Archive for 2023
February 4, 2023
DEMOCRAT TOLERANCE FOR DEMOCRATS’ MISBEHAVIOR: California Diversity Chief Says Harvey Weinstein Victims Knew What They Were Doing: Kevin E. Hooks also made light of Bill Cosby drugging and raping women.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: The Ilhan Omar vote is a turning point for American Jews.
Seen only in the context of the struggle between America’s two major political parties, the House of Representatives’ vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Relations Committee is not a historic turning point. It is merely the latest evidence that the once largely polite battles between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have escalated into a full-blown culture war.
But while it is possible to frame House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s making good on his pledge to oust Omar from her seat on Foreign Relations, as well as to evict Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee, as simply a matter of revenge for the Democrats’ moves against GOP members in the last Congress, it is actually a deeply significant moment in the history of both American Jewry and the struggle against antisemitism.
By punishing Omar for her blatant antisemitism, the GOP majority is making an important statement about what is and is not acceptable political discourse in Congress. But by rallying around Omar, as the Democrats have done, her party is sending an even louder message: that one of America’s two major parties now considers its allegiance to intersectional ideology and racial identity politics to outweigh any concerns many of them might still have about normalizing antisemitism on Capitol Hill.
That’s not at all surprising from a party that pledges quadrennial fealty to Al Sharpton.
LIGHTNING DEAL: COOFANDY Men’s Casual Linen Button Down Shirt Short Sleeve. #CommissionEarned
THE LEFT DOESN’T OPPOSE POLITICAL VIOLENCE, IT JUST WANTS A MONOPOLY ON IT: The Nation does its best to whitewash leftist violence in Georgia. “Consider this the third in a series of stories about left wing news outlets doing their best to spin the bad news out of Georgia about an environmental activist who shot a state trooper and who was then shot and killed by police. My first story on this topic takes a look at the shoddy coverage by Vice, The Daily Show and Truthout. I wrote the follow-up story Monday which looked at another similar story published by Teen Vogue. Today, there’s a new entry at the Nation written by Michael Gould-Wartofsky. What all of these stories have in common is that they make a concerted effort to not mention the inconvenient facts about what happened in the forest outside of Atlanta. In this case, the story just skips over the fact that someone else was shot.”
US HAS ‘ABSOLUTE LEGAL RIGHT’ TO SHOOT DOWN CHINESE SPY BALLOON, SAY NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS.
Ilan Berman, senior vice president ot the American Foreign Policy Council, said it’s likely that the Biden administration is citing the possibility of debris to avoid causing an incident with China.
“They just don’t want to shoot it down, because they don’t want to provoke the Chinese,” he said.
Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow for international affairs and security at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, said that China has said that it is building these surveillance balloons and is most likely testing the U.S. to see what kind of reaction it gets with the intrusion.
“They rolled this over Alaska and Montana just to see what the response would be,” she said, adding that “we need to make very clear that this is our space.”
Coates said it is no coincidence that the balloon is hovering near U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile fields and said that China can’t be believed when it says it’s collecting weather data.
“This really tests the bounds of credulity, given their past behavior,” she said.
Flashback: When Imperial Japan used bombs attached to balloons to attack America during WWII: In 1945, a Japanese Balloon Bomb Killed Six Americans, Five of Them Children, in Oregon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8HrqNqXtTQ
THIS IS THE WAY: DeSantis Admin Revokes Liquor License of Orlando Venue That Hosted Sexual Drag Show for Children.
The complaint obtained by Florida Voice News alleged that the foundation advertised the show to all ages as holiday-themed without specifying its “sexually explicit nature.” The DeSantis administration warned the venue prior to the show that it would be expected to ensure children would be barred from entry, writing in a letter that “sexually explicit drag show performances constitute public nuisances, lewd activity, and disorderly conduct when minors are in attendance.” If the company refused to comply, the letter said, it could be subject to penalties up to and including license revocation.
The foundation admitted children in defiance of DeSantis, posting only a disclaimer at the front door stating that “while we are not restricting access to anyone under 18 please be advised some may think the context is not appropriate for under 18,” the letter said. Some children who participated in the event appeared to be less than six years old, according to the letter.
Performers allegedly wore sexually suggestive clothing and prosthetic female breasts and genitalia, which were exposed to the audience in addition to their buttocks. Other disturbing scenes, the letter alleged, included performers simulating masturbation, childbirth, and abortion.
The audience was also subject to sexualized parodies of popular children’s Christmas songs. For example, an adaptation of “All I want for Christmas was my two front teeth” was presented with an allusion to oral fellatio in the line “I’ll sit on his lap, he can put his milk and cookies all between my gap,” the letter explained.
I’d add the usual “Much more like this, please” tagline, but I think that goes without saying, as DeSantis makes his case as a culture warrior par excellence in the run-up to the 2024 election cycle.
February 3, 2023
SCRATCH ONE CHINESE SPY BALLOON? BREAKING: Explosion Reported in Skies Over Montana. “Although there have not been any official reports, there is speculation (not unfounded) that the U.S. military shot down the balloon.”
They should have shot it down first, rather than dithering. But then, Gen. Mark “I’ll tell the Chinese before we attack them” Milley had argued against that.
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend!
KAROL MARKOWICZ: DeSantis Derangement Syndrome: The media get even more unhinged.
FOR ONE THING, PEOPLE PAY WAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO CELEBRITIES: What the ‘almond mom’ trend on TikTok says about parenting and diet culture.
THEY ABUSED THEIR POWER. A SUBPOENA IS THE LEAST OF WHAT THEY DESERVE. House Judiciary GOP subpoena FBI’s Christopher Wray, AG Merrick Garland.
HMM: China’s President Xi has ordered his military to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, warns CIA director William Burns. Assuming this is true, it gives us plenty of time to change his mind. Or make it impossible to invade Taiwan. For that matter, it’s far from certain that Xi will be in power in 4 years.
ANOTHER ESTABLISHMENT ATTACK FAILS: BREAKING: Elon Musk cleared in Tesla tweet-fraud trial. A three week trial. A verdict in two hours from an unimpressed jury.
CHANGING THE NAME FROM MONKEYPOX TO MPOX WAS CLEARLY THE REASON: A public health success story: How the mpox crisis was controlled within 6 months.
OUT: FOOD DESERTS. IN: “FOOD SWAMPS.” Living near ‘food swamp’ may increase risk of stroke.
Given that Knoxville’s “Food Desert” included a Super Walmart, a Sam’s Club, a Trader Joe’s and “a couple of tasty oriental supermarkets,” color me skeptical about the “food swamp” talk.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Man Bites Snake, Florida Man Maces Cop. “This week we have a little Miami Blues LARPing, man bites snake, and the fate of last week’s pooping perpetrator — revealed!”
WELL, ONLY IF WE’RE BEING FAIR, WHICH WE NEVER ARE: If Expressions of Hatred Are Criminal, Many Feminists Should Be Behind Bars.
WELL, THAT’S HELPFUL: Merck Covid medication induces new mutations.
SUPERCARS NEED LOVE, TOO: The Second-Generation Audi R8 Deserves Your Love.
READER FAVORITE: GTHUNDER Digital Night Vision Goggles Binoculars for Total Darkness. #CommissionEarned
