Archive for 2020
July 30, 2020
NBA OUT OF CHINA NOW: ESPN investigation finds coaches at NBA China academies complained of player abuse, lack of schooling.
The big news is that ESPN is willing to report something negative on the NBA in China.
I SEE A RESURGENCE IN ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT IN TRUMP’S SECOND TERM: Bezos, Zuckerberg Are Taking Tech Wealth to a Whole New Level.
FALLOUT: ‘We’re running out of homes for sale,’ Lake Tahoe brokers say as tech workers flee Bay Area.
A new wave of urban flight is reshaping real estate markets from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles to San Francisco. As part of this shift, Lake Tahoe is seeing unprecedented bidding wars, buying activity and price increases. Brokers say the inventory of homes for sale has shrunk to about one-fifth to one-tenth of the usual levels.
“People are writing all-cash offers for houses, sight unseen,” said Sabrina Belleci, a Lake Tahoe broker with Re/Max. “They just want to get out of the city.”
Lake Tahoe has long been a bucolic escape for Californians looking for a getaway and, on the Nevada side, lower taxes. But the latest buying surge is larger than any the market has seen, brokers say. They say tech workers and investors in the Bay Area, as well as media types from Los Angeles, are coming to the Tahoe area in search of larger homes with home offices, more land for the kids to play, and access to outdoor activities such as swimming and bike riding.
What will Sacramento do if their Bay Area cash cow stops producing quite so much milk?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Cancel culture’ crew nearly got me ‘expelled’ before I’d even started college.
For every public figure or pundit denouncing cancel culture — the wave of leftist coercion and censorship sweeping America’s institutions — there are many more who deny that such a thing even exists.
Before you believe the deniers, allow me to tell you what it’s like to find yourself in the jaws of this culture as a recent high-school graduate.
I wanted to attend Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., because I sought a faith-based education. The university touts itself as “Catholic and Jesuit,” but I knew that as a conservative and a supporter of President Trump, my views were likely to be controversial. But I never imagined that months before ever setting foot on campus, I’d be subject to ridicule, incendiary comments and even death threats.
I was about to be “canceled” before moving into my dorm.
Cost of attending Marquette University, $60,252.
WAS IT OVER WHEN NORWAY BOMBED FORT SUMTER? Flag removed from Michigan bed and breakfast over Confederate confusion. Bed and breakfast removes Norwegian flag after dozens of people confuse it for the Confederate flag.
JOEL KOTKIN: California’s Woke Hypocrisy.
No state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California. The Golden State’s leaders believe that they lead a progressive paradise, ushering in what theorists Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca call “a new progressive era.” Others see California as deserving of nationhood; it reflects, as a New York Times columnist put it, “the shared values of our increasingly tolerant and pluralistic society.”
In response to the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to defund the police—a move applauded by Senator Kamala Harris, a prospective Democratic vice presidential candidate, despite the city’s steep rise in homicides. San Francisco mayor London Breed wants to do the same in her increasingly crime-ridden, disordered city. This follows state attorney general Xavier Becerra’s numerous immigration-related lawsuits against the Trump administration, even as his state has become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants—complete with driver’s licenses for some 1 million and free health care.
Despite these progressive intentions, Hispanics and African-Americans—some 45 percent of California’s total population—fare worse in the state than almost anywhere nationwide.
They do the woke talk because they can’t walk the walk. As usual, Democrats’ politics is built on racial exploitation, regardless of the rhetoric.
FROM R D MEYER: Schism.
A single spark. That’s all it takes to ignite an explosion if the conditions are right.
Today in America, conditions are right for an inferno to engulf our nation. We no longer discuss; we screech. We no longer tolerate; we cancel. We no longer agree to disagree; we end relationships that have lasted years. In short, American society is on the edge of an explosion.
Schism is about all of our anger, all of our political rage, coming to the surface in a Second American Civil War. However, this one doesn’t divide us by northern states and southern states, but rather by liberals and conservatives, urban and rural, reds and blues. Spurred on by blog posts, news reports, and protests each side seems to participate in more out of opposition to the other side than any real principle, conditions for the spark grow more and more precarious, priming the pump of hate.
Beginning as what seems like a black and white case of terrorism, events morph into a political struggle over who steers the reins of power. One man seeking justice for his family spins out of control and drags our nation into the abyss while the loyalties of friends, neighbors, and even families are tested against the partisan rancor that pervades society.
Once events explode into a self-sustaining fire, cities burn. Journalists from varying outlets are executed for everyone to see. Power plants are shuttered to cut off each side from the energy our country has become so dependent on. And the whole time, as America is paralyzed in a struggle with itself, an ambitious military officer watches from across the ocean…
THE LEFT HAS DONE ITS BEST TO KILL IT OFF: John Kass: What happened to an America where you could freely speak your mind?
Now we need to ram that down their throats.
THOSE FOOLS! THEY’VE DOOMED US ALL! Scientists revive 100M-year-old microbes found on seafloor.
THIS OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN YOU ELECT DEMOCRATS GOVERNOR: Restaurant has food permit suspended for violating health order months after posting controversial sign.
(Oh and the fact that the NYPost thinks that sign is controversial made me roll my eyes so hard they fell under the table and got covered in cat hair.)
IDIOT CAN’T FIGURE THE ATTACKS ARE NOT BECAUSE SHE’S TRANS BUT BECAUSE SHE’S TYRANNICAL. I’M SURE JARED POLIS, STRAINING AT THE SEAMS OF HIS HUGO BOSS GETUP ALSO THINKS THE REASON WE OBJECT TO HIS INCREASINGLY MORE INCOHERENT MANDATES IS THAT HE’S GAY, AND NOT THAT HE’S A STUPID TYRANT: Pennsylvania health secretary condemns transphobic attacks against her.
MOST PEOPLE WANT A VACCINE BUT ONLY IF SOMEBODY ELSE TESTS IT FIRST: Most people won’t take COVID-19 vaccine in first year.
Or the second. Or the third. Or the fourth. I’m very leery of a vaccine for the common cold, okay? Which is a coronavirus, just like this one. And when you tell me the vaccine is made by China? yeah. No.
I’M YOUNGER THAN NEO, BUT RECENTLY I’VE BEEN WONDERING EXACTLY THE SAME. WE JUST CELEBRATED OUR ANNIVERSARY. AT HOME. BECAUSE ONE OF OUR FAVORITE RESTAURANTS FOR OCCASIONS HAS CLOSED AND THE NEXT ONE UP SOUNDS ABOUT AS FESTIVE AS A DENTAL PROCEDURE THANKS TO IDIOTIC POLIS’ IDIOTIC MASK ORDER. I’D SAY I’M ALL DRESSED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO, EXCEPT I DON’T EVEN BOTHER DRESSING UP: Will I ever buy clothing again?
OH, HECK, THEY’RE GETTING IT IN THEIR SCHOOL BOOKS TOO. IF YOU’RE NOT READING YOUR KIDS’ SCHOOLBOOKS AND COUNTERING THE POISON, YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME IF THEY GROW UP TO BE DYSFUNCTIONAL ANTIFIDIOTS: Teen Vogue to Teen Girls: Marx Good, Reagan Bad.
Though younger son says the most Earthshaking thing I ever told him was “question and test everything. Even the things your boomer teachers say shouldn’t be questioned.” …. So, think about it.
RETRACTION? APOLOGY. PSHAW! BEING LEFTIST MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY: A COVID Border Battle.
BUT IT’S OKAY. THEY ALSO HATE MAMMALS, ALL WARM BLOODED CREATURES, AND PROBABLY PLANTS. LIKE ANAL-RETENTIVE CHILDREN, THEY HATE EVERYTHING THEY CAN’T CONTROL: They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us.
TO LOSE THEIR MINDS, THEY’D NEED TO HAVE MINDS: Leftists Lose Their Minds Because Washington Post Will Capitalize ‘White’.
WE NEED MANY MORE OF HIM: Chicago Tribune’s John Kass will not take a knee to cancel culture.
PLAY STUPID GAMES, WIN STUPID PRIZES: Police to DNC: We Won’t Play Your Games.
ONLY IN LEFTIST MINDS. ALSO THEY THINK WHITE SUPREMACY IS HIDING UNDER THEIR BEDS: Roundup Time: White Supremacy Explains Everything.
July 29, 2020
YES, AND THE NATIONAL PRESS IS DELIBERATELY COVERING IT UP: In Portland, Seattle, Homeland Security Is Facing Organized, Criminal Activity.