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July 26, 2022
REMEMBER JOE ISUZU? HE SAYS HE PRAYED WITH SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: Actually, the guy’s name is Rob Schenck and he’s a former evangelical-preacher-turned-progressive-polemicist. He claims to have prayed with Justice Samuel Alito for years, who was then so impressed that he used Schenck’s pro-life “bumper-sticker slogans” in the recent Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade.
Now, I’m from out of town and all, but I read Alito’s Dobbs decision and I don’t see anything that resembles a bumper sticker slogan. So I emailed Rob and asked him to point out at least one specific example of a Schenckian bumper sticker slogan that Alito used because of those prayerfests. You can read in my latest column on PJ Media how Schenck responded here.
I WONDERED WHY BEEF WASN’T GOING UP FASTER: Ranchers Are Selling Off Their Cattle in Unprecedented Numbers Due to the Drought, and That Has Enormous Implications for 2023.
COMING SOON FROM AUBREY DE GREY: Longevity Summit Dublin.
WORLD WAR III LOOMS FOR THE MIDTERMS: U.S. officials grow more concerned about potential action by China on Taiwan.
UPDATE: From the comments:
I’m old enough to remember when gas prices were low, Putin was sulking in a corner and China was whining about Trump being mean to them.
Now we have 4.50 gas, Russian invading Ukraine and Biden is worried China will invade Taiwan.
But no mean tweets and that is what is important!
Apparently.
JAMES POULOS: Against the Great Reset: ‘Big Tech: Sacred Culture or Cyborg Rapture?’
Hey, don’t dis cyborgs, I’m married to one. And pretty rapturous about it.
VROOM: We test an electric Mercedes that can go 747 miles on a single charge.
Okay, there’s actually no vroom at all with this.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Surprise: Alleged Jihad Terror Financiers Organized Campaign Events for Rashida Tlaib.
NO, CANCELING CHAPPELLE IS NOT A ‘WIN FOR FREE SPEECH.’ Yes, Twitter know-it-alls, you can demand everyone you hate be silenced. But pretending that’s as good for free speech as not demanding they be silenced is just silly.
CAIRN UNIVERSITY ENDS 50-YEAR-OLD SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM. Helped along by highly politicized accreditation requirements from the Council on Social Work Education regarding “intersectionality,” et cetera…
THE GASLIGHTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: Recessional.
The Biden administration continues to prepare the battlefield for the Commerce Department’s second-quarter 2022 GDP estimate on Thursday. Administration officials must anticipate an estimate reflecting that we are in a recession, because they are making fools of themselves to deflect it in the meantime.
QED:
ANDY NGO IS DOING LOTS OF REPORTING on stuff the left, the Democrats, and the media — but I repeat myself — don’t want you to know.
OLD AND BUSTED: The Phone Cops and the Library Police.
The New Hotness? California officials crack down on the gallons needed for the archetypal Southern California yard, sending out ‘water cops’ to check; ‘My kids are asking me, what is going wrong with this grass?’ California’s Worst Drought on Record Spells Trouble for Classic Green Lawns.
READER FAVORITE: LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for Hiking, Camping, Travel, and Emergency Preparedness. #CommissionEarned
UM: Florida Ex-Cop Who Killed a Woman During an Exercise Wants His Probation Deal Ended Early. “Former Punta Gorda, Florida Police Officer Lee Coel aimed his Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver at 73-year-old retired librarian Mary Knowlton and pulled the trigger four times. What were supposed to be blanks, weren’t. Coel had loaded wadcutters into his personal weapon. He could not tell the difference between blanks and live rounds. . . . Coel’s actions, which the department officially sanctioned, violated all of the basic rules of firearm safety.”
That’s criminal stupidity. And he never did any jail time.
THAT’S WHAT SHOW TRIALS DO: Jan. 6 Committee Hiding Evidence That Absolves Trump.
THEY REALLY ARE COMING AFTER YOUR CAR AND TRUCK: World Economic Forum article lays it out about as clearly as it could be – You don’t need to own an automobile, you just need to be able to use one owned by somebody else. Check it out:
“Be honest, you likely have at least one old mobile phone tucked in the bottom of a drawer. Possibly an unused hard drive taking up space too. You aren’t alone. The average car or van in England is driven just 4 percent of the time. While most already have a personal phone, 39% of workers globally have employer-provided laptops and mobile phones.
“This is not at all resource efficient. More sharing can reduce ownership of idle equipment and thus material usage. Car sharing platforms such as Getaround and BlueSG have already seized that opportunity to offer vehicles where you pay per hour used.
“To enable a broader transition from ownership to usership, the way we design things and systems need to change too. For example, car sharing is made possible by new keyless unlocking features. Similarly, user profiles that create a distinction for work and personal use on the same device is needed to reduce the number of devices per person. A design process that focuses on fulfilling the underlying need instead of designing for product purchasing is fundamental to this transition. This is the mindset needed to redesign cities to reduce private vehicles and other usages.”
To paraphrase Charlton Heston, they’ll take my truck only after they pry my cold, dead fingers off the steering wheel.
I SAW THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DESTROYED BY TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, STARVING HYSTERICAL NAKED, DRAGGING THEMSELVES THROUGH THE TRANSGENDERED BATHROOMS AT DAWN LOOKING FOR AN ANGRY FIX. 2024: Bill Kristol Says Democrats Should Recruit John Legend (Not Kamala) to Replace Biden — ‘Our Version’ of Zelensky.
YOU’LL EAT BUGS AND LIKE IT, SERFS! The case for paying carbon taxes on unsustainable food. The Gentry Class gets its jollies from making people live in ways they don’t want to live. That’s not a means to an end. That is the end.