THE LEFT CONTINUES TO FAIL AT UNDERSTANDING THAT TRUMP IS NOT OUR LEADER. HE’S OUR BATTERING RAM: Trump Says He’s a Target of Jan. 6 Grand Jury, Expects Imminent Arrest and Indictment.
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July 19, 2023
THERE IS A CRISIS OF COMPETENCE: Another Freight Train Derailment in Pennsylvania Results in Evacuations of Surrounding Area.
IT’S ONLY BEEN GOING ON FOR FIFTEEN YEARS: “The racialization of medical education and medicine constitutes a national emergency”.
AND WHEN ARE THEY STARTING ON THE OTHER UNIVERSITIES? House of Representatives to Investigate UC Berkeley’s Ties to China.
And medschools. And governmental departments. And–
I HOPE THEY GOT HERCULES. THIS IS THE AUGEAN STABLES AND THE CLEANING THEREOF: Senate Panel Attempts to Reduce DHS’ Domestic Intelligence Operations.
IT’S GOOD TO BE KING, I GUESS? FBI Whistleblower: Investigators Were Told to Wait For Hunter’s Okay Before Approaching his House to Interview Him.
#TEAMHEADSONPIKES would like a word with the Deep State Corruptocrats. All of them.
ALL OF BIDEN’S RESUME IS FAILURES. HE’S A LIVING EMBODIMENT OF PETER’S PRINCIPLE: Biden’s Failure Record With Broadband Goes Back to the ‘Stimulus’ of 2009.
July 18, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
BURIED LEDE: PEOPLE ARE STILL WEARING MASKS IN 2023. In-N-Out Bans Masks for Workers, COVID Cultists Melt Down.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Electron launches seven smallsats in latest step towards reusability.
A ‘FAST CAR’ — RIGHT INTO THE MEMORY HOLE: The woke erasure of Tracy Chapman.
Worse still, the thrust of the Washington Post article more or less erases Chapman’s huge success in the 1980s, implying that being a black lesbian thwarted her ambitions. Back in the real world, Chapman was nominated for several Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for ‘Fast Car’ (Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ beat her to those, somewhat incredibly). She won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best New Artist.
Yahr’s article speaks to a broader phenomenon. It is yet another example of how fairly recent lesbian and gay history is being rewritten. Everything is being remoulded to fit the ‘LGBT+’ movement’s Year Zero worldview.
Singer Sam Smith has made similarly ridiculous claims about being a pioneering gay voice in pop music, seemingly unaware of the careers of those little-known, shunned artists Elton John, Freddie Mercury and George Michael.
Read the whole thing.
YEP: Common prescription drugs may cause depression as side effect, experts say. “With some prescription medications, the treatment can be more serious than the underlying disease, as depression and even suicidal thoughts are listed as potential side effects for a variety of drugs, experts told UPI.”
THE GEORDI LAFORGE TREATMENT: Stanford Researchers Treat Depression by Reversing Brain Signals Traveling the Wrong Way. Reverse the polarity!
FEAR OF IRAN REACHES TO AMERICA: Iranian Oil Is Stuck Off Coast of Texas, but U.S. Firms Won’t Touch It.
U.S. federal prosecutors can’t auction off 800,000 barrels of seized Iranian oil sitting in a Greek tanker off the coast of Texas because U.S. companies are reluctant to unload it, according to people familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors commandeered the Suez Rajan tanker carrying the oil earlier this year after charging its Greek owner with sanctions evasion, and directing the ship into the muddy-green waters 65 miles off Galveston’s coast. The U.S. Coast Guard cleared the tanker for unloading, but the companies that manage those transfers—known as lightering—say they are too worried about Iranian reprisal to handle the captured oil.
“Companies with any exposure whatsoever in the Persian Gulf are literally afraid to do it,” said a Houston-based energy executive involved in the matter, citing worries “that the Iranians would take retribution against them.”
The executive said that several of the companies contacted about unloading the oil declined.
Another executive at a shipping company involved in lightering in the Gulf of Mexico also flagged concerns over retaliation. “I don’t know if anybody’s going to touch it,” the executive said.
The impasse over the seized oil illustrates the difficulties the U.S. government faces when it comes to enforcing sanctions against Iran, which has ramped up attacks against Western shipping interests.
There’s an easy solution to this, and it’s telling that we act as if there isn’t.
YOUR CHANCES OF BEING STRUCK BY A METEORITE ARE LOW, but never zero.
(P)RESIDENT: DEMOCRATIC PARTY STENOGRAPHERS ONLY, PLEASE. Biden Boots Daily Signal Reporter From White House Press Briefings.
Lucas isn’t the only reporter who will be left without a hard pass for the White House in two weeks. The White House won’t say exactly how many others will lose access. Officials also won’t disclose the number of hard passes currently in circulation.
Simon Ateba, the White House correspondent for Today News Africa who regularly spars with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, is among those sounding the alarm.
The new rules stipulate that reporters must work full time for “an organization whose principal business is news dissemination.” But the rules go even further by requiring reporters to act in a “professional manner,” “respecting their colleagues, White House employees, and guests,” and “not impeding events or briefings.”
When Trump or DeSantis takes office in January of 2025, his administration should keep the latter rules firmly in place, and if anyone has a Jim Acosta-style freakout, eject him with a reminder that this White House is simply continuing to follow the bipartisan rules laid down by its Democratic predecessor.
STOCKTON RUSH COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Former commander of USAF Civil Air Patrol: ‘Stop hiring middle-aged white people, especially dudes that are pilots.’
I LIKE THIS: New material is a game changer in radiative cooling. “The newly developed material’s performance is truly impressive: It reflected almost 98% of the Sun’s energy and radiated back 95% of the absorbed heat back into space. In tests carried out in Hong Kong, the coated surface could cool a surface down to 8.9°C below air temperature, and the temperature difference between coated and uncoated surfaces reached 24.30°C.”
MICHAEL WALSH: In Praise of Toxic Masculinity.
His Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All is Lost is out in paperback today. (Bumped).
IS ANYONE REALLYY SURPRISED? BUSTED! Bloomberg writer trashing ‘Sound of Freedom’ as a QAnon film is connected to pedo group.
HE’S NOT SAYING IT’S ALIENS BUT IT’S ALIENS: Announcing UFO hearing, House lawmaker says, ‘We’re done with the cover-ups.’
The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week on “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs, Rep. Tim Burchett confirmed Monday.
“We’re done with the cover-ups,” the Tennessee lawmaker declared in a Twitter post announcing the hearing, which has been scheduled for July 26.
The announcement comes after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., last week submitted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate government records related to UAPs “carry the presumption of disclosure.”
With Americans’ ever-increasing interest in mysterious and unexplained flying objects, Schumer said, “It’s long past time they get some answers.”
Mysterious lights in California sky identified as satellites
“The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena,” he said in a statement. “We are not only working to declassify what the government has previously learned about these phenomena but to create a pipeline for future research to be made public.”
Faster, please.
MORE ON TRUMP’S REPORT THAT HE WILL BE ARRESTED FOR JANUARY 6 “INCITEMENT.” If the First Amendment protects an antiwar protester saying “We’ll take the f–king street later” while cops cleared out demonstrators, it surely protects Trump’s speech saying “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Joe Biden Falls Apart on Camera During Meeting With Israel’s President.