KEVIN DOWNEY JR: FBI Tweets About Hate Crimes Yet Seems to Commit Them. “You’ll notice that the New York FBI has a pinned tweet, the one at the top of their page, which is full of pictures of January 6 protestors, but they don’t have a site dedicated to locating violent, left-wing commies. If that isn’t hateful it’s certainly not fair. Nor is it safe to leave aggressive looters and rioters on the streets to burn our cities.”
Archive for 2021
November 11, 2021
MEDIUM: I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End.
The ‘experts’ want to say we can do things like open the ports 24/7, and this problem will be over in a couple weeks. They are blowing smoke, and they know it. Getting a container out of the port, as slow and aggravating as it is, is really the easy part, if you can find a truck and chassis to haul it. But every truck driver in America can’t operate 24/7, even if the government suspends Hours Of Service Regulations (federal regulations determining how many hours a week we can work/drive), we still need to sleep sometime. There are also restrictions on which trucks can go into a port. They have to be approved, have RFID tags, port registered, and the drivers have to have at least a TWIC card (Transportation Worker Identification Credential from the federal Transportation Security Administration). Some ports have additional requirements. As I have already said, most trucking companies won’t touch shipping containers with a 100 foot pole. What we have is a system with a limited amount of trucks and qualified drivers, many of whom are already working 14 hours a day (legally, the maximum they can), and now the supposed fix is to have them work 24 hours a day, every day, and not stop until the backlog is cleared. It’s not going to happen. It is not physically possible. There is no “cavalry” coming. No trucking companies are going to pay to register their trucks to haul containers for something that is supposedly so “short term,” because these same companies can get higher rate loads outside the ports. There is no extra capacity to be had, and it makes NO difference anyway, because If you can’t get a container unloaded at a warehouse, having drivers work 24/7/365 solves nothing.
What it will truly take to fix this problem is to run EVERYTHING 24/7: ports (both coastal and domestic),trucks, and warehouses. We need tens of thousands more chassis, and a much greater capacity in trucking.
We’ve over-invested in red tape, under-invested in infrastructure, and taught at least two generations of young people that jobs like trucking are somehow beneath them.
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AJ Kaufman: ‘Fearless Pursuit of Truth’: Introducing The University of Austin. “One common thread among the founders — many of whom come from the Intellectual Dark Web, is a rejection of ‘cancel culture,’ self-censorship, wokeness, and the way moral and political concerns are edging out inquiry as a focus on campus. That’s been a good start to attract committed students and faculty, as well as media attention.”
Athena Thorne: The Biden Administration Enters the Flailing About Phase. “Let the Biden White House flounder and thrash as it seeks appear competent and in control of multiple deteriorating situations.”
Yours Truly: You Can’t Unsee This: Pfizer Meme Grosses Out the Known Universe. “I’ve had all my shots, but after seeing this thing I’d (almost) rather get shingles than take another vaccine.”
SCIENCE SAYS THAT ONLY BLACK LIVES MATTER RIOTS ARE SAFE: COVID-19 rules torpedo Austin Veterans Day Parade.
SOMETIMES MY FRIENDS ARE SILLY. I WAS THERE WHEN THIS WAS BORN:
FROM CEDAR SANDERSON: Taskforce CHIWEENIE and the Poultry Liberation Front: An Adult Coloring Book.
Two extraordinary heroes.
Sure, they may look like adorable chiweenies, but the reality is that only they stand between the world, and…
The Poultry Liberation Front
Follow the adventures of Chuy and Mochi through their slightly exasperated flag officer’s voice as he delivers pithy situation reports while the battlefield unfolds on his front yard.Add your own color, but keep in mind: the language contained in this coloring book is, well, colorful. We cannot recommend this book for children. Strictly for adult amusement, no matter how cute the pups and chickens are!
NOT TONIGHT, PLEASE, I’VE GOT A HADDOCK: Groupie hell: Led Zeppelin molested teen with fish, book reveals.
TELL ME AGAIN HOW IF WOMEN RAN THE WORLD THERE’D BE NO WAR: Woman busted in execution-style murder of Brooklyn mom identified.
I CRIED BECAUSE I HAD NO FEET UNTIL I HEARD OF UGLY SHOES: Shoes, Feet And American Feminism.
Because patriarchy. or something.
This endless Mariel boat lift has to end.
AS HEARD ON SIRIUS: He’s retiring to spend time making up news about his own family. Brian Williams To Leave NBC/MSNBC.
ARGUABLY THE ONLY REAL SKILL OF THE LEFT: The long shadow of false accusations: “White Hispanic” George Zimmerman is still being demonized as though he’s guilty.
PREPARE: Around the Next Corner.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW? Joe Rogan Nails In On Black People Who Think For Themselves.
I JUST WISH THIS WERE UNIQUE: Today’s blacklisted American: UCLA threatens to expell remote student for not revealing his COVID shot status.
Or even rare. Lots of remote workers going through this.
THAT’S OK: MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPERS WILL PRINT THE CORRECTIONS ON PAGE B21 (IN SATURDAY’S EDITION): Durham indictment is ‘bad news’ for mainstream media on Steele dossier reporting: critic.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF “BETTER”: Build Back Better would make US income tax rate highest in developed world.
And relax. It’s not like we’d be part of the developed world much longer.
TO BE HONEST, I PREFER PELOSI WEARING A MASK: House Dems flout climate change summit rules with maskless photo op.
Look, I know evil zombies exist. I’d just rather not see their faces.
RELAX GUYS – THEY’RE IN AUSTRALIA: Brothel offers free sex ‘session’ to patrons who get COVID vaxx on-site.
And Australia seems to have parted company with sanity.
UPDATE: No, I have absolutely no idea how I read this and thought Austria was Australia, except perhaps I was possessed by Obama. (Shrug.) Well, actually I do know as an hour after finishing my duties here I realized I had a raging fever. (Relax. My sense of smell and taste are both fine.)
CHINA REMAINS A-HOLE: China punishes mockery, questions about historical figures: ‘This is self-wounding’.
November 10, 2021
DEMS: PRESIDENTS DON’T CONTROL ENERGY COSTS!
Also: Biden Responds to Soaring Inflation, Orders Economic Council to ‘Reduce Energy Costs.’
OPEN THREAD: It’s biologically impossible.
WINNER OF THE MRC’S “WORST REPORTER IN THE HISTORY OF MAN AWARD:” Bye-Bye Lying Brian! The Worst of the Outgoing MSNBC Anchor’s Career.
JUST DON’T MENTION THE CULTURE WAR: John Cleese ‘blacklists’ himself from Cambridge Union talk because of ‘woke rules’ after students made ‘Stalinist’ list of banned speakers amid row over art historian’s Hitler impression.
Monty Python star John Cleese says he is ‘blacklisting’ himself from a Cambridge Union event after the debating society banned a historian for performing an impression of Adolf Hitler.
The comedian, 82, who famously impersonated the Nazi dictator in a Monty Python sketch, and again in Fawlty Towers, said he is ‘blacklisting’ himself ‘before someone else does’.
His comments come after Keir Bradwell, the student president of the 200-year-old Cambridge Union, emailed members on Monday to inform them he was setting up a list of banned speakers.
The list, dubbed as ‘Stalinist’ by critics, includes Andrew Graham-Dixon — an art historian who offended students with a Nazi impersonation last week.
Taking to Twitter, Cleese, who was due to speak to students on Friday, wrote: ‘I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler.
‘I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself* before someone else does.’
In a follow-up tweet, the comedian, who studied at Cambridge, added: ‘I apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply.’
At the start of the month, “Terry Gilliam’s Into the Woods cancelled by Old Vic after reports of staff unease,” The BBC reported:
The show was due to run next spring at the prestigious venue, whose artistic director is Matthew Warchus.
Stephen Sondheim, the writer of Into the Woods, was said to have approved the production because he was impressed with Gilliam’s proposed treatment.
But after the show was announced, it is understood some staff expressed concern about Gilliam’s views on issues such as the Me-too movement, diversity and trans rights.Gilliam has previously described the MeToo movement as a “witch hunt”, adding there were many “decent people” who were “getting hammered” as the industry grappled with sexual abuse.
Several allegations were made against the Old Vic’s former artistic director Kevin Spacey as part of the MeToo movement, which began in late 2017.
Last year, Gilliam told The Independent he was “tired of white men being blamed for everything wrong with the world”. In the same interview he said: “When I announce that I’m a black lesbian in transition, people take offence at that. Why?”
He also recently defended the comedian Dave Chappelle, whose most recent comedy special included comments deemed by some to be transphobic.
In August, the Daily Wire reported: ‘Woke Generation Is Rewriting Rules On What Can Be Said:’ Legendary Monty Python Actor To Release Series On Cancel Culture.
Hopefully his fellow Python member will join Cleese to discuss his own story.
As Jordan Peterson, tweeted at the time, “They cancelled Terry Gilliam, folks. Of Monty Python. The funniest group of people in the English speaking world.”
Related: John Cleese morphed into Theodore Dalrymple so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
* And Roger Simon as well.
(Via Small Dead Animals.)
IT’S NOT JUST SPACEX: Rocket Lab to launch satellites, recover booster tonight. How to watch live. “The Electron launch is scheduled for 11:25 p.m. EST.”