Archive for 2022

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What are “Battleship” colors on cars? “These are the super-dull colors that you’ve seen on cars and trucks in the last couple of years. These are ‘impossibly dull’ versions of blue, gray, and tan…When did this start and why?”

JAMES MAY VISITS THE FERRARI FACTORY AND TEST DRIVES A FERRARI ROMA: A clip from May’s new Our Man in Italy series on Amazon Prime Video.

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KINSLEY GAFFE: State Dept. official slammed for saying he prefers high gas prices.

A US State Department official is under fire after declaring he prefers the country’s historically high gas prices because it leads to less carbon-dioxide emissions.

Alan Eyre, a self-described government “bureaucrat” according to his Twitter profile, was slammed online after he responded to President Biden’s tweet touting that Americans will spend $30 less on average per month on gas after prices have fallen since gas reached “peak prices” earlier this year.

“I prefer high gas prices = less driving, less CO2,” Eyre said in a Tweet Friday.

Republican congressional candidate Ron Bassilian ripped into Eyre, calling him a “ghoul” and arguing that gas prices are “inelastic” to American drivers.

“Perhaps, but I don’t think it is inelastic and I remember in the 1970s the oil embargo led to a massive increase in renewables,” Eyre replied and added the hashtag #BeKind.

Eyre’s comment comes days after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg requested Congress subsidize electric vehicle purchases as millions of Americans struggle to fill up their gas-powered cars.

Related: Let them pump gas: Elitist environmentalists have contempt for working class.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Of course Black lives matter, but BLM is a disaster. To be fair, BLM was never about helping actual black people, or about promoting justice or equality. Its purposes were grift, graft, and political cover for establishment-backed rioters. This was obvious from the beginning, but it’s more obvious now.

AND YET THEY CONTROL 2/3 OF THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH SHOULDN’T MAKE THE GOP FEEL GOOD ABOUT ITSELF: Democrats Really Suck At This Stuff. “That headline could refer to so many things, nearly everything, as a matter of fact. Just about the only thing Democrats do well is lie with a straight face, and that’s accounting for the curve being ruined by Nancy Pelosi’s inability to move most of her face thanks to Botox.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN TIMING:

Shot: 18-year-old who had a toy gun fatally shot by corrections officer, NYC police say.

An off-duty New York City corrections officer has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man — an incident where a toy gun used in a TikTok trend may have played a role in his death.

Officers responded around 1:35 a.m. Thursday to a call about a shooting in the area of Grand Concourse and East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx. They found Raymond Chaluisant unconscious with a gunshot wound to his face, New York City police said.

He was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

It was determined that he was shot on the southeast corner of the Cross Bronx Expressway and Morris Avenue, about a half mile from where he was found, and one shell casing was discovered at the site, police said.

The corrections officer, Dion Middleton, 45, was arrested on charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the shooting, police said.

—NBC News, Friday.

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Related: What we know about gel blaster toy guns and TikTok’s new Orbeez Challenge.

OUT ON A LIMB: Could masks be making us sick? “That’s the suggestion in a Japanese study, published this week in Nature’s Scientific Report’s journal, which looked at bacterial and fungal growth on face masks worn during the pandemic. The results may put you off your tea.”

OPEN THREAD: Speak your piece.

QUESTION ASKED: How widespread is sexual abuse of students by teachers? “Since 2016, this reporter has logged some 265 arrests of North Carolina educators and staff members. A recent FOX News report said it had found 181 arrests of teachers accused of sex crimes with students just in the first half of 2022. A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice and published in 2017 that drew from a former USDOE report found that an estimated 10% of K–12 students will experience sexual misconduct by a school employee by the time they graduate from high school and that a single offender can have up to 73 victims.”

Related: Twitter Censors ‘Groomer’ Term After Left-Wing Pressure Campaign.