Archive for 2019
August 9, 2019
LIGHTNING IN ARIZONA: Well, five F-35A Lightnings at Luke AFB, Arizona.
WHY ARE TAXPAYER DOLLARS GOING TO PROFESSIONAL RACE-BAITERS? Arizona police slam racial bias training: “Absolute worst training I’ve ever had.”
Besides, the science says that White police officers are not more likely to shoot minorities.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE, RACIAL INDOCTRINATION EDITION: Teachers in Tennessee district subjected to ‘inappropriate’ seminar on white privilege.
THIS IS THE SAME GERMANY WHICH SHUT DOWN ALL ITS ZERO-CARBON NUCLEAR PLANTS: Germany may introduce ‘meat tax’ to protect the environment.
Currently meat in the country has a reduced tax rate of seven per cent but the Social Democrat party and the Greens are arguing that this should increase to the standard 19 per cent, with additional revenue spent on improving animal welfare.
“I am in favour of abolishing the VAT reduction for meat and earmarking it for more animal welfare,” Friedrich Ostendorf, agricultural policy spokesperson for the Greens told The Local website.
He said it mad “no sense” that meat was taxed at seven per cent while oat milk is taxed at 19 per cent.
It doesn’t make any sense. Isn’t the existence of oat milk punishment enough for those who have to drink it?
REMINDER: A cave on gun-rights could make Trump a one-termer, the way caving on taxes did for George H.W. Bush. Democrats and the media know this, which is why they’re trying to get him to cave.
HMM: Radiation spike reported after rocket engine explosion during Russian missile test. “It came two days after 16,500 people were forced to flee their homes when massive blasts rocked an arms depot in Siberia.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, DISGRACEFUL VULTURES EDITION: WATCH: Oberlin College accused of trying to wait out bakery owner’s cancer death.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep Friday. “Biden’s greatest gift to American conservatives is that his unbridled tongue can’t help but bare the souls of our leftists. They may have the media forever spinning and covering for them, but Joey Scranton can waltz in and unveil their true intentions with the greatest of ease.”
CALIFORNIA GOES TO THE RATS: “Rising homelessness in California has spurred a rodent boom and resurgence of medieval disease. So naturally Democrats in the state Legislature want to ban rat poison.”
(The latest addition to Small Dead Animals’ already voluminous “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, hear my prayer” files.)
LEFTISTS ALWAYS WANT TO CRIMINALIZE THEIR POLITICAL OPPOSITION: Backing the GOP is now a ‘crime.’
GOOD: Gun sales surge fueled by first-timers, mostly for ‘concealed’ pistols. This will do more to address mass shootings than any legislation.
DON’T GET COCKY: Sean Trende: Yes, The GOP Should Worry About Texas.

And from the thread:
And even then, the reader is left to guess at why or how he could have been found removable.
This oblique paragraph is all there is: “Aldaoud had a criminal conviction for disorderly conduct and served 17 months for a home invasion.”
Disorderly conduct is not typically something that makes you removable.
Home invasion, depending on what the home invasion really was (that’s not actually how states categorize this type crime, again, great job, journos), might be. But, again, the reader still can have no idea.
And it’s hard to believe that the failure of immigration journalists to convey the *how* and *why* people could be removed from the U.S. is anything but intentional.
Yes, it’s a sad story. They’re all sad stories. But readers deserve to know how and why individuals get removed.
It’s almost like immigration journalists want their readers to think that removal is at random. Or, even worse, that it’s purposefully sadistic.
This Politico piece almost invites the reader to think he was removed because he’s insulin-dependent. It’s bad journalism.
But it furthers the cause.
BYRON YORK: Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto?
Much discussion was spurred by an article in the New York Times with the headline, “El Paso Shooting Suspect’s Manifesto Echoes Trump’s Language.” The story quoted just 28 words of the nearly 2,400-word manifesto. It noted that Crusius specifically wrote that his views “predate Trump.” And it warned that “linking political speech, however heated, to the specific acts of ruthless mass killers is a fraught exercise.” Nevertheless, the Times declared that even “if Mr. Trump did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.”
Democratic contender Beto O’Rourke, an El Paso native, was much more blunt. “22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism,” O’Rourke tweeted to the president.
So what did Crusius actually write? The Times story did not link to the manifesto, nor did many other media accounts. Most news organizations decided that even though the manifesto is clearly part of the El Paso story, they should not give Crusius the exposure he sought by linking to its full text. So many stories have included just a few snippets from the document. (The Washington Examiner has also decided not to link to the manifesto, but it can be easily found on the internet.)
But since the manifesto has become such an important part of the moment’s political debate, it is worth looking at the whole thing. And the impression one gets after reading the manifesto is quite different than some press accounts.
Shocking, that. I think that it’s unprofessional to simultaneously not link to the manifesto to deny it attention — and then talk about the manifesto a lot, especially in a misleading way. But then, “unprofessional” is what journalism is all about these days.
TITLE IX: The Revolt of the Feminist Law Profs. “The sex bureaucracy, in other words, pivoted from punishing sexual violence to imposing a normative vision of ideal sex, to which students are held administratively accountable.”
Fire the sex bureaucrats.
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