WEIRD HOW OUR INFOTAINMENT INDUSTRY THAT PROFITS MIGHTILY FROM CHINA IS BARELY COVERING THIS: China Literally Murdering Babies. “And this time not exclusively the unborn kind. Namely they’re murdering Uighur babies.”
Archive for 2020
August 25, 2020
HARSH BUT FAIR:
PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION INTENSIFIED: ‘How is this tweet real? NYT’s spin on Kenosha in flames is truly ‘Orwellian:’
“How’s this for a ratio? Gettin’ pretty crispy. Well deserved, we’d say.”
How intensified was the peacefulness? Here’s What Happened When a Kenosha Rioter Pulled a Gun on a Reporter: “Townhall’s own Julio Rosas is on the ground reporting. He recorded rioters pouring gasoline on garbage trucks before setting them on fire…This rioter didn’t just brandish a weapon. He literally pulled the gun out of his pants, pointed the firearm at the reporter and pulled the trigger. Not to mention he threatened to actually shoot police officers if one came nearby.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
TYLER O’NEIL: 5 Things to Know About Night 1 of the Republican National Convention.
Related (From Ed): In contrast, the DNC-MSM only want you to know one thing about it:
IF REPUBLICANS HAD GONADS: They would greet Nancy Pelosi the next time she appears on the floor of the House of Representatives with the chant “Apologize! Apologize!” and then walk out in unison when she refuses.
They cannot simply give her a pass on her declaration that Trump and Republicans in Congress are “enemies of the state,” not after what happened to Steve Scalise and others on June 14, 2017, and with radical left-wingers rioting in the streets of America.
Words have specific meaning and consequences. Pelosi knows Democrats could control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue come January 2021. Her declaration makes clear it is not only Trump Derangement Syndrome but obsessive hatred of all opposition. What is she laying the predicate for should her party regain control of both branches? Blood politics?
Asking for a friend.
SECOND THOUGHTS: I Was Wrong About Trump. He Didn’t Destroy the GOP, He Saved It.
The intervening years since Trump won the White House have done nothing to inspire a renewed confidence in our political and expert class. The coronavirus no doubt represents challenges for Trump’s reelection, as it would for any incumbent. But Democrats in Congress and in governor’s mansions across the country have not exactly covered themselves in glory during the pandemic. Nor have they inspired confidence by their inaction in the face of widespread rioting and urban unrest in recent months. Amid the chaos, they appear weak and confused, afraid of the mob and the virus alike, oftentimes unable to articulate a vision even for re-opening schools.
Biden inspires no confidence. He now leads a party riven by internal tensions and contradictions, a coalition that will not likely hold together in defeat, and will certainly crumble in victory. His presidency would be dominated by Harris and bullied by the ascendant left wing of the Democratic Party. His pitch to America, such that it is, seems to be more of a plea that at least he isn’t Trump, he’s just a kindly old man who will be decent and do whatever his advisors tell him to do.
None of this is to say that Trump is a shoe-in come November. But win or lose, he has done something for the GOP that Biden cannot do for Democratic Party: he has helped clarify what the Republican Party is about and whose interests it serves, and by taking on the GOP establishment, he has done much to save the party from itself.
Nobody wants a party run by the John Kasichs and Jeff Flakes.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Democratic National Convention Fell Flat with Viewers. “The Democratic National Convention failed to draw many viewers this year making things look worse for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris than expected.”
I was pleased that I was able to work in James Lileks’ “the soft bigotry of Joe expectations.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: CBS News Challenges Your Sanity, Plus KFC Goes Cuckoo for COVID.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Who is Joe Biden, really?
Answer: Seriously, we need to know. After last night’s RNC we can’t remember.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
• CBS News turns that gaslight down yet again
• Looting phone cases for justice
• A kind word of advice on kindness
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
Over the last few years, a solution has evolved for the growing problem with space debris and the number of satellites damaged or destroyed by tiny bits of orbiting space junk. While there has never been complete cooperation between the nations putting the most satellites into orbit, there has been growing willingness to share some data about space debris.
There are a growing number of satellites in orbit and most of them are commercial, not military. While the military sats seek to conceal their location, and often move around a lot to do that, the more numerous commercial communications, scientific and observation satellites don’t. The more numerous clouds of space debris have become a growing threat, especially to satellites that cannot move. The solution was the development of better analytic and graphic tools that enable commercial satellite operators predict where the growing number of debris swarms are and how that data changes over time.
It’s the latest StrategyPage Space update. The update includes a discussion of the Space Fence Surveillance System Radar on Kwajalein Atoll.
PAVE HAWK STARTS TO REV ITS ROTORS: A USAF HH-60G Pave Hawk at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, conducts a pre-flight inspection prior to participating in a combat rescue exercise. Photo taken Aug. 17, 2020.
NICE: F-35 Will Finally Go into Full Production Next March, Acquisitions Chief Says. “More than 440 F-35s have been delivered around the world as of October 2019; full rate production approval would allow Lockheed to start producing upward of 160 aircraft per year.”
ROGER SIMON: Accentuating the Positive at the Republican Convention.
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Pro-Trump Mother Speaks Out After Women Rip Up Signs, Steal MAGA Hat From Son.