Archive for 2020
October 7, 2020
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “I’m sorry but I can’t handle 4 years of Kamala Harris’ voice.”
Well, it’s not happening for news organizations, the NBA, the NFL, universities, or Hollywood, so to the lefty apparat there’s no recovery.
OPEN THREAD: Have fun, kids!
BONEMANIA: THE NEXT GENERATION. Ken Bone Still Mildly Interested in Elections.
MINNESOTA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC: It seems quite likely that the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office attempted to abuse its COVID19 authority to hassle people trying to put on a program that would criticize the Minnesota Attorney General for his failure to deal with voter fraud issues.
IT’S ALIVE, ALIVE! Drunkblogging the Pence-Harris Debate.
You have questions. We have cocktails.
THE BABYLON BEE SAVAGES ANDREW CUOMO: Man Who Believes He’s On The Right Side Of History Announces Crackdown On The Jews.
CHANGE: Puerto Rico Governor Endorses Trump, Says He Represents Puerto Ricans: ‘Nobody Is Perfect.’ “‘Use your vote and evaluate who represents and thinks about Puerto Ricans in their most difficult time,’ Vázquez Garced said in a Monday interview with Telemundo. ‘It is Donald Trump.'”
SIR ROBIN BRAVELY TURNED AND FLED: Biden Says No Debate if Trump Still Has Coronavirus.
The Veep debate is still on for tonight, and I’ll drunkblog it for the PJ Media mothership beginning at about 8:46pm Eastern.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Scrap the Small-Block V-8 Swap and Sub in This Literal Tesla Crate Motor. “Literally, that’s what this wonderful creation is. A crated electric motor. Even better, it’s a bolt-in setup gunning to replace one of the most common crate engine choices out there, GM’s small-block V-8. That is because the EV West Tesla powertrain bolts up to small-block V-8 engine mounts and can be hooked up directly to a driveshaft, so you can fit it into your small-block V-8 project and keep your rear axle as-is.”
END THE LOCKDOWNS: A Failed Experiment. The lockdowns are the most risky experiment ever performed on the public, and the results are horrendous. Study after study has failed to detect significant benefits beyond what was achieved from voluntary social distancing, as I document at City Journal. Now that the lockdowns appear much deadlier than the virus, particularly for the poor, there is no ethical justification for continuing this experiment.
THE BIGGEST SICK JOKE RIGHT NOW: Our old Stalinist friend Angela Davis has come to fame as a “prison abolitionist.” Which is strange, because she was perfectly happy to have dissidents in the USSR and East Germany, including Soviet Jews seeking to practice their religion, consigned to prison. It’s worth recounting this anecdote from Alan Dershowitz: Dershowitz appealed to Davis, with her very close relationship with the USSR (as she was a high-ranking member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party USA) to intercede on behalf of imprisoned Soviet Jewry activists. Dershowitz recounts, “Several days later, I received a call back from Ms. Davis’ secretary informing me that Davis had looked into the people on my list and none were political prisoners. ‘They are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism.’ Davis would urge that they be kept in prison where they belonged.” That anecdote is reasonably well-known, but I found a related anecdote from 1972: “Angela explained that the situation of Jews in Russia ‘has been totally blown out of proportion by the bourgeois press because they’re going to do everything they can to discredit socialism.'”
And here are a couple of pictures of her with her buddy Eric Honeker the dictator of East Germany, whose political prisoners Davis was at best indifferent do. I’ve searched for any evidence that Davis regrets these positions and her general support for Communist tyrannies and haven’t found any (and this source says it’s because she hasn’t expressed any remorse). Prison abolitionist my ___.
CRUZ, 33 OTHER GOP SENATORS FILE BRIEF CONDEMNING DC’S ANTI-CHURCH EDICT: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and more than half of the rest of the GOP Senate caucus submitted a blistering amicus brief to the Supreme Court supporting Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) and condemning Mayor Muriel Bowser’s unconstitutional edict against church gatherings with more than 100 attendees.
QUESTION: Why didn’t the remaining 19 Senate Republicans and all 47 of the Senate Democrats and Independents also sign the brief? Do they have a problem with church congregations larger than 100 attendees? Would they support an edict limiting Antifa riots in D.C. to no more than 100 rioters?
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Kamala Harris finds it bizarre that Pence won’t meet with women without his wife present. Oddly, if other men followed his example Kamala Harris wouldn’t be in Congress.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Ducati announces the entry into production of the world’s first motorcycle equipped with front and rear radar technology.
IN ENGLAND SURGEONS HATE BEING CONFUSED WITH DOCTORS. MAYBE THEY’RE RIGHT: Is Sanjay Gupta Telling the Truth About Trump’s Steroids?.
IN A HUNDRED YEARS THEY SHOULD BE REENACTING THIS WITH A RACE: Measles in DR Congo: By air, boat and foot to deliver the vaccine.
AS ARE WE ALL: Coronavirus: Europe experiencing ‘pandemic fatigue.’
ON THE BEACH: NHTSA Confirms What You And I Already Know, People Are Driving Like Idiots. Traffic fatalities dropped with COVID-19, but fatality rates soared.
At the beginning of our current unpleasantness, lots of intellectuals compared it to Nevil Shute’s 1957 post-apocalyptic novel On the Beach, and Stanley Kramer’s movie adaptation two years later:
WELL, I SUPPOSE THAT’S A TAKE: Mike Pence Simply Must Be Confronted About ‘Mulan’ at the Debate.