THERE’S NOTHING THEY WON’T LIE ABOUT. NOTHING AT ALL. If Joe Biden’s Team Will Lie About His Dog Biting People, What Won’t They Lie About?
Archive for 2021
August 30, 2021
THE REVOLUTION EVENTUALLY DEVOURS ITS OWN: ‘Woke Generation Is Rewriting Rules On What Can Be Said:’ Legendary Monty Python Actor To Release Series On Cancel Culture.
Flashback: John Cleese morphed into Theodore Dalrymple so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
BYRON YORK: No country for an old president.
At the moment, Biden is confronting three crises — the wreck he has made of Afghanistan, the wave of Delta variant Covid infections, and the hurricane slamming Louisiana — that would tax any president. But this particular president will turn 79 years old in a few months — the oldest chief executive in American history. On his good days, he appears significantly less vigorous than he did earlier in his career, and being President of the United States appears to sap every bit of energy he has left.
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As the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated, the British press featured much discussion of Biden’s appearance. “Dazed and visibly exhausted , Biden is hoisted by his own petard,” said one columnist in The Telegraph. “Visibly exhausted after just seven months in office,” said one in The Sun. There were reports that some British officials privately referred to Biden as “gaga” and “doolally,” and that Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself had called Biden “Sleepy Joe,” the nickname given Biden by then-President Donald Trump during the 2020 campaign.
Evidently, the crises that Joe’s administration manufactured — immigration, inflation in general, and rising gas prices specifically — have been switched to autopilot to run themselves.
JACK DUNPHY: Capitol Police Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks (but Shouldn’t Have). “Understand that it is not only Byrd himself who will be accused in the wrongful death suit yet to be filed. His department will also be named when the suit is brought in the jurisdiction the plaintiffs choose, and in speaking with Holt, Byrd exposed some departmental deficiencies a jury may see as having contributed to Babbitt’s death.”
SEGREGATON NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! AU offers separate classroom, saying it’s a ‘safe space for Black Students.’
DON SURBER: The Harvey Weinstein-ed news. “While the news readers and guests on ‘Today,’ ‘CBS This Morning,’ and ‘Good Morning Amderica’ were condemning Harvey Weinstein for trading sex for movie roles, the shows themselves had for years anchors or bosses who were mistreating. The predators were Matt Lauer at NBC, Charlie Rose at CBS and PBS, and Michael Corn, the senior executive producer of GMA at ABC. . . . Mind you, all the while the lefty morning shows were promoting the feminist agenda, each of these shows showcased women co-hosts.”
YOUR BODY, THEIR CHOICE: Union for state employees sues Washington Governor Inslee as thousands protest vaccine mandates.
FYI: On C-SPAN, Phil Magness talks about his book, Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education. “There are things that happen in universities that would make things like Enron look ethical by comparison.”
MARK JUDGE: COVID-19 Madness and ‘The Last Man on Earth.’
TERRORISM IS BACK. THANKS, JOE: Issues & Insights reminds us that it was Trump’s mean tweets, not Islamic Terrorism, that had the American elites panties in a wad. There was a reason for that – Trump destroyed ISIS in Iraq:
“Since then, the number of Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide has plunged. In the U.S., there have been only two acts of terrorism in the past four-plus years that were fueled by Islamic extremism. And in Gallup’s poll of top problems, terrorism stopped even registering. No one mentioned it in the July 2021 survey.
“Then Biden, in an eerie repeat of the Obama years, decided to pull troops out of Afghanistan against the advice of many, after which the country quickly fell to Taliban terrorists – despite Biden’s promise that this wouldn’t happen. And then ISIS suddenly re-emerged, this time called ISIS-K.”
BUT THE NARRATIVE! Wisconsin Lost Track of 82,000 Ballots in State Biden Won by 20,000.
COLORADO ELECTION FRAUD: Soros-Backed Secretary of State Permanently Blocks Arizona-Style Audits.
READER RECOMMENDATION: Disaster Preparedness for EMP Attacks and Solar Storms (Expanded Edition).
SPACE RACE II: China will study how to build a massive spacecraft over a half mile long. “The concept is outlined in a project document from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (in the attachment titled ‘Guide for major projects of the Ministry of Mathematical Sciences’), which describes how the organization is looking for proposals for constructing an ‘ultra-large spacecraft with a size of one kilometer,’ saying this goal represents ‘a major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources, exploration of the mysteries of the universe, and long-term living in orbit.'”
ROGER KIMBALL: What We Left Behind in Afghanistan.
Just a couple of weeks ago, all of that war-making matériel had been the property of two entities.
Some belonged to U.S. forces themselves.
A lot of it belonged to the U.S.-supplied Afghan government that was—the mighty 300,000 man-strong force that, on July 8, President Joe Biden said would prevail over the Taliban if push came to shove.
Push did come to shove, as we all know, and now those vast stores of military hardware are under sole control of the Taliban.
There have been several differing inventories of these stockpiles. One just published in the London Times provides perhaps the most authoritative accounting published to date.
Scattered in seven Afghan army garrisons across the country, from Kabul and Kandahar to Herat, Mazar-Sharif, Kunduz, these arms depots include an impressive amount of U.S. military hardware: 22,174 armored Humvees, for example, 42 pickup trucks and SUVS, 64,363 machine guns, 162,043 radios. 16,035 night vision goggles, 358,530 assault rifles (the real ones, not the “assault rifles” that Joe Biden warns about at home), 126,295 pistols, and 176 artillery pieces.
And that’s just for starters. The U.S. also generously left behind more than 100 helicopters, including 33 Blackhawks, 4 C-130 transport planes, and some 60 other fixed-wing aircraft.
There was also oodles of ammunition to go along with all the loot.
The question that has not really been pressed about this rather awe-inspiring armory is, why?
Read the whole thing. Here’s the above list of booty in graphic form:
WELL, SURE, IT’S STRUCTURED FORMAL RACISM: Critical race theory in universities likely violates federal law: legal analysis. It creates, and is designed to create, a hostile educational environment on account of race.
ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX launches Cargo Dragon to ISS, catches booster on new ship for first time.