THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY HAVE CHANGED SINCE THEN: According to Joe Biden, Anyone Who Defies a Congressional Subpoena Should Be Prosecuted.
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December 14, 2023
SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW: Oakland business seeing surge in requests for bulletproof glass due to city’s crime.
An Oakland business is seeing an enormous uptick in business from customers requesting bulletproof glass. They say it’s due in part to crime in the city.
At East Bay Glass‘ warehouse in Oakland, the varieties of glass seem endless. But one item that’s not currently in stock due to it’s high cost – is bullet-resistant, ballistic glass.
“The bulletproof glass is 3/8th inch all the way to 2.5 inches, points out Joshua Pratchard, the general manager.
Video from manufacturer Armitek, which provides glass to Easy Bay Glass and installers across the country, shows how multiple shots aren’t enough to penetrate the product.
In recent months, ABC7 News has covered a number of stories involving stray bullets going into homes.
Gooder and harder, California: Oakland NAACP Blames ‘Defund the Police’ for Rampant Crime in City.
(Classical — and NSFW — reference in headline.)
READER FAVORITE: ThermoPro Lightning 1-Second Instant Read Meat Thermometer. #CommissionEarned
“PREGNANT PEOPLE.” Pregnant people can get a shot to protect babies from RSV, but some hit hurdles. Follow the science, my ass.
AT AMAZON, Shop Holiday Deals. #CommissionEarned
THEY LARGELY ARE. THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE: Members of the Elite Think They’re Untouchable.
SPACE: Senators question White House mission authorization proposal. “One major criticism of the White House proposal is that it splits mission authorization between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce. The Department of Transportation, through the Federal Aviation Administration, would be responsible for human spaceflight as well as in-space transportation of goods, while the Department of Commerce, through the Office of Space Commerce, would handle all other commercial space activities not currently regulated by the FAA or other agencies.”
COFFEE, IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee grounds hold the key to preventing Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. “Their work centers around caffeic-acid based Carbon Quantum Dots (CACQDs), derived from discarded coffee grounds, which may offer protection to brain cells against the damage triggered by various factors including obesity, aging, and exposure to toxic environmental chemicals.”
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Shoplifting Isn’t Really Out of Control, Is It?
JOIN ME IN SIGNING ‘A VISION FOR A NEW FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA‘: The new statement is a welcome potential step forward for free speech on campus.
ENERGY: China brings world’s first Generation IV nuclear reactor online. “Generation IV reactors are the latest, long-anticipated nuclear power plants that promise to be cheaper, safer, and more efficient than the current reactors. They’re called Generation IV because Generation I were the first experimental reactors, Generation II were the first commercial reactors, Generation III were improved versions of Gen II, and Generation IV are the future reactors that incorporate new technologies, fuels, and basic designs.”
I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THE BEST PEOPLE WERE ENCOURAGING ME TO PUNCH NAZIS: Jewish students face swastika, ‘intifada’ calls amid Hanukkah celebrations.
DO THE LETTERS “F.O.” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Alabama students met with ‘death threat’ after hosting memorial for Hamas victims.
Students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville say they intend to press charges after receiving threatening social media communication from an alumna who took such issue with the group’s support of Jews that she threatened to take a “12 gauge shotgun” to their “skull.”
The school’s Turning Point USA chapter held an “October 7th Memorial Day Event” on Nov. 30, advertised as a venue for honoring and praying for the victims of Hamas’ October attack on Israel. The event featured Israeli flags, each representing one life lost in the initial attack on Israel.
On Dec. 2, an individual identified by police as “Jade” shared a post from the TPUSA chapter advertising the event to her Instagram story— along with a message telling the group to “Resist my 12 gauge shotgun 2 ur skull b***h.”
Make an example of her.
HAMAS HOLDS AMERICANS HOSTAGE, TOO: Somebody should tell the White House and the Mainstream Media, according to Issues & Insights:
“Who are these hostages? Who are the families? What are they going through? It’s possible there have been news reports telling the world about the seven American men and possibly one American woman who are being held captive by these murdering, butchering, raping terrorist thugs. But we couldn’t find any. Even Biden’s unbelievable invitation foul-up was given ho-hum treatment,” I&I observes.
If you are wondering about the referenced Biden invitation foul-up, it was the failure to invite any of the relatives of the American hostages to the White House Hanukkah Celebration earlier this week.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BIDEN’S AMERICA:
Jill Biden releases a new White House Christmas video
What do you think of the performance? pic.twitter.com/y7pklOuL5M
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 14, 2023
Wow.😕 The Biden reign feels like Hunger Games, now it looks like it.
— Deplorablistic ✝️☘️ 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@burrengrl) December 14, 2023
SHE WAS A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS: Jennifer Sey was a typical San Francisco lefty until San Francisco closed its public schools and sent the children home due to the COVID Pandemic in 2020.
A top executive — Chief Marketer and Brand President — with Levi Strauss and a former U.S. women’s gymnastics champion, Sey was nobody’s fool, and she unhesitatingly spoke out boldly against the insanity. Doing so cost her greatly, professionally and personally.
Three years later, Sey is still insisting on facing reality and a recent report in The New York Times confirmed that she, along with a lot of other voices in the wilderness who similarly warned against the absurd policies, was exactly right. Her interview with Bill Walton is well-worth taking the time to watch here.
BRAD THOMPSON: Au Revoir, Harvard.
Gay’s 2020 memo also flies in the face of everything she said to Representative Stefanik in the congressional hearing from the week before. In her congressional testimony, Gay projected little more than evasive and soft moral relativism. Her 2020 memo represents, by contrast, what she really thinks: it’s her call to action. This is a real-life example of what Rudi Dutschke meant by the “long march through the institutions.”
I have no space here to write about the obvious double-standards and fatuous hypocrisy of Gay’s memo and her testimony.
To repeat from my Tweet: it is important to note that Gay’s memo was written when she was a short-listed candidate for the Harvard presidency. Thus, we must face a stunning possibility: Gay got the job precisely because she holds these views.
Every institution has been corrupted. Some more thoroughly — and more willingly — than others.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans May Not Be Able to Get Out of Their Own Way Next Year. “The GOP has done something this year that I didn’t think was possible: they’ve taken the already useless presidential primary debate system and made it worse. The blame for that goes to the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel.”
#JOURNALISM: “The headline omits any reference to immigration.”
WHY THE “HUMAN RIGHTS” COMMUNITY RINGS HOLLOW:
This year almost 7 million people were uprooted in the Congo. Over the years over 5 million people have been killed in its wars. But it has one inestimable advantage. "Nobody cares." Not BLM, not the Ivy League, not the UN. Therefore it is not a problem.https://t.co/FhGIYdqVQ8
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 13, 2023
HARDBALL: Elon Musk goes after Biden Administration following $900 million SpaceX loss.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 12 reaffirmed its 2022 decision to reject SpaceX’s application for nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies.
Following SpaceX’s challenge of the initial decision, the FCC said in a statement that Elon Musk’s space company failed to “meet basic program requirements” in its bid to receive funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program.
The program is meant to expand broadband access in rural areas.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023. SpaceX on November 18, 2023, carried out the second test launch of Starship, the largest rocket ever built that Elon Musk hopes will one day colonize Mars, while NASA awaits a modified version to land humans on the Moon. It comes after a first attempt to fly the spaceship in its fully-stacked configuration back in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico.
The FCC said that, after passing an initial application stage, SpaceX later failed to demonstrate to the agency that it “could deliver the promised service.” The agency said in its statement that funding the request would “not be the best use of limited” resources.
Starlink — I’m a customer — is tailor-made for rural areas. Anyone in its coverage area (that’s pretty much the entire US) with $600 to spend on equipment can have access almost immediately without any wait for someone to lay cable.
You have to figure that cutting Starlink out of Biden’s much-hyped rural access program is nothing but punishment for Musk’s Twitter/X purchase.