BREXIT UPDATE: Boris Johnson has 72 hours to win over 12 MPs.
Archive for 2019
October 19, 2019
SOD OFF, SWAMPY! German voters repudiate Greens, retain speed-limit-free autobahns.
MICHAEL YON ON HONG KONG: “Big Protest will start today in about 11 hours. My guess is that violence will unfold today, Sunday. I will be there live-streaming. The latest apparent terrorist attack happened just hours ago when a Chinese mainlander stabbed a pro-democracy Hong Konger who was peacefully handing out fliers about today’s march.”
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Tennessee researchers join call for responsible development of synthetic biology.
HILLARY CLINTON ASKED TO LEAVE COSTCO AFTER REPEATEDLY ACCUSING SAMPLE LADY OF BEING A RUSSIAN ASSET.
I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still a satiric Website, before morphing into America’s Paper of Record.
SO AM I: Congress Is Skeptical That NASA Can Return To The Moon By 2024. Unless they buy a ride from SpaceX. Then probably.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: CA Rep. Katie Hill Allegedly Involved Female Staffer In 2-Yr ‘Throuple’ Relationship.
THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS: SEMA files lawsuit against NHTSA over failure to implement replica car rules.
“Companies have not hired workers, businesses have lost money, and consumers have been denied their rights to purchase replica cars,” SEMA [Specialty Equipment Market Association] President Chris Kersting said in the press release.
Earlier this year, Craig Corbell scuttled his plans to build a Cord replica and put the Cord trademark up for sale in part because of the NHTSA’s [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s] delay. “Until we get all the information from the government, I don’t want to get a long way toward getting stuff made and then have to do something different,” he said.
Former race team owner Charley Strickland hasn’t yet given up on his plans to build a replica Lamborghini Countach – one that’s already designed, prototyped, and ready for production – but said he has lost funding for the project entirely due to the NHTSA’s delays.
“I’ve done the proof of concept, but without further funding it will not exist, and I won’t get the funding as long as people are clueless about the Low Volume act and whether I can build it,” he said. “I’m the only one whose eat, breathed, and lived the Low Volume act for the last three years, and I’m the only one who it’s life or death to.”
Other companies interested in building replica cars under the act have found it difficult to keep suppliers on hold as well. Jim Espey, vice president of the De Lorean Motor Company, noted two years ago that he’d already missed windows for long-lead tooling necessary to begin production of replica DeLoreans. “The supplier said ‘Are you real, or are you jerking us around?’” he said.
It’s possible to buy near-perfect replicas of 1957 Fender Telecasters and Stratocasters, and reissues of vintage German tube microphones from the 1960s. But if you’ve ever wondered why you can’t buy a modern clone of a classic 1957 Chevy Nomad or ‘65 Ford Mustang, read the whole thing.
IN THE MAIL: From Michael Barone, How America’s Political Parties Change (and How They Don’t).
NEWS YOU CAN USE: New report ranks the most dangerous cities to drive in.
WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS: ‘Harvard is a new Puritan sect’: Marching band walks out of its own party because of sexual harassment jokes.
Related: States are cutting university budgets. Taxpayers aren’t interested in funding campus kooks.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Times Square Athleisure Wear Billboard Depicts Trump Getting Hogtied.
It hasn’t even been a week since journos all lost their minds over a dumb Trump meme. They’re still #literallyshaking at the looming threat posed by an amateurishly edited video based on a scene from the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service, which was playing in an empty room in a Trump building when somebody took a cameraphone video of it, and the NYT thought it was important national news. I wonder how they would’ve reacted if that video had been playing on a giant billboard in Times Square?
Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
HEH: Justin Trudeau Met By Protesters In Blackface. “The demonstrators also had signs reading, ‘We’re Aladdin Too! Orillia Blackface Club Welcomes Trudeau.'”
People should start doing this with Ralph Northam, too.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CULTURE OF HATE EDITION: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Leftist student arrested for battery after confrontation with conservative activist.