THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Oberlin accused of discriminating against Jews.

HAPPY NATIONAL CD PLAYER DAY!

National CD Player Day is celebrated on October 1. Music collections have encountered some pretty severe changes throughout history, from Vinyl to 8-Track to Tape Recorder Cassette to CD, to MP3 Players, and onto our mobile phones. Arguably one of the biggest changes to occur in the music world was the CD, and an icon of this move was the CD Player. As soon as it joined the scene, cassette tapes were on their way to being a thing of the past, with CDs soon replacing all the clunky cartridges and coming packed full of unique features and more music than a cassette could hold!

More here: “On October 1st, 1982 the first ever commercially available compact disk player was released in Japan. The Sony CDP-101 was released for around 168,000 yen, or what would translate to over $1750 in today’s US dollars! That unit resembled a VCR. Later, the laser-based music storage medium would become cheaper and more mainstream and CD boomboxes and portable CD players became more common. By the turn of the century, the CD had mostly replaced the dying audio cassette format. However, CDs were soon overtaken by digital music and the MP3 player, although CDs still sell to a certain extent.”

CDs get a bum rap these days, in part because many early CDs were badly mastered, using the same narrow EQ frequencies previously necessary to avoid the needle from skipping out of an LP’s grooves. But the transition from scratchy, easily damageable LPs, and hissy, lo-fi cassettes to a portable digital audio medium was quite remarkable for those of us who lived through that period.

THANKS BIDEN! DHS Preps For MASSIVE Surge Of Up To 400,000 Illegals In October. “Mayorkas says Biden administration opposes the wall because people crossing illegally is ‘one of our proudest traditions’… Mayorkas also said he was ‘surprised’ at the ‘tragic rise’ of the Delta Variant of the Wuhan Virus at the southern border. How do you take a liar like that seriously?”

AND THEY WONDER WHY THEY ARE HATED: Politico newsroom poo-bah disses a Gold Star family on Twitter. Learns nothing.

NOBODY TELL TIM HAMNER: Gigantic Comet Approaching From Outer Solar System May Be The Largest Ever Seen.

GOOD: New COVID-19 antigen testing method offers highly accurate results in under 3 minutes.

UNSURPRISING: Smartwatches detect viral infection before symptoms surface in study.

Too bad we have so much reason to distrust our smart devices — or rather the Big Tech companies behind them — on privacy grounds. Big Tech’s untrustworthiness will cost lives.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Woke CDC Cancels Women, Urging Vaccinations for Pregnant ‘People.’

WELL, THAT’S A BIG MARKET: Tested: The 2021 Porsche Panamera 4S Exists for the EV Resistance.

SOMEHOW, NOT THE BEE: This woman made a video to prove her dog is a vegetarian and it did NOT go as she planned.

THE POLITICS OF THE STOMPY FOOT: Rolling Stone Lefty Loses It, Shrieks ‘Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet.’ “As the West Virginia Democrat Senator holds fast against Presidentish Joe Biden’s $5 trillion “Build Back Better Soviet” reconciliation bill, Goodell is far from the only lefty in full-bore panic mode.”

CRISIS BY DESIGN: DHS Says Being in the U.S. Illegally ‘Should Not Alone Be the Basis’ of Detaining or Deporting Illegals.

MAKE THEM PAY: Federal Judge Rules Washington, DC is Liable for Post-Heller Wrongful Firearm Arrests.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Student booted as newspaper’s editor-in-chief over mask mandate editorial.

HEH: Imagine That: Kyrsten Sinema Enrages Democrats by Representing Her Constituents.

COLLUSION, STRAIGHT UP: Classified Briefing on Nord Stream Pipeline Renews GOP Concerns That Biden Is Caving to Russia.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.) said that a classified briefing on Wednesday about the contested Nord Stream 2 Russian energy pipeline renewed concerns that the Biden administration is bowing to Russia, which is completing a massive energy project that Republicans worry will solidify Moscow’s grip on Europe’s energy needs.

Hagerty, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon that information provided by U.S. officials in a classified setting confirmed the Biden administration will continue to ignore congressionally mandated sanctions meant to stymie the completion of Nord Stream 2. Congress, he said, will not sit by as the administration bucks the law.

“The Biden administration continues to ignore mandatory congressional sanctions that would significantly delay and even halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,” Hagerty said. “If the Biden administration will not enforce the law in good faith, Congress will need to act very soon to counter Vladimir Putin’s malign influence energy project.”

I’m so old I can remember when Biden was going to heal our fractured alliances and stand up to Russia.

NEW CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA: Writing in The Federalist, Helen Raleigh tells us Zhao Wei was a prominent television figure, director and businesswoman in China, but you won’t find any trace of her these days. She’s been erased, at least digitally.

“Within a day or two of Wei’s disappearance, a blog applauding the government’s actions went viral in China. It predicates ‘the red has returned’ and ‘a profound transformation or revolution’ is underway in China. The blog was written by Li Guangman and posted on WeChat, another Twitter-like Chinese social media platform.

“Since Li is not well-known in China, few would have paid any attention to him in normal circumstances. Even in China, a fervent far-left Maoist like Li is in the minority. Yet something curious happened: All major state media, such as People’s Daily and other social media platforms, re-posted Li’s blog with the same headline: ‘Everyone Can Sense That a Profound Change is Underway!’ Welcome to Xi’s China’s Cultural Revolution 2.0.”

DON’T JUST DO SOMETHING, STAND THERE:

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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Will This Jetpack Fly Itself? Startup aims to make piloting a jetpack as easy as flying a drone.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, 1910:  A bomb ripped through the Los Angeles Times Building, killing 21 and injuring more.  Two brothers connected to the Iron Workers Union were later arrested for the crime.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH FRANCE IS A VOICE OF SANITY:  Macron, France Reject American ‘Woke’ Culture That’s ‘Racializing’ Their Country.

HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE? Japan’s Navy Is Getting Aircraft Carriers and Stealth Fighters — and China Isn’t Happy. “Prickly feelings aside, once the Marine version of the F-35 became available, there would be nothing stopping Japan from reinforcing the flight deck and almost instantly turning their “destroyers” into light aircraft carriers armed with fricken stealth fighters — and that’s exactly what Japan is doing.”

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Strangers less awkward, more interested in deep conversation than people think.

WE SHOULD START CALLING THEM “JIM CROVID” LAWS: First Workers, Now Blacks: Democrats’ Betrayals For Big Business Are Piling Up, But Can Republicans Seize It? “Now roughly 72 percent of black New York City residents aged 18-44 are banned — banned — from entering dining establishments.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Patch could give new life to weak heart.