PREDICTABLE: Suing in Seattle- Taxpayers Demand City Services.
Archive for 2020
June 26, 2020
ALSO, INSANITY: Oregon County Shows Racism With Mask Controversy.
June 25, 2020
WELL, FROM IDIOTS: Calls to Replace ‘The Star Spangled Banner” with John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ A friend on Facebook comments: “Fuck no. Quit it with all this bullshit. Come on, push back.”
SOUNDS LIKELY:
GRAY LADY DOWN: In Racist Screed, NYT’s 1619 Project Founder Calls ‘White Race’ ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers,’ Columbus ‘No Different Than Hitler.’ “This isn’t the first time the New York Times has hired and kept a writer with a history of racism and radical views. In 2018, the NYT hired Sarah Jeong despite a long string of racist tweets that littered her Twitter calling white people ‘goblins,’ likening their smell to dogs, and asking to ‘#cancelallwhitepeople’.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
OPEN THREAD: Will you step in line or release the glitch?
SPACE: NASA using Demo-2 commercial crew astronauts to support ISS spacewalks. “NASA is hoping to get as many as six spacewalks performed outside the International Space Station through late July to replace batteries in the station’s power system, taking advantage of the additional astronauts on the station during the Demo-2 commercial crew mission. . . . Current plans call for the Crew Dragon to remain on the station until at least Aug. 2. When the spacecraft does depart, it will take between six and 30 hours to deorbit and splash down, he said, depending on the timing of the spacecraft’s departure from the station.”
IT MAY NOT SAVE ANY BLACK LIVES, BUT IT’S GIVING MEANING TO LOTS OF WHITE LIVES THAT ARE SHORT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Pew Analysis Shows Only 1 In 6 BLM Protesters Are Black.
DISPATCHES FROM THE SUMMER OF LOVE: Man Shot In Seattle’s CHOP Zone Wants To Sue Police-But It Was His Allies Stopped Them From Aiding Him (Video).
WHICH WOULD ALSO MAKE IT TEN TIMES LESS DEADLY: CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 10 times higher than reported: The estimate comes from a nationwide look at antibody tests.
This would pretty much make the case that the “it’s like a really bad flu” argument was correct after all.
UPDATE: Another implication: The lockdowns were already too late. New data shows 8.7 million Americans likely had coronavirus in March, lockdowns were worthless. “By the time governors in the U.S. forced lockdowns, COVID-19 had already extended beyond a point in which lockdowns could be effective in slowing the spread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) own research on pandemic virus mitigation strategies.”
GET WOKE, GO BROKE. PLUS PANDEMIC: Nike Reports Surprise $790 Million Loss, 46% Plunge in North American Sales.
“You mean the Right watches and learns when the Left paints themselves into a corner of weaponized moral outrage and then uses that weapon against them? Gee, who could have seen this coming?”
Kurt Schlichter warned the left in 2017 that they’re really going to hate living under the new rules they’ve created.
Newsweek’s take reminds me of articles that started appearing a decade ago, when the left was shocked to see conservatives had read Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, and began employing its tactics against Democrats. How could they?!
TRUMP’S ROPE-A-DOPE STRATEGY 1, ANARCHIC COMMUNE 0: As They Disband CHOP, Its Leaders Insist Their Anarchy That Enabled Rape And Murder Was Successful.
Kurt Schlichter called it:
But another tactic, familiar to any student of insurgencies, is to provoke an overreaction by those in power in order to undermine its moral authority. They want is to make us (including the president) think this is a kinetic operation, and get our side to make fundamental strategic errors by failing to recognize the true nature of the threat. They hope that such a mismatch between perception and reality will then lead to gravely damaging blunders. One of those would be Trump succumbing to his legit frustration and sending in a bunch of federal troops to crack skulls in Seattle. . . .
Trump can and should let Seattle’s problem be Seattle’s problem. A small-scale riot in a peripheral city known for coffee, drizzle, and droning, garbage music is the very definition of a local problem. Why would Trump interject himself into it and relieve the mayor and governor of the consequences of their failure to keep order? Why would he stop them from showing the electorate exactly what the reeking cesspool they could expect after Gropey Joe defunds the police looks like?
Read the whole thing.
IS THE RISE IN COVID CASES A RESULT OF THE BLM PROTESTS? A friend in Texas writes:
So, your sort of sideways point that nobody is willing to finger the protests for the spike in cases is probably correct. I did some work on this about a week ago, but am not willing to write about it myself, being a corporate tool. Math: Median time from exposure to symptoms (if you get them) is 5-6 days. Median time from symptoms to hospitalization is 7 days. Point is, hospitalizations should start to increase ~12 days from a super spreader event. Well, that is exactly when cases started to spike here in Austin. I graphed the “Texas reopening” orders against the Austin MSA hospitalization graph. No effect, until exactly 12 days after the first big demonstration. Here you go.
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NIKE POSTS $790M LOSS AFTER CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SHUTTERED STORES:
Nike lost $790 million during a fourth quarter in which nearly all of its stores were forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company said in its earnings report Thursday.
Sales fell 38 percent to $6.3 billion during the quarter, falling far short of the $7.3 billion that Wall Street analysts expected, according to Refinitiv data. Nike posted a loss of 51 cents per share. The company reported a profit of $989 million in the same period one year ago.
“Our fourth quarter results were significantly impacted by physical store closures across North America, EMEA and APLA, where 90 percent of NIKE-owned stores were closed for roughly eight weeks in the quarter to protect the health and safety of teammates and consumers and help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Nike said in its earnings release. “Our wholesale partners largely followed the same pattern and as a result, product shipments to wholesale customers were down nearly 50 percent resulting in lower total revenue and higher inventory.”
They probably shouldn’t look for much sympathy from half the country, after getting the Betsy Ross flag cancelled as a PR stunt (with an assist from Nike-sponsored Colin Kaepernick) during last year’s Fourth of July celebrations.
ALEX TABARROK: The Gaslighting of Parasite. “It’s amazing that a film this politically incorrect, even reactionary, could win multiple awards, it’s as if The Camp of the Saints won best picture.”
THIS FEMINIST WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER: The Karen/Becky meme has officially gone too far: The male centred progressive left has successfully made woman-hating trendy.
NEO: On supremacies and equality: the Reverend Martin Luther King, 1960.
From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960:
“Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men. God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race and the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers, and all men will respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.”
It’s enough to make you weep, if you think of the fact that such a statement would now be highly controversial and unlikely to find a home on any college campus.
Read the whole thing.