I SAT IN ONE AT THE DEALER AND IT WAS NICE: 2023 Lexus LX 600 Review – The Chauffeured Land Crusher. “This should prove to be an excellent off-road vehicle should you choose, as it is based upon the Land Cruiser platform used around the world. No, this isn’t the smaller retro-looking Land Cruiser we will be getting at some point next year, but rather a replacement for the full-sized Land Cruiser that was discontinued here.”

I doubt many of them will be taken off road, especially at this price. But it gets worse.

When I saw it, which was about a year ago, my local dealer was asking $50,000 over the already high sticker price due to short supplies. I wasn’t interested in one anyway, but that was just insulting.

It was comfy though.

READER FAVORITE: Crest 3D White Professional Effects Teeth Whitening Kit. #CommissionEarned

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Texans Strangely Unconcerned About Global Day Of Jihad.

SHOCKER: Boeing’s 1st Starliner flight with astronauts delayed to April 2024. “The first crewed test flight of Starliner has been pushed back an additional month, to no earlier than mid-April 2024, NASA officials said in a release on Thursday (Oct. 12). No reason was given for the change. The target date for the first operational flight of the Boeing spaceship has also been delayed, to early 2025 from summer 2024, agency officials added.”

HOW WE GOT HERE: Stop Being Shocked—Once and for All. “Tablet didn’t wade into the culture wars for its own sake. We did it because we feared we saw an emerging world in which the broad-minded American civic ideals and institutions that had kept us safe for so long were falling apart, which was bad for the country—and also meant that Jews would once again be seen as enemies to be eliminated. As a result, our archive now looks like the answer to the question faced by so many people this week—namely: What the hell is going on? Below is a selection from the past five years.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Steep physical decline with age is not inevitable – here’s how strength training can change the trajectory.

CHANGE: Best Buy Is Ditching DVDs in 2024.

Entertainment represents just 6% of Best Buy’s total revenue in the US. Physical movies will still be available through the holiday season, and the change won’t impact video games, the company said.

Since Netflix first launched its streaming service in 2007, consumers have shifted away from purchasing physical movies as well as DVD and Blu-Ray players. With thousands of movies and TV shows available to stream from companies including Disney, Hulu, Amazon and Apple, DVDs have become all but obsolete.

And yet, it’s still very much worth it to buy physical media with the left running around armed with airbrushes: Blazing Saddles Review: Buy a Copy Before the Left Burns Them All.

THE ACCIDENTAL MONOPOLY: How SpaceX became (just about) the only game in town.

In no small part because the competition has mostly been so lame. I exclude Rocket Lab from that. Despite their recent launch failure, they’ve had an excellent record. They’re sort of SpaceX’s cute little brother.

ROBERT SPENCER: Everything You Need to Know About the Israeli Occupation (That Is, Everything the Left Won’t Tell You).

WELL, GOOD: New minimally invasive treatment may offer relief from recurrent UTIs.

ROGER KIMBALL: What does a ‘proportionate’ response to Hamas look like? “My own feeling is that Israel ought to do for Hamas what Donald Trump did for ISIS, i.e., destroy it utterly.”

JOE ROGAN INTERVIEWS BRITISH COMEDIAN JIMMY CARR on the massively positive environmental impact of the first cars, the Lindy Effect, Dick Gregory and the Zapruder Film, Bob Fosse’s Cabaret, Portugal versus England, and much, much more (video):

JIM TREACHER: Do Americans Have the Right to Applaud Hamas Murdering Jewish Babies?

Look, I’m a free speech guy. I support your right to say something stupid, or even evil. I’ll tell you that you’re wrong, but you get to be wrong in the United States of America. That’s what sets us apart from almost every other country in the world.

But…

Doncha just hate that word?

But… let’s say one of your employees decides to grow a toothbrush mustache and starts goose-stepping around the office in a brown shirt, yelling “Heil Hitler!” and “Gas the Jews!”

Would that be out of line? Would you be within your rights to fire him?

How is “Death to Israel” any different? It’s another style of anti-Semitism, but the message is the same. A keffiyeh on an American college campus is just a hipster swastika.

I keep hearing how dangerous Trump voters are because of their anti-Semitism. The FBI is even watching them. Well, how about the people who are openly calling for the genocide of Jews?

“Kill all the Jews” isn’t an opinion. It’s a threat. And when you make a threat, you’re accountable for it.

I wouldn’t expect an employer to hire a guy with White Power tattoos all over him. Why should I expect an employer to hire somebody whose anti-Semitism is cloaked in euphemisms and nitpicking and cynical lies?

You get to say what you want. I get to choose whether I want to pay you for your labor. God bless America.

And businesses get to decide who they hire: The astonishing courage of Hamas defenders’ convicti…RUN AWAY!!!

Related:

Wacky college fads thru the years:

1930s: swallowing goldfish
1950s: panty raids and stuffing phone booths
1970s: streaking
2020s: Nuremberg-style pro-Holocaust pep rallies

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 13, 2023

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Mass Hypocrisy Edition.

ELON MUSK ON ASIAN TEEN REJECTED BY 16 COLLEGES:  “The left hates Asians.”

Some evidence for Musk’s position:  At a briefing on Anti-Asian racism, the Staff Director of the Commission on Civil Rights interrupted a speaker who mentioned the discrimination Asian Americans face when trying to get into Ivy League universities.  The speaker was admonished that this was off topic.  (It wasn’t, and never since I’ve been on the Commission has a speaker been admonished that way.) Left really doesn’t want to talk about it.

“WE ARE NOT A RACIST COUNTRY“:  Jacinta Nampijinpa Price Speaks Out After Defeat of Australian “Voice” Referendum.

THE AUSSIES HAVE SPOKEN:  Down Under voters reject special rights for indigenous people. 

QUESTION ASKED: Bob Menendez is being charged as a foreign agent — so why not Hunter Biden?

IN THE WORDS OF OUR MOST DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE PRESIDENT, GET IN THEIR FACE, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Violence, threats, tears: Israeli supporters face aggressive pro-Palestinian campus protests nationwide.

The fact that universities are hotbeds of this bigotry and antisemitic hatred should raise serious questions about why taxpayers are subsidizing higher education, which increasingly looks like a toxic industry.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Watch: Environmental Wackos Scare Pete Buttigieg Off Stage.

AT HARVARD, FREE SPEECH IS MET WITH VIOLENCE: Brick hurled at ‘doxxing truck’ at Harvard that named students who blamed Israel for Hamas attacks.

It’s not really doxxing to publicize the names of people who publicly signed a public statement, you know. But of course the response is violent. This is who these people are, this is what they do. And it’s what they’ve been trained to do by places like Harvard.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE? ANALYSIS: Harvard president Claudine Gay is a hypocritical fraud: Caring more about pronouns than Jewish students’ safety is fitting for a university that ranks as having the most anti-Semitic incidents in the country.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Haggar Men’s Premium No Iron Khaki Pants. #CommissionEarned

EVEN A FLATWORM IS SMART ENOUGH TO TURN AWAY FROM PAIN:

NZ voters change tack following six years of a liberal government, led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern.https://t.co/mcifQxhjlf

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 14, 2023

KILL THEM ALL: Hamas top secret documents reveal plan to massacre, kidnap children: The documents were turned over to NBC by Israeli first responders. Hamas — and its backers in Iran and elsewhere — must be entirely eradicated.