Archive for 2020
February 9, 2020
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Video: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quotes fake economist ‘Milton Keynes’ who doesn’t exist.
Related: “I, too, spend my days reading the works of noted economists like ‘Milton Keynes’ and his good friends, philosophers Milton Berle and Milton Bradley.”
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus outbreak fuels medical supply shortage in China, as more than 37,500 infected globally.
Singapore Grocery Chain Starts Limiting How Much People Can Buy.
Six new coronavirus cases found on Japan cruise ship.
Fourth case of coronavirus found in Britain; linked to cases in France.
India PM Narendra Modi offers assistance to China in its fight against coronavirus.
Coronavirus: Millions return to work in China on Monday after extended break.
Fed Chair Powell to Confront ‘New Risk’ to U.S. Economy from China Virus.
Where’s Xi? China’s Leader Commands Coronavirus Fight From Safe Heights. “That retreat from the spotlight, some analysts said, signaled an effort by Mr. Xi to insulate himself from a campaign that may falter and draw public ire. Yet Mr. Xi has consolidated power, sidelining or eliminating rivals, so there are few people left to blame when something goes wrong. . . . State media still portray Mr. Xi as ultimately in control, and there’s no sign that he faces a serious challenge from within the party leadership. The crisis, though, has already tainted China’s image as an emerging superpower — efficient, stable and strong — that could eventually rival the United States.”
Investors shouldn’t be complacent about the coronavirus threat. Here’s why.
Scientists race to develop vaccine for new coronavirus.
5 Days On, Thousands onboard Hong Kong Cruise Ship Freed After Coronavirus Tests.
Coronavirus to ‘inflict a large, temporary blow’ to China’s economy, S&P warns.
China coronavirus putting more pressure on pork supplies, prices – official.
THIS TRUTHFULNESS IS WHY DEMOCRATS DREAD THE IDEA OF A SANDERS NOMINATION:
It’s not that they don’t fully share his views, it’s just that they don’t want the voters to realize that.
SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Van deliberately crashed into Republican registration tent. “The driver then stopped, got out of the van and took a video of the scene before he ‘flipped off’ the victims and fled, Gayle said.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: Harrison Ford Hails Greta Thunberg, Condemns Denying ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Discipline’ of Science.
—NewsBusters, yesterday.
Chaser: Planet-healer/Climate Activist Harrison Ford: ‘I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger.’
—Climate Depot, April 10, 2014.
I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.
SNEAK PEEK AT THE B-21 RAIDER BOMBER: An artist’s “rendering” of the new strategic bomber, with the plane shown in a hangar at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
The New Hotness? Climate Change Is Coming for Your Oreos.
(Via Small Dead Animals.)
“TURNOUT WAS LOWER THAN EXPECTED:” In Iowa, Bernie Sanders didn’t expand the electorate and had no crossover appeal. His appeal is becoming more selective!
THE SUBVERSIVE INTENTIONS of our “mainstream” media.
MATT TAIBBI IN ROLLING STONE: Yesterday’s Gone: Iowa Was Waterloo for Democrats. In a fiasco for the ages, the blue party faceplants in Iowa. “After a vote in Iowa that reeked of third-world treachery — from monolithic TV propaganda against the challenger to rumors of foreign intrusion to, finally, a ‘botched’ vote count that felt as legitimate as a Supreme Soviet election — the Democrats have become the reactionaries they once replaced.”
Consider, grasshopper: Maybe they always were the reactionaries.
SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR PAUL, WEISS TO DROP HARVARD AND YALE: First Harvard, Now Yale. Law Students Want Paul Weiss to #DropExxon.
Ivy League law grads are overrated anyway.
FROM MY FRIEND TOM KNIGHTON (CATCH UP WITH HIM AT BEARING ARMS!): With Triumph And Disaster.
Alien life is theoretically possible, but what few signs of life are scattered through the universe are of primitive cultures that barely made it out of their own stone age, if that.
So when a big discovery threatens to shake the very foundations of xenoarcheology, it’s big news. The problem? Someone doesn’t want it discovered and they’re willing to kill to keep that from happening.
When an old friend asks Tommy Reilly and the crew of Sabercat to give them a hand, he can’t say no.
That’s when things get interesting.
AND YOU THOUGHT BEER GOGGLES WERE A PROBLEM: Erectile dysfunction pills can permanently distort vision.
NO ACTUAL THOUGHTS WERE CONVEYED — BY THIS SAME TOKEN, A LINE OF DOMINOS “COMMUNICATE” WHEN THEY TOPPLE, OR DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATES WHEN THEY “DEBATE”: Sand dunes ‘communicate’ when they move, new research claims.