Shoplifters at a San Francisco Walgreens ripped off the plastic screens on its locked-up shelves on Monday night, a store manager said.
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June 22, 2023
FRIEND OF TITANIC SUBMERSIBLE PASSENGERS SAYS DEBRIS ON SEA FLOOR IS CONFIRMED WRECKAGE FROM SUB. “A landing frame and a rear cover was recovered from the submersible. So that confirms it’s the submersible.”
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NEW: OceanGate releases a statement on missing submarine:
"We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul Henry Nargeolet have sadly been lost…These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of… pic.twitter.com/OQriL9eNym
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 22, 2023
UPDATE: The Coast Guard confirms: Missing Titanic submarine found, crew killed in deep-sea catastrophe, Coast Guard says.
MORE: US Navy: Implosion of Titan submersible happened “days ago.” “A top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard the Titan sub implosion hours after the submersible began its mission, officials involved in the search said. The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S. defense official. Shortly after its disappearance, the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the commander on site, U.S. defense officials said.”
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FLASHBACK:
The New York Times editorial page, a division of the New York Times Co., on Saturday endorsed Common Cause’s personal attack on Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. . . . That campaign took an even more sinister turn at a Common Cause protest Jan. 30, as we noted Thursday. Participants in the rally were captured on video advocating the assassination of Scalia, Thomas, Thomas’s wife and Chief Justice John Roberts. Two of them explicitly called for Justice Thomas, the court’s only black member, to be lynched. One man also asserted that Fox News president Roger Ailes “should be strung up,” adding: “Kill the bastard.”
A statement from Common Cause made clear that what it called these “hateful, narrow-minded sentiments”–rather a delicate way of describing lurid calls for murder–were contrary to the corporate position of the self-styled “grassroots organization.” But the Times editorial expresses no disapproval of the Common Cause supporters’ racist and eliminationist statements. . . . This is the same New York Times that, as we noted Jan. 11, seized on the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona to announce that “it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible” for a “gale of anger” that the Times claimed had set “the nation on edge”–even though it had already been established that the vicious crime in Arizona had nothing to do with Republicans or their “supporters in the media.”
By the Times’s standards, surely it is legitimate to hold Common Cause, and particularly its most virulent supporters in the media, responsible for the depraved sentiments expressed at the Common Cause rally. That the editorial said nothing at all about the subject is further evidence that the paper’s pieties about “civility” are fraudulent–a cheap exercise in partisanship and a thuggish attempt to burnish its own reputation by tearing down those of its media competitors.
Thuggish but ineffectual.
That’s likely to be the epitaph for Pinch Sulzberger’s version of the New York Times.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Should you think twice before trusting Amazon Clinic with you health records?
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: CDC warns people to protect themselves from measles when traveling.
OH: So That’s Why Hunter Biden Got a Sweetheart Plea Deal When He Did. “Just days after Hunter Biden reached a sweetheart plea deal with his father’s Justice Department to avoid jail time for tax and gun crimes, the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled new testimony from IRS whistleblowers alleging roadblocks were set before them to ensure preferential treatment to President Joe Biden’s son. What’s more, whistleblower testimony claims that the U.S. attorney overseeing the probe of Hunter’s alleged tax crimes had his attempts to charge Hunter in 2022 denied.”
UNEXPECTEDLY! Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy Says “It’s Entirely Possible” For Phoebe Waller-Bridge To Take Over Indiana Jones Franchise.
Kennedy spoke with Variety about the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny film, where she was asked if Disney and Lucasfilm see potential for Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her character, Helena Shaw, to carry on the franchise.
Kennedy informed the outlet that “it’s entirely possible.” However, she also added, “We’re not having any of those conversations right now. We’re just focused on finishing this with Harrison.”
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: San Francisco Walgreens’ Locked-Up Shelves Ripped Off by Thieves.
Stores from Safeway to Home Depot have been increasingly locking items behind screens to deter shoplifting in the Bay Area and across the country. Customers and staff in San Francisco stores recently described the security measures as irritating, with it taking several minutes to access basic items like toothbrushes or high-value items such as liquor and power tools.
Walgreens manager Chanh Luu said the group entered the Bernal Heights store at around 8 p.m. and began smashing the shelves in two of the store’s aisles, where laundry soap and dental products are locked away behind plastic shields due to rampant shoplifting in the city. The shields were torn away so the thieves could get their hands on the items but were already replaced by Tuesday when The Standard visited.
The group of thieves then headed for the store’s counter but failed to steal cigarette lighters from a display, Luu said.
They then fled from the 3398 Mission St. store with $200 worth of toothpaste and laundry detergent, leaving behind $250 worth of damage, Luu said.
No employees or customers were injured during the incident on Monday, and the store was open for business on Tuesday morning.
San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office in early 1964. As NRO’s Jay Nordlinger wrote in 2010 when the original Detroit was making headlines and photo spreads thanks to its Hiroshima-like bombed out landscape, “If people are voting a certain way — maybe it’s because they want to. Maybe they know full well what they’re doing. Sometimes you have to take no — such as ‘no to Republicanism’ — for an answer.”
MARKETING GENIUS: Bud Light Begs, ‘Please Drink Our Beer Again, You Oafish Hicks.’
CHRISTOPHER RUFO: Thrown to the Wolves — Transgender Ideology and the Corruption of Medicine.
Rufo: What do you predict for the future of transgender medicine? Will it continue to gain ground, or will it all fall apart?
Physician: I don’t know. I pray that there is a change. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is what puberty blockers do to children. This medication is called a “gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist” and it comes in the form of monthly injections or an implant. And because it simulates the activity of this hormone, it shuts down the activity of the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is this almond-sized structure in your brain, it’s one of the most primal structures we have, and it controls all the other hormonal structures in your body—your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything. But it shouldn’t be described in such cold physiological terms because your hypothalamus is not just a hormone factory. It’s this system that allows you to stand in awe of the beauty of a sunset, or to hear the sounds of orchestral music and to stop whatever you’re doing and want to listen. And I always think that if someone were to ask me, Where is it that you would look for the divine spark in each individual? I would say that it would be somewhere “beneath the inner chamber,” which is the Greek derivation of the term hypothalamus. To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human.
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PROTECTING THE BIG GUY: Biden Bombshell: Whistleblowers Say IRS Recommended Felony Tax Charges Against Hunter Biden. The DOJ Overruled.
Even within the Federalist Society, there are still institutionalists who believe in the honesty of the DOJ. They shouldn’t.
I DO MOZAMBIQUE DRILLS REGULARLY: Why Shoot Pistol Drills?
Some find it more PC to call it a failure to stop drill, though the name comes from the Mozambican civil war and has nothing to do with race. But you know people nowadays.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Four Children Rescued From Drag, Drugs and Sex Party in Squalid Boston Apartment (Oh, Yeah—There Was a Dead Guy There, Too).
READER FAVORITE: 12×56 High Power Monocular Telescope. #CommissionEarned
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Are Actors Finally Seeing the Light on Woke Overreach?
RANDI WEINGARTEN CONTINUES TO FAIL UPWARD: Teachers’ Union President Who Pushed Lockdowns Appointed to DHS School-Safety Panel.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change.
BEEF – IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER: Celebrity Chef Bans Vegans, and the Meat-Loving Counter-Backlash Is Phenomenal.
VOTE WITH YOUR WALLETS: Why conservative boycotts should terrify corporations.
“Nobody imagined it would go on this long,” Beer Business Daily editor Harry Schuhmacher said.
The Bud Light victory has demonstrated to conservatives their purchasing power. They have far more sway to change company behavior than they previously realized. It made the idea of a boycott exciting rather than exhausting. PublicSq., an app that gathers non-woke brands into one convenient platform, has exploded in popularity over the past few months. Consumers’ Research launched a text program called “Woke Alerts” that sends messages to subscribers when brands make politically leftwing moves.
Conservatives sought to repeat their success with Target, which just weeks after the Bud Light controversy, set up a Pride section in part marketed toward children. Some product displays included chest binders and “tuck-friendly” bathing suits in sizes down to an adult XXS — and a portion of the Pride collection was coincidentally designed by an avowed Satanist. After a massive online backlash, Target pushed its Pride displays to the back of some stores and removed them entirely from others. However, instead of apologizing for its kid-friendly LGBTQ+ apparel, Target blamed vague “threats” to employees for its decision to walk back the product line. The company lost $9.3 billion in market value in just one week.
Coordinated conservative boycotts should terrify corporations
The Left can harvest ballots but they can’t harvest brand loyalty.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Judge Finds Hunter Biden Guilty Of Being ‘A Lovable Little Rascal With A Heart Of Gold.’