NAVY FAST TRANSPORT: The USN’s newest Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel, the USNS Newport, successfully completes its integrated sea trials tests. Photo taken July 30, 2020. This second photo shows three EPFs moored at Virginia Beach. Here’s an article from 2015 discussing the development of High Speed Vessels (HSVs) for sea transport. This second article, also form 2015, discusses the introduction of the designation “Expeditionary” — why Joint High Speed Vessels became Expeditionary Fast Transports.
Archive for 2020
September 9, 2020
BATTLESPACE PREPARATION: Facebook’s Zuckerberg: We need to prepare the public for days and weeks counting mail-in ballots.
BERNARD GOLDBERG: The Atlantic’s Trump report: We should know the sources of a story this important.
Yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg seemed to agree: The Atlantic Editor In Chief Jeffrey Goldberg Says Anonymous Sourcing Is ‘Not Good Enough’ After Backlash Over Trump Story.
And yet as I write this, Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic piece still stands as originally published last week.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Stanford offers sessions on ‘racial terror,’ claiming it’s ‘nearly impossible’ to think outside of White supremacy.
Cost of attending Stanford University: $71,857 per year.
DYSTOPIAN THOUGHTS: Urban Criminal Gangs in the Civil War to Come. “Although murders in Chicago seemed to level off in the 2005-2010 period, the percentage of murders attributable to gangs actually went up significantly. Nearly two thirds of murders in Chicago are committed by gang members. This has happened because of the close working relationship between gang leaders and many Chicago aldermen and City Hall functionaries. Major gangs have enjoyed substantial if not complete official protection from the Chicago police and prosecutors for at least twenty years.”
DECOUPLING: Samsung reportedly cutting off chip sales to Huawei. “Samsung and SK Hynix will reportedly stop selling components to Huawei as the Trump administration tightens sanctions on the Chinese phone maker. According to Chosun Ilbo and other Korean news outlets, the companies will suspend trade on September 15th, the day a new set of rules limits dealing with Huawei.”
Related? Huawei planning to produce far fewer phones in 2021. “This is a 74% drop compared to projected shipments in 2020.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Biden Surrogate Builds Wall, Makes Michigan Taxpayers Pay For It. “Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has long questioned the effectiveness of physical barriers, but is asking Michigan taxpayers to foot the bill for a seven-figure project to keep out uninvited guests.”
SLAVERY OR FREEDOM: THE CONCEPTION OF AMERICA: This sounds like an interesting program. A number of great people will be participating, including Bill Allen, Chuck DeVore, Peter Kirsanow, Wilfred Reilly, Peter Wood, and Cathy Young, all of whom are very much worth listening to. Here’s the program description:
How should we teach American history? The New York Times’ 1619 Project and associated curriculum disseminated by the Pulitzer Center teaches a polemical narrative of oppression, shorn of nuance, context, or historical accuracy. Yet this narrative has had success in persuading minds across the nation and beyond that the “America the exceptional nation” story is wrong, misguided and fails to tell the whole truth. …
This webinar conference will address how we understand and teach America’s founding: should we place the ideals of liberty or the institution of slavery as the foundation of American history?
It takes place over the course of five days, September 14-18 and it sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute, the Texas Public Policy Institute and the National Association of Scholars. Watch a little or a lot.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: Cardi B’s greatest hit.
SO “BEST PICTURE” NO LONGER MEANS THE ACTUAL BEST PICTURE. GOT IT. New Oscars standards require best picture contenders must be inclusive to compete.
Only Trump could manage to make his enemies work overtime to render themselves irrelevant.
DANA LOESCH: Why is No One Talking About Jacob Blake’s Victim?
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE BASED ON SYSTEMIC HATRED OF BOYS AND BOYHOOD: Joanne Jacobs: Zero tolerance for boys’ toys.
In Colorado Springs, Colorado, a teacher glimpsed a neon-green Nerf gun, labeled “ZOMBIE HUNTER,” as Isaiah Elliott, 12, moved it from one side of the couch to the other. She told the principal that it probably was a toy, but she wasn’t sure. Nobody called the parents. Instead the principal sent sheriff’s deputies to the home for a “welfare check” and suspended the student for five days for violating school policy on bringing a gun look-alike to school.
Tar. Feathers.
September 8, 2020
VACCINES ARE DIFFICULT: AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine study halted after ‘potentially unexplained’ illness.
NEW FRONTIERS IN COMMUNITY POLICING:
Well this took an unexpected turn… pic.twitter.com/MRe6BgANhC
— GrantB911 (@GrantB911) September 8, 2020
UPDATE: From the comments: “I love how there’s also a demonstration of ‘the police are there to protect the criminals from the citizens.'” Also? I’d say that demonstration was the main event.
YOU WENT FULL THANOS, MAN. NEVER GO FULL THANOS: Thomas Piketty on CBS: ‘Pandemics Are Sometimes Necessary’ to Bring ‘Change.’
Related: The Top 14 MSM Celebrations of the ‘Silver Linings’ of the Pandemic.
Flashback: Environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your real life worse.
NICE. NOW START BUILDING NUCLEAR PLANTS. After rolling blackouts, California regulators voted to let gas powered plants stay open a few more years. It’s interesting, and more than a bit surprising, to see that reality still has some sway with these people.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: College Defends Course On ‘How To Overthrow The State’ That Requires Freshmen Write Their Own Manifesto.
OPEN THREAD: Share the things you know and love, with those of our kind.