PROGRESSIVES EATING THEIR OWN: Bar pulls beer from sale after customer claims the bottle looks like a KKK hood.
Weirdly the KKK Hood (or perhaps the black face) was perfectly fine when Would-be-infanticide Northam wore it. Perhaps yellow belly can redesign its bottle to look like Northam. Then his liberal privilege will rub off on the beer….
THOSE JOBS WERE CHANGING EVEN BEFORE COVID-19 RAMMED THE ECONOMY — THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS IN DYNAMIC ECONOMIES. THOUGH WINNIE THE FLU ACCELERATED THE CHANGE: Most Americans believe their jobs will never return to normal.
Just wait till teachers figure out a lot of their jobs will be gone. All that NEA graft down the drain….
NOT ALL VANDALISM IS TREATED EQUALY; ONLY GOVERNMENT APPROVED VANDALISM IS PERMITTED: Finally: Vandalism de Blasio actually cares about.
I’M NOT SEEING “WASHINGTON CODE TALKERS” MOVING A LOT OF MERCH. BESIDES, ISN’T IT DISRESPECTFUL OF ALL OF THE OTHER TRIBAL GROUPS?: Navajo Nation has a suggestion for the new name of Washington’s football team.
WASHINGTON REDSKINS LAWYER UP IN ANTICIPATION OF BOMBSHELL WAPO ARTICLE: The NFL team formerly known as the Redskins “hired DC attorney Beth Wilkinson to review the organization’s protocols, per league sources. While Wilkinson is expected to conduct a deep dive into the organization’s past culture, team officials are highly upset/frustrated about speculation running amok,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted, adding the Post “is preparing a story about its NFL team that is expected to highlight the culture that is existed. Within the past week, front office members Richard Mann III and Alex Santos, as well as radio play-by-play voice Larry Michael, all left the organization.”
Regarding the Post article, NBC notes that “It was supposed to land Tuesday. Then, it was supposed to land Thursday. Thursday has arrived, and whatever it is that the Washington Post supposedly will be reporting about the Washington team has yet to be published. The anticipation has reached fever pitch, with ‘Dan Snyder’ trending on Twitter and speculation running rampant regarding the basis for the report.”
UPDATE: Story finally drops, behind WaPo subscriber paywall: More than a dozen women allege sexual harassment and verbal abuse by former team employees at Redskins Park.
Here’s a recap from a non-paywalled site: “In total, 15 former Redskins employees have alleged sexual harassment during their time with the NFC East franchise. One woman, Emily Applegate, spoke on the record, while the other 14 women requested anonymity ‘citing a fear of litigation.’ The 15 women allege sexual harassment by members of Snyder’s inner circle. The Washington Redskins owner reportedly declined to comment to The Post.”
UPDATE (11:43 PM): As bad as it is for the ‘Skins, does the Post’s story seem like a bit of a letdown after nearly a week’s worth of hype?
(Updated and bumped.)
THE MONSTER HAD BEST WATCH OUT FOR ITSELF, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PISSED:
#JOURNALISM: ‘I’m… At A Loss For Words’: The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic’s Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale.
When social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell was just 12 years old, she and her sister watched a police officer shoot a young boy in a city recreation center because he had ignored the basketball sign-in sheet. This jarring, emotional, and deeply unsettling story was published July 6 at The Atlantic, in the section reserved for ideas, under the bold, attention-grabbing headline, “How I Became a Police Abolitionist.”
Purnell’s deeply personal story of shattered innocence and shattered bones at the end of a policeman’s gun was shared widely among top journalists and activists. “I started her article thinking abolition was impossible and ending thinking it must happen,” the president of a social justice think tank at Harvard wrote on Twitter, quoting his mother. “This is a beautifully written piece,” the Atlantic’s constitutional law editor agreed. “Derecka is the future,” an activist journalism executive declared.
There’s a major problem with Purnell’s story, however. Based on a Federalist investigation of newspaper archives and the police department records, and questions to The Atlantic, the police union, and the office of the mayor, it does not appear to have ever happened.
Well, that does sound like a problem.
I SUSPECT THE FEELING IS MUTUAL: De Blasio says he has ‘no respect’ for NYPD union leadership.
A FRIEND WHO LISTENS TO NPR REGULARLY PROVIDES THIS PRECIS OF A RECENT BROADCAST:
Yesterday, NPR ran a segment about the scandalous decision of the Trump administration to change the Covid-related reporting that hospitals are now doing.
What NPR reported:
(1) Hospitals will now have to send data to the Trump administration, bypassing the CDC.
(2) Interviewed a doctor who said that this is horrible! They are already stressed out and overwhelmed! Bad Trump!
(3) Repeatedly said that the data collection will by done by a private company. Many times, in case you didn’t catch it.
(3) Brief in passing mentioned that the head of the CDC said that this was a good move, increased efficiency and accuracy, and also that the CDC will have full access to all information. And also, data will not go to Trump, but to the Medicare division of the DHHS. No interview, no details, all very brief.
(4) Interview with a midlevel manager from the CDC who used to run data collection and is now stripped of juicy bureaucratic office, so he goes on and on to complain how this is terrible. But never once, not once says why it is terrible. Just terrible, and all.What NPR did not report:
(1) That hospitals already send their data to the DHHS, and also send it to the CDC, and the current reporting is a bureaucratic nightmare, which they hate.
(2) Hospitals are happy to report to a single institution, with one streamlined procedure, so most are very happy about the new system.
(3) There is no evidence that the “private subcontractor” in charge of data collection was not selected properly, or is not expected to do a good job, or that the government employees would have done a better job. News flash: government computers are also made by private companies, as is almost all software they use.Zero discussions of expected changes in the quality of reported data. (Can argue either way, but need someone who actually knows!).
Zero discussions of cost savings for everyone involved, including hospitals.
Zero discussions for whether this will cause any damage whatsoever to the CDC’s (or anyone’s) ability to use newly collected data.No expert on data collection or analysis interviewed or mentioned.
Repeatedly: data will go “to Trump”, “bypassing the CDC”, and “private subcontractor”.
And this concludes the reporting segment.
Remember, they say they need taxpayer money and listener donations to support “quality journalism.”
OPEN THREAD: Well they’re roundin’ em up, from all over town.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING. Bizarro World: Former Times Editor Jill Abramson Thinks NY Times Full of ‘Centrists.’
Flashback: The Bonfire of the Inanities.
I DON’T THINK THIS BOYCOTT IS GOING AS PLANNED: Why Hispanic business owners are urging you to BUY-cott Goya products.
There’s Goya stuff for sale here.
OR YOU CAN WAIT FOR NEXT TIME: Don’t miss Comet NEOWISE in the evening sky now. It won’t be back for 6,800 years.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: De Blasio Says Releasing Criminals Made NYC Safer (But Violent Crime Grew By 250%).
THAT’S WHAT THEY DO, THAT’S WHO THEY ARE: Media are just plain lying about Kayleigh McEnany ‘science’ quote. “Put more simply, members of our vaunted Fourth Estate cannot be trusted to report accurately on this administration. They are just making stuff up at this point.”
MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT THE OBAMA ERA WAS ALL THE RACIAL HEALING: Obama DOD Started ‘Indoctrinating Our Troops’ on Racism and ‘Privilege,’ New Docs Show.
(Classical reference in headline.)
GOOD AND HARD: Give the Man What he Wants. “According to news reports, the mayor of Portland wants the feds to ‘leave.’ I think the federal government should oblige him. Hear me out.”
Read the whole thing.
TEXAS HEALTH OFFICIALS REMOVE OVER 3,000 ‘PROBABLE’ CORONAVIRUS CASES FROM OVERALL COUNT.
Earlier: Hospitals confirm mistakes in Florida’s COVID-19 report. “FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report. The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.”
UPDATE: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says “there is no shutdown coming” as coronavirus cases surge. Abbott said it will take weeks to see whether his recent mask order and decision to close bars are effective in slowing the virus’ spread.
INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT: NASA’s Orion is a program of lies.
Here is the full report.
BUT WHY DID THEY PUBLISH IT IN THE FIRST PLACE? After backlash, the Smithsonian removes that chart breaking down ‘whiteness and white culture’ in the US.
Related: The Smithsonian color-codes America.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Young adults may face higher risk for severe COVID than thought.
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK ASKS IF MY ADVICE TO CTHULHU WOULD BE THE SAME IN 2020 AS IT WAS IN 2016. Yes, and doubly so.
HMM: Virgin Galactic hires Disney executive as new CEO. Could be worse, could be hiring from Boeing.
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