IN CANADA AS IN AMERICA: This isn’t about gun control. Be honest, it’s disdain for guns and gun owners. “New Liberal changes will disarm law-abiding, non-violent Canadians. That’s the goal. It always has been.”
Archive for 2019
December 23, 2019
MEMORIUM: Technology That Died in 2019.
Among the dead: iTunes for Mac, which will not be missed.
The new Music app which replaced the music part of iTunes is an imperfect improvement, but the TV app is just awful.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: New York is safe, the crime stats say. So why doesn’t it feel that way?
—Karol Markowicz, the New York Post, December 1st, 2019.
● Chaser: Accused Yeshiva University arsonist busted again after being set free.
—The Post, yesterday.
MORE CAMPUS SEPARATISM, MORE SPECIAL STEM PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN AND/OR RACIAL MINORITIES: Of course, it remains true that the easiest way to increase the number of African Americans and Hispanics in STEM is for colleges and universities to eschew race-preferential admissions policies. Sorry to sound like a broken record on this, but it’s easy peasy.
WELL, OKAY THEN: IBM Reveals “Staggering” New Battery Tech, Withholds Technical Details. Hope it pans out, but it would be better with details.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT: Saudi Sentences Five to Death, Three to Jail Over Khashoggi Murder.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Jews on Twitter not impressed with Rashida Tlaib’s Hanukkah greeting.
It seems like the overarching theme of Hanukkah went over Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s head. The Congresswoman from Michigan released an early Hanukkah greeting to the far-left Jewish group IfNotNow ahead of their holiday party and, in doing so, invoked the “occupation” in Palestine.
In the video, she wishes an early happy Hanukkah to the organization’s chapter in Detroit.
“You give me life,” she gushed from her office in Washington DC. “Your 2020 platform calling for every public official to commit to defunding the occupation in Falistine and fighting anti-Semitism and white nationalism is one that I can support very strongly.”
She said the group can consider her as their “partner” in Congress as well as in Michigan’s 13th district that she represents.
Naturally, Jews on Twitter took issue with her politicizing Hanukkah and glossing over the fact Hanukkah that it is a holiday that celebrates Jewish nationalism.
“She really missed the theme of Hanukkah,” one person noted.
“Unexpectedly,” as they say at Michael Bloomberg’s publication.
I WOULD NOT FEEL SO ALL ALONE: 12 million people drove while stoned in 2018.
LAWRENCE PERSON: Wokeness vs. The Working Class. “The hard left has made it clear that they despise, absolutely despise members of the working class, or even anyone without a college degree. They especially hate that ordinary people resist their Social Justice Warrior ‘wokeness,’ and refuse to let transsexual madness and victimhood identity politics get shoved down their throats. The woke can’t hide their naked contempt for those inbred redneck freaks of JesusLand, even when it costs them elections. And their self-imposed reality bubbles prevent them from realizing just how unpopular and distasteful their attitudes and policies have become to ordinary people.”
SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE:
INSUFFICIENT PERCEIVED VALUE: Dues-Paying Membership In Teachers Union Has Collapsed Since Right-To-Work. “Under right-to-work, employees in workplaces organized by a union – including people in most government and school jobs – can no longer be compelled to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment.”
AT AMAZON, save on Bras for Women.
ROGER SIMON: William Barr Is Justified in Calling out George Soros.
SOLIDARITY: Hong Kong Protestors March for Oppressed Uighurs. “The crackdown is aided by what might be the world’s most omnipresent, high-tech surveillance system, which is cruelly ironic when you consider that Xingjiang has long been China’s least-developed region. It’s like the Uighurs went from peasant-farming and goat-herding to something out of Brave New World virtually overnight.”
LAUNCHING IN THE PACIFIC: Vapor ahoy. An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Photo snapped December 12 in the eastern Pacific. Meanwhile, back in New Mexico: A U.S, Army 1st Armored Division M109A6 Paladin responds to a call for fire. The self-propelled howitzer is participating in a Joint Strike Fighter Integration exercise. The exercise series tests multiple communications links between a U.S. Air Force aircraft and a U.S. Army artillery. What the DOD caption implies but doesn’t say is this. The Army and Air Force have been using USAF stealth platforms (think F-35A) to spot targets for Army artillery (tube and rocket/missile artillery, like the GMLRS. the GPS guided MLRS, multiple launch rocket system). Same trick the USMC is doing with its F-35Bs and GMLRS rockets. Here’s a background post on the tactics that Jim Dunnigan wrote in late 2018.
MICHAEL GOODWIN: Donald Trump’s ‘they’re after you’ tweet says it all.
Critics regard it as fear-mongering, and there is no denying that the president wanted to rally his base, lest it be discouraged by the day’s events.
Yet Trump’s oblique reference to a weaponized and powerful adversary is hardly unfounded, with a partisan, flimsy impeachment the latest example. The tweet’s siren call to believers is a shorthand way of saying that impeachment is just a continuation of the endless attacks against us.
Indeed, his presidency effectively begins with a prophecy of those attacks, one that came 17 days before Trump took the oath.
“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said on MSNBC.
It was an incredible thing to say in a nation where the people are supposedly sovereign, but soon it would become clear that Schumer knew what he was talking about, which still raises questions.
Indeed.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law prof: Justice Anthony Kennedy advanced ‘white nationalist’ agenda on Supreme Court.
On the other hand, I saw this example of White Supremacist imagery out in public on the streets of Manhattan this weekend, so maybe the rot has gone even deeper than we know.
ALL THE (PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA’S) PRESIDENT’S MEN: Report: Communist China Paid Millions to WAPO and NYT to Publish ‘Cleverly Disguised’ Chinese Propaganda Articles.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Conservative student group alleges smear campaign by college employee.
