MY SISTER HAS AN F-350 TO HAUL HER HORSE AND FARM TRAILERS: 2020 Ford F-350 Tremor Brings Back Pushrods. It’s a nice truck, and I and my 6’7″ brother fit comfortably in the back seat.
Archive for 2020
September 26, 2020
SO Franklin Graham led a prayer march in Washington, DC with 50,000 people. If that many leftists had marched, of course, the news media would have carried it live.
And, of course, it wasn’t “mostly peaceful,” it was actually peaceful.
THIS IS AN INTERESTING ANGLE: Black Pentecostal leaders: Amy Coney Barrett ‘persecuted’ for charismatic faith. “As black Christians we will not stand by in silence as our sister in the faith is persecuted for the ‘political crime’ of her beliefs.”
RACIST RACE HUSTLERS GONNA RACE-HUSTLE, AND IBRAM X. KENDI IS A RACIST RACE HUSTLER: Ibram X. Kendi on Amy Coney Barrett’s kids: White colonizers ‘adopted’ blacks and ‘civilized’ them to use as props.
Remember, this is the guy that our woke corporate and academic betters held out as an expert on anti-racism.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Secret to Becoming a Great Handgun Shooter. I’m a decent handgun shooter — “that’s pretty good shootin’, for a law professor” said a judge at the Glock Competition once — and for me the secret is practice. Sight picture is good too, and I set aside at least a little time at each practice session for “flash sight picture” work, where you line things up as quickly as possible. You’re always less accurate than when you take more time, but practice narrows the gap a lot.
I DO NOT TRUST THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Why You Should Be Very Skeptical of Ring’s Indoor Security Drone. “Ring, and its parent company Amazon, also don’t have the greatest track record on security and privacy.”
WELL, GOOD. THAT’S MOVING US TOWARD HERD IMMUNITY WITH THE LOWEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF DEATHS. Young adults account for more COVID-19 cases than other age groups.
PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT:
ALL HAIL THE PROPHET RBG?
As Dennis Prager has written, “Despite their secularism, Jews may be the most religious ethnic group in the world. The problem is that their religion is rarely Judaism; rather it is every ‘ism’ of the Left. These include liberalism, socialism, feminism, Marxism and environmentalism. Jews involved in these movements believe in them with the same ideological fervor and same suspension of critical reason with which many religious people believe in their religion. It is therefore usually as hard to shake a liberal Jew’s belief in the Left and in the Democratic Party as it is to shake an evangelical Christian’s belief in Christianity. The big difference, however, is that the Christian believer acknowledges his Christianity is a belief, whereas the believer in liberalism views his belief as entirely the product of rational inquiry.”
And speaking of cult-like (and/or a savvy PR move): Ginsburg’s longtime personal trainer honors the late justice with pushups.
IN THE MAIL: From Lou Dobbs, The Trump Century: How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever.
AN AIRMAN AND HIS ROBOT: An Air Force security team member patrols with a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 prototype at a simulated austere base. The Ghost Robotics Vision 60 is a “dog-like” all terrain robot. The robot type is also called a quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The patrol was part of the Advanced Battle Management System exercise held at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Photo take Sept. 3, 2020. Here’s a photo from ten years ago of a sailor with his robot — in this a small tracked UGV used by an explosive ordnance disposal unit.
THIS OPEN RACISM AND SEXISM CALLS FOR A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INVESTIGATION: Mandatory class at Idaho college tells students to list examples of white and male privilege.
And to ask him, apparently her husband isn’t sure what been doing, either: Richard Blum, husband of Dianne Feinstein, named in UC admissions scandal.
Blum told the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday that he’s done nothing wrong and that he has used his clout to get friends and family into the elite public system for years.
“I did it a bunch of times,” Blum said, adding that he has never considered it a problem to write recommendation letters bypassing the traditional admissions process. A policy prohibiting such influence has been in place throughout Blum’s 18-year tenure on the Board of Regents, the newspaper reported.
Blum, a financier, told the Chronicle that “no one ever told me it was wrong.” He said he has sent letters of recommendation about friends and family to chancellors at multiple UC campuses since becoming a regent in 2002. “Wherever they were applying. Wherever they wanted to get in.” He recalled sending letters specifically to the chancellors at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Irvine, but added: “almost everywhere.”
George Costanza, call your office.
THE POWERLINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Witness protection edition.
THEY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING, AND FORGOTTEN NOTHING: Y’All Remember Democrats Used to Win in the Midwest and South, Right? “Related to the argument that the Senate somehow unfairly overrepresents Republicans because largely rural states in the interior have as much say as more heavily populated coastal states . . . these folks know that a bunch of those rural interior states had Democratic senators not that long ago, right?”
It’s tough to simultaneously make a region a punchline, and ask for its vote.
