MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Adult in the Room: Ford CEO Responds to Employees’ Demands to Stop Making Police Vehicles. “Shorter version: No. We’re not going to stop making police cars. Now get back to work.”
Archive for 2020
July 9, 2020
SKYNET SMILES: Video: Quadruped Robot HyQ Learning the Ninja Walk.
NEW BOOK BY MATT MARGOLIS: Airborne: How The Liberal Media Weaponized The Coronavirus Against Donald Trump.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Basics of a Pump Shotgun.
WOEING: Don’t expect to fly on a Boeing 737 Max anytime soon. “With that history of missed deadlines, neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor Boeing will say when the plane will be approved to fly passengers again. The airlines have indicated they aren’t planning on flying the plane until late this year, at the earliest.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related: What Boeing is doing instead of building spaceships and aircraft that work.
SIGN OF THE TIMES: Japanese baseball team debuts dancing robots in stands.
PENN STATE TELLS CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS THEY ARE WELCOME; IMMEDIATELY REGRETS IT AND DELETES TWEET. How long can universities survive while actively insulting half the population? We’re very close to finding out.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Stanford Discontinues 11 Varsity Sports Programs.
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!)
MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP IS PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO BECOME A DAILY FEATURE: Thursday’s Insanity Wrap: Cancel Culture Comes for Orwell, Biology Is Transphobic.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Omar paid new husband’s consulting firm nearly $900,000.
I WAS TOLD THIS WAS JUST ABOUT CONFEDERATE GENERALS: Vandals cut down flagpole at 9/11 memorial for fallen firefighters in Washingtonville.
THIS DOESN’T SURPRISE ME: Half of Americans have used telehealth services during pandemic.
JON CALDARA: The woke mob’s ‘Reign of Terror’ moment.
During the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror,” those accused of not being true enough to the cause were publicly beheaded. To unify the Communist Party in Russia, the Stalinist purges did much the same. Mao used the equivalent tactic with his Cultural Revolution.
It’s a tried and true technique.
People who didn’t want to get swept up in these eradications learned quickly to not just embrace the political philosophies championed by the new power structure, but to chant the new mantras louder than the person next to them. This way they can show they’ve always been on the winner’s team, and hopefully not be beheaded.
Take three minutes and watch “Crying for Kim Jong-il” on YouTube to witness this life-saving phenomenon. North Koreans take turns in front of the Great Leader’s monument to wail and bellow in grief over his recent death, each louder and more hysterical than the last. It’s a competition to see who acts the most hurt over his demise.
Looked very much like the city of Boulder when Jerry Garcia died.
Of course, this competition of staged sorrow was to prove how faithful one is to those in charge. They aren’t crying over Kim’s death. They’re crying to save their own lives. And who can blame them?
Is corporate America’s public self-flogging over Black Lives Matter all that different?
Read the whole thing.
One last thought: If you’re looking for a single word for all the various progressive, woke, and Marxist groups running rampant right now, it’s “Jacobins.”
ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, IT’S ALL A RED-STATE PROBLEM: “Few may have noticed that 42 percent of all COVID deaths in the US come from just three states—New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. These three states account for nearly 56,000 of the nearly 133,000 deaths in the US, even though they represent just 10 percent of the population. If these three states are excluded, the US suddenly finds itself somewhere in between nations such as Luxembourg (176/1M) and Macedonia (166/1M), where some of the better fatality numbers in Europe are found.”
ALEX TABARROK ON POOLED TESTING: “The government has failed miserably at controlling the pandemic. Tens of thousands of people have died who would have lived under a more competent government. The FDA only recently said they might allow pooled testing, if people ask nicely. Unbelievably, after telling us we don’t need masks (supposedly a noble lie to help limit shortages), the CDC is still disparaging testing of asymptomatic people (another noble lie?) which is absolutely disastrous.”
SO THIS IS ANOTHER DAMN THING WE’RE SUPPOSED TO WORRY ABOUT NOW? Should you stop using the word ‘marijuana’?