Archive for 2020

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Transgender Propaganda Claims Straight Is Hate.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it wrong for straight men to want to date actual women?

Answer: When they’re married to some other actual woman, and that’s about it — no matter what today’s woke propaganda insists.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • WHO is happy to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CCP
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus is even more entitled than her Veep character
  • You’re gonna need a bigger Newspeak dictionary

Bonus Sanity: Twitter might get sued into oblivion.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

GOOD LORD: Camper Recounts Abuse at Warnock Church Camp.

Washington’s account of the 2002 events provides the first direct insight into the alleged abuse and neglect that transpired at Camp Farthest Out, which Warnock oversaw as senior pastor of Maryland’s Douglas Memorial Community church, and raises new questions for the Democrat, who is currently vying for a Senate seat in Georgia.

Washington expressed surprise when he was told Warnock is currently running for U.S. Senate in Georgia. “I don’t think nobody like [Warnock] should be running for damn Senate nowhere, running a camp like that,” he told the Free Beacon. “He should not be running for government.”

Sounds like a major story, if it weren’t for the (D) after Warnock’s name.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Barstool Sports Brings Small Biz Relief to 2020 Misery. “I’ve maintained throughout the year that I truly believe that the lockdowns are deliberately trying to ruin small businesses because small business owners aren’t a reliable voting bloc for Democrats. One of the few good things to emerge from all of the pandemic horse you-know-what is that we’ve been rediscovering (and finding new) ways of helping businesses and private citizens.”

TAKE OFF IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: A USMC F-35B Lightning takes off from amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island. The USN task force is operating off the coast of Somalia. Photo taken December 22. The aircraft on the flight deck are MV-22 Ospreys. Here’s an MV-22 approaching the flight deck of the USS Wasp. It’s a decent snapshot of the aircraft but the background, the pastel sky above the the Philippine Sea, is fabulous.

RELATED: Here’s another photo of an F-35B “thrust-vectoring” at take-off. The supersonic F-35B typically uses a “short roll” to take-off. It can land vertically. Of course there’s an acronym for this type of aircraft, V/STOL –Vertical, Short Take Off and Landing. Here’s an essay of mine from 2017 discussing the renaissance of light aircraft carriers. A USN assault ship isn’t a classic light carrier, at least in the WW2 sense of the term (a CVL). However, “…A dozen F-35Bs give an assault ship a small but credible multi-mission aircraft squadron, capable of intercepting enemy aircraft and enemy cruise missiles and conducting strike missions.” In December 2020 off the Somali coast the USS Makin Island is an amphibious assault ship doing double duty as a light aircraft carrier.

NICE: US-Backed Forces Raid ISIS Cells in Syria. “The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are executing a new series of raids against active ISIS-affiliated militants in eastern Syria with the support of the United States.”