Archive for 2019

SUDDENLY THE NYT IS PRESENTING THE LEFT WITH HARSH TRUTHS: How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion. “The Democratic Party has rejected the message that drove its politics since President Bill Clinton’s administration — that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare’ — and embraced abortion rights with few stipulations. Every leading Democratic presidential candidate has fallen in line.” Abortion has gone from an ugly necessity to something more like a sacrament. Shocking that this message isn’t resonating everywhere.

WHEN BOYS ARE VICTIMS OF BIGOTRY:

Take, for example, the word “behave” as it’s often used in schools. For decades, we’ve been telling boys in classrooms that they should “behave” properly: sit still and be quiet behavior that’s strongly associated with girls. Unfortunately, that’s not the way boys learn best. Boys get the message that girls’ behavior is “right,” and that there’s something wrong with boys’ behavior. Parents are told that their sons have ADHD, and they rush out to find a doctor who will confirm that “diagnosis.” As a result, way too many boys are unnecessarily drugged.

Indeed.

COLD WAR II: Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship Operating In Americas For Over A Month.

Russia’s controversial intelligence ship Yantar has been operating in the Caribbean, or mid-Atlantic, since October. She is suspected by Western navies of being involved in operations on undersea communications cables. Significantly, she appears to be avoiding broadcasting her position via AIS (Automated Identification System).

I suspect that going dark on AIS is a deliberate measure to frustrate efforts to analyse her mission. She has briefly used AIS while making port calls, where it would be expected by local authorities, for example while calling at Trinidad on November 8 and again on November 28. However in both cases she disappeared from AIS tracking sites almost as soon as she left port. Based on the exact locations where she disappeared, she likely turned it off. We can see this because other ships, which were much further away, were being picked up by the same AIS station. Another possibility is that her AIS transponder is operating with an unusually low power output. It amounts to the same thing. She also has a satellite AIS system, which we can be sure has been switched off.

With all the tracking turned off, I hope the Navy is providing a fulltime escort, just to keep her safe from a collision.

ELIZABETH WARREN GETS WOKE, GOES POLITICALLY BROKE: The prisoner of intersectionality. There’s a huge, empty, primary-winning niche for a candidate who runs as an old-fashioned Democrat and tells the neurotic upper-middle-class white Twitterati activists to go hang. But there isn’t a single candidate in the Democratic field who has the courage to do it, even though the neurotic white activists are a small fraction of the party.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Texas high school teacher’s aide, 51, who ‘had sex with 16-year-old student in a storage unit and parking lot’ is charged after grandmother found sexts on the boy’s phone.

A 51-year-old Texas high school teacher’s aide has be accused of having sex with a student, then 16, in various locations including a storage unit and the boy’s own home.

Tedria Fluellen, 51, a teaching assistant at Worthing High School in Houston, Texas, was charged with sexual assault of a child under 17, after being accused of having sex with an underage male teenager beginning in 2018. . . . According to court documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle, the student, now 17 years old, told investigators that Fluellen had coerced him into oral sex.

Judging by the pictures, it must have been an oversized unit. And I believe the coercion part.

FROM SAM SCHALL, ON SALE FOR 99c FOR CYBER MONDAY:  Battle Flight: An Honor and Duty Prequel.

Honor and duty. Corps and family. Those values had been drilled into Ashlyn Shaw as long as she could remember.

Long before conspiracies and war threatened her home planet and those she loved, Ashlyn had to prove to herself and others that she had what it took to be a member of Fuercon’s Marine Corps. Along the way, she learned the true meaning of honor, duty and sacrifice.

CALM DOWN. IT’S JUST A REENACTMENT: At the Civil War.

ASIDE FROM A FEW UNFORTUNATE CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS YOU’VE GOT TO ADMIT IT WAS ONE SNAZZY UNIFORM, MUCH SHARPER THAN THE DOWDY PINK & GREENS THE AMERICAN ARMY WORE. ALSO KNOWN AS “DEAR LORD, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?” AND ALSO “THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE FROM FLORIDA!”  German military apologizes over ‘retro’ Nazi uniform post.

IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE THEM THEY’RE NO LONGER IN RUSSIA AND STOP THEM MAKING FOR GREENER PASTURES:   Russian cows get VR goggles.