cut his head off and brandished it aloft by its hair (1 Samuel 17:1-58). They were overcome by a mad desire to be somewhere else. (The Israelites pursued and destroyed them.)
Exit question: “At this point, the mental atmospheres of the rocket-powered space race of the 1960s and the sword-clanking single combat of ancient days became so similar you had to ask: Does the human beast ever really change — or merely his artifacts?”
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
27 YEAR OLDS WHO KNOW NOTHING? WELL, IT’S VOX.
SPREADING ANTISEMITISM: Raskin Salutes Anti-Israel Actor Danny Glover at Rally.