RIP: David McCallum, Star of ‘NCIS,’ ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ Dies at 90.

NO THANK YOU, I LIKE MY MEAT FROM ANIMALS AND MY VEGETABLES FROM PLANTS: Revolutionizing Plant Proteins: Scientists Unlock the Secret to Juicier Plant-Based Meat.

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TRUDEAU IS THE WORST: Trudeau called truckers “Nazis,” applauds the real thing.

“THE CHAMBER OF PROGRESS?” Big business, under GOP attack for ‘woke’ DEI efforts, urges Biden to weigh in. “‘In the face of a political attack on diversity efforts in the private sector, we urge the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to issue guidance to the private sector expressly affirming that corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in hiring remain protected,’ the Chamber of Progress wrote in a letter to the Justice Department shared exclusively with USA TODAY.”

SPACE DEBRIS: FAA proposes rule to reduce space debris as SpaceX launches 22 satellites into orbit. Somebody needs to tell the UPI’s Adam Shrader that debris that lands on earth isn’t space debris: “Last year, the Australian Space Agency confirmed that space debris found in the Snowy Mountains belonged to a craft built by SpaceX, The Guardian reported at the time. Meanwhile, an uncrewed rocket exploded in April causing debris to fall onto Port Isabel, a small city nearby.” It’s almost like these sentences were thrown in just to make SpaceX look bad.

The proposed rule is here.

Related: Why Establishment Knives Are Out for Elon Musk.

I PREDICT A SLOWER ADOPTION THAN WOULD HAVE HAPPENED A FEW YEARS AGO: CDC recommends new Pfizer vaccine to protect newborns from RSV.

The Washington Post: We have to destroy the First Amendment in order to save it. In what has to be the most blockheaded analysis I’ve read in years, The Post ran a story this afternoon titled “Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks.”

Of course the conservatives and libertarians are leading the charge. It’s the fight against government coercing, cajoling or even cooperating with publishers (electronic and otherwise) to suppress right-leaning views.

To paraphrase James Carville: “It’s the Constitution, Stupid.”

The people who want to censor the right have put a new dress on their pig.  The Washington Post painted it thusly:

“The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans in Congress and state government — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political falsehoods but also the quality of medical information online.”

“See, we have a First Amendment right to figure out how to suppress others’ speech. We’re the real victims here.”

As you may remember, as The Hill reported on Missouri v. Biden:

“A federal appellate court concluded Sept. 8 that multiple White House, surgeon general, FBI and CDC officials likely breached the fine line separating permissible government persuasion and jawboning from illicit “coercion and significant encouragement” when they repeatedly — and often successfully — lobbied social-media companies “to remove disfavored content and accounts from their sites.”

At that oral argument, Judge Don Willett had no problem with federal agencies publicly criticizing what they judged false or dangerous ideas. But that wasn’t how Biden’s winged monkeys compelled submission: “Here you have government in secret, in private, out of the public eye, relying on . . . subtle strong-arming and veiled or not-so-veiled threats” said the Judge.

Willett expressed his disgust with the mafia-like tactics of the Biden administration: “That’s a really nice social-media platform you’ve got there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.”

Gosh, I wonder if the Judge is an Instapundit reader?

REVIEW: SAKO TRG 22 A1 Rifle.

THE LEFT’S SENSE OF BETRAYAL IS PALPABLE: L.A. Times: As Muslims’ status as political punching bag fades, some are fighting against LGBTQ+ acceptance. “In the blue city of Hamtramck, Mich., an all-Muslim city council recently sided with Muslim activists and banned the LGBTQ+ Pride flag on city property. Muslim residents are pushing for the same in nearby Dearborn, where close to half of residents are Arab Americans and protesters derailed a school board meeting last fall over an LGBTQ+-related curriculum. . . . Muslims were once reliable allies in a coalition of racial, religious and sexual minorities courted by the left. The umbrella grew after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and hit a stride during the Trump presidency as policies and pronouncements from the White House targeted each group with regularity. Now, some of the 3.5-million followers of Islam in the U.S. are speaking out on topics where their conservative take on the faith more closely aligns with Republican politics.”

Woke politics is only popular with neurotic well-off white liberals, which is not what they’ve been working to import for the last 20 years. The contradictions are beginning to appear.

SKYNET GRIPS: Elon Musk says Neuralink can create robotic hands.

THEY’RE FINALLY RIDDING THEMSELVES OF THOSE NASTY CAPITALISTS: Berkeley Retail Shutting Down Just Like San Francisco.

THERE ARE SO MANY PATHETIC ONES TO CHOOSE FROM: Is This the Most Pathetic Defense of Joe Biden’s Impeachable Offenses?

READER FAVORITE: Gravity Electric Salt and Pepper Grinder Set. #CommissionEarned

HEH: The Post tried eating at NYC’s finest restaurants dressed like Sen. John Fetterman — see how it went.

SKYNET GRINS WIDELY: Agility Robotics Will Mass Produce 10,000 Humanoid Robots Per Year.

GOOD LORD: Rittenhouse’s Surviving BLM Attacker Run Over by Black Driver.

ICYMI: Why Our Generals Can’t Think.

Having read Franklin Foer’s account in the October issue of The Atlantic describing the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan, I was struck by what it did not contain. Nowhere in the months leading up to the withdrawal did a senior military leader question the choice of Kabul’s Karzai International Airport over the more defensible Bagram military air base.

The military chain of command knew an evacuation was imminent for months, and the Kabul airport was even more vulnerable to attack than the disastrous French position at Dien Bien Phu during the first Vietnam war. Despite that, not a single general officer, beginning with the secretary of defense — a retired general — raised an objection to the State Department’s choice of the Kabul Airport. One of two things happened here: Either they lacked the moral courage to speak up, or they did not know. In either case, I am convinced that the deplorable state of our military professional education system lies at the root of the problem.

A misguided attempt to reform professional military education (JPME) in the 1980s led by the late Ike Skelton and other military reformers in Congress mandated that masters-level degrees be granted at all command and staff colleges, as well as a required study in “jointness.” This forced all the military midlevel colleges to make room in their courses of study to accommodate the requirements of civilian academia to grant an advanced degree. What got lost in the mix was the serious study of the military profession that was formerly required.

Also, civilian academia was in the process of rapidly declining at the same time.

Related: Why Our Generals Don’t Win. “Operation Desert Storm was the last major conflict that the United States clearly won. It is no coincidence that it was also the last war directed by general officers who were not products of the Goldwater-Nichols and Skelton Panel professional military reforms in military structure and education.”

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT BLOCKCHAIN MADE THIS KIND OF THING IMPOSSIBLE: Mixin Platform Suspends Deposits, Withdrawals After $200M Security Breach.

FORGET THE SYPHILIS, I’M WORRIED ABOUT MEDIEVAL SKELETONS THAT CAN WRITE: The history of syphilis is being rewritten by a medieval skeleton.

MARK STEYN: Spirits of the Age.

So that’s how it was initially reported. As the characteristically somnolent monodaily’s original headline put it:

Retired police chief killed in bike crash remembered for laugh, love of coffee

Must have been a pretty bad “crash”, huh? But just one of those things, compounded at the hospital by the usual bureaucratic heartlessness of modern life.

And then this video emerged:

https://twitter.com/ghostbrowser8/status/1702795772092395828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

So two joyriders steal a car, hit another vehicle, and then decide to kill a bicyclist for kicks. “Ready?” says the driver. “Hit his ass,” responds the passenger. And they do – and whaddayaknow, killing a guy makes for a really cool video when you post it on “social” media!

By the way, that lousy “bike crash” headline remained on the Review-Journal story for a month – from the initial publication on August 18th all the way till Saturday September 16th, after twenty-four hours of widespread derision on the Internet. The paper has become defensive about its coverage, which we’ll return to later.

Read the whole thing.

UGH: Free Speech Crisis: 3/4 Democrats, Half of Republicans Approve Gov’t Targeting Online ‘Hate.’

GOOD: Key regulators involved in genesis of multiple sclerosis lesions identified.

SPACE: NASA reveals latest weapon to ‘search the heavens’ for UFOs, aliens. “We will use AI and machine learning to search the skies for anomalies… and will continue to search the heavens for habitable reality.”

I’d hoped they’d announce the launch of the NCC-1701 Enterprise but I’ll take what I can get.

CANADA’S NAZI OVATION: The Intrigue Is North of the Border for Once. “As those of you who have cracked a history book know, as messy, bloody, and complicated as the history of southeastern Europe is, the side that was fighting against Russia in World War II was . . . the Nazis.”

Related: AP misses it by that much:

The AP wrote that Zelensky and Trudeau honored a WWII veteran of the ‘First Ukrainian Division’

The AP omitted that this was a volunteer division of the Waffen-SS pic.twitter.com/aBD5ravZok

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 24, 2023

As does Politico, curiously enough:

Nazi-linked veteran received ovation during Zelenskyy’s Canada visithttps://t.co/q6OIcdSzKM.

— POLITICO (@politico) September 24, 2023

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