REMEMBER WHEN THE ARGUMENT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION WAS THAT IT TAUGHT CRITICAL THINKING? Once again, a Stanford professor is in hot water for reading a racial slur in context.
Archive for 2020
May 31, 2020
THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: “Hope Walz is the daughter of the Governor of Minnesota.”
THIS IS A GOOD THING, AND EVERYONE ON THE RIGHT I’VE SEEN DISCUSSING THIS HAS BEEN ENTIRELY SUPPORTIVE: Black Civilians Arm Themselves To Protest Racial Violence and Protect Black-Owned Businesses.
THE CLEANUP CONTINUES: FBI’s top lawyer, Dana Boente, ousted amid Fox News criticism for role in Flynn investigation. “After a 38-year career with the Justice Department, the FBI’s top lawyer Dana Boente was asked to resign on Friday. Two sources familiar with the decision to dismiss Boente said it came from high levels of the Justice Department rather than directly from FBI Director Christopher Wray.”
NBC has to try to spin it by mentioning Fox, but that actually just boosts the power of “Fox News criticism” regarding others. In fact, this whole story is a lesson in how the press tries to minimize a story that it feels it has to report.
And of course it didn’t come from Wray. He’s complicit.
B-1B SELFIES: B1-B mechanics take selfies as a bomber overflies Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Hey, it’s the 21st century.
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PAUL BEDARD: White House Report Card: Trump moves to punish China, nation reopens.
I’ve noticed that the TV commercials have gone from lachrymose, piano-dribbling quarantine themes to something more open and optimistic.
AT AMAZON, Face Mask, Pack of 50.
END THE LOCKDOWN. STOP THE RIOTS: If people are free to smash up streets, they should be free to go to a bar or swimming pool.
We’ll know in about 10 to 14 days if the past 90 days have been worth it. Mass crowds gathered in DC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Denver and the virus hot spot of New York, all ignoring the past three months of warnings from CDC experts, the White House, the World Health Organization and state officials. Should there be a spike, much like the one we’ve all been warned is bound to happen if large gatherings like these should occur, the authorities can all shame us again and give us one big ‘see we told you so!’ But as in Florida and Georgia and several other states with relaxed distancing orders, what happens if there isn’t?
There will be a lot to answer for from our public officials, should that be the case, and it won’t just be about the murder of George Floyd, which has become the spark that set the tinderbox on fire. Forty million people are out of work. Over 100,000 dead, and the riots happening all over the country are about to reveal if lockdown was worth it.
Related: Mayor Frey Gives Masks to Rioters But Says Opening Churches Would Be a ‘Public Health Disaster.’
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Situational virology:
IT IS A SELF-FIXING SITUATION. IT JUST TAKES TIME WHICH WE MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HAVE. LOOK, THE LEFT KEEPS THINKING IF THEY CAN SILENCE DISSENT IT GOES AWAY. THIS MEANS THEY’VE LEARNED NOTHING FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. AND IF WE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT, IT MEANS NEITHER DID WE: Do the Lord Chancellor and the Archbishop Approve?
SARGENT MOM IS NOT ALONE! Hitting a Limit.
When I say that over the last three years the media has been burning whatever credibility they had left, I mean it. I also mean it when I say that since the beginning of 2020 they’ve decided it’s a good time to set fire to the pants they’ve been wearing on their collective heads.
YOU’D THINK THE AP WOULD UNDERSTAND THE PUSHBACK IS FROM PLAINTIFFS, NOT JUDGES. FROM THE TENOR OF THIS ARTICLE THEY ARE VERY CONFUSED — AND ADMIT THAT THESE ARE LESS SETBACKS THAN SPEED BUMPS: Trump’s fossil fuel agenda gets pushback from federal judges.
PUTTING PEOPLE ON VENTILATORS MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HASTILY ADOPTED UNTESTED STRATEGY? I SEEM TO RECALL REPORTS A FEW YEARS BACK ABOUT SUCH DEVICES BEING INADEQUATELY STERILIZED AND BECOMG A SOURCE OF ADDITIONAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Northwell Health probing use of ventilators for COVID patients.
A STRONG RECOMMENDATION, EVEN IF I HAVEN’T YET MANAGED TO CONVINCE MYSELF TO SPEND THE MONEY: COVID19 update, May 30, 2020: Fang Fang’s “Wuhan Diary”.
I LIKE ROBERT ZIMMERMAN’S WORK, BUT “SYMBOLIC” IS A VERY FUNNY WAY TO SPELL “DICTATORIAL”: More evidence masks are merely a symbolic gesture.
ONLY A RACIALIST IDIOT WOULD THINK TUCKER CARLSON’S SPEECH HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH RACE. OF COURSE, MOST LEFTISTS ARE RACIALIST IDIOTS. THEY’RE ALSO TRYING VERY HARD TO HIDE THE FACT MORE THAN HALF OF THE RIOTERS ARE WHITE: Tucker Carlson: Our leaders have sided with the agents of chaos – we’re told crimes of the mob are our fault.
IF IT WERE ONLY THE TWIN CITIES, THIS MIGHT BE JUST A BAD SITUATION OUT OF CONTROL. BUT THIS IS NATION WIDE, IN EVERY BLUE CITY WHERE THEY CAN COUNT ON THE POLICE STANDING DOWN. THIS ISN’T ORGANIC, OR AN EXPRESSION OF FRUSTRATION WITH INJUSTICE. THIS IS A SUSTAINED ENEMY ATTACK, PLANNED AND ORGANIZED: Minneapolis goes Bagdhad.
Look, maybe I’m paranoid, but when the impeachment failed, we got the “pandemic lockdown.” (The virus is real, the reaction to it was pants on the head crazy and a complete overreaction fed — on cue — by the media that had been drumming up the impeachment now feeding panic.) When that started to fail and break down, as even health authorities turned against it — the mountain numbers on its doing nothing to curb infections and also the infection not being as lethal as claimed are getting hard to ignore, and even Doctor Fauci says there probably won’t be a second wave — we get riots. Right on cue. What are the odds?