THEY NEVER LEARNED ABOUT LENIN, CAPITALISTS AND THE ROPE: Officials with the federal Thrift Savings Board said no to the request from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) that they not invest upwards of $50 billion saved by members of the U.S. military and civil service in Chinese firms supplying the People’s Liberation Army. The senators are not happy.
LONG KNIVES COME OUT ON THE LEFT FOR DEVAL PATRICK: “In 2014 Deval Patrick fired leaders of his state’s Sex Offender Registry for trying to force his brother in law to register due to being convicted of rape in California in 1993. In 2019, that same rapist was sentenced to 6 years for another rape…But Patrick didn’t want his family member to register as a sex offender. It was a ‘family matter’, and thus only ‘marital’ rape. Deval fired the head of the state bureau who tried to require registration. 10 years before the rapist’s latest conviction.”
TRIGGERING THE LEFT MIGHT BE THE ONE GOOD REASON FOR A ‘FRIENDS’ REUNION: Rumors of a ‘Friends’ Reunion Triggers the Left, Which Demands More Diversity.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: With Few New Drugs To Treat Antibiotic Resistance, How Best To Deploy Them?
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SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Older bike riders see increase in injuries, study says. My own observation is that the older they are, the more spandex they wear and the more aggressively rude their riding.
THE CHINA SYNDROME: U.S. manufacturing group hacked by China as trade talks intensified.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!”
The new hotness? “Was it over when the Japanese bombed Michigan?!” How the Japanese bombed Michigan during World War II:
November marks the 75th anniversary of the start of an unusual, mostly unknown chapter of World War II — Operation Fu-Go, the Japanese launching of more than 9,300 large, bomb-laden, hydrogen balloons, carried east across the Pacific Ocean by the jet stream at high altitudes to cause destruction and chaos in the U.S. and Canada.
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[M]orale among Japanese citizenry had taken a blow following the Doolittle Raid, a surprise attack on Tokyo on April 18, 1942, by long-range U.S. bombers. While the raid itself inflicted little damage, it humiliated Imperial Japan and its military, said Michael Unsworth, a retired history librarian at Michigan State University who has written and lectured on the balloon bombs.
“They felt honor-bound to retaliate,” he said.
But the Japanese had no similar long-range capabilities — particularly after the significant losses their Pacific fleet had taken in the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
That’s when Japanese strategists and researchers hit upon using the jet stream, a west-to-east air current in the upper atmosphere only discovered by a Japanese researcher, Wasaburo Oishi, in the mid-1920s. His research didn’t receive extensive international attention because he published it in Esperanto, a dialect invented in the 1880s in an attempt to create a uniform international language.
Read the whole thing.
“OH, GROW UP” WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT TRIGGER WARNING: Disney Plus Issues Stupid Wokeness Warning About Old Movies.
THE OLD MACBOOK PRO WAS KIND OF A DOG: Apple introduces a redesigned, thicker MacBook Pro.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Impeachment “is not just about something that has occurred, this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told CNN yesterday.
Or as Texas Rep. Chip Roy responds, “So – wait – who is it that is using the power of government for political purposes?”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN Have Corporate Parents; What Will They Do About Cover-up of Epstein Story?
What they’ve always done with stories that involve the intersection of the DNC and the MSM: bury it for as a long possible, and if it ever resurfaces again, dub it “old news” and/or a crazy Fox News conservative conspiracy. See also: frequent appearances by “journalistic elder statesman” Dan Rather in recent years on CNN and MSNBC.
Evergreen:
I WISH THE VACCINE WORKED BETTER: Early part of flu season ‘not as scary’ as feared, but CDC urges vaccinations.
TO BE FAIR, LANCET WENT FULL WOKE A LONG TIME AGO: The ‘Woke’ Lancet Asks If It’s Acceptable To Have Children.
DO YOU FEEL IN CHARGE HERE? Bain Of Their Existence? Deval Patrick Officially Enters The Race; Update: Resigned From Bain Capital Yesterday.
Speaking of closing off paths to the American dream, let’s not forget that Patrick famously retreated from politics into the so-called “vulture capitalism” of Bain Capital. Bain operates in part by dismantling troubled firms and leveraging their most valuable assets, a normal capital function but one that Patrick’s fellow Democrats demonized when Mitt Romney ran for president. It’s a process that necessary closes jobs in the short run, although one can also argue that proper use of those valuable assets means more and better jobs in the long run.
Will Democrats forgive that? Early signs point to no:
Read the whole thing for some echos of Mitt Romney’s demonization by the left in 2012.
I TAKE IT THAT MEANS GOOGLE CAN GET MORE VALUE OUT OF YOUR DATA FOR THEMSELVES: Google will offer checking accounts, says it won’t sell the data.
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