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July 8, 2019
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT? Ruth Bader Ginsburg Encased In Carbonite Until Next Court Session.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Americans must choose alternatives to government-managed schools for their children.
FALLOUT: Boeing Loses MAX Deal to Airbus. “Saudi airline says it will buy up to 50 Airbus jets, worth more than $5.5 billion.”
Saudi Arabia’s flyadeal Sunday said it would buy up to 50 Airbus A320neo planes, the direct rival to Boeing’s MAX that has been idled globally in the wake of two crashes within less than five months.
The deal between the discount arm of flag carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines Corp., or Saudia, has a value of more than $5.5 billion, based on Airbus list prices that don’t include industry-standard discounts.
The airline, which was launched in September 2017 using Airbus A320 single-aisle planes, last December made a commitment to buy the MAX.
Ouch.
It was unclear exactly to whom Pelosi was referring, but Epstein has long been connected with high-profile figures, including Britain’s Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton. Court documents obtained by Fox News in 2016 showed that Clinton took at least 26 trips flying aboard Epstein’s private jet, known as the “Lolita Express,” and apparently ditched his Secret Service detail on some of the excursions. Records showed that President Trump may have flown on the jet at least once.
The president previously called attention to Clinton’s dealings with the financier.
“Nice guy — uh, got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island, with Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in 2015, referring to Clinton’s connections with Epstein. “A lot of problems.”
Meanwhile, Trump biographer Tim O’Brien this weekend reposted an excerpt fom a 2002 profile of Epstein in New York Magazine, in which Trump told a reporter, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
However, Trump’s legal team more recently has denied the two were friends.
Veteran actress Ellen Barkin shoots herself in the foot attempting to dunk on Trump: You said nothing?! Ellen Barkin reminds everyone how gross Hollywood really is in ‘confession’ about Epstein’s girlfriend.
As Kyle Smith wrote in November, “Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang.”
Earlier: “Graydon Carter has some ‘splainin’ to do.”
ROMY-AND-MICHELLE THE HELL OUT OF THAT REUNION: Going to a College Reunion? Might I Suggest a Big-Ass RV.
MESSAGE: “THEY ‘CARE’.” All 2020 Senate Dems Absent for Vote to Send Humanitarian Relief to Border.
WELL, LET’S HEAR IT NOW, TO BE SURE THE HISTORICAL RECORD IS COMPLETE: Trump team held back dirt on Kavanaugh accuser, new book says. “The book describes a central conundrum for the judge and his advocates, which is that the team ‘understood that any criticism of Ford would be treated as a smear’ and depicted as ‘victim shaming.'”
She wasn’t a victim. She was a perpetrator.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Diversity’s Worst Failure–the Faculty.
Well, yeah, although Antifa looks pretty lily-white.
LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express and the art of unequal justice: The nexus of power, money, and influence is why this scandal is likely to widen. But back when the elites had more power, scandals like this wouldn’t have come out at all. The increasing number of scandals involving the formerly untouchable probably means that elites are weaker, rather than dirtier, than decades ago.
WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Yes, There Is A Soccer Pay Gap: The Women Make More Than The Men Do. “Last year, the men’s World Cup generated $6 billion, and gave about 7 percent to the teams. The 2019 Women’s World Cup made $131 million, and gave out more than 20 percent to the teams.”
Plus: “When Dems discuss social problems, it’s largely a performative dance focused not on addressing those problems but using those problems to validate their own social status.”
OH: Top Carranza executives ditched their residential zones for ‘whiter’ schools.
After moving from Boston to Bay Ridge in August 2015, Cheryl Watson-Harris, the current first deputy chancellor, did not enroll her youngest child in PS 170, Ralph A. Fabrizio, the elementary school for which her home was zoned.
Instead, she wrangled her son into PS 185.
PS 170 largely serves immigrant children. Its 1,000-student body is 24 percent white and 58 percent Asian, with 32 percent of students learning English. In contrast, PS 185’s 650-student body is 68 percent white — the kind of school Carranza would blast as “segregated.” Only 7 percent are English language learners.
The Department of Education initially claimed Watson-Harris’ home was zoned for PS 185, but after The Post learned her address at the time, the department admitted the boy’s zoned school was PS 170.
The DOE granted Watson-Harris a “child-care hardship waiver” to let him attend PS 185, officials said.
Hardship?
DUKE NUKEM BOMBS OUT: “Eric Swalwell is ending his presidential bid, becoming the first of the nearly two dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls to exit the race.”
UPDATE: “As God is my witness, I thought ‘Nuke Oklahoma’ was a winning campaign issue.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN LEFTIST TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY: “I gave my friend an ultimatum… When asked to choose between a hat that embodies that evil and someone she’s known half her life, she chose the hat.”
Two guesses as to the four words on the red hat.
THAT SHOULDN’T MATTER, SINCE THEY TOLD US IT WAS ALL ABOUT SAFETY, RIGHT? Cities to lose traffic camera revenue as law takes effect.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Joe Biden and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week. “It took a week of getting slagged in the press, a week where Biden couldn’t talk about much else, before he finally admitted defeat and made a major apology speech. That’s a week of lost campaigning, topped off with the embarrassment of caving to his competitor. For Biden then to have Harris partly reject his apology adds even more embarrassment.”
Of course, it’s only after publishing this piece that I remembered Biden doesn’t seem to be very capable of embarrassment.
ROGER SIMON: Build the Wall to Save Central America.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: In Democrats’ war on Donald Trump, ‘stupid’ economy still stubbornly good.
From the Associated Press:
The power-sharing agreement reached between Sudan’s military and pro-democracy protesters last week came after the United States and its Arab allies applied intense pressure on both sides amid fears a prolonged crisis could tip the country into civil war, activists and officials said.
The agreement, which raised hopes of a democratic transition following the military overthrow of long-ruling autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April, was announced days after the protesters held mass marches through Khartoum and other areas.
But those familiar with the negotiations say the main breakthrough happened at a secret meeting the day before the protests, when diplomats from the U.S., Britain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pressed the two sides to accept proposals from the African Union and Ethiopia.
More:
Two leading activists, a Sudanese military official and two Egyptian officials described intense U.S. efforts to force a deal after veteran diplomat Donald Booth was appointed special envoy in mid-June. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the talks.
State Department officials declined to comment on U.S. efforts to broker the deal, saying only that Washington welcomes the agreement and commends the AU and Ethiopia for their mediation efforts.
Sounds like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his State Department deserve some kudos.
This new power transition agreement is a positive, but the situation in Sudan is extremely complicated and dangerous. For good reason many Sudanese are very suspicious of the Sudanese military.
Here’s StrategyPage’s latest Sudan update which provides context and useful background information.