Here’s the link to AG Hamilton’s tweet; and here’s the link to the Times of Israel article from 2015 at the end of this screen capture, headlined, “Ice Cube melts down, ‘beats up rabbi.’”
Archive for 2020
June 10, 2020
THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ABOLISHING THE POLICE: New York Legislature Repeals Notorious Police Secrecy Law. New York was a national outlier in hiding police misconduct records. The state legislature finally repealed the law responsible for it.
On the other hand, all the over-the-top public hate directed at the police will probably make them worse. Good people will quit for jobs where they take less grief, and inevitably they will be replaced with people who don’t mind the hate, or who can’t get another job. If good people don’t want the job, standards will fall.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Network Evening News Shows Censor Nasdaq Topping 10,000 Milestone for ‘First Time.’
Obligatory:
THE NEW YORK TIMES MORPHED INTO THE BABYLON BEE SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol.’
POSSIBLY TRUE, BUT IT’LL NEVER HAPPEN: Joe Biden’s ideal VP is Condoleezza Rice.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Seattle protesters demand city abolish police, hire black doctors to treat black patients.
NORTH CAROLINA: THE GEARHEAD REBELLION SPREADS: 311 Speedway plans its own events to protest COVID-19 orders.
V-SHAPED RECOVERY? Nasdaq hits 10,000 for the first time ever, closes at record high as Apple and Amazon soar.
Obligatory: PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
THOSE MEMORY HOLES DON’T IGNITE THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: The war of the statues is a battle for freedom. If we simply destroy the evidence, we impoverish our heirs’ understanding.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: New Rifles for 2020.
MY LATEST FOR THE PJM MOTHERSHIP: Protestors Fear the Spread of Deadly COVID-19 They’re Probably Spreading. “How, exactly, governors are supposed to increase testing in urban areas that have fallen under the control of ‘protestors’ who destroy testing centers is not an issue Birx seems to have addressed. Like retailers who might never come back to the big city neighborhoods that torched them, those demolished testing sites could be gone forever.”
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DISPATCHES FROM THE T.E.R.F. WARS: J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues.
HMM: George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “bumped heads” while working at nightclub, former coworker says.
As mourners in Houston honor the life of George Floyd in Minneapolis, CBS News is learning new details from a nightclub coworker about alleged history between Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is charged in Floyd’s death. According to a former coworker, not only did they know each other, but they had a history of friction.
Floyd and Chauvin both worked security at a nightclub at the same time. Coworker David Pinney said the two men had a history.
“They bumped heads,” Pinney said.
“How?” CBS News asked.
“It has a lot to do with Derek being extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue,” Pinney explained.
More to come, I’m sure.
SKYNET SMILES: Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot Gets One Step Closer.
FUNNY, BUT I DON’T FEEL VERY WELCOME: Welcome to America’s Cultural Revolution.
The Times can claim that a harsh tone and a small factual error in Senator Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed was the reason the entire paper had a meltdown, but the staffers who revolted initially claimed that Cotton’s argument for bringing the National Guard into cities put black lives in “danger.”
Cotton’s critics are correct that not every dumb or radical idea deserves a debate or a place in the country’s biggest newspapers — although some of us believe editors should make room for contrarian and unpopular arguments. But this insistence masks their real objection: That Cotton’s column, which tonally and philosophically was well within the parameters of traditional editorial writing, might have found an audience. At root, our cultural revolutionaries are frightened of ideas. Do we honestly believe that had another paper published it, the same people wouldn’t have deemed that inappropriate, too?
None of the Times’ editors, all of whom are apparently comfortable with running fabulist histories or odes to Communist tyrannies, pushed back against the caustic notion that engaging in debate was act of violence. They bowed to the internal mob and pleaded for forgiveness.
They hope the crocodile will eat them last.
And do read the whole thing.