Archive for 2019

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: “Part of me thinks that you and your colleagues at The Daily Wire should try to get jobs at The New York Times. If you don’t like the coverage, try to be part of the solution as opposed to complaining about it.”

CNN’s Brian Stelter to the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, as quoted in a Daily Wire article dated March 19, 2018.

● Chaser: CNN drops Politico reporter as contributor after she’s named editor of conservative news site.

—Hot Air, yesterday.

IN THE EMAIL, FROM MY FRIEND JL CURTIS:  The Grey Man- Down South.

After too much action, too much peace gets on a man’s nerves. John Cronin’s back from Vietnam and bored, when Billy Moore suggests he check out the brand new Drug Enforcement Agency. He’d expected paperwork and meetings; he got on-the-job training in South America with stakeouts gone wrong and ambushes exploding into firefights.

This isn’t Cronin’s first rodeo, and now he’s taking the fight to the cartels, from the laboratories hidden deep in the highland jungles to the enforcers in the cities and secure compounds!

HMM: Why Are Marriage Rates Down? Study Blames Lack Of ‘Economically-Attractive’ Men. “Researchers found that these estimated potential ‘dream’ husbands had an average income about 58% higher than the actual unmarried men currently available to unmarried women.”

Well, with the obesity epidemic, there’s also a shortage of ‘physically-attractive’ women, but I guess it would be sexist to mention that.

IN FACT LET’S AGREE THAT PAUL EHRLICH HAS NEVER GOTTEN ONE THING RIGHT IN HIS LIFE, AND JUST GET RID OF ALL THESE CRAZY REGULATIONS:  Making Dishwashers Great Again .

THIS IS INDEED THE THEME OF DEMOCRATS SOCIALISTS COMMUNISTS 2020.  SAME AS EVER:  Die Young, Stupid Peasants!

BLUE ON BLUE: ‘You need to ask first’: Iowa teacher blasts Biden for grabbing her hands when she asked him a question.

Flashback: Biden Reaps the #MeToo Whirlwind: ‘It’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent,’ he told college men in 2011.

While speaking to students at the University of New Hampshire in 2011, then-Vice President Joe Biden told men in the audience that “no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink—it’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent.”

One of Mr. Biden’s signature issues during the Obama administration was fighting an alleged epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. He promoted the debunked claim that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted as undergraduates—the result of surveys using an impossibly broad definition of sexual assault that encompassed any conduct that, knowingly or not, made someone uncomfortable.

The Obama administration issued guidelines to campuses in 2011 to combat the alleged crisis. Mr. Biden headlined the announcement. The guidance traduced due-process rights for students accused of sexual assault and threatened colleges and universities with federal investigations and potential funding reductions if they did not find more accused students and professors guilty.

Now those impossible standards are being applied to their proponents. Since last Friday, several women have accused Mr. Biden of making them uncomfortable during his interactions with them. One accuser, Caitlyn Caruso, told the New York Times that during an event about sexual assault at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Mr. Biden put his hand on her thigh and didn’t remove it even when she showed discomfort by shifting in her seat. She also said he hugged her “just a little bit too long.” . . .

When accused himself, Mr. Biden naturally fell back on all the arguments that are often dismissed when made by college men. He said it was never his “intention” to make women uncomfortable. He also acknowledged that “social norms have begun to change” without acknowledging that he helped lead the change—and hasn’t lived up to the standards he sought to impose on others.

The standards are stupid, but you know what Alinsky said about rulebooks.