YES: Help boys aspire to ‘heroic masculinity.’ “Heroic masculinity ‘is almost entirely taken for granted, even reviled, until trouble comes and it is ungratefully demanded by the very people who usually decry it,’ she writes. As a group, men ‘are larger, faster, and stronger than women.’ Each man is faced with a moral question: How will he use his strength?”
Archive for 2023
September 5, 2023
“NICE TIMING”: Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Turnabout Is Fair Play And Also Both Fun And Essential. “When life gives you lemons, make litigation. All these bogus criminal cases against not only Donald Trump but against anybody who knows Donald Trump, or has spoken the name of Donald Trump, or was ever on the same continent as Donald Trump, are a legal abortion that would make Planned Parenthood blush. Yet, despite these charges having nothing to do with actual law, they have everything to do with creating an opportunity. And it’s an opportunity to use our power as a suppository against our enemies ruthlessly. No, I am not for any of this. I think this is a bad idea. I warned people against creating these New Rules where you use the law, or, instead, you twist the law like some sort of Tibetan yogi into unrecognizable forms and shapes in order to trap your political enemies. I am on record saying it’s a bad idea. I still think it’s a bad idea. But what I think doesn’t matter. The New Rules are now The Rules, and it’s time to use them like Eric Swalwell used Fang Fang. Quickly and unpleasantly for the recipient. . . . The risks of not retaliating here are much, much worse than the risk of going too far. And by retaliating, I mean (mis)applying the law to them precisely as they are (mis)applying it to us. If you want to stop this nonsense, you have to make it painful.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Real Estate Industry in Panic Mode:
45% Drop in Home Purchases – Bigger Than '08! Home sales are now down 31% in 2023.
Without transactions, many jobs that are commission oriented are seeing huge declines in incomes. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, title insurance, home… pic.twitter.com/PfIMwaQ7X2
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) September 4, 2023
Plus: “We went into a recession after two back to back quarters of -1.5 over a year ago. When this happened, the establishment changed the parameters that define recession. We’ve remained at a net loss with job creation and ‘Bidenomics.’ This isn’t recovery and everyone knows it.”
Everyone does know. But as the wise man once said of the very first country to go full-bore leftist and stay that way, “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.”
HISTORY: A Forgotten Christian Warrior Saves the West From Islam.
I missed this one on the actual anniversary over the weekend, but it’s the usual good stuff from Raymond Ibrahim.
READER FAVORITE: Merrell Men’s Moab 2 Vent Hiking Shoe. #CommissionEarned
NICE, BUT WHERE’S THAT ROBOT LIVER I’VE BEEN COUNTING ON? Scientists develop artificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis.
PRIORITIES: Wisc. universities keep DEI positions despite GOP gutting budget by $32 million.
Sounds like there’s still plenty of money in the budget.
DAVID SOLWAY: Is Justin Trudeau the Worst Prime Minister in History?
AGING: Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia compared to non-regular users. “Our findings show evidence of a digital divide in the cognitive health of older-age adults. Specifically, adults who regularly used the internet experienced approximately half the risk of dementia than adults who did not, adjusting for baseline cognitive function, self-selection into baseline internet usage, self-reported health, and a large number of demographic characteristics.”
JOEL KOTKIN: The new age of agitprop: The mainstream media have abandoned the pursuit of objectivity and truth. “Are we living in a new age of agitprop? It is not unusual for journalism, culture and the arts to reflect the political bias of societies and individual writers. But in the past few decades, the business of providing information and insight has sharply deteriorated. Particularly at the elite level, the media now embrace an increasingly uniform point of view on issues as diverse as gender, race, the pandemic and climate. To be sure, there still exists a vibrant oppositional press that offers divergent views. Nevertheless, so many mainstream media outlets increasingly resemble something closer to the kind of agitprop perfected by Russian Marxists, Lenin and their heirs. What was once a liberally minded industry, notes Michael Shellenberger, has embraced censorship as the one cure for what it defines as ‘misinformation’. The results for consumers have been disastrous.”
This change wasn’t implemented for the benefit of consumers.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: How About We Just Say ‘No’ to the Fauci Fascism Revival? “Read the room, tyrants, even your gullible lefties have moved on from the COVID protocols madness. Sure, the occasional ‘ZOMG WHY AREN’T PEOPLE WEARING MASKS?!?!?!?’ loons will show up on social media, but it’s tough to keep the crazy cousins from wandering into the reunion in a big family.”
THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE BECAME THE PRO-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SO GRADUALLY I BARELY NOTICED: Musk blames Anti-Defamation League for X’s low ad revenue and threatens lawsuit. Ironic that an allegedly anti-Nazi organization is now red-flagging people for insufficient censorship.
LIFE IN THE CRAZY YEARS: Opposing segregation makes you a racist.
EVEN APPLE FINALLY GOT ON BOARD WITH RIGHT TO REPAIR: Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists.
404 Media reported on a letter sent on August 10 to the US Copyright Office by Ryland Hawkins of Author Services Inc. The company, its website and letterhead say, represents the “literary, theatrical, and musical works of L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of Scientology. Author Services, according to records archived via the WayBackMachine, is owned by the Church of Spiritual Technology, which describes itself as a church within Scientology.
The letter addresses Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which “makes it unlawful to circumvent technological measures used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works.” The Scientology group’s letter seeks to alter exemptions granted for self-repairing some consumer electronics, like video game consoles, laptops, home appliances, and farming tractors.
Author Services’ letter argues that while that exemption works for the “many consumer devices” that include “unilateral ‘shrink-wrap’ licenses governing the terms of use of the software,” they shouldn’t apply to devices that “can only be purchased and used by someone who possess [sic] particular qualifications or has been specifically trained in the use of the device.”
More: “Why would Scientologists object to right to repair? Those familiar with the organization might also be aware of the ‘E-meter’, a device that Scientologists claim can read people’s emotional state, which is used in ‘audits’ of its members.”
The auditors might not want their tools audited.
THE PRESS SAYS THIS NEVER HAPPENS: Over 60% of ‘active shooters’ stopped by ‘good guy with a gun.’
But, you know, the press says a lot of things.
TO BE FAIR, LEFTY PITY PARTIES ARE PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE POINT OF MSNBC: ‘Trans’ Man Who Invaded Wyoming Sorority Plays Violin for Himself on MSNBC.
FLASHBACK: “Under capitalism, rich people become powerful. But under socialism, powerful people become rich. When you look at a socialist country like Venezuela, you find that the rulers are fabulously wealthy even as the ordinary citizenry deals with empty supermarket shelves and electricity rationing. The daughter of Venezuela’s socialist ruler, Hugo Chavez, is the richest individual in Venezuela, worth billions of dollars, according to the Miami-based Diario Las América. In Cuba, Fidel Castro reportedly has lived — pretty much literally — like a king, even as his subjects dwelt in poverty. In the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as Hedrick Smith reported in his The Russians, the Communist Party big shots had lavish country houses and apartments in town stocked with hand-polished fresh fruit, even as the common people stood in line for hours at state-run stores in the hopes of getting staples.”
YES, I DO KNOW HOW BAD IT LOOKS, BUT THEY’RE THE LAST GASP OF A DYING CULTURE. NOT AMERICAN CULTURE, THE LEFT: What the Left Did to Our Country.
And it’s world wide. These are the last echoes of the fall of the USSR. They are vicious and destructive and nihilistic because they’re dying and want to take us with them. But they won’t. It’s going to be very tough for a little while, but in the end we win, they lose.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Tencent, others begin enforcing China’s new oversight move on apps.
Mobile app stores in China run by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), Xiaomi (1810.HK) and others have started to bar app publishers from launching new apps if they do not make all the disclosures required by authorities, documents seen by Reuters showed.
The moves comply with new rules introduced last month as Beijing tightens oversight of mobile apps in the country. The rules are causing consternation in the industry that publishing apps in the world’s second largest economy will become very difficult and many apps may need to be taken down.
The new rules, which require mobile app publishers to file business details with the government, gave app stores in China until the end of August to establish their filing systems to oversee new apps.
“The Android app stores have confirmed that new apps require the app filings from Friday onwards, and existing apps must have it from March 31 onwards,” Rich Bishop, CEO of app publishing firm AppInChina said.
“It forces all global apps on these app stores to either establish a local entity or work with a local partner.”
What I’m reading into this is that the CCP will have the ability to get access to anyone’s source code.
MARK JUDGE: Holy Noticing: Skateboarding with Jesus.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Under Armour Men’s Packaged Base 4.0 Crew T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: WSJ: Say, why are Chinese nationals trying to infiltrate military bases in the US?