Archive for 2020

TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK TO RIOTERS: When they threw flammable chemicals on his Philadelphia church’s roof and set it ablaze, Vietnamese Baptist Church Pastor Philip Pham said he had no idea why they did so. His church, after all, has been a valuable community resource for years.

In the aftermath, Pham claimed a miracle involving a computer hard-drive that wasn’t destroyed in the flames, and he counseled his congregants “to love and pray for” those who committed the senseless violence against them. I know it would be exceedingly tough for me to have such a forgiving spirit. How about you? Of course, forgiveness does not preclude the administration of justice to wrong-doers, either.

 

DON’T GET COCKY: Forget the polls, these Rust Belters offer real election insight.

Fran Coombs, managing editor of Rasmussen Reports, sees the numbers this year as very similar to the 2016 presidential election, when Hillary Clinton and Trump were neck-and-neck to the end.

In its daily national tracking poll Wednesday, Rasmussen had Trump ahead of Biden by one point for the second day running, after trailing by as much as 12.

The margin of error is 2.5 percentage points, but the trajectory is in the right direction.

Coombs says polls have picked up a “level of Trump hatred [that is] is mind-boggling” and accounts for a high “shy” Trump vote. Republicans are 10 to 15 points less likely than Democrats to divulge their voting intentions.

Democratic talk about “truth and reconciliation councils” and the like seems to be skewing the polls, which in turn skews Democrats’ ability to make sound campaigning decisions.

It’s almost as though they’re trying to lose.

IF SOLAR ENERGY IS SO CLEAN, WHY IS IT SO DIRTY? Do you know about the incredible environmental clean-up problem being created by those thousands upon thousands of solar panels being installed across America? Don’t expect to hear about it from Joe Biden.

CHANGE:

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Run a Meeting. Let me just add that every pre-meeting email should include the time and date AND THE ZOOM LINK for the meeting if it’s a Zoom meeting. I hate having to search back through my email for a Zoom link someone sent out two weeks ago, especially when it’s buried under other emails from the same person about the same meeting. And no, it’s not enough just to add “Zoom” to the search because half the memos mention that it’s a Zoom meeting but don’t include the link.

TRUMP DOES A LITTLE OLD-FASHIONED MEDIA CAMPAIGNING: Via an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (MJS). For puzzled younger readers, the MJS is one of the few surviving newspapers that still sells a print edition made of paper that people pick up from their driveways or front yards each morning, hold in their hands, and read it by successively “turning pages.”

Yes, I held one in my hands as a child, reading it while trudging the five miles to school in the snow, uphill, both ways. No, it didn’t even have a search button.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Joe Biden’s Most Extraordinary Projectile Word Vomit Ever.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When Joe Biden promises that he will “reduce prescription drug crisis experts acknowledge,” what the hell is that supposed to mean?

Answer: We don’t know, but we do have the video.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • AP does CYA for KKK
  • Marrianne Williamson, Biblical scholar.
  • Literally the worst tweet of all time.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

CHECK OUT GLENN GREENWALD’S FINAL INTERCEPT PIECE. It discussed “Mighty Ira,” a new documentary from FIRE about the man who led the ACLU through the brickbats it got for defending the Nazis’ right to speak in Skokie, and why he did it. Read Greenwald’s column before it gets memory-holed, and consider watching the doc too. (It’s available for streaming lots of places, including free on Amazon Prime.)