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Archive for 2022
August 24, 2022
WILL THE BIG GUY GET HIS TEN PERCENT? Biden Pursues Deal Handing World’s Largest State Sponsor Of Terrorism $1 Trillion.
HUMANS SHOULD BE SUPREME, AND IDIOTS SHOULD BE IGNORED: Animals are victims of ‘human supremacy,’ growing student organization claims.
HE’S RUNNING IN ’24: Newsom Vetoes a Bill That Would Have Set Up Legal Drug Injection Sites.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: No apparent progress on ‘diversity of thought’ forum promised by University of Michigan dean.
DIFFERENT POLITICAL NEEDS REQUIRE DIFFERENT NARRATIVES, COMRADE: Two Years After Kenosha Riots, Why No August 23 Committee To Investigate The Big Lie That Stoked The Flames?
STOP REHIRING THOSE TAX DEADBEATS, IRS: That’s the message from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who suggests that, before the IRS adds those 87K new agents, the federal tax collection agency should make sure all of its present employees have paid all of their fair share.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Delicious Stupidity of Liz Cheney’s Presidential Folly. “I cannot begin to describe how much I would like to see her go through with this. I may have to rent a storage space for the extra schadenfreude I’ll have when this ego train wrecks.”
UPENN LAW STUDENTS SHOW WE’RE DOOMED: Well, that may yet be a bit overly pessimistic but it’s hard to read this from Legal Insurrection about the treatment accorded by them to the devotedly anti-woke Law Professor Amy Wax without thinking the worst.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ACTOR RUSSELL BRAND: Now he’s warning, according to the Daily Wire, about the dangers to liberty posed by Amazon’s newest, most convenient-ever way to pay. Like they say, if it’s too good to be true, odds are it isn’t. Especially, you know, when it’s the “nefarious nature of Big Tech” we’re discussing.
NO WATER, NO LIFE: That’s the bottom line concerning one of the most viscous liquids in the universe, but, according to biologist/M.D. Michael Denton on HillFaith this morning, there are many more miraculous characteristics of water that most folks don’t know.
SALMAN RUSHDIE and the new blasphemy laws. “Blasphemy. That is the incendiary charge laid at the door of Salman Rushdie by his Islamist enemies – from the Ayatollah Khomeini who issued the fatwa in 1989 to the suspect who attacked him earlier this month. Today, in the liberal West, we tend to think of blasphemy as an outdated offence – belonging to a pre-modern era. Yet it is increasingly clear we have replaced the old blasphemies against the church with new taboos – where unorthodox ideas are branded ‘hateful’ rather than heretical. Could this be why the solidarity for Salman Rushdie has been so thin and fleeting? Has the West given in to the idea that certain blasphemies cannot be tolerated?”
Yes. The Woke/Green state is a species of theocracy itself, and feels solidarity with other such.
OK, GROOMER: World’s Youngest Trans Model Has Two Trans Parents, Will Have ‘Gender Surgery’ At 16. “McMaher and her partner appear to have another young infant they are raising as non-binary, referring to the child as a ‘theybie’ who is often photographed in a jumper which reads ‘genderless is more.'”
PAUL PELOSI PLEADS GUILTY TO DUI, gets five days in jail.
CHANGE: Euro falls below parity with the dollar. What’s the impact? “A currency’s exchange rate can be a verdict on economic prospects, and Europe’s have been fading. Expectations that the economy would see a rebound after turning the corner from the COVID-19 pandemic have been replaced by recession predictions. More than anything, high energy prices and record inflation are to blame.”
Green energy policies are wrecking their economy. Who could have seen it coming, besides anybody with half a brain?
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DEBUNKING A HOLLYWOOD MYTH: Did John Wayne try to assault Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars? Debunking a Hollywood myth. “According to legend, Wayne, listening to Littlefeather from backstage, became so incensed that he had to be restrained by six security guards from storming the stage to either assault Littlefeather or drag her offstage. (The legend has also been invoked in reporting of Will Smith’s assault of Chris Rock onstage at this year’s Oscars, generally by people challenging descriptions of that attack as the “ugliest” moment of the Oscars—”What about John Wayne and Sacheen Littlefeather?” goes the typical rebuttal.)”
It never happened. Plus: “Wayne never criticized Littlefeather personally; his general comment when asked about Brando’s refusal is that the actor should have come out and done it in person.”
And: “Wayne was a dyed-in-the-wool political conservative, but according to his biographer, Scott Eyman, in real life he was a ‘well brought up Edwardian man’ who would never think of assaulting a woman. Nehme elicited that insight from Eyman directly, noting that he didn’t even mention the episode in his book about Wayne. ‘Nobody I talked to who knew Wayne,’ Eyman told her, ‘ever referred to or, apparently, believed that story.’ It would be justice to retire it forever.”
Delighted to see Michael Hiltzik, generally a reliable purveyor of lefty talking points, debunking this one.
DIVESTMENT FROM FOSSIL FUELS IS A BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY:
It’s likely that Harvard’s endowment, like many other universities’ this year, will show losses. The school’s annualized 10-year returns as of June 2021 are among the lowest of its peers in the eight-school Ivy League, according to Bloomberg data. The University of Texas System last overtook Yale’s endowment in 2018 as the second-richest US university because of rising oil prices. . . .
Land operated by the University of Texas System is on track to post its best-ever annual revenue in fiscal 2022 because of soaring oil prices and production on its property in the Permian Basin. Oil reached a high of $120 a barrel earlier this year as a result of a war-induced energy crunch. The revenue is expected to help narrow the gap between the Texas system’s $42.9 billion endowment and Harvard’s $53.2 billion as of June 2021.
“The University of Texas has a cash windfall when everyone is looking at a potential cash crunch,” said William Goetzmann, a professor of finance and management studies at Yale University’s School of Management. “Adjusting your portfolio for social concerns is not costless.”
No, and the cost isn’t borne by the managers who do the adjusting, but by the people on whose behalf they are supposed to be managing.
CDR SALAMANDER: Some Damn Fool Thing in the Balkans.
You would think one war in Europe at a time would be enough, but you should never underestimate the Serbs.
As with most of us who were on active duty in the 1990s, I have more than a passing interest in the former Yugoslavia – and invested my quota of effort in its wars.
Later in my career I later served in NATO with Slovenes, Croatians, and N. Macedonians. I’ve vacationed a few times in Slovenia and Croatia. One of my daughters has studied, twice, in Serbia.
I keep an eye on it … and thankfully so are some smart people in The Pentagon.
The Balkans is always on the edge and has been for centuries, so it is only natural that now and then it bubbles over.
You may have missed with all the other news that the frozen conflict in Kosovo was throwing sparks again.
Much more at the link.
RUN, LIZZY, RUN! Poll confirms: A Cheney presidential run could swing the 2024 election to Trump.
Personally, I find it hard to believe she could pull enough votes to make a difference.
MATT MARGOLIS: Interview With Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group on the 2022 Midterms. “Despite the recent tightening of the generic ballot, Cahaly still believes that Joe Biden will drag down his party at the polls in November.”
ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY STARTED BLOWING THE WHISTLE: More Whistleblowers Reveal ‘out of Control’ FBI Including Fake Cases, Even False Affidavits.
WORST DOCTOR EVER: Good riddance to Fauci and his calamitous, costly career. Never in the history of the public-health profession has anyone been so richly rewarded for doing so much harm to the public’s health. Fauci violated the fundamental principles of science, but got away it by deploying the skills honed during five decades in Washington: bureaucratic infighting, media manipulation and fearmongering.