Archive for 2021
November 10, 2021
OLD AND BUSTED: The Marines — We’re Looking for a Few Good Men.
The New Hotness? U.S. Marine Corps is looking to hire a ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisor’ with a starting salary of $144,128.
The British Army could be the inspiration for their next recruiting drive:
PROBLEM: YouTube reportedly deleting dislikes on Biden Administration YouTube videos.
—The Post Millennial, April 4th.
Solution: YouTube Will Hide Dislike Counts On Videos To Combat Harassment.
—BuzzFeed, today.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why do marathon runners get the runs? It doesn’t just work your leg muscles—racing is rough on your intestines, too.
BUT THE SCIENCE! Masked California’s COVID rate is now twice Florida’s.
INFLATION IS EVERYWHERE: Colleges lower standards, raise GPAs, grad rates.
SURE, BUT WOMEN GET A LOT MORE MILEAGE OUT OF BOOBS THAN MEN DO SO IT EVENS OUT: Study: Women feel more stigma from ‘spare tire’ around middle than men.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Washington Post fact-check admits it was wrong for ‘knee jerked’ defense of Buttigieg’s racist bridge comments.
There has been some revisionism and [Robert] Moses’s achievements are now viewed in a better light. In particular, the anecdote about the parkway bridges has been increasingly questioned, along with other details in [Robert] Caro’s book,” Kessler wrote.
One historian told the Post that “Moses did nothing different on Long Island from any parks commissioner in the country” because all parkways had low bridges at the time.
“Caro is wrong,” a separate historian emailed to the Post, noting anyone could access the beach.
Other historians disagree in the polarizing tale, but the Post’s in-house fact-checker feels “The Bottom Line” is that the liberal newspaper shouldn’t have been so quick to defend Buttigieg.
“Obviously this cannot be easily resolved. Caro quotes one of Moses’s top aides as saying the height of the bridges was done for racist reasons, but increasingly that story has been questioned as not credible,” Kessler wrote. “Buttigieg should tailor his remarks to reflect what is historically unimpeachable — and we should be more careful to double-check on the latest views of historians. Even a Pulitzer Prize-winning book is not always the last word on a subject.”
This is a growing trend at the WaPo:
● And of course: Washington Post Issues the ‘Greatest Correction’ Ever. “None other than Donald Trump Jr calls the Washington Post’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’ walkback ‘the greatest correction in the history of journalism,’ and who am I to disagree?”
In 2015, a WaPo op-ed asked: What Are We Going To Do About Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?
Now we know the “unexpected” answer: Gaslight like crazy to help get him into office and keep him propped up in power as long as possible.
OUCH: Adam Schiff Gets Grilled on ‘The View’ for Promoting Bogus Steele Dossier. ““You defended, promoted and even read into the congressional record the Steele dossier. We know last week the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier… Do you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?”
Spoiler: No.
STAY WARM: Carhartt Men’s Midweight Hooded Sweatshirt. #CommissionEarned
DANIEL GREENFIELD: The British Muslim, CIA Operative, and Author of ‘I Posed as a Man Online for Sex’ Behind the Democrat Censorship Campaign.
A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate warns of the free speech threat from, “climate disinformation, including articles that undermine the existence or impacts of climate change or misrepresent data in ways that might erode trust in climate science experts.”
And nothing builds trust like eliminating dissent.
Big Tech monopolies like Google and Facebook are already preparing censorship measures, but CCDH provided them with a list of censorship targets that covers much of the conservative media including the Washington Times, Breitbart, PJ Media, Town Hall, Western Journal, and many others. The CCDH’s censorship pitch was then swiftly picked up by the Washington Post.
If the past pattern of CCDH reports holds, Senate Democrats will use it as a prop in their latest demand that Big Tech companies censor conservatives and won’t trouble to examine who is behind the unsigned report and the suddenly influential shadowy organization that produced it.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a British leftist group run by Imran Ahmed, a former adviser to future London Mayor Sadiq Khan, now operating out of Washington D.C. Ahmed and his media allies claim that they have researchers on staff, but their site names only Ahmed.
Much more at the link.
INFLATION ROSE TO 6.2% IN OCTOBER, THE HIGHEST ANNUAL RATE IN 30 YEARS.
As Brad Polumbo notes in the Washington Examiner, “Citizens upset over inflation should not look at Congress but at the Federal Reserve, the central bank that controls U.S. currency:”
“While the rate of inflation might differ from year to year due to aggregate supply or demand shocks, the long-run trend rate of inflation is ultimately determined by monetary policy,” economist William J. Luther told me in a recent interview . “The [Federal Reserve] can control inflation.”
To “stimulate” the economy amid the COVID-19 crisis, the Fed engaged in a massive expansion of money supply — basically, it (digitally) printed a bunch of new money. As my Foundation for Economic Education colleague Peter Jacobsen, an economist, has explained , “If more dollars chase the exact same goods, prices will rise.”
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Ultimately, rising prices of this magnitude represent a grave problem for millions of families. The temptation will be to blame President Joe Biden, who certainly has played at least some small part in this concerning trend. Yet, we won’t solve this problem until we concentrate our criticism on the real culprit behind our inflation malaise: the Fed and its reckless monetary policy.
In any case, MSNBC assures me this is quite a good thing.
But wait — the worst is yet to come: If You Think Inflation Is Bad Now Just Wait Until The Winter.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Arby’s Teams With Minneapolis Distillery Tattersall For Fry-Flavored Vodka.
I THOUGHT ‘EVERYTHING IS RACIST’ ALREADY HAD THIS COVERED: You Won’t Believe What Kamala Harris Thinks Is Racist Now.
WHY SAN FRANCISCO IS NEARLY THE MOST CRIME-RIDDEN CITY IN THE US:
San Francisco’s unacceptable crime track record is implicitly a choice that the city has made, which is all the more surprising when the city spends about $14,000 per San Franciscan per year on government services, about 40 percent higher than New York city’s profligate budget.
One important deficiency is too small of a police force. New York’s police force per resident is nearly twice that of San Francisco, and New York is a much safer city. Another important deficiency is a less-than-productive relationship between the police and the city’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, an extremely progressive prosecutor, who some consider to still have the mindset of his days as an SF public defender. Boudin is notable in that he is the child of a mom and dad convicted for first-degree murder in the killing of two police officers during the robbery of a Brinks truck about 40 years ago.
This didn’t get Boudin and the police off to the best start, and their relationship has gone further south, with Boudin criticizing police for not clearing more crimes. Boudin himself has been widely criticized for failing to prosecute obvious cases, including a person who had been arrested multiple times over the previous year, who had a history of felony convictions, and who ultimately killed two women while driving a stolen car after drinking and using methamphetamine.
Boudin chose not to prosecute, and forwarded the case to the parole department. The charges? Two counts of voluntary manslaughter, possession of a stolen vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident, burglary, driving while under the influence of alcohol and drugs, driving while addicted to drugs, possessing a gun and a large-capacity ammunition magazine, and violating the terms of parole. He had also been arrested just prior to the crash on charges including possession of methamphetamine and car theft.
Boudin defended his decision by indicating that the parole department would have a much better chance at stopping the cycle of crime for these types of individuals: “We evaluated the facts, the strength of the case and the charges, and decided it was more likely that he would be held accountable through parole.”
But even after the killing of the two women, Boudin did not indicate that he made a mistake in not prosecuting the driver. Rather he focused on changing the parole system to ensure that criminals received the “supervision and structure that are needed.” Really? I wonder how this made the families of the two victims killed feel.
Perhaps that explains this headline: Enough signatures verified to vote on recall of SF DA Chesa Boudin, election officials say.
San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1964.
THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AT WORK: Rittenhouse Trial Witness Says Prosecutors Asked Him To ‘Change’ His Statement To Police.
Related: BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse Breaks Down Into Sobs While Testifying On Stand, Recess Called. “Rittenhouse described feeling ‘trapped’ by Rosenbaum and another man who fired his pistol in the air. The teen said the man had the pistol pointed at him during the incident.”
PRIORITIES: More Than HALF Of Border Patrol Agents May Be FIRED For Being Unvaccinated. “An illegal immigrant doesn’t get the vaccine and they’re released. A border patrol agent doesn’t get the vaccine and they’re removed. On what planet does that make sense?”
FIRST THEY SAID WE DIDN’T HAVE INFLATION, THEN THEY SAID WE HAD IT BUT IT WAS ONLY TEMPORARY, AND NOW THIS: Inflation is Great Because MSNBC Says So.
JUST OUT: The Clot Thickens: The enduring mystery of heart disease. #CommissionEarned
MICHAEL WALSH: America Needs an Emergency Plan, Right Away.
The FBI is now investigating the alleged theft of Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary—a document that if genuine offers even more repellent insights into this stunningly dysfunctional family. How this is a federal matter is beyond me, unless the FBI has now become the Biden family’s private police force with a mandate to suppress bad news about the family. And if you don’t believe me, ask Hunter Biden.
Americans, quite properly, sense there’s something “off” about Biden and his crew, which is why his approval ratings continue to crater. But as long as the radical Left holds the media high ground, it’s hard for most people not obsessed by politics to grasp just how malignant these people are. For decades, they’ve made no bones about their desire to replace the United States of the founding with something “progressive.”
They’ve overtly collaborated with the Soviets, infiltrated the civil-rights movement, absorbed the legacy media, corrupted the lawmakers, overpowered academe, seized hold of the education of our children and now, in their moment of triumph, are forcing us to live in a fantasy world of their own psycho-sexual device, while their pet shrinks tell us that we’re the crazy bigots, via the media.
What are you going to do about it?
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