“NEVER UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP”:Joe Biden Promised To Leave Afghanistan. Has He Changed His Mind? “The Associated Press reported on Thursday that upwards of 650 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan, even after the so-called withdrawal is completed later this summer. The reasons for the change are confusion, as U.S. officials told the AP that troops will remain behind to provide security at the embassy, but also said they would be there as, ‘a more permanent force presence in the country.'”
Archive for 2021
June 29, 2021
AT HELEN’S PAGE: The Weightless Ribbon: Rolling with Ease in Seven Lessons. This book teaches you to roll and fall safely, something all of us need at some point.
UPDATE: NOW #1 in Gymnastics Books. (Bumped)
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will the American media stand up for Hong Kong before it’s too late?
When a White House intern attempted to remove a microphone from CNN’s Jim Acosta, journalists decried it with such enthusiastic zeal, that it shook the very foundations of their entire industry. When Chinese state police frog-march journalists in handcuffs, or arrest them at airports, they choose to write about objects that are actually cake, or some random QAnon conference in middle of nowhere Oklahoma. The New York Times itself, which published Chinese state officials’ justification for their actions in Hong Kong, cannot find space to condemn China. Not a single journalist or employee in their newsroom will issue a statement on Twitter that pro-Beijing propaganda ‘puts journalists’ lives in danger’.
Xi’s gotta have it:
OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE RUN BY A CABAL OF THEIR ENEMIES: Does the Bullock Texas History Museum Want Texans to Forget the Alamo, Too?
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: That’s exactly what the Leftist revisionists are doing with their blatant misrepresentations of the facts about the 13 days at the Siege of the Alamo, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Dr. Tom Lindsay says the latest illustration of this advancing rotteness in the American public square is found in Time magazine.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Desperate De Blasio Performs the Triple-Lindy of Flip-Flops.
Plus:
- Beijing memory-holes Apple Daily’s archives
- Armed robbers held up news crew as it interviewed Oakland’s chief of violence prevention
- Trump goes looking for Carmen San Diego
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
TUCKER CARLSON SAYS NSA IS SPYING ON HIM: The top-rated Fox News evening host says he has proof that what he was told by a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower is true.
HMM: Top Pentagon Cyber Official Probed Over Disclosure Concerns “A U.S. official familiar with the case said Arrington’s politics — as a Republican under a Democratic president — aren’t a factor in the investigation, and it’s not an attempt to force her from the Pentagon. The official, who discussed the case on condition of anonymity because of its sensitivity, also said the disclosure investigation isn’t connected to Arrington’s management of the Pentagon’s ambitious Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification system, or CMMC, which is being slowly implemented as Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks reviews the program inherited from the Trump administration.”
With all the purging going on, I’m not inclined to believe the denial.
SYSTEMIC RACISM: MADE IN CHINA. China Discussed Bioweapons Targeting Specific Races.
Update: Wrong link before — fixed now. Sorry!
HMM: Lefty Website Calling for Canceling Conservatives Is Stunned When YouTube Comes for Them.
Looks like YouTube caught their error: YouTube has re-instated Right Wing Watch’s channel after left-wing journalists reported about the permanent ban.
(Updated and bumped.)
SO DOES THAT MEAN REQUIRING OR ENCOURAGING VACCINATION WOULD BE A BREACH OF MEDICAL ETHICS? For college-aged, vaccination risks likely outweigh COVID risks, says UCI medical ethics chief.
RIGHT NON-PROFITS AIDED BY THE ‘GREAT RESIGNATION:’ Lots of private sector workers are leaving their jobs in search of better ones, but guess what, lots of them are taking positions with conservative non-profits. Claire Kittle Dixon of Talent Market, which specializes in placing for such foundations, explains this unexpected development from the pandemic
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Tyler O’Neil: What Fresh, Brave New World Insanity Is This? Now Race Can Be a ‘Gender’? “Expressions of intersectional Marxist theory should come with a warning label. Warning: Ingesting this idea may result in insanity. Seriously, true batshitted mindless lunacy may follow”
Paula Bolyard with an earworm essay: Short People Got No Reason to Live. “Rather than creating songs and shows that use humor to subtly poke at bad behavior, Hollywood and the music industry now think it necessary to include tedious secular homilies in what used to be called entertainment.”
Yours Truly: Dear Texas: Please Leave the Union. “If America has abandoned that hilltop, then maybe it’s time for someone else to stake a claim.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-River Falls includes ‘Why ‘All Cops Are B*****ds” as recommended reading in its ‘Guide to Allyship.’
THAT PRESUMES BIDEN HAS ANY INTEREST IN STOPPING IRAN, WHEN EVERY INDICATION IS THAT HE’S ENABLING IRAN: Joe Biden’s Limited Iraq And Syria Strikes Won’t Stop Iran. “Such military actions reflect multiple decisions over the last several days: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan presumably presented Biden with a multitude of decisions that included military strikes. When Biden picked these, the Pentagon then provided Biden with a range of options covering scope and targets. Biden chose an option that, in his mind, posed the least chance of escalation or Iraqi diplomatic opprobrium. In effect, Biden chose to prioritize symbolism over effectiveness.”
THIS KEEPS HAPPENING AND THEY KEEP NOT LEARNING: ‘Bachelor’ Viewership Tanked By More Than 1 Million Because Race Politics Is Poison.
I miss the old media barons who cared about their audiences.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Scientists Obfuscated Source of COVID-19-Like Virus Stored at Wuhan Lab. “Shi Zheng-li, the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is the common thread through which many key research projects and gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses are connected. . . . The SARS outbreak would prove to shape Shi’s career, moving from field research to work in level 2 biosafety labs before culminating in gain-of-function experiments in China’s first and only level-4 lab in Wuhan.”
STANDING UP TO WOKISM IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY: Peltz-Steele, Sander, Steinbuch & Volokh Criticize ABA’s Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Training At All Law Schools.
FORGET IT, JAKE — IT’S CNN: Jake Tapper’s CNN Fear-Porn Show Lost 75 Percent Of Its Audience Since January. “Whereas Tapper’s show had 2.8 million viewers in the month of January, it raked in an abysmally low 706,000 from May 23 to June 23. In terms of the second quarter, the host has experienced about a 50 percent decrease in viewership compared to quarter one.”
THEY ARE JOYFUL MEMBERS OF THE APPARAT: Liberal Media Scream: Taxpayer-subsidized PBS is more DNC than the DNC.