Archive for 2023
August 25, 2023
TO OUR LEFTY “FRIENDS” BE CAREFUL THE PRECEDENT YOU SET: Don’t Mugshots of MLK, Vaclav Havel, Solzhenitsyn, and Mandela Prove that Those Scoundrels — Convicted Felons All — Fully Deserved Their Fate?
I LOVE A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: Arizona Woman Shoots a Registered Sex Offender Who Tried To Climb In Through Her Window.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
Successful Starship Super Heavy Booster static fire! https://t.co/YclxqPCDRo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 25, 2023
No word on whether any of the staff were wearing impolitic shirts or if the correct number of asylum-seekers and/or refugees were involved.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Wacked Out Weiner of Love. “It’s your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a sweet and savory marriage proposal, how to take the L with honor, and a golf cart incident in Michigan that they swear almost never happens.”
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: School bans ‘only 2 genders’ T shirt: There’s only 1 acceptable opinion.
YEP: The Opt Out: Home security cameras guarantee surveillance, not safety. “Studies attempting to measure the ability of residential security cameras to stop or deter crime have been inconclusive. And even if you care only about feeling safe, that potentially false sense of security comes with a high price: your privacy and that of everyone around you. To make matters worse, some of the tech companies behind these gadgets might be getting a little too cozy with law enforcement.”
THE BLATANCY IS THE POINT: Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is a Blatant Act of Corruption.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Tyler O’Neil: What My Experience Preventing Wildfires in Colorado Taught Me About Maui and Climate Change.
BIDENOMICS, IT’S WORKING! More Americans Are Having A Hard Time Paying Their Big Credit Card Bills. “This raises an important question: what happens when consumers max out their credit cards?”
Here’s one answer: Zillow rolls out 1% down home loan program.
Will Collier reminds you that “All of this has happened before…” and it didn’t exactly end well.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Trump Pays $12 Extra To Get The Cool Laser Background Mugshot.
THAT’S CRAZY, THE ELECTION ISN’T FOR OVER A YEAR: U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, mask mandates return in some places.
HOW IT STARTED: How Empathy Defines Joe Biden.
—Forbes, August 20th, 2020.
How it’s going: Hawaiian business goes viral for sign slamming Biden’s kitchen fire comments: ‘not always about you.’
An equipment rental business in Honolulu, Hawaii, slammed President Biden’s recent comments comparing a fire in his kitchen to the deadly and devastating Maui wildfires.
Hawaiian Rent-All, known online for its witty signage, changed its business’ storefront to send Biden a message after his recent speech in Hawaii.
“Sorry you almost lost your ’67 Corvette in a fire, Mr. President,” the sign reads. “Maui strong.”
Hawaiian Rent-All posted a picture of the sign to the company’s Facebook page where the firm commented that genuine “sympathy is better than contrived empathy.”
“It’s not always about you, Mr. President,”* the company added.
The post caught fire online, going viral on X — the app formerly known as Twitter — with users posting comments on the jab against Biden.
—Fox News, today.
* But it is always about Joe, and it always has been. Charles Cooke explores “Biden’s Twisted Idea of Empathy:”
Whatever the topic, Joe can make it about him. Civil rights? He doesn’t just support them; he is them, having participated in a sit-in in the 1950s (he didn’t), helped to desegregate movie theaters (never happened), and worked as a lawyer for the Black Panthers (nope). Gay marriage? Biden didn’t just change his mind on it, he remembered all of a sudden that, in the Scranton of the 1950s, his working-class Catholic father liked to endorse the sight of two men kissing in the streets. Race? Ethnicity? Religion? Biden is all of them at once. He’s Catholic, black, Jewish, Greek, Puerto Rican, Polish. One can only imagine what Biden might have said had he been president at other points in history. There’s been a mass suicide at Jonestown? “I, too, have had food poisoning.” A second plane has hit the World Trade Center? “Jill and I know all about flight delays.” The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor? “My Dad once had to sell his fishing boat.”
There are three plausible reasons as to why President Biden keeps doing this. The first is that he is a narcissist who is genuinely incapable of thinking beyond his own frame of reference. The second is that he’s an amnesiac, whose collection of applicable anecdotes has now narrowed to the vanishing point. And the third is that he believes quite genuinely that this is what empathy looks like, and that there is nobody around him who is willing and able to correct his course. Whatever the cause, it’s a problem. Without any sign of guilt or self-reflection — and egged on by a press that is incapable of honestly holding him to account — the president has taken to playing Bereavement Bingo. When one learns that Biden intends to respond to a tragedy, the question is not if he’ll make the calamity about himself, but in what manner. Before long, one expects Las Vegas will be taking bets.
No wonder he fit in so well with another legendary narcissist, his former boss, President Obama.
GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Justice Department Sues Elon Musk for Not Hiring Legal Immigrants and Asylum Seekers. “Musk is accusing DoJ and by extension, the Biden administration of the ‘weaponization of the DOJ for political purposes.'”
This suit is the Biden administration’s high-class version of a local mafia boss calling up the construction foreman on the big project downtown and reminding him that there had better be enough no-show jobs for their “mutual” friends.
NO SURPRISE, IT’S A FAD, AND A PROFIT CENTER: U.S. sees threefold increase in gender-affirming surgeries in 3 years.
COFFEE, IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Waste coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger.
JUST ANOTHER DAY AT NBC NEWS:
● NBC News reporter wants Libs of TikTok’s comment on her inciting a murder.
“When asked about the post, [Chaya] Raichik said in a message to NBC News, ‘Why are you comparing anyone who criticizes the progress pride flag being shoved down the throats of children, to a violent murderer?'” Good question.
—Twitchy, yesterday.
● MSNBC Attacks ‘Weird’ GOP Debate For Talking Policy Instead Of Trump.
—NewsBusters, today.
● Vivek Ramaswamy, Indian-American Neo-Nazi!
● Carlos Santana makes polarizing anti-trans comments in viral concert clip.
Carlos Santana is on the hot seat* after a video of him on stage, making polarizing remarks about gender, quickly began circulating online.
In the clip, the “Oye Como Va” singer is seen addressing the audience in between songs. Through the applause, Santana can be heard saying: “When God made you and me — before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right. Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”
The clip ends with Santana lining one hand behind the other, and adding that he was “Like this with my brother Dave Chappelle.”
—NBC News, yesterday.
* That phrase, “Carlos Santana is on the hot seat” is sure doing some serious heavy lifting there, given the symbiotic relationship of the news media and the outrage mobs of social media. NBC is lighting up the Batsignal, instructing the mob where to attack next. Like Chappelle, Eric Clapton, and J.K. Rowling, Santana likely has plenty of “f*ck you” money to weather the media/outrage mob industrial complex. (How do you cancel a guy who sells out hockey arenas?) But attacking him certainly sends a chilling warning to up and comers to avoid doubleplus ungood crimethink.
GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF THOSE SCHOOLS: A Federal Court Denies Maryland Parents an Opt-Out Policy for LGBTQ Books.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Mortgage interest rates hit a new high under Biden. “Just to put this in perspective, the last time interest rates were this high for mortgages the economy was in recession. Really. Look it up.”
JONATHAN TURLEY: The Search for Robert L. Peters: He Goes By Various Names…The Question is Why.
He is a man with many names. “Celtic.” “The Big Guy.” According to congressional investigators, most citizens know him as “President Biden.”
Aliases are tricky things. They are sometimes innocent or essential like the code name that the Secret Service gives you as part of your protection like “Celtic.”
Then there are nicknames that are preferred to your given name. Take the Big Lebowski. He did not like being called Mr. Lebowski and preferred “Dude” but he was flexible: “I’m The Dude. So, that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or, uh, Duder, or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”
It appears that President Biden also preferred on occasion not to be called “Mr. Biden.” The question is why and whether Mr. Peters is more Big Lebowski or Big Guy.
The Dude only abides when the Big Guy get his 10 percent.
VICTORIA TAFT: Portland’s Predictable Doom Loop. “The unfortunately named Tina Kotek, Oregon’s governor, has convened a blue ribbon panel of all the same lefty friends, NGOs, quasi-governmental groups, and favored business owners to fix the problem they spent years cheerleading.”
READER FAVORITE: Gel Seat Cushion for Long Sitting. #CommissionEarned