Archive for 2019
June 20, 2019
COLLUSION: If Media Don’t Want To Be Called Propagandists, They Need To Stop Publishing Chinese and Russian Propaganda. “The American media’s Trump-Russia hysteria of the last few years gains some real perspective when you consider that they are more than willing to take blood money to distribute publications that whitewash authoritarian crimes.”
Related: China, not Russia, is the biggest threat.
Also Related: While Everyone Is Distracted By Russia, Chinese Spying And Influence Runs Wild.
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YOUR DAILY TREACHER: If Biden Is a Racist, Why Did the Media and Other Dems Let Him Stand Next to Obama for Eight Years?
If Biden is a racist now, why wasn’t he a racist between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017? The gatekeepers didn’t have Google that whole time? Why didn’t they say something back then?
And by the liberal rule of guilt by association, why isn’t Obama a racist for elevating such a racist?
The Biden-free zone went up in the DNC-MSM only a few months after the Wright-Free Zone.
FLORIDA CITY GIVES IN TO $600,000 BITCOIN RANSOMWARE DEMAND. But there’s no guarantee hackers will actually restore Riviera Beach’s systems.
Silly hackers — don’t they know that the really big bucks are to be made in environmental impact studies of removing high school George Washington murals?
HOW CAN WE MISS YOU IF YOU WON’T GO AWAY? Roy Moore will run for the Senate again.
NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON: Cracking down on “Emotional Support Animals.” “Obviously, you want to accommodate people with legitimate requests, but that’s harder to do when you have so many bogus requests.”
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In BigLaw.
SATIRE… OR IS IT? Ocasio-Cortez Gets Head Stuck In Bucket, Journalists Rush To Explain Why It Was Actually A Genius Move. “Most people don’t have her scientific curiosity and intelligence,” said MSNBC pundit Chris Hayes. “Someone incurious like Trump would never look at a bucket and ask ‘Could my head fit inside that?’ But Ocasio-Cortez dives into such questions head first.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Mural of George Washington that ‘traumatizes students’ of George Washington High School in San Francisco to be covered up.
And that cover-up won’t be cheap, no matter what method is chosen:
A high school in San Francisco is considering three options for censoring a mural of George Washington deemed problematic by the local activist community: putting up a curtain (price tag: $300,000), painting over it ($600,000), or hiding it behind panels ($875,000).
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According to National Review‘s James Sutton, most of the students want to keep the mural, or don’t really care one way or another. The controversy is the work of “outside busybodies.” Naturally, it looks like they are going to get their way. The school board is currently deciding between three different plans, all of which involve destroying the mural, or covering it up. A final decision is expected next week, reports The College Fix.
By the way, if you’re wondering why it would cost several hundred thousand dollars to get rid of the mural, here’s your answer: Officials are required to conduct environmental impact reports before they take any action.
It’s important that the memory hole be as carbon-neutral as possible.
Flashback: “Here’s the irony, though. The murals were painted in 1936 by artist Victor Arnautoff, who was a protégé of Diego Rivera and a communist.’ He included those images not to glorify Washington, but rather to provoke a nuanced evaluation of his legacy. The scene with the dead Native American, for instance, calls attention to the price of ‘manifest destiny.’ Arnautoff’s murals also portray the slaves with humanity and the several live Indians as vigorous and manly,’ The Wall Street Journal reported in late April.
As I wrote in May at that last link, Stalin smiles (and so does Mao).
2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON: VACCINE MANDATES ARE ‘ORWELLIAN.’
Related: “As many on Twitter have pointed out, Orwell died at just 46 years old from tuberculosis, which is now preventable by vaccine.”
BLUE ON BLUE: Biden Touts Civility With Segregationists, Dems Slam Him for ‘Praising’ Racists Backed by the KKK.
Biden has been leaning on his “civility,” presumably as some kind of antidote to a voting public tired (they believe) of Trumpism. But civility didn’t work well for the Republicans in 2008 or 2012, and it clearly isn’t a good fit for the social media mobs who make up such a vocal segment of the Democratic base.
Just another reason to think of Biden as “The Evitable Nominee.”
As a Mr. A. Goldfinger would say, “Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”
WINNING: Democrats fear Trump, Republicans are making inroads with Hispanic voters in Florida.
The usual “Don’t get cocky™” disclaimer aside, Trump’s not-so-secret weapon is going after the other side’s base. Reagan was a master at that, too, but every GOP candidate since then has preemptively surrendered yuge blocks of voters.
Maybe that’s a bit unfair to George W. Bush, who did make some plays towards black and Hispanic voters, but not nearly to the degree Trump does — and much less aggressively, too.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: More pregnant women are using marijuana, study finds.
DUKE NUKEM MEANS BUSINESS! Eric Swalwell: If Elected President, I Will Fire Jared Kushner on Day One. “Setting aside the unlikelihood of Swalwell even winning the Democratic nomination and ultimately the presidency, it is unlikely Kushner would be a holdover from the Trump administration to his. For instance, President Trump did not have to fire senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett when he took office; she just left.”
DON’T BE EVIL: Millions of Business Listings on Google Maps Are Fake — and Google Profits.
Google’s ubiquitous internet platform shapes what’s real and what isn’t for more than 2 billion monthly users. Yet Google Maps, triggered by such Google queries as the one Ms. Carter made, is overrun with millions of false business addresses and fake names, according to advertisers, search experts and current and former Google employees.
The ruse lures the unsuspecting to what appear to be Google-suggested local businesses, a costly and dangerous deception.
A man arrived at Ms. Carter’s home in an unmarked van and said he was a company contractor. He wasn’t. After working on the garage door, he asked for $728, nearly twice the cost of previous repairs, Ms. Carter said. He demanded cash or a personal check, but she refused. “I’m at my house by myself with this guy,” she said. “He could have knocked me over dead.”
The repairman had hijacked the name of a legitimate business on Google Maps and listed his own phone number. He returned to Ms. Carter’s home again and again, hounding her for payment of a repair so shoddy it had to be redone.
Three years later, Google still can’t seem to stop the proliferation of fictional business listings and aggressive con artists on its search engine. The scams are profitable for nearly everyone involved, Google included.
I imagine Google hasn’t fixed the problem because their incentive is not to.
