Archive for 2020
September 22, 2020
POLITICS IS THEIR RELIGION: I can’t believe this is real and not a Saturday Night Live skit, but a Reform temple in New Jersey actually substituted the traditional haftorah reading on Rosh Hashanah (the additional reading from the Torah beyond the requisite portion of the week) for a reading, with the traditional haftorah tune, of some of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s writings.
Putting aside the substitution of politics for religion, I think more than anything else I’ve ever seen this makes the case that we need to reform our judicial system to eliminate the cult of personality that develops around long-serving Justices. And I say that as someone who admired Ginsburg, despite my disagreements with her.
JAMES BOND APPROVED: The Walther PPK, the classic spy gun that changed the game.
THIS IS A THING THAT HAPPENED: Here’s What You Need to Understand About That Amish Trump Parade in Ohio.
AT AMAZON, Schwinn Recumbent Bike Series.
CBS ANGRY THAT REPUBLICANS ARE FINALLY PLAYING SMASHMOUTH POLITICS AS WELL: Ted Cruz Scorches CBS Over Network’s Supreme Court Hypocrisy. “Cruz doggedly hammered the liberal hypocrisy, reminding, ‘I listened to your promo and you only played the words of Republicans. I saw your tweet saying Ted Cruz ‘why has he switched his positions?’ And I’m curious when you have Chuck Schumer or Joe Biden on, does your tweet say, ‘Why has Joe Biden switched sides?’”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: ‘Defund the police’ activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property — but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun.
Milano’s fellow “defund the police” leftists have told CNN that dialing 911 is the apex of white privilege.
HANDLES PRETTY WELL, FOR A HOUSE: GMC’s redesigned Yukon full-size SUV is more spacious and drives better than ever.
DEWINE HASN’T EXACTLY BEEN OHIO’S MR. POPULAR Trump Introduced Pro-Masking GOP Gov. Mike DeWine at His Ohio Rally and It Did Not Go Well. At All.
JIM TREACHER: DOJ Declares NYC, Seattle, and Portland ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions.’
New York, New York, a hell of a town
The Bronx is up, but the Battery’s down
Antifa burns corner stores to the ground
New York, New York, it’s a helluva town!
With a kickoff like that, read the whole thing.
DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: ABC Town Hall Masquerades Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Uncommitted’ Voters.
Kutztown University professor Ellesia Blaque—whom ABC repeatedly identified as “uncommitted” in its coverage of the town hall—praised vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the Democratic primary, saying she would “be there, volunteering” for the California senator in Pennsylvania. The English professor was not shy about her partisanship, calling Trump a “f—ing moron,” “pathetic,” “pig,” “swine,” “punk ass,” and “LOOSER” (sic) in a slew of 2019 tweets. She is a self-described “liberal Democrat,” according to her Facebook profile, on the grounds that liberals “are not motivated by money or power, but by humanity and the needs of the people.”
Much more at the link, but what else would you expect from actual Democratic-operative-with-a-byline George Stephanopoulos?
OUT ON A LIMB: The 1619 Project is a fraud.
New York Times Magazine editors have quietly removed controversial language from the online version of Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project, a package of essays that argue chattel slavery defines America’s founding. Hannah-Jones herself also asserts now that the project’s core thesis is not what she and everyone else involved originally said it was.
It “does not argue that 1619 is our true founding,” she said on Friday. She declared elsewhere in July that it “doesn’t argue, for obvious reasons, that 1619 is our true founding.”
This is a brazen lie. When the 1619 Project debuted both online and in print in August 2019, the online version’s text stated originally [emphasis added]:
The 1619 project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding , and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
That same online passage, which was the source of so much controversy among historians on both sides of the aisle, now reads:
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
To be fair, this Orwellian “history” project is from the same newspaper that brought you Walter Duranty; airbrushing comes quite easy to the Times.
WELL, THE ELDERLY HAVE BETTER DRUGS: Middle-aged Americans report more pain than the elderly.
THEY SURE AREN’T ACTING AS THOUGH THEY EXPECT BIDEN TO WIN: Colorado Is The Test Run For Democrats’ Vote-By-Mail Blame Game.
Democrats have a new prime target in their political sights: U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. On Friday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold sued USPS and DeJoy for a supposed “attempt at voter suppression that violates the United States Constitution and federal statutes and must be stopped immediately.” This time, the “voter suppression” and “constitutional violation” came in the form of a postcard sent to voters with incomplete information about vote-by-mail.
Really? One deficient informational postcard is powerful enough to commandeer Colorado’s elections authority and suppress the right to vote?
In truth, Democrats are again using USPS to attack President Trump, openly accusing him of conspiring with DeJoy to disrupt USPS and interfere in vote-by-mail elections. Democrats insist on using USPS as a scapegoat when — not if — vote-by-mail issues arise in untested states. The left may be escalating the blame-game, but this scapegoating is nothing new.
Read the whole thing.
SQUAD GOALS: Ilhan Omar: “I am, by nature, a starter of fires. My work has been to figure out where I’m going to burn down everything around me by adding the fuel of my religion, skin color, gender or even tone.”
AOC: Ocasio-Cortez to voters: Tell McConnell ‘he is playing with fire’ with Ginsburg’s seat.
Will voters notice that these days, such language isn’t merely metaphorical? Dems answer to anything they dislike is increasingly ‘burn it all down.’
IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHANGE THE RULES: Biden Won’t Rule Out Packing the Supreme Court.
ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR: Ryugu’s rubble suggests its short life has been rather turbulent. “The asteroid Ryugu is a loose assemblage of fragments from a collision between two asteroids, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. Some asteroids are composed of large, solid pieces of rock, but Ryugu is more like a rubble pile than a rock. It is too small and fragile to have remained intact for very long — scientists estimate Ryugu formed between 10 million to 20 million years ago.”
The sort of asteroid that’s easier to mine, but harder to deflect if it’s heading toward Earth.
HAS ANYBODY NOTICED THE TRUMP ECONOMY IS HUMMING? Despite the Covid-19 lockdown, the American economy is beating all kinds of expectations.
SO, YES, IN OTHER WORDS. Biden: I’m Not Going to Say Whether I’ll Try to Expand the Supreme Court.
“The last time a president proposed expanding the Court, he lost that fight quite badly.”