Archive for 2020
September 14, 2020
NO, J.K. ROWLING ISN’T DEAD. TRANS ACTIVISTS JUST WANT TO ‘CANCEL’ HER NEW BOOK:
On Monday, transgender activists took to Twitter with the message “#RIPJKRowling.” Since the hashtag got trending, Twitter added a message, “No, JK Rowling is not dead.” Transgender activists used the hashtag to condemn the Harry Potter author’s new book, Troubled Blood.
That’s not creepy at all.
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APOCALYPTIC THREAT, IN THE ATLANTIC: The Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede.
RULE OF LAW: Federal Court Rules Pennsylvania’s Lockdown Order Unconstitutional. “Population-wide lockdown orders are ‘such a dramatic inversion of the concept of liberty in a free society as to be nearly presumptively unconstitutional’ wrote U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV.”
Related: Wisconsin Supreme Court Overrules County’s Order, Allows Private Schools to Open. The court: “A reading that gives carte blanche authority to a local health officer to issue any dictate she wants, without limit, would call into question its compatibility with our constitutional structure.”
Plus: “Overriding the choices of parents and schools, who also undoubtedly care about the health and safety of their teachers and families, intrudes upon the freedoms ordinarily retained by the people under our constitutional design.”
Those who saw my legislative testimony from a couple of weeks ago may be less surprised.
IRONY: Protector of Brazil’s Indigenous Groups Fatally Shot With Arrow by Isolated Tribe. “The tribe ‘are known as a peaceful group,’ Uchida told AFP in an email.”
I guess make that “mostly peaceful” now.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BIDEN RIOTS: Violent protest erupts in Lancaster, PA over an obviously justified police shooting.
Related: The Atlantic: If Trump wins, Democrats will respond with ‘mass unrest.’
Nice town you have. Shame if something were to happen to it…
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): As Four Alleged Arson Suspects are Arrested for Wildfires, Media Fans the Flames of Climate Change.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: California Agency Took Nine Years to Create Fire Map. Gov. Brown vetoed a measure that tried to get the agency ‘off the dime.’
The article is from 2018, but remarkably timely.
And from America’s Newspaper of Record: ‘California Is The Progressive Utopia Of The Future!’ Says Gavin Newsom Who Is Currently On Fire.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): As Four Alleged Arson Suspects are Arrested for Wildfires, Media Fans the Flames of Climate Change.
CANCEL CULTURE COMES TO CRONKITE:
The spread of “cancel culture” in newsrooms — declaring people henceforth “canceled” from society owing to ideological disagreements — is nothing new. Look no further than the hysterical reaction to Senator Tom Cotton’s New York Times op-ed urging government to use its authorities under the Insurrection Act to “restore order to our streets” amid riots and looting. Newsroom activists flooded Twitter, objecting to its publication. The opinion editor was forced out. And the Times attached a note at the top of the op-ed (nearly 40 percent as long as the piece itself) apologizing for daring to publish the opinion of a sitting U.S. senator.
It was entertaining that Cotton’s tame commentary provoked such a disproportionate meltdown from those who consider themselves serious journalists. But that this scourge is seeping into local campus newsrooms is deeply worrisome — and seep it has.
The first sign of cancel culture bubbling up at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication involved Sonya Duhé, whom the university named dean this spring. Her tenure was cut short almost instantly after she published a tweet praying for “the good police officers who keep us safe.”
The protest-allied campus revolted against the incoming dean’s “racist” tweet and provoked a former student to accuse Duhé of committing “four years of microaggressions” against her. Other students would come forward to allege that she had made similar “microaggressive comments” to them.
It wasn’t one week before the Cronkite School revoked its offer and pledged to be more “inclusive” moving forward.
The massively biased Cronkite was the original Democratic Party operative with a byline, moving further and further left during his lengthy career, so I’m assuming he’d be perfectly fine with their embrace of cancel culture today.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
CHANGE: AstraZeneca, Oxford resume COVID-19 vaccine trials after one fell ill. “AstraZeneca, which has been working with the University of Oxford as the trial sponsor, announced a pause in the global trials after one of its volunteers fell ill with an unexplained illness Sunday. . . . The volunteer experienced neurological symptoms linked to a rare spinal inflammatory disorder transverse myelitis.”
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Woke, Anti-Trump MCU Stars Silent on Disney-China Ties.
It’s worth noting a crush of progressive stars reportedly refused to work in Georgia last year after the state enacted strict laws regarding abortion. Disney co-CEO Bob Iger was part of that movement, saying it would be “very difficult” for the mega company to use Georgia locales following the decision.
The company had previously shot parts of both “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Endgame” in Georgia.
Need more context on what’s happening in that Chinese province? Here’s some testimony from citizens who were detained in the concentration camps, again courtesy of PBS:
Of life inside the camps, she remembers being surrounded by bars and mesh wire, cameras everywhere, and brutal treatment.
Twice, she says, she was made to sit on a hard chair for 24 hours. She went to the bathroom where she sat.
And “if you exceeded two minutes in the toilet, they hit our heads with an electric prod…”
“They beat us, hit us and shouted at us,” Rahima says, adding that some people being held at the camps killed themselves.
Disney’s reliance on China as a filming, distribution, and theme park location also explains their soft news coverage of the Communist nation:
Flashback: Biden Sold Out America To China While Working For Hollywood.
And from America’s Newspaper of Record: Disney Editing Blunder: An Uighur Concentration Camp Can Be Clearly Seen In The Background Of ‘Mulan.’
QUESTION ASKED: Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?
Wasn’t the question of life on Venus settled decades ago?
SHE SAYS SHE WANTS TO BE AN ADVOCATE FOR “PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE ME.” Claflin graduate Faith McKie nominated for NCAA Women of the Year Award. Yes, the insanely hot are in dire need of representation.
VDH: Biden, ‘The Great and Powerful.’
When asked point-blank on Fox News by Brett Baier whether Biden used a stealth teleprompter, his national press flak, T.J. Ducklo would not answer with a simple yes or no. Instead, he went on the attack, with the fossilized accusation that right-wing Fox News asks too many partisan questions.
So we were left with a de facto “yes”: Biden does read off a stealthy teleprompter when answering canned press questions—and gives the impression he does not.
But Biden, like the mirage of the Wizard of Oz, nonetheless can’t always keep the curtain closed.
When he strains to see the teleprompter that sits just behind, and thus out of sight of, his camera lens, he slips and mutters “bring it closer”—reminding any who watch, except the media that helps collude in these orchestrations, that the question asked is not a serious one, but a prompt to facilitate the proper nonspontaneous response.
Yet even then Biden cannot act out the part of the Star Trek federation’s addled [John] Gill without someone either giving him the prewritten answer on the teleprompter or writing it out for him in real-time. Sometimes if Biden is not reading a hidden teleprompter script, he looks down in panic for notes or his smartphone instructions in ways that only expose the sheer ridiculousness of this faux media-staged event.
Sometimes he shows off family pictures on screen that seemingly inadvertently reflect and expose the ghostly presence of a teleprompter’s reflection in the background. On other occasions when speaking, Biden searches in vain for his “schedule” and asks handlers to fetch it, whatever that exactly means.
In a presidential campaign first, Biden even reads out the written directives of his controllers as if to say “I’m not really saying this myself, but so what?”
At least Obama’s nihilism was his carefully cultivated philosophical choice. Biden’s campaign is the ultimate “show about nothing.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
Note young girl holding sign with the Antifa-approved messaging of “ACAB” (“all cops are bastards”).