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December 13, 2019
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Single Woman Who Steals Her Lousy Hookup’s Weed.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Suzanne Venker: Boys Actually Need More Masculinity.
THIS PIECE IS NOT ACTUALLY A PARODY, IT JUST READS LIKE ONE:
After Tuesday’s massacre in Jersey City, New Jersey’s Jews are still in shock, just like the Jews in Pittsburgh last year. When our Shabbat services ended the day of that shooting, I left the sanctuary to be greeted by a fleet of police cars surrounding our synagogue. As I learned what happened 350 miles to the west I thought of Sinclair Lewis’ ironically titled 1935 novel, “It Can’t Happen Here.” What he meant, of course, was it can happen here. And it just did. . . .
And, perhaps, this latest massacre will increase the momentum for the serious and effective gun policies this country so obviously needs.
All of which is well and good. But, If antisemitic incidents are on the rise, we Jews have to figure out what we do next. Then, I thought, who better to ask than a Muslim?
Who, indeed?
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Historian: America’s Homeschooling Mothers Are Leading Our Next Revolution.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
THE NEW YORK TIMES IS STILL DISHONEST, AND WATER IS STILL WET: The New York Times Continues its Dishonest Assault on the Trump Executive Order on Antisemitism.
TRUMP JUST SAID IT: Wait ‘Til There’s a Democrat in White House.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Taylor Swift Says Soros Family Funded Deal to Buy Her Music.
“This just happened to me without my approval, consultation, or consent,” Swift said. “After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital, and that Carlyle Group.”
The House of Stephanopoulos assured me on Wednesday that merely mentioning Soros’ name runs the risk of anti-Semitism; I can’t wait for them to ask Swift what her motives are here.
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YEAH, THAT’S WHAT TURNED ALL THOSE HISTORICALLY LABOUR DISTRICTS IN THE STICKS TORY. ALL THOSE JEWS THAT LIVE THERE: Ken Livingstone says it’s ‘the end’ for Jeremy Corbyn and blames ‘Jewish vote.’
RIP: Danny Aiello, of Do the Right Thing fame, dead at 86.
While Do the Right Thing’s fatally flawed ending (violent looters — led by the character played by Spike Lee — destroying their favorite neighborhood pizza restaurant after a minor character in the film was killed by the police) garnered plenty of controversy for Lee, it was Aiello’s performance that gave the film its heft and made it watchable.
According to IMDB, Aiello “was a bus driver and the president of the Greyhound Bus union in his 30s before he pursued acting,” and quotes him as saying, “I was 40 when I did my first movie. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. My interpretation of acting at the time, because I didn’t know how to build a character, was pure energy. People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now… I love it.”
TAKING SIDES WITH TYRANTS: Scoop: The World Bank told Taiwanese staff to get Chinese passports. “This year, the World Bank told current and prospective employees of Taiwanese nationality they must present Chinese travel documents in order to maintain or pursue employment. Why it matters: China has recently ramped up its campaign to systematically force Taiwan and its citizens out of the international community. But forcing out its own staff in this way violates World Bank employment principles.”
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Someone Is Putting Cowboy Hats on Pigeons in Las Vegas.
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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday: Meet the MAGA-Lambo.
You won’t believe it until you see it with your own eyes.
WELL, JOE SAYS A LOT OF THINGS: Joe Biden warns that Boris Johnson’s victory shows dangers of parties leaning too far left.
“Boris Johnson is winning in a walk,” Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, told attendees of a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco. The prime minister’s Conservative Party captured an overwhelming parliamentary majority in Thursday’s election, taking dozens of seats in Britain’s House of Commons from opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Predicting news headlines reporting the thumping by Johnson’s Tories, Biden said: “Look what happens when the Labour Party moves so, so far to the left. It comes up with ideas that are not able to be contained within a rational basis quickly.”
That’s nice. But back in September, this happened: Joe Biden Just Lost Any Claim to Being a Moderate With His Embrace of the Green New Deal. As Brandon Morse warned at Red State, “At this point, America has two options in 2020. It’s either Donald Trump or socialism. There doesn’t seem to be an option outside of these two.”
COLORADO: Forced wolf introduction debate really about cattle.
The proposed ballot measure forcing introduction of wolves into Western Colorado has touched off another debate pitting ranchers and livestock advocates against proponents (primarily the Sierra Club and a coalition of outside environmental organizations calling themselves the Southern Rockies Wolf Restoration Project.) They argue the supposed benefits, and the dangers, of bringing in wolves. But it seems clear to me that this debate is not about wolves – it is about cattle.
This has almost nothing to do with wildlife. The canine predators are merely the latest tool in a generation-long campaign to stop ranchers from raising cattle, and Americans from eating beef.
Seems plausible. The Left does have a history, when they can’t reduce demand for something they don’t like, of going after the supply.
DO TELL: ‘Alarmist’ vaping bans lack nuance, may do more harm than good: Report. “Traditional cigarettes still kill about 10,000 times as many people annually.” You can tell the media agenda by which risks they magnify and which they minimize.