THEY’RE LUCKY NO ONE RAN THEM DOWN: Protesters Take Over Brooklyn Bridge, Call for the Elimination of Israel.
Archive for 2023
October 29, 2023
GROUPS OF JEWISH STUDENTS SHOULD BE ROAMING THE CAMPUS WITH AXE HANDLES INSTEAD OF COWERING IN THEIR ROOMS: Cornell Lockdown Due to Threats.
Make it expensive to be a Nazi and there will be fewer of them. Don’t believe me? Ask Curtis LeMay. And hey, just a few years ago all the best people were encouraging me to punch a Nazi.
“DECOLONIZATION” IS A PROPAGANDA TERM: “The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity.”
BIDEN’S FREEFALL CONTINUES: “Ordinarily presidents enjoy some upward bump in their approval rating when there is a world crisis such as the new war in Israel, but Biden continues to sink despite his high-profile visit to Israel and Oval Office speech. According to the latest Gallup Poll Biden’s approval rating has fallen four points from 41 percent last month to 37 percent now—an all time low in Gallup’s series.”
To be fair, that’s only because he’s awful.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
IT’S ONLY A MODEL: Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype.
I don’t want to throw shade at Blue Origin, which I’d really like to succeed, but they’d be more credible if they’d mastered flying to orbit.
IN SHORT, THEY’RE GARBAGE PEOPLE:
Why were 'progressives' of all people, so apt to hatred? Because it's a self-righteous movement that imposes itself by force. Those who thought it would not turn on them forgot the fate of the old Bolsheviks.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
You are safer under a government of bumbling ordinaries encumbered by a fragile faith than governed by self confident supermen convinced that everything is permitted.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
They hate themselves because deep down, they realize they’re garbage people.
Related:
Her voters are in the streets calling for intifada right now. https://t.co/4cIWudUtH6
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 29, 2023
UPDATE:
Shocked Shocked that this would happen in the other country that invaded Poland in 1939.
— Lorien1973 (@Lorien19731) October 29, 2023
Plus:
https://twitter.com/anniesun16/status/1718749046016221548?s=46
ANOTHER UPDATE: The spirit of resistance.
🇺🇸 Black Hebrew Israelites fight pro Palestine 🇵🇸 protestors in Chicago 🏙️pic.twitter.com/7GkUdCsCFu
— World War Now (@WorldWarNow_) October 29, 2023
THAT’LL BE THE DAY I GO BACK TO ANNANDALE: Giant Supervolcano in California Is Sleepy, But Scientists Say It’s Restless.
BEWARE THE CHAIR: How Extended Sitting Time May Be Aging Your Brain Faster.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: I Tried the Carnivore Diet, it Had Unexpected Health Benefits.
CAMPUS INQUISITORS: Harvard’s Double Standard for Free Speech. At the university, you’re free to excuse Hamas’ atrocities and put up murals in Harvard Yard slurring Jews. The Crimson student newspaper will defend your First Amendment rights, and professors will even argue that you deserve to be exempt from criticism. But don’t dare to offend progressives with your research findings, political views or even isolated comments in an interview or blog post.
After the backlash against student groups who blamed Israel for Hamas’ terrorism, the school’s president, Claudine Gay, proclaimed that Harvard protects free speech and academic freedom. Tell that to the scholars with unpopular views who have been denounced, investigated, disinvited, or punished by her and other administrators, and who have endured the Crimson’s outrageous campaigns to slander, silence, sanction, and banish them. My City Journal article details how hard Harvard has been working to earn its ranking from FIRE as America’s worst campus for free speech.
USMC ROBOT GOAT: It’s a combat robot goat. The four-legged robot in the photo is carrying an M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon (LAW). In 2014 Israel ordered 25,000 LAWs. As the 2014 update notes, the LAW is “often used against enemy troops inside bunkers and buildings.” It packs a punch and is light enough to be carried by…an infantryman or a robot goat.
LITTLE WARS AND BIG BIG WARS: America Faces Multi-Front Proxy Warfare
Defeat in detail, a classic military stratagem, occurs when a comparatively weaker combatant secures victory over a more powerful opponent through the piecemeal destruction of the stronger force. The weaker combatant never lets the stronger adversary bring all of its power to bear.
Bit by bit the piecemeal attrition degrades the strong to the point the once-powerful retreats.
Published October 25.
THERE’S NO GOOD REASON: Asked for the 1000th Time: Why Are We Supporting the UN Again?
READER FAVORITE: DIBBATU Fire Blanket Emergency for Kitchen. #CommissionEarned
Related:
The automatic virtue card no longer workshttps://t.co/Lxzi2E880v
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
AS A WISE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER LIKES TO SAY, GET IN THEIR FACES, AND PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Breaking: ADL removes Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik from ‘Glossary of Extremism’ after threat of legal action.
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: ‘Hostile architecture’ vs. beautification: Sidewalk planters are flashpoint in homelessness crisis.
Outside the City Hope Cafe in San Francisco stand two new large, gleaming metal tubs filled with hundreds of pounds of soil. Installed on the sidewalk last week, the planters will add a touch of greenery to the cafe that serves homeless people for free in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood.
But the cafe’s operator, the Rev. Paul Trudeau, acknowledges that their purpose is also functional — a tactic that a recent Chronicle block-by-block survey showed is often resorted to by San Francisco residents and businesses to deter encampments on the sidewalks around them after the city proved unable to provide long-term solutions.
At City Hope, an encampment where screaming matches and fights frequently broke out, including one where a person was arrested for beating another with a hammer, has been blocking the front of the cafe for months, Trudeau said — and despite near-daily calls to 911, the campers repeatedly returned.
So he put in the planters.
“We love our community, and we love the people who walk through our doors,” Trudeau said. “But you can’t get in our doors if you can’t get down the sidewalks.”
As San Francisco continues to grapple with its homelessness crisis, sidewalk planters have proliferated, becoming the latest flash point in the debate over what to do about the thousands of people who live on the city’s streets.
Flashback: “Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, [San Francisco’s] homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s,” SF Weekly noted 15 years ago, stumbling into the Fox Butterfield effect.