DISTRICT PARENTS OUGHT TO KEEP THIS IN MIND COME SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION: Calif. teacher helps students change names, pronouns without parents’ knowledge.
Archive for 2023
January 27, 2023
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO TAKE THESE ACTIVISTS OUT BEHIND THE GYM AND DEMONSTRATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORDS AND STICKS & STONES: Dave Chappelle rips transgender activists who use violence to protest him.
DOES BIG TECH REALLY WANT 50 STATES (PLUS PUERTO RICO, GUAM, SAMOA & THE REST) TELLING THEM WHAT ISN’T PERMITTED SPEECH? Washington state health department censored criticism of ‘transmasculine persons’ cervical cancer campaign.
THEY’RE NOT SCARED TO SERVE HIM, THEY DON’T WANT HIM GROSSING OUT REGULAR CUSTOMERS: I modified my body to be a ‘black alien’ — now restaurants are scared to serve me.
Also, what was the point of this self mutilation except pour epater les bourgeois, exactly?
WE DON’T DESERVE HIS BLOG POSTS: Anti-Gunners explain why you should buy In Defense of the Second Amendment…
January 26, 2023
SURE, THAT’LL GO WELL: NYC Will Replace Its Largest Fossil Fuel Plant With Wind Power.
LEAVE US ALONE, RICHIE RICH: The Billionaires Behind the Gas Bans: “The hypocrisy of the billionaires who are funding anti-hydrocarbon campaigns, including bans on gas stoves. Natural gas bans are more about class than climate change.”
NONE TOO SOON: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Declares State of Emergency to Deal With Atlanta’s Domestic Terrorists. “In addition to the power to call up the National Guard to quell domestic terrorism, the executive order allows Kemp to utilize any state resources to assist in any response to the emergency.”
All the best people told me that there’s no such thing as leftist domestic terrorism.
OPEN THREAD: Have fun, kids.
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Media outlets keep promoting ‘forest defenders’ and ignoring that they shot a police officer.
I really believed that once the facts of this story came out it would be over. There was some room for questioning the story of what happened in the forest south of Atlanta initially. Police told one story and protesters told another.
According to police, they entered the forest to clear out protesters who are trespassing and preventing construction of an approved project. They found one man under a tent. They asked him to come out and instead he fired a gun and hit a Georgia State Trooper in the abdomen. The trooper was taken to a hospital for emergency surgery. The protester who fired the shot was killed by police.
The alternative story pushed by protesters and their supporters is that the victim had been unarmed and “murdered” by police. The trooper who was shot? They strongly suggested he might have been hit by friendly fire.
Since then the official police version of events has been confirmed by evidence and the protesters’ version has fallen apart. First, police released a photo of the gun found at the scene. Later they revealed the gun had been matched to the bullet removed from the trooper’s body. And in what should have been the final straw for the protesters’ version of events, police revealed that Manuel Esteban Paez Teran aka Tortuguita had purchased the gun in question in September 2020. It was his gun and with that the police version of events is conclusively found to be the real one.
And yet, progressive news sites continue to promote the forest defenders as if none of that mattered. It’s a surreal thing to witness.
Not after the media’s coverage of the Ferguson riots in 2014 and 2015 and the “fiery but mostly peaceful” protestors of 2020.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Tweet over non-binary documentary shown to NC daycare workers goes viral.
https://twitter.com/jordylancaster/status/1617986151931084801
MANY ON THE LEFT VIEW THIS AS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG: US plummets in annual freedom ranking for one big reason. “The index’s main results point to a new question: Why did global freedom plummet in 2020? Well, things were already trending slightly downward, but the COVID-19 pandemic—and governments’ subsequent authoritarian policies—drove a huge decline in freedom. From mask mandates to lockdowns, the ways the government restricted peoples’ freedom in 2020 are too vast to put into words.”
WATCH: Project Veritas Confronts Pfizer Director, and All Hell Breaks Loose. “As RedState reported on Wednesday evening, Project Veritas executed another undercover operation, and it was eyebrow-raising, to say the least. Jordon Trishton Walker, described as Director of Research and Development at Pfizer, claimed that the controversial company was mutating the COVID-19 virus to produce future vaccines. But while the contents of the undercover operation were interesting, all hell broke loose when Project Veritas attempted to confront Walker out in the open.”
SHOCKING: @Pfizer Director Physically Assaults @JamesOKeefeIII & Veritas Staff; Destroys iPad Showing Undercover Recordings About “Mutating” Covid Virus; NYPD RESPONDS!
“I’m just someone who’s working in a company that’s trying to literally help the public.”
“You fu*ked up!” pic.twitter.com/83OWqlKd4t
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 26, 2023
20 YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: SHORT-TERM ENLISTMENT: Here’s an article on a new short-term enlistment plan designed to produce more enlistees without resort to the draft. I’m not sure what I think about this — I’m not encouraged by one backer’s statement that it’s just a step along the way to compulsory “national service,” which I don’t support, and I’m concerned about the creation of a two-tiered military. On the other hand, there are a lot of military specialties that don’t require the kind of extensive training or commitment that combat arms tend to, and — in fact — we’ve already got a sort of two-tier system, as Tom Ricks noted in comparing the training regimen at Parris Island and Fort Benning with the less rigorous training provided to support troops at Fort Jackson. And it’s likely that a non-trivial number of short-term enlistees will decide to stick around for longer, which should help with recruiting.
Anyway, it’s an interesting development. There’s also a paper from the Progressive Policy Institute, Citizen Soldiers and the War on Terror, endorsing the idea.
Speaking of recruiting, somebody sent me a link to an article saying that Northern California was producing military recruits at a higher rate than anywhere else except (of course) Nashville, but I’ve lost the link. If you read this, can you send it again?
UPDATE: Reader Anthony Kim sends the link, but notes that the headline, “suckers for a uniform” is rather insulting.
And also 20 years ago: ATRIOS seems to think that I write a column for the Washington Times, and derive great income thereby. If so, it’s escaped my attention. (Especially the “great income” part.) I think the only thing I ever wrote for the Wash. Times was a piece entitled “Greasing the Skids at the Start of Death Row,” condemning the Habeas Corpus provision of the 1996 antiterrorism bill, which oped I coauthored with GWU professor Bob Cottrol and which was placed there through the efforts of that noted Moonie front group, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
What you’re seeing is desperation in the face of the A.N.S.W.E.R. debacle. (Atrios’ post tries to compare writing for the Washington Times with standing alongside anti-semites and Stalinists.) And it’s well-founded desperation. Or such sloppiness that he thinks my book reviews for the Washington Post were actually in the Times. (Or maybe it’s just trolling. . . .)
And have you ever noticed how it’s okay to show religious prejudice against Moonies, but not against fanatical Muslims? Nothing political there. Jeez.
UPDATE: TalkLeft is offering me a free membership in the NACDL. Dare I accept, in this era of creeping McCarthyism?
ANOTHER UPDATE: Mark Kleiman thinks I’m entitled to a retraction, but thinks that my point about religious bigotry is weak.
MICROBIOME NEWS: The Human Microbiome Might Be Contagious, Scientists Say.
I thought nobody was going to buy Teslas anymore after Elon bought Twitter and all the wokies got angry.
THE 1970S WERE A DIFFERENT TIME:
HOW ABOUT PRESSURING THE SMUGGLERS ON THE BORDER? Advocates ask Congress to pressure social media firms over fentanyl crisis.
THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO SEES IT COMING: A Marine Predicted All of World War II in the Pacific 20 Years Before Pearl Harbor.
KRUISER: The 2023 Oscar Nominations Remind Me of My Dysfunctional Relationship With Movies. “Maybe my whole reason for writing this was to come to the realization that I want to watch more movies. Perhaps that can be one way I shake things up in 2023. I would like to watch some off-the-beaten-path fare. Any suggestions from you, dear readers, would be greatly appreciated.”