ATTITUDE PROBLEMS: The way Americans think about blue-collar manufacturing work is a bigger threat than robots. “People view these jobs as welders or mechanics as the consolation jobs of our society. These jobs are not a consolation prize.”

Plus:

He said that for many Americans, the view of manufacturing that persists comes from 19th-century novels about industrialization. “What we need to do is convince people that when they enlist in a factory or garage … it is not dark, dumb and dirty, but bright and smart and you have to be pretty capable to work there.”

Indeed.

MILLENNIAL HORRIFIED AS OLD AGE FILTER SHOWS HIM LIVING ON HIS OWN, WORKING STEADY JOB.

Note to Snopes: This is the Babylon Bee, so it’s satire. (Or is it?)

INSURANCE FRAUD:

This is one of the craziest Twitter threads I’ve ever seen, and it’s the true story of how “Dr. Dave” bilked insurers out of millions… as a personal fitness trainer.

FLASHBACK: Perhaps we should require reading “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” in journalism schools.. “No one is listening anymore. When mild-mannered technocrat Mitt Romney was running for president, Clinton’s obscure Obama-administration colleague Joe Biden told a black audience that Republicans ‘are going to put ya’ll back in chains.’ If you listen to Democrats, every Republican who has run for anything in my lifetime has Klan robes in their closet and secret Confederate memorabilia collection.”

BOOK REVIEW: The 12 Lessons of ‘Guns and Self-Defense’ by Robert A. Waters.

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Ted Cruz Asks U.S. to Designate Antifa a Terrorist Organization.

Related: CNN Host Palled Around with, Promoted ICE Firebomber’s Antifa Group.

United Shades host W. Kamau Bell spent the May 5 edition of his show “hanging out” (his words) with a number of Antifa groups, including the JBGC, whom he dubbed the “good guy[s].” Quillette journalist Andy Ngo (who himself was recently hospitalized by a mob of Antifa members) discovered on Sunday that the man who attempted to burn down a Tacoma detention center was even visible on-screen in CNN’s trailer for the episode.

A week after the episode aired, Bell had not yet tired of praising the JBGC and “the good work they are doing,” even going so far as to encourage his viewers to “do what you can to support them.”

This is CNN.

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OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Trump Supporter Stripped of Miss Michigan Title for Hijab Tweet.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study: Top, bottom blood pressure numbers each predict cardiovascular risk.

IT’S COME TO THIS: French judge rules Jewish woman’s Muslim killer not responsible because he smoked weed.

Earlier: Judenrein Europe: For millennia Europe was the center of diaspora life but as Jews continue fleeing the continent, by the end of this century all that’s left will be a Jewish graveyard.

#JOURNALISM: A Poster Boy for the Long-Sentenced, Non-Violent Drug Offender? “The government’s evidence at trial showed that from the 1970’s until his arrest in late 1988, Underwood supervised and controlled an extensive and extremely violent narcotics trafficking operation involving a number of murders and conspiracies to murder, a highly organized network for the street-level distribution of heroin and the importation of large quantities of heroin from Europe to the United States. The government presented the testimony of more than 50 witnesses, including a number of former members of Underwood’s street-level distribution organization, and introduced more than 250 exhibits.”

Plus:

So let’s compare what we know (and NBC could have known with minimal effort) with Ms. Caldwell’s description of the case: ” a nonviolent drug-related crime … his first felony ….”

“Nonviolent”? The racketeering and continuing criminal enterprise crimes are not inherently violent or nonviolent. They could be either, depending on the predicate acts. The court of appeals says the operation was “extremely violent.” False.

“Drug-related”? Yes, but so what? His drug offenses were accompanied by violent offenses. Calling the convictions “drug-related” in conjunction with the false “nonviolent” gives the reader a very wrong impression. Literally true but misleading in context.

“A … crime”? Singular. He was convicted of multiple crimes. False.

“His first felony”? The singular again is false. “First felon[ies]” would be literally true if it referred to his first felony convictions and completely false if it referred to the first felonies he committed. The predicate acts establish a long string of felonies. Ambiguous, with the false meaning being the one the viewer is most likely to take.

“But in the middle of the tough-on-crime era, the judge showed no leniency”? Given the judge’s finding of fact that Underwood’s continuing crimes extended past the Guideline’s effective date, the life sentence was mandatory under the then-binding Guidelines. The implication that the judge had discretion under the law but chose not to use it because of the “tough-on-crime” zeitgeist is false.

To call this shoddy journalism would be an understatement. What will NBC and its affiliate MSNBC do? Issue a retraction and apology? Pull the segment off the website? Fire the reporter? All of the above? None of the above?

How did a story like this ever get through? Once upon a time editors were supposed to catch sloppy work like this. Are there any Perry Whites left in American journalism? Now confirmation bias runs the show. If the story fits the approved narrative, fact-checking is optional.

Remember, Perry White was a fictional character, like Superman.

FIFTY YEARS OF WHITEWASHING FOR TED KENNEDY, AND NO SIGN OF STOPPING:

LIFE IN THE “PROGRESSIVE” AGE:

FLASHBACK: Nuclear rockets could open up solar system and help settle space. And NASA is interested.

BILL GERTZ: China Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Tests a Signal to US, World.

The four-star admiral noted that Wei, the Chinese defense minister, spoke at a security conference in Singapore in early June in remarks he described as “quite chilling.”

“Not only did [Wei] make it clear that he didn’t think Asia and the Western Pacific was any place for America, he said Asia wasn’t even for Asians—it was for the Chinese,” Davidson said.

“Within 24 hours of that they tested a new nuclear ballistic missile, not in nuclear mode necessarily.”

The admiral was referring to China’s test of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile known as the JL-3

Then on July 8, Wei spoke to a forum of defense ministers from Latin America and Pacific island nations in China and admitted that China’s global development program known as Belt and Road Initiative was indeed a basis for future military expansion.

Chinese officials previously insisted there was no military component to the multitrillion-dollar initiative.

And who believed that?

WAIT, WHAT? Stun Gun Used Offensively Charged as Deadly Weapon.

NEW YORK’S OTHER NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Democratic socialist Julia Salazar dipped into massive trust fund during campaign.

A working class hero is something to be pose as.

SHOULDN’T HE ALSO APOLOGIZE TO TRUMP? Lin-Manuel Miranda joins rally against Puerto Rico governor. “A leaked series of chat messages has compounded outrage over corruption. The messages show the governor and key aides mocking women, the disabled and Hurricane Maria victims. Miranda said the alleged corruption surrounding the governor of the U.S. territory ‘is the last straw and Puerto Ricans are standing up against it.”

When Trump pointed out the corruption and ineptitude of the Puerto Rican leadership, people called him racist.

IT ISN’T A SUPERCAR FOR THE MASSES, BUT IT’S VERY CLOSE: The Mid-Engined 2020 Chevy Corvette Is Here.

PREPPING FOR CYBERATTACKS: Field artillery back to emphasizing ‘charts and darts.’

With the growing threat of cyberattacks, the U.S. Army Field Artillery School has placed a renewed emphasis on learning manual methods of fire direction and gunnery.

“Bringing back the charts is a big deal,” said Staff Sgt. Chad Payne, an instructor for the 13J fire control specialist course. “If you don’t understand the chart, you won’t actually understand what the automated system is doing for you.”

About a decade ago, the school began reducing its emphasis on teaching manual methods, said Col. Samuel Saine, assistant commandant. That’s because improvements to the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System enabled AFATADS to be used effectively in all situations, he said, and it dramatically sped up the firing process.

Then electronic warfare in Crimea and Ukraine shut systems down there, and at the same time, cyberattacks began disabling automation systems at civilian firms. These attacks “woke some people up,” Saine said.

Over the past year, the Field Artillery School commandant has made it a priority to reinsert manual or degraded operations back into the program of instruction for all courses, Saine said.

The Navy’s back to teaching sextant navigation, too. Smart.

Plus, a benefit: “What we found along the way is that we actually were increasing the proficiency of our Soldiers and our leaders. . . because it helped them understand to a higher degree how everything worked together.”

IT’S DEAD, JIM: Trump Administration & Pelosi Negotiate $2 Trillion Budget Deal Over the Corpse of Fiscal Conservatism. “Trump’s proposal to cap some domestic spending was DOA in the Democrat-held House, and there’s a deadline coming to raise the debt ceiling or risk default — a chance Mnuchin reportedly doesn’t want to take. Pelosi on the other hand isn’t afraid to play chicken with the debt ceiling. When Republicans hold the House and the there’s a government shutdown, that’s the Republicans’ fault. When Democrats hold the House and there’s a government shutdown, that’s the Republicans’ fault, too. You can thank the Democrat-Media Complex for this impossible situation.”

Much more at the link.

THIS IS HOW THEY TOOK OVER PORTLAND: John Glynn, writing at The American Thinker, lays out the process by which the “City of Roses” (which also used to have a great Indy car race) became Antifa’s favorite American city. Coming soon to your city?

JAMES LILEKS ON THE PASSING OF HIS FATHER AT AGE 93:

The Funeral the next day was —

Is there any word that can possibly rise to the moment? Perhaps it’s enough to say the Funeral was, and leave it at that.

Except no, it’s not enough.

Read the whole thing.