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.