WE COULD SURE USE THEM: It’s official: US Air Force to buy Turkish F-35s. “The U.S. Air Force will officially buy eight F-35A conventional takeoff and landing jets originally built by Lockheed Martin for Turkey as part of a $862 million contract modification. The deal also contains an additional six F-35As built for the Air Force and modifications that will bring the Turkish jets in line with the U.S. configuration.”
Archive for 2020
July 21, 2020
COLORADO: Anti-cop ‘mob’ swarms Back the Blue event in Denver, bloodying several before shutting things down.
Why the scare quotes, Fox News?
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Shot: How Long Will Margaret Sanger Last?
—Alexandra DeSanctis, NRO, July 6th.
Chaser: Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics.
—The New York Times, today.
“If removing offensive statues is the new norm, perhaps the bust of Sanger in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery should be the next to go,” DeSanctis wrote on July 6th. Or as America’s Newspaper of Record noted in 2017, and retweeted last month:
COLD WAR II: China steps up shipbuilding with two more aircraft carriers under construction towards 2035 navy goal. “As China aims to equal US naval strength in the Pacific, its first domestically developed carrier begins final assembly process.”
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: KFC will test lab-grown chicken nuggets made with a 3D bioprinter this fall in Russia.
It will make an excellent side-dish for Burger King’s AOC-themed anti-farting cow Whoppers.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive. “Two months into the pandemic, 40 percent of America’s restaurants were shuttered and 8 million employees out of work—three times the job losses seen by any other industry. While some restaurants began reopening in May and June, most featured only takeout, delivery, or outdoor dining options due to local restrictions. The number of diners in June remained down more than 65 percent year over year, and the National Restaurant Association projected an industry revenue shortfall of $240 billion for the year. Second-order effects of restaurant closures ripple through the American economy, bringing economic pain to farmers, fishermen, foragers, ranchers, manufacturers, and other producers who supply the industry. Equally hit are supply chain partners who move goods across the country.”
ON TODAY’S INSANITY WRAP: Netherlands Paid Islamic Terrorists, Plus Portland’s Menacing Mob Moms.
Plus: The aquatic love that dare not speak its name (or at least shouldn’t), and Ghislaine Maxwell teamed with Jacob Wohl for extra awfulness.
Some of this stuff is too rich even for Heinlein’s Crazy Years.
THE ATLANTIC FINALLY ADMITS ITS POLICE ABOLITION PIECE IS BASED ON A FALSE NARRATIVE: Four days, six comment requests, and one follow-up story later, The Atlantic issued a series of major corrections that confirmed The Federalist’s investigation.
2020 REALLY GIVING ITS ALL: Giant swarm of flying ants shows up on weather radar.
Wait, is this a better or worse development than the Asian Murder Hornets?
RACIST: BLACK PEOPLE CAN’T SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH. WOKE: BLACK PEOPLE CAN’T SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH. Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.’
CHARLES LIPSON: Reopening Schools and the Limits of Expertise. “When we listen to experts, we should remember Clint Eastwood’s comment in Magnum Force: ‘A man’s got to know his limitations.’ Even the best authorities have them, and one, ironically, is that they seldom admit them, even to themselves. It is important for us both to appreciate expert advice and to recognize its limits every time we’re told to “be quiet and do what they say.” We should listen, think it over, and then make our own decisions as citizens, parents, teachers, business owners, workers, retirees — and voters.”
AND ANOTHER MSM FABLE BITES THE DUST: Christopher Bedford, formerly of the Daily Caller News Foundation and more recently with The Federalist, finally gets The Atlantic to admit its recent piece, How I Became a Police Abolitionist, was based on, shall we say, its author’s creative skills rather than hard facts.
Again I ask, when do MSM outlets like The Atlantic (the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, et. al.) apologize to readers for repeatedly presenting lies as truth?
SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Scalia Law School students demand special scholarships for ‘Black students and students of color.’
Related: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything.
When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything. pic.twitter.com/Z9SlfscUjQ
— Ryan Long (@ryanlongcomedy) July 20, 2020
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Andrew Cuomo’s Creepy COVID Victory Lap Needs To Have a Sock Shoved In It Now. “Cuomo so believed his own hype that he’s been doing an unseemly victory lap, acting as if he’s cured COVID. He held a press conference where he unveiled this strange papier mâché green mountain to explain New York’s COVID curve. Cuomo obviously thought it made him look clever, but he really looked like the dumb, lazy kid at a middle school science fair.”
A FIVE-FIGURE EDUCATION REBATE MIGHT BE POPULAR WITH VOTERS:
SITTING PRETTY IN THE BALABAC STRAIT: Aircraft assigned to the carrier USS Nimitz wait on the flight deck. Balabac Strait? Glad you asked. The Balabac Strait connects the Sulu Sea to the South China Sea. The strait passes between a Filipino island and several small Malaysian islands just north of Borneo. This column discusses the “strengthened” American policy in the South China Sea U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo announced last week.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Letter to The Telegraph on the Goya Foods Boycott.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: A new intelligentsia is pushing back against wokeness.