Archive for 2019
November 8, 2019
IT TAKES A LICKIN’ AND KEEPS ON TICKIN’: 1000-HP Dodge Challenger Was Stolen and Crashed but Still Made It to SEMA.
IT IS IN FACT OK TO SAY ‘IT’S OK TO BE WHITE’ ON A PUBLIC CAMPUS. As long as you follow the posting rules! That’s not going to change just because Western Connecticut State University’s president is running around with his hair on fire promising “the severest disciplinary actions, including dismissal as well as possible civil and criminal actions” if a student is found to be the culprit. Also, talk about making the anonymous poster’s point for him (or her)…
THE STORY ADVANCES: Megyn Kelly Interviews Ashley Bianco, CBS News Producer Who Was Fired for Having Access to Amy Robach Tape at ABC. “Note that Bianco denies being the whistleblower. O’Keefe has just published a statement from the whistleblower, who is still anonymous and claims to be still working at ABC.”
TRUMP ON BLOOMBERG: ‘Little Michael … Doesn’t Have the Magic’ But Bad for Biden.
CHARLIE MARTIN: Impeachment, The Mandarinate, and the Praetorian Press.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE EITHER: Whistleblower Lawyer Defends Tweet Celebrating Deep State ‘Coup’ Against Trump.
NED RYUN: Our Elites Don’t See What’s Coming.
As our constitutional republic faces the wrecking balls of the Left and is asked to endure as they smash away at every norm that has made this country great, many Republicans find themselves conveniently absent from the action. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), for example, sure does love himself a TV hit—and I have to tell you, his super-duper “enthusiasms” while on TV almost make me want to believe him when he says he is serious about being effective. But then another day goes by and it’s clear he lacks the stones actually to hold hearings and subpoena the corrupt cabal that has massively abused our surveillance state and law enforcement regime.
Richard Burr (R-N.C.)? Well, he’s been off in “la-la land” for quite some time. At some point, for decency’s sake, he should just give the title of chairman of Senate Intel to Mark Warner (D-Va.) so as actually to reflect reality. One would think confronting injustice and illegal behavior should be pretty standard, common sense sort of stuff. But then again, Swamp Creatures are hardly paragons of truth and justice. So let’s assume until things change that Graham and Burr have zero problem with what has happened over the last few years; heck, they might be implicated in what could be uncovered.
This all leads us to a serious problem that we as a country are facing: we’ve been losing trust in our institutions for quite some time.
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I’M HAPPY TO SEE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUSHING FOR LOWER COST ALTERNATIVES TO NASA’S SENATE SPACE PORK: The White House puts a price on the SLS rocket—and it’s a lot. “Congress has mandated that NASA use the more costly SLS booster to launch the ambitious Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter in the early 2020s, while the White House prefers the agency to fly on a much-less-expensive commercial rocket. In a section discussing the Clipper mission, Vought’s letter includes a cost estimate to build and fly a single SLS rocket in a given year—more than $2 billion—which NASA has not previously specified. . . . Independent estimates have pegged the SLS cost this high, but NASA has never admitted it. A $2 billion cost to launch one SLS rocket a year raises significant questions about the sustainability of such an exploration program.”
Did I say Space Pork? Yes, yes I did: “In the end, however, the rocket decision will probably not come down to technical and cost considerations. Politics, rather, will have the final say. And the Senator to whom Vought’s letter was addressed, Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), has championed the SLS rocket for nearly a decade. (The vehicle is designed and managed at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, his home state). So for NASA to get its Europa mission, which the science community generally agrees is a high priority due to the presence of a large water ocean beneath the Moon’s icy surface, taxpayers may have to pay an additional $1.5 billion to placate a powerful policymaker.”
FASTER, PLEASE, I’M NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER: Scientists successfully create age-resistant mice with hyper-long telomeres. “The mice live for longer and in better health than would be expected for their species, while also being free from age-related conditions such as cancer and obesity.”
And neither are you.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Feinstein Reunites With Ex-Staffer Who Worked With Fusion GPS On Trump-Russia Investigation.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday Meets the Emotional Support Chicken.
And a bonus column for our VIP members: Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates, and the Politics of Shortsighted Greed.
1984 WAS NOT A HOW-TO MANUAL. AT LEAST IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE. Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past.
I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still satire, before morphing into America’s Paper of Record.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Democrats have decided not so much that Trump committed a crime as that he is a crime; his very existence is criminal.
This is also pretty much true of anyone who voted for him.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Here’s John Deere’s Cropdusting Drone.
REP LEE ZELDIN (R-NY): Yovanovitch “did not accurately answer” under oath about contact with House Dem staffers.
OH: Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis. “Indictment accuses two of passing data about people critical of Saudi royals, government.”
FLASHBACK: Twitter bug potentially exposed DMs to unauthorized developers for over a year.