WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE GOVERNED BY IDIOTS:
Baltimore’s @MayorBMScott in 2021-
“We will reimagine public safety, we can’t arrest our way out of it”
Baltimore’s @MayorBMScott in 2023-
“We must arrest people & hold them accountable by not allowing them right back out on the streets”
Dumb ass decisions were made.
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) August 2, 2023
ONLY BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T GIVE HIM FIVE: Fact-Checker gives Joe Biden four Pinocchios over claim Hunter never made any money from China.
THEY’LL KEEP TRYING: Columbia Law Schools Tried to End-Run the Affirmative Action Ruling.
DISTRACTIONS: Don Surber: Biden indicts Trump to hide USA’s credit rating dropping. “Now, whenever Biden indicts Trump, smart readers ask themselves what is Biden trying to distract us from this time? His son’s day in court? His secretary of state bowing to Chairman Xi? A whistleblower testifying before Congress? This time it is creditors getting uneasy about his overspending. For every dollar the federal government takes in taxes, it spends two. Lenders want to charge you more money when you do that.”
Related: “Arbitrary… Outdated!” – Yellen Outraged After Fitch Cuts USA’s AAA-Rating.
RIGHT?
My views are not really controversial.
I am a normal person from 2010 and nothing I say now would have been considered 'controversial' then.
Society just got stupid and I didn't go along with it. 😂
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) August 1, 2023
LIGHTNING DEAL: Surenow Workout Running Shorts for Men. #CommissionEarned
CHANGE: DeSantis-appointed district abolishes Disney board’s DEI and race-based programs: ‘illegal’ and ‘unAmerican.’ “The old district for the better part of 50 years kept Disney insulated from that state government and was described as having had a nearly indistinguishable relationship to that of being a Disney employee.”
NICK GILLESPIE interviews Matt Taibbi.
HUMANS, CHIMPS AND ZOMBIE SCIENCE: Humans and chimpanzees share 98 to 99 percent of their DNA, right? No, actually that’s Zombie science, according to the Colson Center’s latest “What Would You Say” video on HillFaith. Now, before you dismiss it, humans and bananas do share approximately 60 percent of their DNA, but nobody says we’re really a lot like the fruit, right?
HMM: Using AI, scientists bring Neanderthal antibiotics back from extinction. “They’ve resurrected molecules with antibiotic properties found in extinct organisms — specifically, our close relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. (Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, while Denisovans might have survived until 15,000-30,000 years ago.) The breakthrough throws open the doors to a brave new world of ‘molecular de-extinction,’ which holds promise for drug discovery.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: “Arbitrary… Outdated!” – Yellen Outraged After Fitch Cuts USA’s AAA-Rating.
Yeah, it’s not as if our finances have been imprudently managed.
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
HOW CAPITALISM RAISES EVERYBODY: It’s not often that I link to a George Will column (this might even be the first ever), but he’s got one in the July 19 Washington Pest that superbly illustrates the incredible capacity of free minds and free markets to harness human creativity and energy to improve everybody’s standard of living. Maybe it should be renamed, I dunno, the War on Poverty?
EPA STAFF, BUDGET AND ‘ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE’ ENFORCEMENT EXPLODING UNDER BIDEN: OpenTheBooks.com dug into the spending data going back to 2018 and document the explosion of environmental justice aka Critical Race Theory Applied. Is this the preparation of EPA’s political weaponization by Biden against the fossil fuel energy industry?
IONOCALORIC COOLING, a new process for refrigerating things. “A temperature shift of 25 degrees Celsius (45 degrees Fahrenheit) was measured through the application of less than a single volt of charge in the experiment, a result that exceeds what other caloric technologies have managed to achieve so far.”
This is about how seriously this nonsense should be taken. It’s the latest banana republic shenanigan by our pathetic rulers.
UPDATE: Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Turley pour cold water on latest Trump indictments.
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: San Francisco Demands Elon Musk Remove Bright Sign As It’s Disturbing People Trying To Poop On Street.
HEY, SAVING EVEN ONE SEMESTER’S TUITION IS A BIG DEAL: Golden Gate Law Students With Free Tuition Stay At School Despite Possible Bankruptcy And Closure. “Their tuition is free, and if the law school closes before they graduate, they are somewhat confident an ABA-approved teach-out plan will include schools that will accept them as transfer students, based on details from Rule 29, which covers teach-outs, in the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.”
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN ON SEEKING A WIFE.
MAKING AN OFFER SHE CAN’T ACCEPT: DeSantis invites Kamala to meet as early as Wednesday unless she has “a trip to the southern border planned that day.”
“I am prepared to meet as early as Wednesday of this week, but of course want to be deferential to your busy schedule should you already have a trip to the southern border planned for that day,” DeSantis wrote in the letter. “Please let me know as soon as possible. What an example we could set for the nation – a serious conversation on the substance of an important issue! I hope you’re feeling up to it.”
Spoiler alert: She’s not.
UPDATE: Called it.
Of course she won’t debate or discuss the substance. The whole point of her attack is a drive-by political smear, not pursuit of historical fact or truth. https://t.co/qfzX3sMcnb
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 1, 2023
(Updated and bumped.)
CROSSFIT AS RELIGION. For some people, yeah, definitely.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself. “Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a blacklisted spyware vendor known for selling powerful surveillance tools. The agency in question not only brazenly disobeyed the government’s official policy, but had also used a front company to facilitate the deal, suggesting that it knew what was happening was not exactly kosher. After the Times’ story was published, the FBI was ordered by the Biden administration to investigate. Now, several months later, the bureau’s investigation is complete, and it turns out that the agency that disobeyed the White House and purchased the creepy NSO tool was…the FBI.”
And no one will be fired.
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