SPACE FORCE: Dickinson’s guidance to space troops: Prepare for ’competitive and dangerous’ environment.

REALLY GLAD WE HAVE GROWNUPS IN CHARGE ONCE AGAIN WHO AREN’T OBSESSED WITH TWITTER: Rent Free: Jen Psaki Gets Snarky After ‘Circle Back’ Video Goes Viral.

SHOCKER: CEO Secrets: ‘We tried paying everyone the same salary. It failed.’

COOL CLOCK, AHMED: ‘Palestinians’ Want London to Give Back ‘Big Ben.’

There was never a “Palestinian” nation or a people. There were influential clans, like the Husseini clan, whose members included Hitler’s Mufti and Yasser Arafat, who are not, despite their myths, descended from the Caananites let alone the Philistines, but came over from Egypt. Even after spending a generation trying to wipe out the indigenous Jewish population, when the revolution came and Israel won its independence, they were not driven out in a ‘Nakba’.

They left ahead of their invading Islamic armies that they expected to wipe out the Jewish population. And when that didn’t happen, they claimed to be an exiled “Palestinian” people.

Now their descendants recalling family legends have built up a story of a glorious Islamic clock that was stolen by the infidels and passed off as Big Ben. One day they’ll reclaim Big Ben and stick it on the Jaffa Gate again and take over all of Jerusalem. Meanwhile the Israelis have been caring for the remaining Ottoman clocks. The entire set, including the banished Jaffa Gate clock, have shown up on Israeli postage stamps. The Ottoman plaques with their praises of Allah have been left alone though other plaques praising G-d were sometimes added.

Exit quote: “When your entire history is fake, you can believe anything.”

ICYMI: Nice artwork from Stacy Tabb.

#JOURNALISM:

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MARILYN MANSON DROPPED BY LABEL, TV SHOW AFTER EVAN RACHEL WOOD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS.

As Jim Treacher asks, “Remember #MeToo?” If You Believe Marilyn Manson Accuser Evan Rachel Wood, Why Don’t You Believe Tara Reade?

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:

Shot:

I remember watching my first Winter Olympics in 1980. We were on a family ski trip at Copper Mountain in Colorado, where my brother and I skied the first powder run of our lives. It was on a gentle slope just off one of the main trails. We wiggled down the hill in chaotic rapture then skied the run again and again. The snow was soft and the turns effortless. You don’t have to be a skier to feel nostalgia for those whitewashed days — or to see the writing on the wall.

—“The End of Snow?”, the New York Times, February 7^th, 2014.

Chaser:

(Classical reference in headline.)

WELL, DEPENDS ON WHAT THEY PLAY: Music may help patients recover more quickly after surgery.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The People Were Right: The EU’s unhinged behaviour in the vaccines crisis vindicates the 17.4million. “We told you. We told you the European Union was not some hippyish, internationalist outfit but rather was a self-interested protectionist bloc. We told you it was a sclerotic bureaucracy whose centralisation of power made it more and more difficult for member states to behave as democratic nations and to respond sensitively and speedily to the needs of their own people. We told you the EU didn’t really give a damn about the Good Friday Agreement and was only using it as a weapon with which to beat Brexit Britain. We told you the EU was exploiting Ireland, cynically marshalling its concerns over a ‘hard border’ to try to further demonise Brexit, and that before long it would forget all about its concern for Ireland and relegate it once again to the status of a neo-colony. We told you all of this. And we were right.”

YEP: Children should be outside for 4-6 hours every day.

CANCEL CULTURE CENSORS THE EPOCH TIMES, AGAIN: Youtube has demonetized The Epoch Times’ channel. Censorship, once started, has a way of consuming everything even remotely threatening to the censors.

BUSES ARE SUPERSPREADER VEHICLES: New Flyer launches North America’s first Level 4 autonomous transit bus.

THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT’S WEB SITE:  You may want to take a look at this.  Really.

NOW OUT FROM TODD HENDERSON: State of Shock. I very much enjoyed the first book in this series. This is #2.

The Kindle version is here.

BIDEN’S IMMIGRATION POLICY IS ‘RELEASE, PROTECT, REWARD:’ That’s the view of former Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, who tells The Epoch Times’ Charlotte Culbertson:

“That’s release, protect, reward. That’s an open border. You might as well put billboards in the Central American countries saying ‘Come to the United States, our borders are open.’ There’s an interview of a migrant himself who said, ‘Biden has given us 100 days to get to the U.S. border.'”

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: “I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.”

—“Ingrid Seyer-Ochi is a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor, ex-Oakland Unified School District principal and current San Francisco Unified School District high school teacher,” writing in a San Francisco Chronicle article today headlined: S.F. high school students get a lesson in subtle white privilege.

I’VE BEEN SEEING A LOT OF BODY ARMOR ADS ALL OVER THE INTERNET. ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING? Which Type of Body Armor is Right for You?

THAT’S THE GOAL: Dodge Warns Regulations Are Threatening to Kill the V-8.

HACKS GONNA HACK: Anatomy of a Cover-up: Media Outlets Bury Cuomo Nursing Home Report, Censor Guest.

FIRST THE FAA STARTS MESSING WITH THEM, NOW THIS: DoJ Investigating Space X for Not Hiring a Foreign National. “It is unclear exactly why the IER is investigating a pattern or practice of discrimination when Space X is required to discriminate against broad categories of non-citizens for ITAR compliance reasons.”

HERE WE GO: Hi Ho Silver, Away to the Moon! “Evidently the WallStreetBets crowd that carried out the Great GameStop Short Squeeze have decided that silver is their next target for making money.”

IT MAKES MOST THINGS WORSE: Obesity may exacerbate the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, new study shows.

THE CRUSHING OF DISSENT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: CNN’s Humpty Stelter Keeps Pushing To Eliminate Fox News from Cable.