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Archive for 2020
December 8, 2020
R.I.P. TO THE MAN WITH THE RIGHT STUFF: Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, dead at 97.
December 7, 2020
OPEN THREAD: People talk.
UYGHUR LIVES MATTER, TOO: Woke Corps Lobby D.C. to Keep Their Slaves. America is racist, but don’t make us free our slaves.
As Jim Geraghty wrote in October, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
IT’S TOUGH TO PICTURE BROADWAY JOE OR DANDY DON ISSUING A GROVELING APOLOGY OVER THIS: UNLV’s Max Gilliam regrets eating sushi off nude model on Bravo’s Below Deck.
THINK OF THEM AS LOYAL PARTY APPARATCHIKS AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: David Harsanyi: Journalists Turn on Free Expression.
MARK JUDGE: The World’s Worst Self-Help Guru.
FITTING THE SMARTPHONE UP YOUR NOSE IS STILL UNCOMFORTABLE, THOUGH: New CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 uses a smartphone camera.
SEASON TWO OF ‘THE CHOSEN’ IS COMING: Season one was a crowd-funded miracle. Instapundit readers will be cheered to know one of the geniuses behind it is Matthew Faraci of Inspire Buzz.
Little-Known Fact: Matt is a veteran of the Bush II administration at the Department of Labor where he labored (get it?!) to make unions fess up about their finances. Check out the trailer:
OUR OTHER ONGOING HEALTH CRISIS. Gallup Poll: Americans’ Mental Health Hits 20-Year Low Ahead of Renewed Lockdowns.
FROM BEATDOWNS TO LOCKDOWNS: Pandemic Penitents. During the Black Death, the day’s public-health experts prescribed public floggings to stop the plague. Today’s experts favor a less bloody but more damaging form of penance. Instead of prescribing simple and easy steps like taking vitamin D, they insist the public suffer lockdowns.
MY HOVERCRAFT IS FULL OF EELS: Guests at gay sex party where Hungarian MEP was arrested thought cops were ‘part of the fun’ and ‘tried to undo their pants.’
Classical reference in headline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Gn6a3WbYw
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Prepare Your Rifle for Home Defense.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Georgia Debate: Democrat Raphael Warnock Evades Challenge to Denounce Socialism, Marxism.
And right on cue: Hot new conspiracy theory: Photo shows Sen. Kelly Loeffler wearing a wire during debate (and people have thoughts).
Exit quote: “This is the liberal way of admitting that Loeffler won the debate.”
Earlier: The Morning Briefing: Trump Flexes His Rally Muscle In GA and It Is Glorious.
DECEITFUL: NBC Edits Video of Restaurant Owner Exposing NBC Comedy’s Catering.
Over the weekend, a video of Angela Marsden, the owner of the Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill of Los Angeles, protesting the city shutting down outdoor dining with no scientific basis went viral. The video showed Marsden’s emotional plea for help as she exposed how a similar set of tents and tables were set up in the same parking lot to cater a film production approved by the city.
Only part of Marsden’s comments made it onto NBC’s Sunday Today. But reporter Meagan Fitzgerald deceptively edited out Marsden pointing to the hypocrisy with the tents and tables. Worse yet, NBC covered up the fact that the catering was for NBC’s comedy show, Good Girls.
More: Rick Santelli Demands CNBC Panel Defend Big Box Stores Opening While Churches, Restaurants Closed.
NOT THE BEE: This liberal ‘reverend’ is here to remind us that Marxism is a mind virus.
I’m not a Biblical scholar, but “Christmas season is about God choosing a woman to lead a revolution of re-organizing the structures of societal power by her leadership, tenderness, and faith” doesn’t exactly jibe with my understanding of the Gospel.
BECAUSE IT’S 2020, THE KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKENS HAVE FINALLY COME HOME TO ROOST: Mario Lopez’s Colonel Sanders Has ‘A Recipe for Seduction’ in Lifetime Movie Spoof.
Lifetime’s latest original movie has all of the genre’s most familiar tropes—deception, threats, forbidden love and attempted murder—along with a surprising twist: One of the characters is KFC’s Colonel Harland Sanders.
Yes, this is a joke—but it’s also a real Lifetime movie. Or, actually, what the network is calling a “Lifetime original mini-movie.” A Recipe for Seduction—starring Mario Lopez as the KFC founder—is a 15-minute branded content collaboration from Lifetime, KFC and agency Wieden+Kennedy Portland, and debuts on the cable network this Sunday, Dec. 13, at noon ET.
The program, which sends up Lifetime’s signature soapy films, focuses on a young heiress whose devious mother has hand-picked her suitor, but finds herself falling instead for Lopez’s Sanders, a new chef with a secret … fried chicken recipe.
The trailer is packed with the moments that Lifetime movies are famous for, with lines like “we all have our secrets” and a scene featuring Lopez bound and gagged as the mother barks, “Just kill him already!”
“We all have our secrets” – including that Col. Sanders (in his previous incarnation as a real man) is no stranger to Hollywood:
ENGINEERING: The Tech and Training behind Why F1 Racer Grosjean Is Alive Today.
When this happened, a recent former student who drag races professionally remarked that having been in numerous crashes and fires she really appreciates the engineers.
REFILL THE SWAMP: Biden Taps Planned Parenthood Lackey Xavier Becerra to Head HHS.