WOW: Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI, And The Results Are Incredible.
This is similar to what Peter Jackson did with old WWI footage for They Shall Not Grow Old.
Archive for 2020
July 20, 2020
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A HIT, BUT BY WHO? Federal judge’s son shot and killed, husband injured in attack at their NJ home. “Investigators have preliminary information that the shootings were carried out by someone dressed as a FedEx driver, according to multiple law enforcement sources.”
UPDATE: Hmm. Judge Esther Salas Assigned to Epstein Deutsche Bank Case 4 Days Before Husband, Son Shot. Of course, federal judges handle a lot of cases, and the ones people get shot over may not be the ones that seem most interesting to outsiders. And the husband is a criminal defense lawyer who may have his own issues and enemies. But.
ANOTHER UPDATE: First link at ABC has stopped working for some reason; it was good just a few minutes ago. Try this one.
I WAS TOLD THAT THIS WAS JUST ABOUT CONFEDERATE GENERALS: Catholic churches across U.S. suffer week of vandalism and arson.
Flashback: Why Rioters Will Eventually Turn Their Rage On Christianity If Not Stopped. Of course leftists hate Christianity. Leftism was created in mockery of Christianity as Orcs were created in mockery of the Elves.
TAMARA KEEL ON THE CURRENT GUN-BUYING WAVE: A Different Flavor of Panic. “Available evidence shows that there are a large number of first-time buyers looking for something to defend home and hearth, rather than existing gun hobbyists adding a twelfth or thirteenth AR15 to an existing collection. . . . The other signal is that the quintessential American Normie Home Defense Long Gun, the 12 gauge pump action, is selling like hotcakes and sometimes at crazy prices.”
People are preparing for civil disorder, and no longer trust the police to protect them.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Virginia Mandates Slavery Lessons for Kindergarteners.
HISTORY DOESN’T REPEAT ITSELF, BUT IT OFTEN RHYMES: ON Friday, the rioters went after the Columbus statue in Chicago’s Grant Park. They didn’t succeed. But I’m a Chicago girl, so I’m livid.
A number of people keep comparing our present situation to the Weimar Republic. Since I am not exactly the world’s leading expert on the Weimar Republic, I asked my go-to guy for absurdly detailed knowledge of “commies and nazis”–my friend and colleague Maimon Schwarzschild–how apt the analogy is. Here is his detailed answer:
Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was a deeply troubled state throughout much of its 14 year existence. It came into being with defeat in World War I; it was seen by many Germans, especially those on the political Right, as an illegitimate creature of the Versailles Treaty. It endured hyperinflation in the early 1920s, demilitarisation and some loss of territory, persistent unemployment, and an especially harsh experience of the world economic depression after 1929. It was plagued with violence and political street fighting, carried on by what amounted to private armies associated with the political parties in Germany.
There were at least four such private armies: the Communist force (“Rotfront” or Red Front); the Social-Democrats’ Reichsbanner; the “Stahlhelm” or Steel Helmet – a right-wing but originally non-Nazi armed veterans’ troop; and the Nazi SA (“Sturmabteilung” or Storm Troops).
These private armies – and other similar but more ephemeral forces – fought street battles with each other at various times during the 1920s and early ‘30s. There were short-lived take-overs of cities and towns, and attempted coups like the right-wing Kapp Putsch in 1920 and the Nazi Beer-Hall Putsch in 1923. There were local Communist takeovers after the War and in the early 1920s, usually suppressed by right-wing “Freikorps” – unofficial right-wing brigades. (My grandfather Fritz Schwarzschild was a member of the Soviet which ruled Strassburg for about ten days, until chased off by the French Army which recaptured the city after World War I.)
GO TO UNIVERSAL VOUCHERS, IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Betsy DeVos: If Schools Won’t Reopen Then Perhaps Families Should Get Those Education Funds Directly.
CHANGE: Phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked. Under the change, the FCC said carriers can block calls “from bad-actor upstream voice service providers that pass illegal or unwanted calls along to other providers, when those upstream providers have been notified but fail to take action to stop these calls.” Carriers that impose this type of blocking will get a safe harbor from liability ‘for the unintended or inadvertent blocking of wanted calls, thus eliminating a concern that kept some companies from implementing robust robocall blocking efforts’.”
KAROL MARKOWICZ: We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously wrong.
THERE ARE VIRTUALLY NO MODERATE DEMS LEFT RUNNING FOR OFFICE: Senate Dem Running Against Black Republican Thinks It’s a Good Idea to Push the ‘1619 Project.’
HISTORY: My Nigerian Grandfather Sold Slaves. “Nwaubani Ogogo lived in a time when the fittest survived and the bravest excelled. The concept of ‘all men are created equal’ was completely alien to traditional religion and law in his society. It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles. Assessing the people of Africa’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains, denying us the right to fully celebrate anyone who was not influenced by Western ideology.”
There’s a mythology that white slave traders ran around the bush kidnapping Africans, but that’s bunk, of course — they’d pretty much all have died. They bought African slaves from Africans. My brother talked to people in Ghana about that some years ago, and they reflected little guilt: Back then if you lost a war, you either died or were enslaved. That’s just how it worked.
One of the reasons Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon couldn’t get published when she wrote it was that the black literary community didn’t like that it portrayed the extent of African complicity in slavery. But history is history, despite efforts to rewrite it.