Archive for 2022

JIM TREACHER: Libs Can’t Decide Whether Martha’s Vineyard Is Good or Not. “’We’re in a housing crisis as we are on this island.’ LOL! They really can’t hear themselves, can they? Illegal immigration was fine when it was 10,000 people roasting alive under a bridge in Texas, but insert a few dozen brown folks into a liberal enclave, and all the whiteys run around like headless chickens.”

Related: Massachusetts Governor Activates National Guard as Martha’s Vineyard Migrants Removed from Island.

So much for declaring the island an enclave of “sanctuary cities” in 2017.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Substitute Teacher Arrested For Paying Middle School Students $5 To Jump Their Classmate. “Aadrina Salean Smith, a 24-year-old substitute P.E. teacher, was arrested Monday after allegedly encouraging five children to beat up another student as she watched nearby. The incident occurred on Aug. 23 during a gym class in which Smith was subbing for another full-time teacher at North Caddo Elementary Middle School in Vivian, Louisiana. Caddo Youth Services Division alleges that Smith offered to pay five different students five dollars each to tackle their classmate. . . . The statement further notes that video evidence of the incident exists and shows Smith verbally communicating with the students and appearing to congratulate three of the boys who participated in the assault. Smith also appears in the footage, sitting in the bleachers while the battered victim lay on the gym floor. He later got up, but with no assistance from the substitute teacher who neither helped nor reported the incident.”

If that kid’s parents administered a beat-down of their own, I wouldn’t blame them. Meanwhile, just more evidence of why sending your kids to public school verges on parental malpractice.

IN IMPLICIT PROTEST AGAINST CHINESE CRACKDOWN, Hong Kongers Mourn Queen Elizabeth. “Crowds of Hong Kongers queued in sweltering heat on Monday to pay tribute to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, some expressing nostalgia for the city’s colonial past at a time when China is seeking to purge dissent. Public gatherings of more than four people are banned under coronavirus rules while opposition to Beijing’s rule has been swept aside in a major crackdown following huge and sometimes violent democracy protests three years ago. But on Monday, a public holiday in Hong Kong, a line of people hundreds of metres long snaked through the business district to the British consulate where a condolence book had been opened for residents to sign. . . . A business executive who gave her surname So admitted that Elizabeth II’s death had made her nostalgic and that she felt “less of a connection” with China’s Communist Party leaders in Beijing. ‘I only realised how good it was after I lost it,’ she said, referring to the city since its handover.”

A PRECAUTION AGAINST CHANGING THE COURT VIA ASSASSINATION: America Needs Vice-Justices. “While urging protestors to stay “peaceful”, President Biden and his spokeswoman repeatedly refused to condemn protests outside the justices’ private homes, declining to do so both before and after the would-be assassin showed up at Kavanaugh’s house. After the incident, Biden’s spokeswoman further declined to condemn protestors who had tracked Kavanaugh down at a restaurant and protested outside it while he was there, forcing him to leave early due to security concerns.”

The proposal: “Specifically: just like the president does, every justice should select his or her own ‘vice justice,’ who, just like vice presidents, will do absolutely nothing, unless a justice is murdered, in which case the vice justice will immediately take the bench and appoint his or her own vice justice. An important side-point: if a justice resigns, or dies of natural causes, the vice justice would not be called up. Otherwise, that would create a permanent hereditary seat. The goal is merely to prevent zealots from having an incentive to murder justices.”

I like this plan, though I prefer my plan to make the Court bigger. But yes, it’s absurd to make so much depend on the death or retirement of a single individual.

Related: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: DeSantis Is Just Masterfully Trolling Impotent Libs Now. “From the moment that he opted to offer freedom to the citizens of his state rather than become a COVID panic porn fascist, he’s been triggering Democratic politicians and the false narrative smear merchants in the mainstream media.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES: This is “what happens when bias meets financial illiteracy and gross [journalistic] incompetence,” according to the editors at the Washington Free Beacon. The “this” is the comparison of the formerly trustworthy newspaper of record’s treatment of a liberal billionaire and a conservative billionaire, both of whom did the same thing with their former companies.

DID BEARS REALLY EVOLVE INTO WHALES? Believe it or not, the idea that whales represent the end result of a long evolutionary process that started on the land is pretty much current orthodoxy. But maybe it shouldn’t be if this episode on HillFaith of “Long Story Short” is accurate.

THERE’S A MOVIE IN THIS: A 49-year-old man plays college football.

“On the first day of camp, we thought he was a new coach, so yeah, we were definitely surprised when he said, ‘No, I’m actually playing,’ ” said Preston Yohnke, 20. “But when we saw what he could do, we were impressed,” he added. “To be 49 and competing pretty well on the defensive line? That’s crazy. Ray earned our respect.”

Cast the movie in the comments.