Archive for 2019
October 6, 2019
“HOW DAIRY YOU:” Farmers — tired of being blamed for climate change — drive tractor convoy to The Hague, causing record-breaking rush hour in the Netherlands. “A plow on the front of one tractor was spray-painted with the words, ‘How dairy you.'”
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Homelessness Isn’t Just a Humanitarian Problem — California activists are undermining their cause by ignoring and stigmatizing legitimate concerns about social disorder.
The compassionate view overwhelmingly dominates press coverage and official statements. It defines the problem and the acceptable ways of discussing it. Consider a New York Times report on President Donald Trump’s trip to the Bay Area last month in which economics reporter Conor Dougherty editorialized:
In that light, local leaders have some real and reasonable doubts about how serious the president is about trying to solve homelessness. And Mr. Trump’s own comments on homelessness did not offer much in the way of reassurance because he seemed less focused on the homeless than their apparent victims, like California’s police officers — “They’re actually sick; they’re going to the hospital” — and property owners: “We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves.”
Most Californians in cities beset by homelessness would never vote for Trump, but he’s voicing their disgust and unease. People who pay their taxes, keep up their homes and consider themselves law-abiding feel besieged and unheard. Whatever empathy they may have had melts away.
California’s self-made woes should be a major theme in Trump’s reelection commercials next year.
I FIND THIS EVOCATIVE. PERHAPS EVEN INDICATIVE OF THE PRESENT SITUATION: PAINTINGS: In the Night.
A LOT OF PEOPLE MADE FUN OF JARED KUSHNER’S DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS, BUT THEY SEEM TO HAVE BORNE FRUIT: Israel and Gulf states working on ‘historic pact’ to end conflict between them.
THEY DON’T GET HUMOR. AND THEY HATE IT. YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL SHALL NOT BE MOCKED, AND ALL THAT. LEFTISM IS A POSITIONAL GOOD. LET’S DEVALUE IT: Virtue Signal: the Game of Social Justice.
AH, YES. HE’S ONE SCREAM AWAY FROM THE FULL HOWARD DEAN: Fits of Rage From Biden: “Focus On The Man”.
THESE AREN’T THE CRAZY YEARS. THESE ARE TREENUTS COPULATING WITH INSECTS YEARS: Peering Through the Looking Glass.
ROLL LEFT AND CAUSE PEOPLE’S BRAIN CELLS TO DIE BY APOPTOSIS RATHER THAN HEAR MORE “WISDOM” FROM YOU: Tripping Up.
BE PREPARED, BUT LET’S HOPE WE NEVER NEED TO REACH FOR THE AMMO BOX: Gun Sales Go Up, Thanks To Democrats.
PROOF THAT MENSA-LEVEL INTELLIGENCE DOESN’T MEAN SOMEONE IS GOOD, OR EVEN SANE: Geena Davis’ Diversity Tech Doomed to Fail, or Worse.
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? WOKESCOLDS OR YOUR REAL LIFE? HBO Delivers Double Dose of Open Borders Propaganda.
THE MEDIA IN FACT KEEPS FORGETTING IT DOES NOT FULLY CONTROL THE NARRATIVE: Sean Davis on Ukraine envoy Volker’s testimony.
BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU PEASANTS TO STARVE IN THE DARK: Castro: We Need to ‘Phase Out’ Nuclear Energy.
THE FACT THEY’RE GETTING ARRESTED IS GOOD, I SUPPOSE: Domestic ISIS Arrests Are on the Rise Again.
HOW MUCH IS CHINA POURING INTO THE US? OR ARE THESE PEOPLE PREY TO THE SAME SORT OF FREE-LANCE FAN-OF-DICTATORSHIPS ENTHUSIASM THAT THEY’VE EXHIBITED FOR THE USSR, CUBA AND EVEN VENEZUELA BEFORE THE ROT BECAME OBVIOUS? Democratic Thought Leader Praises ‘Moral Compunction’ of Red China .
YES. THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: Democrats start astroturfing in GOP districts to whip up support for impeaching Trump.
HAS ROMNEY INVESTED IN CHINA? Trump calls Romney ‘a pompous ass’.
October 5, 2019
HARSH, BUT FAIR.
AT AMAZON, shop the Halloween Store.
WEIRD, THE MORE SOCIETY GIVES WOMEN WHAT FEMINISTS SAY THEY WANT, THE LESS HAPPY WOMEN BECOME: Women are stressed, ‘burning out’ at an alarming rate, new study finds.
VIDEO: Michael Yon writes: “This is normal in Hong Kong now.”
OPEN THREAD: Be excellent to each other.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Grand Rapids man one of the first to receive ‘bionic ear.’