Archive for 2020
January 5, 2020
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Exercise may keep your brain healthy.
KHAMENEI’S KABUKI CONCLUDED: Iran Abandons 2015 Nuclear Deal After U.S. Airstrike That Killed Top General.
WELL, TO BEGIN WITH THE PRESS IS MOSTLY GARBAGE. Bari Weiss Criticizes Lack of ‘Moral Clarity’ in Coverage of Recent Anti-Semitic Attacks.
“Imagine after the horrific massacre at the Walmart in El Paso, which was motivated by hatred of immigrants and Hispanics, if the press had said that this massacre was a result of communal friction, that it was complicated, that it needed proper context, that the problem was really gentrification or economic inequality or even racism, the moral bankruptcy of that would be immediately apparent to everyone. And yet that’s the kind of thing that we are hearing about the violence that’s breaking out in places like Crown Heights, Borough Park, Williamsburg, Jersey City, and now Monsey with the machete attack. We’re not hearing the kind of moral clarity that we hear when the attacker is a white supremacist, and the question is why? And that is a question the press needs to answer for itself.”
Because the press has the goal of keeping some sectors of society inflamed, and other sectors of society subdued. It’s not that hard to figure out.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Toronto police threaten Rebel journalist for calling Qasem Soleimani a “terrorist” (video).
AT AMAZON, save in Arts Crafts and Sewing.
1970: IN FIFTY YEARS WE’LL HAVE MOONBASES AND FLYING CARS!
2020: Illinois shops excited to sell bongs as pot law takes effect.
TO BE FAIR, THERE’S ALREADY AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY DEVOTED TO MASS VOTER MANIPULATION. IT’S CALLED THE NEWS MEDIA. Massive New Cambridge Analytica Leak Will Show Global Voter Manipulation on ‘Industrial Scale.’
BUT THE FEDS HAVE BEEN FOBBING LOW-FAT MILK OFF ON SCHOOLKIDS FOR DECADES: Drinking whole milk may reduce risk for obesity in children, analysis suggests.
KEVIN WILLIAMSON: De Blasio’s Domino’s outrage sums up why businesses are fleeing NYC.
In New York, the problem is getting home at night. In much of California, the problem is having a home to go to, with artificial restrictions on building new housing causing runaway inflation in housing prices. In a sense, Bay Area real estate is expensive for the same reason as Times Square pizza on New Year’s Eve: Entry into the marketplace is artificially restricted. There are ways around that, from regulatory reform to more sensible tax policies. Instead, progressives such as San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who calls herself “pro-housing,” impose policies that make it harder to be a developer or a landlord, for instance politically motivated restrictions on the allocation of affordable-housing units. That’s one reason why San Francisco has seen only one new unit of affordable housing built for every nine new low-wage and moderate-wage jobs created since 2016.
Partly that is genuine ignorance — they hate capitalism so much that they never bothered to learn how it works and why. Part of it is the need for political scapegoats — for every disappointment in this vale of tears, there is a cackling Scrooge McDuck swan-diving into a pile of gold doubloons, and he is to blame.
Read the whole thing.
THERE WAS A KING OF QUEENS EPISODE ABOUT THIS, I BELIEVE: My Wife’s Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too. “Not that this happens right away. When you start dating someone, you don’t have to hate the people that person hates. You can accept your date’s resentments without making them your own. . . . But as your relationship broadens and deepens and solidifies; their enemies become yours. And whether or not you hated them before, you certainly hate them now.”
GET WOKE, GO BROKE. John Nolte: 11 Ways Kathleen Kennedy Killed the Star Wars Golden Goose. “Had you told me in 2015 that as a film franchise Star Wars would be dead in five years, that it would survive only as a television show, I would have called you crazy… But here we are, it’s 2020, and as a film franchise Star Wars is dead.”
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK COMMENTS, “I’VE READ TOO MUCH TOLKIEN TO TRUST A SURVEILLANCE DEVICE NAMED ‘RING.'” Ring Throws Customers Under the Bus After Data Breach.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
—The London Independent, yesterday.
Chaser: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.
—The London Independent, March 20, 2000.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN:) The SJW crowd is going after Meatloaf, but this time I think they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.
CLASSIC WEBSITE SOMETHINGAWFUL GETS WOKE, GOES BROKE. “If you’ve been following this is one of the worst instances I’ve ever seen of a community just getting wrecked from the inside out by over-zealous attempts to adhere to catty identity politics.”
There are management problems, too, but those usually go with getting woke. But the most important thing is that when people like this appear in your world, you need to mock them, chase them out, and absolutely refuse to give in to them even on minor things, because they’lll just immediately demand more. Treat them like the crazy, toxic people that they are.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ‘I didn’t do it!’: Monty Python star Terry Gilliam tired of white men ‘being blamed for everything.’
Flashback: “Just ask the surviving members of Python, who are discovering the hard way that all leftwing revolutions eventually devour their own.”
SOMEBODY’S STUDIED HIS SAUL ALINSKY: Ted Cruz pushes Senate resolution praising Soleimani mission, daring Dems to oppose.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Are you ready for environmental reparations to fund the Green New Deal?
The leftists participating in the weekly Fire Drill Fridays want to eliminate the fossil fuel industry and take all the money from the energy industry companies. They tout wealth redistribution from fossil fuel companies as the piggy bank to fund the Green New Deal. In other words, take the profits of capitalism and give the money to a socialist takeover of the energy sector. Sound good?
A woman named Tamara To’L, described as an Environmental Strategist delivered an aggressive message to the crowd. She conflated climate change and racism as she tried to get the crowd fired up. “Shout out if you want to destroy fossil fuel capitalists.” That sounds almost like inciting violence, doesn’t it? “Let me hear your vigor for ending racism while you do it.” “We need to make them pay today.” Her speech sounded like an all-purpose rant as she vented about people “who look like her” and her local roots. Her proposal is to redistribute “trillions” of dollars to pay for the Green New Deal. Jane Fonda, the founder of these weekly protests, sat behind Tamara on the stage and nodded her head in approval, yelling along with the crowd in response.
Is it me or does Jane Fonda look a lot less energetic than when she began these Friday protests? She still wears the red coat and hats but she seems to be running out of steam. Next week will be the last scheduled Fire Drill Fridays protest – she has to get back to her day job and film the next season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie – so maybe she is just winding down.
Fonda is employed by Netflix? How dare you! “Your Netflix binge-watching makes climate change worse, say experts.”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Shot: Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned. Why do these quarterbacks have NFL deals?
—Slate, October 11, 2019.
As Sonny Bunch tweets, “Gee, it’s a mystery why no head coach wants this complete non-headache backup player in his locker room.”
Also, Kaepernick’s tweets raise a question. Since Nike used him as “a mascot of the anointed” when they quoted him for PR purposes by cancelling the Betsy Ross flag during Fourth of July week last summer, that means they endorse his views above on Iran and America, right?