SOYLENT GREEEN WAS A WARNING, NOT A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY: California city official says COVID-19 should be allowed to ‘fix’ society by culling elderly, weak and homeless.
Archive for 2020
May 2, 2020
GAVIN NEWSOM MORPHED INTO KIM JONG UN SO QUICKLY, EVERYBODY NOTICED: Gov. Newsom will Allow Californians to Watch Sunsets.
“We want you to see sunsets,” he told SFGate.com. “We want you to enjoy activities outdoors. What they don’t want is people congregating outside in large groups.”
How incredibly kind and generous of California’s dear leader.
In sharp contrast: Rural California County Hums Back To Life, Defying Order: The lights are back on at restaurants, bars and other businesses in California’s Modoc County after nearly six weeks.
Meanwhile, on the east coast: “The nice weather is very much a threat to us,” de Blasio said on WNYC Friday.
“There’s nothing wrong with going out and getting some exercise and getting back home,” he added. “Go out for a little bit, but don’t go out for too much. Don’t gather, don’t try and do the things we would normally do on a beautiful spring day.”
A thousand cops will spread out in city parks to enforce what de Blasio called a “no tolerance for gatherings” policy.
“We’re going straight to summons,” de Blasio said. He added: “If someone resists the summons, we’re going to arrest.”
Cops on bicycles and horses will be among the officers enforcing the rules, said NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan.
Officers are under orders not to tolerate organized sports, parties, or other gatherings.
“The days of warnings are over,” Monahan said.
Unless you’re Bill de Blasio, and then you can do whatever you want with impunity:
Finally, at America’s Newspaper of Record: Governor Unveils Innovative 37-Step Plan To Reopen State Over The Next 10 Years.
WELL, WHY TRUST DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES? Mark Tapscott: ‘Journalism’ professors demand media censor Trump; show why public doesn’t trust journalists.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Google Autocorrecting All Searches For ‘Biden Allegations’ To ‘Kavanaugh Allegations.’
DEMOCRATS AND THEIR REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM SLANDER:
The usual hectoring elites are complaining that the virus crisis—another “moral equivalent of war”—isn’t generating oodles of national unity and good fellow feeling among citizens, like World War II. Quite the opposite: we seem just as divided as before. (And of course we are told this is Trump’s fault.) But it turns out much of that gauzy (and nowadays recreated) memory of the war years is distorted if not mistaken.
I dusted off historian Fred Siegel’s neglected 1984 masterpiece, Troubled Journey: From Pearl Harbor to Ronald Reagan to refresh the scene. Siegel reminds us in the opening chapter that the pre-war political divisions carried easily into the early war years and lasted throughout.
Read the whole thing, the result of which, I’ve updated this 2016 post keeping track as many prominent Reductio ad Hitlerums as I could assemble. It originally had listed the first spotting of a Democrat (in this case FDR) comparing a Republican president or presidential nominee back to 1944; it’s now back to 1940.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE ONION: Biden Addresses Sexual Assault Allegations: ‘My Advisors Told Me To Say They Aren’t True.’
You are obsolete. Look at all the white men on the street!
WALTER JON WILLIAMS: Kata in the Carport.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’ve had single female friends complain about men who don’t know where the clitoris is (I know, but that’s what they say), but this is the first time I’ve heard of a guy having trouble with the location of a vagina.
IN THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST YOU’LL SEE A SAD THING: Locust swarms will add to Pakistan’s Covid-19 crisis warns UN.
IT’S COME TO THIS:
When you hear kids won’t be going back to school until September: pic.twitter.com/HWLacROGcO
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) May 1, 2020
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Joe Biden in 2018: “Biden: When a woman alleges sexual assault, presume she is telling the truth.”
SO WE REOPENED YESTERDAY IN KNOXVILLE AND HERE’S TODAY’S REPORT: Coronavirus in Tennessee: 35 active Knox County cases; free testing in East Tennessee.
The Knox County Health Department reported one new case on Saturday, bringing the total case number to 239.
Knox County reported 35 active cases on Saturday, up from 34 on Friday. The total number of recovered cases remained unchanged Saturday at 199. . . .
Three cases currently require hospitalization, remaining unchanged since Tuesday. Of the 239 cases, 34 of them have resulted in hospitalization at any point during the illness.
Knox County reported its fifth local death on Tuesday.
The effects of reopening won’t start showing up for a while, but if it’s producing more infections that should begin to affect the numbers in a week or so, and be clearly apparent within two weeks.
A BIDEN BOMBSHELL? OPEN THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ARCHIVE:
The bombshell in the interview with Vice President Biden Friday on “Morning Joe” may or may not bear on the accusation against him of sexual assault, newsworthy though they may be. Nor that he’s asked the Senate to look in the National Archives for any complaint that his accuser, Tara Reade, may have filed against him. Rather it’s the fact that the ex-veep is unwilling to open up another vast trove of his files — papers held by the University of Delaware.
It’s incredible — at least to us — that such a trove is off limits to the public on the eve of a presidential election. From the day President Trump announced his campaign for president, the Democratic press and politicians have been banging the drums for Mr. Trump to release his tax returns. They are, by law, the most private kind of filing on matters of private enterprise and personal earnings. The returns, though, are, nearly four years later, still being sought in court.
Yet Mr. Biden, as he seeks the Democratic nomination for president, has gone full omerta on the basic collection of papers related to his public life. The papers, he told Msnbc’s Mika Brzezinski Friday, include “a lot of speeches I’ve made, positions I’ve taken, interviews that I did overseas with people — all of those things related to my job. And the idea that they would all be made public … while I was running for public office, they could really be taken out of context.”
Related: Democrats Demanded Millions Of Kavanaugh Records, But Stay Mum On Biden’s Senate Records.
Plus another flashback: How to Help the Media Read Sarah Palin’s Emails. News organizations would like your help going through the 24,199 pages.
OVER AT ED DRISCOLL.COM, I have a look back at Skip Bayless’ first book, 1990’s God’s Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hypocrisy of Tom Landry’s Cowboys.
(Bumped.)
The Spectator resembles a news weekly but really isn’t. It’s a right-leaning journal of culture and ideas with a thin wrapper of news around it: the opening “leader” (editorial) and the “Portrait of the Week,” a one-page backgrounder on what the writers will be arguing about over their pints throughout the course of the issue. You say you don’t really follow Britain? Have no fear. A few issues of The Spectator and you’ll be right up to speed. Once you’ve learned the cast of characters, you’ll share the little zing of delight I get each Thursday morning when the iPad brings me a fresh new issue.
Read the whole thing.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LAND OF THE FREE? Great question. Writing for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), attorney and law professor David S. D’Amato does not shy away from the blunt truth.
OOPS: “The pro-Biden talking point was the NYT did an investigation and found the Tara Reade allegations to be false. So it’s especially inconvenient that The Editorial Board of the New York Times is saying ‘Investigate Tara Reade’s Allegations/Americans deserve to know more about a sexual assault accusation against the likely Democratic Party nominee.'”
I agree that this is part of the effort to replace Biden with a less pathetic candidate.
INGRATITUDE IS A CORE ATTRIBUTE OF LEFTISM: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s despicable baiting of Samaritan’s Purse. NYC is simultaneously demanding more help from the rest of America, and spitting on those who show up. In the words of a famous ex-president, don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.
JIM TREACHER: Australia Wants Taiwan in the WHO, No Matter What China Says.