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Archive for 2023
July 18, 2023
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Biden Admin Awards Massive No-Bid Contracts to Dem-Connected Firm with $600k Tax Lien. “The Biden administration has awarded private companies hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to house illegal aliens amid an unprecedented surge at the southern border. One of the major recipients is a Democrat-linked logistics company that owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.”
I’m not saying Biden opened the border just to benefit his tax-dodging buddies…
SOUND OF FREEDOM IS #2 IN BOX OFFICE THIS WEEK, well ahead of Woke Indiana Jones and behind only Mission Impossible. Impressively, its take is up 38.6% over last week.
STAY IN SHAPE: New Balance Men’s Fresh Foam X Hierro V7 Trail Running Shoe. #CommissionEarned
THIS HAS ACTUALLY BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE A WHILE AND WITH GOOD RESULTS: Google and Microsoft Rush to Bring AI to Medical Field.
SWALWELL CALLS J6 ‘GREATEST CRIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY’: Republicans on a House Judiciary subcommittee wanted to talk about the delays, evasions, obfuscations and requests ignored by Biden administration officials at the departments of State and Health and Human Services, especially concerning the whereabouts of thousands of unaccompanied minor children crossing the Southern border and then disappearing into child sex and labor trafficking.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) insisted on instead talking about the January 6 Capitol riot, which he described as “the greatest crime in American history.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
NEW: The Walgreens at 16th/Geary in San Francisco has chained up the freezer section ⛓️
Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They’re usually hit 20x a day. The whole store is virtually locked up. @KPIXtv
h/t @greenbergnation pic.twitter.com/lfFWmkLWdo
— Betty Yu (@bett_yu) July 18, 2023
The future of shopping in America’s Democrat-run cities will eventually evolve into the Soviet model of paying a clerk first at one counter, then waiting for your goods to be delivered at the next counter. Shoppers won’t be allowed near any of the merchandise. But that’s what happens when you elect Soviet-minded politicians.
Our remaining advantage over the Soviet model is that enough of America still works that there are goods behind the counter.
THEY KIND OF GET OUT OF BREATH ON THE REAL ONES, THOUGH: Study reveals older burglars outperform younger counterparts in virtual burglaries.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Biden Crime Family Had Over 20 Shell Companies Laundering Foreign Payments.
21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGY: Portable, low-cost tech tracks uterine contractions.
THIS WILL GET THEM BACK ON-SIDE! Charles Barkley Attacks Americans Boycotting Bud Light: ‘Rednecks’ And ‘A**holes.’
IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: NYPD’s new boss needs to restore broken-windows policing and boost quality of life.
PRIVACY: Bill that would allow French police to locate suspects by tapping their devices is up for a vote. “The proposed law plainly stipulates that the procedure can be executed ‘without the knowledge or consent of its owner or possessor’ but is limited to suspects involved in terrorism, organized crime and other illegal activities punishable by five or more years in prison.”
Well, for now. Once the technology is mandated, its use will expand.
Plus: “In addition to activating location services, the measure would also allow investigators to activate a suspect’s phone camera and microphone.”
DEMOCRAT CALLS OUT DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVE WITH CHYRON: Cornel West To CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “You’re Very Much Part Of The Democratic Party Establishment.” And:
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: I want to ask you, Senator Manchin, up in New Hampshire tonight, he seems to be testing the waters there. He says the parties are too far to the left, and to the right. What do you think of his politics?
CORNEL WEST: Well, you know, I just read the pamphlet “Common Sense.” And my God, they had the audacity to rename that after the great Thomas Payne’s [sic] revolutionary pamphlet of January 10, 1976, that was critical of all forms of hierarchy in the name of the dignity of those last, don’t call everyday people.
Thomas Paine? 1976? Forget it, he’s rolling.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Last Election. “The critical nature of the 2024 election makes the probable lineup of rival candidates all the more curious. Can the Dems find no one but Joe Biden to stop the MAGA? The under-appreciated effect of Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy on progressives is that by locking them in a crisis mode, they lack time to evolve or renew their strategy. They go into each new battle with the same old talking points and the same geriatric leadership. Like Mahan’s ‘fleet in being,’ they comprise a threat that cannot be ignored and the Dems must send the old Mighty Hood out to meet them. The end point of all these forced moves is an extraordinarily unpalatable dilemma. The establishment nightmare is Biden loses; but perhaps an even worse dread is a situation where Biden wins.”
LIGHTNING DEAL: Acmount Battery Jump Starter. #CommissionEarned
#METOO: I Owe my Economics to Robert Heinlein. “As individuals, we have free will. I cannot reliably tell you what decisions any individual is going to make on any given day. But if you give me a group of a thousand people, and a set of institutional rules, I can make statistical predictions about their behavior with high confidence. Businessmen maximize their profits. Politicians seek reelection. When we aggregate across a large enough number of individuals, the ‘randomness’ of free will starts to look more and more predictable. But how far can we take it? How much of human nature can we reduce to lines on a chart?”
TECH COMPANIES AGREE, CENSOR PEOPLE WHO SCOFF:
Biden Says Giant Oversized Check From Burisma He’s Holding Is Right-Wing Misinformation https://t.co/x0vjueKk7G pic.twitter.com/YlndRYaBlp
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 17, 2023
NIMBY: Gem Hunters Found the Lithium America Needs. Maine Won’t Let Them Dig It Up. “But like just about everywhere in the U.S. where new mines have been proposed, there is strong opposition here. Maine has some of the strictest mining and water quality standards in the country, and prohibits digging for metals in open pits larger than three acres. There have not been any active metal mines in the state for decades, and no company has applied for a permit since a particularly strict law passed in 2017. As more companies begin prospecting in Maine and searching for sizable nickel, copper, and silver deposits, towns are beginning to pass their own bans on industrial mining.”
I’ll believe that the “clean energy transition” is necessary when the people who keep telling me about the necessity of the clean energy transition start acting like the clean energy transition is necessary.