Archive for 2020
July 12, 2020
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!).
GOOD IDEA: Defeat the radical St. Louis prosecutor, support Mary Pat Carl. “Gardner operates with a handicap. Competent prosecutors don’t want to work for her. Her office has experienced a more than 100 percent turnover in staff since she took office in 2017. More than 65 attorneys with a combined experience of over 460 years in prosecutorial experience have departed during this three-and-half year period. Even some of the attorneys she hand picked have since quit.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Double Standards on View in Outrage at Stone Commutation.
IT WAS A “MOSTLY PEACEFUL” SHOOTING: Young mom, 24, shot dead ‘after telling Black Lives Matter protesters “all lives matter” during argument about movement.’
NYS NURSES ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION AFTER STATE NURSING HOME REPORT.
As Janice Dean of Fox News tweets, “When The NYS Nurses Association calls for independent investigation after seeing [Cuomo’s] nursing home report you know things are serious. God bless them.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Faculty members at some universities are being asked to name a next-of-academic-kin, meaning only the person who will finish their *teaching* if they die from covid mid-semester. Who’s your next-of-academic-kin for research? Who’ll finish your next book for you?”
Luckily, my next book is already in page proofs, and my next article is in page proofs, and the one after it is coauthored. So I’m covered for research.
OPEN THREAD: We’re only tourists in this life.
AT LEAST 21 INJURED AFTER FIRE ERUPTS ON NAVY SHIP: “At least seventeen sailors and four civilians were hospitalized after an explosion erupted during a roaring blaze aboard a military assault ship at Naval Base San Diego Sunday morning, according to Naval Surface Forces. Plumes of smoke arose from USS Bonhomme Richard as firefighters battled the three-alarm blaze on the 3400 block on Senn Street at about 8:30 a.m. The vessel is an amphibious assault ship homeported in San Diego, according to Krishna Jackson of Naval Base San Diego.”
MAN, 30, DIES AFTER ATTENDING A ‘COVID PARTY,’ SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS HOSPITAL SAYS. “Dr. Appleby said the man had told his nurse that he attended a Covid party. Just before he died, she said the patient told his nurse: ‘I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.’”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Think 2020 has been bad? It’s an election year. The worst is yet to come.
HMM: Coronavirus surges linked mostly to protests — and proximity to US-Mexico border. “Protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming … That’s a setup to spread cases.”
White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual – can be given jobs.
A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as ‘more toxic than Chernobyl’, with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.
The first sign came with one of the most powerful black directors in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Jordan Peele – the man behind box office hits such as Get Out and Us – stated in public that he did not want to hire a leading man who was white.
‘I don’t see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie,’ Peele said. ‘Not that I don’t like white dudes. But I’ve seen that movie before.’
As one studio executive responded privately: ‘If a white director said that about hiring a black actor, their career would be over in a heartbeat.’ Few doubt it. . . .
The latest buzzword in Tinseltown is ‘Bipoc’ – an acronym for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour – and ‘Menemy’, which means a white, male enemy of the diversity movement. ‘Everyone wants to be able to check all the boxes for each new hire,’ according to one Oscar-nominated insider.
‘Directors normally have a say about who is in their project. Not any more. It’s all about ‘Bipoc hiring’. And it’s coming directly from the heads of the studios who know their jobs are on the line. White middle-aged men are collateral damage. They are the Menemy.’
When people tell you you’re their enemy, believe them and act accordingly.