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Archive for 2020
March 2, 2020
TAMARA KEEL: Double-stack Subcompact Pistols in the 21st Century.
SHE’S NOT VERY BRIGHT: AOC Invokes Jesus, Compares Religious Freedom to White Supremacy, Slavery, Segregation.
CORONAVIRUS TAKES OUT AIDE TO IRAN’S “SUPREME LEADER.”
Exit question: “If the Israelis do come up with a vaccine for the coronavirus as some reports suggest, will Iran purchase it?”
UGH: 18-Year-Old SUV Driver Deliberately Runs Over Four Teens On Sidewalk.
Four teenagers were injured when an 18-year-old driver intentionally ran them over as they were walking on the sidewalk in Burlingame, California. Two of the victims suffered serious injuries and were taken to Stanford Hospital, while the other two teens were taken to a different hospital with less severe injuries.
The SUV driver, identified as Omeed Adibi, struck a fire hydrant after he mowed them down.
Video at the link, motive a safe assumption.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. A Fracking Ban Would Hurt Farmers, Families, And Western States. “According to the new analysis by economic modeling firm OnLocation, which relied on a model originally developed by the Entergy Information Administration, a fracking ban would slash household incomes by $5,400 annually. The cumulative economic loss would be $7.1 trillion by 2030.”
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Will Instagram filters alter our view of beauty and who we are?
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF YOUTH: Joe Biden, 77, Becomes Youngest Male Candidate in Democrat Primary.
Which makes Donald Trump, at a spritely 73, the youngest male candidate running for the presidency in 2020. And as Nathan Wurtzel tweets, “At 70, Elizabeth Warren is the youngest major party candidate remaining in the race.”
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: SNL host John Mulvaney says senators should stab Trump just like they did Julius Caesar.
DOES IT CHANGE WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR PRONOUNS? Blood flow differs in men, women.
BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar Drops Out, Actually Makes an Endorsement.
RELATED? Klobuchar rally in Minnesota canceled amid protests. “According to videos that emerged on social media, the senator’s rally was set in St. Louis Park, Minn., at a local high school. WCCO-CBS Minnesota reported that the protesters made their way into the rally and onstage, where they continued chanting. After a 40-minute delay, the rally was canceled.”
For over a decade, I’ve been saying that we’ve been living through an extraordinary moment in human history – the conscious self-extinction of some of the oldest nations on the planet. Also for over a decade, I’ve been saying that if I had to pick a Continental country that would surrender to Sharia first, I’d plump for Sweden. As Laura noticed the other day, in a land that fifty years ago was almost entirely ethnically homogeneous, an increasing number of Swedish grade schools now have a student body whose first language is Arabic. Within thirty years, ethnic Swedes will be a minority in Sweden.
How do you manage such a transition? Obviously, you make it a hate crime even to raise the subject, you racist you. Still and all, people do tend to notice these things. So maybe it’s time to move to the next phase and make the total transformation of cultural mores a sexy lifestyle choice. The above magazine cover is from Swedish Elle, hailing Imane Asry’s stylish hijab as the “Look of the Year”.
There’s an utterly charming Irving Berlin song from a century ago:
The Girl I Love Is On The Magazine Cover
Now the girl I love is on the magazine covered. That’s not an improvement.
Plus some thoughts on Woody Gutherie’s “‘This Land Is Your Land’ Is Still Private Property, Court Rules.” Read the whole thing.
WELL, THAT’S A TAKE, EH? Toronto Star Refers To The Coronavirus As The Wayne Gretzky Of Viruses.
POSTMODERN PROBLEMS: Effort to Limit Marijuana Potency Coming to Colorado?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate student workers striking for higher pay.
MEDIA DARLING KATIE HILL SAYS SHE PLANNED TO LIE TO MEDIA UNTIL SCANDAL PASSED:
Former California congresswoman Katie Hill (D.) admitted in a new profile that she initially planned to lie about the “throuple” relationship with a campaign staffer that came to light in October.
“You know, honestly, it was one of those things where it was like, Well, I’ll just deny it, [emphasis in original]” Hill told New York magazine writer Caitlin Moscatello. “Morgan [the staffer] is not accusing me of anything. She doesn’t want it to come out any more than I do.”
“Plenty of politicians lie, but it’s rare for one to tell a reporter it was her game plan,” Moscatello wrote.
It seems that New York attempted to rehabilitate Katie Hill’s reputation (see also, Hill’s recent partying with CNN’s Brian Stelter and Olivier Darcy). Unfortunately, they also interviewed Katie Hill. The result are a series of self-damning moments. Here are just a few:
This was in early December as Hill scrambled to form a new life after photos of her — some of which she said were taken without her consent — were published online in mid-October. One shows Hill nude, brushing the hair of a junior female campaign staffer, Morgan (referred to here only by first name), in a hotel room. In others, there is Hill naked, holding a bong, with a tattoo of an iron cross — a Nazi-associated symbol used by white supremacists — near her groin; Hill and Morgan kissing. The articles accompanying them include private text messages among Hill, Morgan, and Hill’s estranged husband, Kenneth Heslep, detailing a three-way romantic relationship, as well as a claim by Heslep from a since-deleted Facebook post that Hill had had an affair with her male legislative director, Graham Kelly.
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Later that same year, she went to Cancún with a friend, and they decided to get tattoos. Hill chose what she thought was a symbol of independence — a thick black cross that looked like the logo for the skater brand Independent Truck Company — and had the tattoo artist drill the symbol into her groin. “I was just stupid, drunk, and traumatized,” she said. “There was a self-harm element to it that was, you know, marking this as my space.”
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A tenet of the Me Too movement is that a person can’t fully consent, not really, anyway, to someone who wields power over him or her. During her campaign, Hill often tweeted about Me Too issues of harassment and abuse. As the candidate, she was inarguably at the top rung of her campaign team. Yet she said she didn’t feel like she was in charge, not when she was barely 30 and most staffers were in their 20s. “We joked about this a lot. Morgan was way more my boss than I was hers,” said Hill, “because she got me to places on time. So yes, I recognize that I had power, but also it just wasn’t like that at the time … I was a fucking person that was a few years older than her, and we got wrapped up in this movement of trying to do something, and I happened to be the face of it. But to me, she was just as responsible for it, you know?”
Early in their relationship, Hill, Heslep, and Morgan traveled to Alaska together, where Heslep took the photo of Hill nude, brushing Morgan’s hair. In the picture, Hill is staring down and Morgan is looking toward the lens. Hill said she didn’t know he was taking the shot, which appears to be candid. There is another photo of Hill and Morgan, also in the hotel, both clothed and smiling at the camera. She said she knew about that one but not another image that appears to have been taken just moments before or after, in which the two women are kissing. “I don’t think I would have been okay with that,” she said. “Well, I definitely wouldn’t have been okay with that.”
While only a few senior campaign staffers officially knew about the relationship, “it started to become more and more of an open secret,” according to one former team member. “People started to connect two and two together: [Morgan] is not a senior staff member; why is she at Katie’s house?”
Found via Seth Mandel of the Washington Examiner, who tweets, “Fascinated by the Hill beatification. Abusing your power differential to have sex with subordinates was frowned upon in the prudish old days of 2019.”
“Imagine for a minute the outrage a male Republican congressman would receive (rightfully!) if he uttered this Katie Hill statement —> ‘But to me, she [23 year old subordinate] was just as responsible for it, you know?’”, Jesse Hunt, National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director, adds.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: The Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for March 2, 2020. “Biden’s back, Bernie’s coronation is postponed, Buttigieg and Steyer are Out, Bloomberg sucks up to China, Super Tuesday looms, and Biden seeks help from the Holy Roman Empire.”
THE WAGES OF PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH IRANIANS: Will Sen. Chris Murphy infect the entire US Senate with COVID-19?