THEY’RE CIRCLING THE WAGONS NOW BECAUSE ORANGEMANBAD, BUT CONCERN OVER INCONSISTENT AND UNFAIR SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP WAS ONCE WIDESPREAD: Columbia Journalism Review, 2016:. BuzzFeed to social platforms: More transparency, please.
Archive for 2020
May 29, 2020
OOPS: Amy Klobuchar declined to prosecute officer at center of George Floyd’s death after previous conduct complaints. And that’s not all:
As The Washington Post noted in March, Klobuchar “declined to bring charges in more than two dozen cases in which people were killed in encounters with police” as Hennepin County attorney. Instead, she “aggressively prosecuted smaller offenses” that “have been criticized for their disproportionate effect on poor and minority communities,” the Post continues. And as Klobuchar undergoes vetting to become a possible vice presidential candidate, that track record is being scrutinized and criticized once again.
This is the norm in Blue cities.
LOOK, I’M BEING REASONABLE HERE. I’M WILLING TO NEGOTIATE. YOU TOOK AWAY PLUTO. YOU HAVE TO GIVE US SOMETHING! OTHERWISE ALL THAT OLD PULP WITH THE FEDERATION OF NINE PLANETS STARTS TO LOOK MIGHTY FUNNY: Many Astronomers Now Think Planet Nine Might Not Exist After All, Here’s Why.
BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T LOOTING, BEATING PEOPLE UNCONSCIOUS, OR SETTING THINGS ON FIRE? MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Gets Schooled After Wondering Why Armed Militiamen Weren’t Treated Like Minneapolis Rioters.
Of course, if your asking about a differential in treatment by the press, there’s a different answer.
CHINA SHOWS ITS TRUE TOTALITARIAN COLORS ON HONG KONG: It was always a fable, Issues & Insights reminds us this morning, the idea that by growing closer in trade with the West, Red China would grow more like us politically. Instead, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) shrewdly and in so many ways took advantage of our abundant naivety to grow their power and resources.
Now, as they move troops into the disputed border area with India (which is, let us not forget, a nuclear power), lawlessly expands its military presence in the South China Sea, clamps steadily tighter its totalitarian grasp on Hong Kong, moves invasion forces nearer Taiwan, and threatens the U.S. in manifold ways, America faces a new Cold War. We can either face this reality or continue blindly with our liberal globalist fables.
ADD IT TO MURDER HORNETS AND INVADING LIZARDS: The Mysterious Anomaly Weakening Earth’s Magnetic Field Seems to Be Splitting.
aka: Ah, 2020, why you treat us like this?
THE CRAVING FOR “REAL” IS A MEASURE OF HOW MUCH PEOPLE KNOW THEY’RE BEING DUPED. THIS DOESN’T END WELL: Be For Real.
IT’S PROBABLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WITHOUT POLITICS IN IT. THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH WRITING EXPLICITLY POLITICAL SF/F. HOWEVER IT IS POSSIBLE AND DESIRABLE TO HAVE POLITICS BE AN ELEMENT OF THE STORY, INSTEAD OF JUST BEATING PEOPLE OVER THE HEAD WITH THEM: The Political Writer.
NO ONE WITH A NORMAL ATTENTION SPAN AND A HEALTHY DISTRUST OF AUTHORITY? Who Believes the Lockdowns Were About Science?
BECAUSE THE “EXPERTS” WEREN’T RIGHT ON ANYTHING IN THIS ENTIRE CLUSTER, MAYBE? Why Were ‘Experts’ So Wrong About Florida?
I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE LIKE SOCIALLY DISTANCING FROM BURGER KING: Burger King debuts giant crowns to encourage social distancing.
I ENDORSE THIS PROPOSAL FOR ALL STATES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WELL: Top-earning public officials should cut pay amid NY’s fiscal crisis.
WON’T ANYBODY THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE UNION JOBS AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS THAT WOULD BE ELIMINATED? Homeschool organization says public schools are blocking parents from withdrawing kids.
I DOUBT ANY QUESTION ASKED IF PEOPLE WOULD STOP RECYCLING IF IT WERE SHOWN TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DESTRUCTIVE (WHICH IT IS): Nearly half of American say they would NEVER give a company money again if they did this .
In other news, people like to pollsters. LIKE RUGS, they lie to pollsters.
IT’S HARDLY THE FIRST TIME – WITNESS THE ABSENCE OF MEGAFAUNA IN THE AMERICAS: Human activity threatens 50 billion years of evolutionary history, study reveals.
I’D EXPECT NO LESS FROM A TAVERN NAMED LIBERTY TREE: Texas bar owner bans customers from wearing coronavirus masks inside.
UNEXPECTEDLY! 81 percent of COVID-19 patients on cruise were asymptomatic, study says, raising concerns on lifting lockdown.
What concerns? Precisely? That just brings the rate of death of the infected down.
Personally I’m wondering what the alternative to lifting lockdown is. “Starve harder” by fall? “Eat government money?”
It’s time to stop this nonsense. Let my people go.
MINNEAPOLIS THIRD PRECINCT POLICE STATION SET ON FIRE AFTER RIOTERS BREAK IN.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, standing in front of the burning station: “I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly. But fires have been started.”
Just another “mostly peaceful protest,” in other words.
UPDATE: Riots Destroy $30M South Minneapolis Affordable Housing Project.
FLASHBACK: What are Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s thoughts on the protestors? Perhaps this 2018 tweet offers a clue:
UPDATE: The Minneapolis Star-Tribune cover for Friday morning:
UPDATE (1:17 AM EDT): Minneapolis Police Precinct on Fire, Possible Gas Leak, as Protests Over Death of George Floyd Escalate.
UPDATE (1:33 AM EDT): Trump threatens to send National Guard to Minneapolis if ‘Radical Left Mayor’ doesn’t ‘get his act together.’
May 28, 2020
SO THE SCIENCE FAVORS REOPENING?
ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: Why Does the CDC Think the COVID-19 Fatality Rate Is So Low, and Why Won’t It Tell Anyone?
I want the CDC to be right, of course, but at this point I’m unwilling to simply assume their expertise.
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THE CCP’S BIGGEST WORRY, LIKE BREZHNEV’S MOTHER, IS WHAT IF THE COMMUNISTS COME BACK?
Related: Winning hearts and minds in Hong Kong — a reader sends this pic of two of those arrested today.
