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July 31, 2024
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT HATED “SELECTED, NOT ELECTED” PRESIDENTS:
It’s VDH, so click over and read the whole thing.
WELL, THAT’S ONE WAY TO PANDER TO MUSLIM-AMERICAN DEMOCRATS: 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantanamo Bay strike plea deals. KSM, “the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and two other terrorists being held on Guantánamo Bay will plead guilty as part of a deal that’ll allow them to skirt the death penalty, prosecutors said Wednesday.”
MAYBE BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ANYONE TO MAKE THEM BREAKFAST: Children who miss breakfast are less happy in life.
“FACT-CHECKED” EQUALED “NEARLY DROVE US OUT OF BUSINESS”: Remember When the Left Fact-Checked Us to Death Over Big-Tech Interference in 2020?
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Portable Air Conditioners 16,000 BTU with Dual Hose Dehumidifier & Cooling Fan. #CommissionEarned
I LIKE THEIR PRODUCTS: Recaro, Famed Sports Seat Supplier, Has Reportedly Filed Bankruptcy.
I NEVER STOPPED MISSING CARSON; THIS JUST MAKES IT WORSE: Late-Night Propagandists Come for J.D. Vance. “They have no shame, no scruples and no willingness to make amends for errors that misled the nation on critical issues. They’re still making fresh mistakes today.”
REALLY SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE HARD FOR THE SECRET SERVICE TO MISS THIS. He’s not sneaking, he’s just freely running around up there on the slopey roof.
Video from Donald Trump assassination attempt victim’s POV shows figure moving on roof moments before gunfire in Butler PA
https://t.co/y21Fof5GPt #FoxNews— UnboundedLife (@unboundedlife1) July 31, 2024
WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF THE BBC UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE: Shame of the BBC: How top TV presenters from Jimmy Savile to Stuart Hall and Huw Edwards captured the trust of the British public — while harboring a secret dark side.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Utah Senator Mike Lee Introduces Bill to Deregulate Firearm Suppressors.
CHANGE: Boeing Board Names Kelly Ortberg President and CEO. “He began his career in 1983 as an engineer at Texas Instruments, and then joined Rockwell Collins in 1987 as a program manager and held increasingly important leadership positions at the company prior to becoming its president and CEO in 2013.”
READER FAVORITE: Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser For Teeth, Gums, Braces. #CommissionEarned
LET’S TURN THAT RETREAT INTO A ROUT: Why the ‘Green Economy’ Is Suddenly in Retreat—in EU, US, and on Wall Street.
ANOTHER SIDE TO KAMALA HARRIS:
Gregory [McAteer] had an eye-opening experience in Kamala Harris’ office that none of us expected. For his sake, the month could not pass quickly enough. Needless to say, he was delighted to work in Feinstein’s office for the rest of the summer.
Four short episodes I would like to share of his month-long internship for Kamala Harris:
Senator Harris vocally throws around “F-bombs” and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.
As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, “Good Morning General.”
Never once during the month-long internship did Harris introduce herself to our son (as he was only in an office with 20 paid employees) and staff was too intimidated by her to introduce him. The only acknowledgment was a form letter of “thanks” signed by Harris given to him on his last day of service.
Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.
Sounds a bit, umm, weird to me.
NOT DELIVERING: Biskupic’s Second Installment on Trump Immunity. “Frankly, there is not much insight here. Almost everything she wrote could have been deduced from simply reading the opinions.”
HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE? Israel Delivers Major Twin Blows Against Hamas and Hezbollah in Just 24 Hours.
IT’S THE STORY, STUPID: Love him or hate him, Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” commands such devotion and loyalty from millions of regular Americans because it does what Rod Martin told us in 2010 the Right had to do if it hoped ever to defeat the Left.
Rod recently republished his 2010 essay in which this striking passage appeared:
“It is common sense that if jobs are flowing to China we should both negotiate better deals with them and also make our own competitive environment better. It is common sense that we shouldn’t turn California’s Central Valley into a desert for the sake of a tiny fish that isn’t even native to the area, at the cost of putting ex-farmers in food lines instead of in their fields feeding the world.
“It is common sense that American foreign policy should first and foremost serve America’s national interests rather than the interests of foreigners. It is common sense that budgets should be balanced, that people should have not just the opportunity but the duty to work for a living, that faceless bureaucrats in Washington don’t understand or care about your family as much as you do, that the safety net should encourage advancement, not stifle it. It is common sense that schools should focus on subjects that will help kids become good citizens and perform well at work, that families should be reinforced, that neighborhoods should be safe.”
I have no idea if Rod Martin has been the political genius behind Trump but, if you read this lengthy essay that first appeared 14 years ago, you will likely find yourself wondering why we all haven’t been reading and re-reading it ever since.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: With a landmark launch, the Pentagon is finally free of Russian rocket engines.
HEATHER MAC DONALD: Girling the Boy Scouts.
The value of an all-boys organization was self-evident to the Boy Scouts’ founders and to the Scout leaders who followed them. Masculine comradeship underlies males’ willingness to undertake military and civic sacrifice. Boys compete with one another, torment one another, but also sometimes elevate one another. They seek adult males to emulate—ideally their fathers but, in the absence of their own father, a father figure embodying masculine virtue. That father figure can even be imaginary; boys’ aspirations are fired by tales of male courage and the accomplishment of great feats.
Today, American boys are plagued by fatherlessness, both real and symbolic. Whereas in the early twentieth century, boys lost their biological fathers to industrial accidents and tuberculosis, now they lose them to parental irresponsibility. In 2022, 40 percent of all American children were born to single mothers. Black newborns faced a catastrophic 69.3 percent illegitimacy rate, while more than 53 percent of Hispanic children were born to unmarried females. Whites had a 27 percent illegitimacy rate; the rate among the white underclass is twice that. Already in 2016, 59 percent of births to white women who did not finish high school or obtain a GED occurred outside of marriage. Boys suffer the most in the typical fatherless household, with its lack of structure, parade of shiftless boyfriends, and inconsistent discipline. (There are exceptions to this chaos, of course.)
The disintegration of the family coincided with the devalorization of males, making the possibility of even a symbolic father figure remote.
None of this is by accident — and do read the whole thing.
HOW’S THAT #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA?
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), on Morning Joe: “I look at Kamala Harris as a cop, as a prosecutor.”
How much things have changed since 2020.
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) July 31, 2024
Kelly’s brown-nosing for the veep slot is impressive for his enthusiasm but does Harris really want people to remember her record as attorney general?
H.D. MILLER: Through the Orange-Bitcoin-Glass.
This past weekend, my youngest daughter and I headed off to the big hoo-haw Bitcoin Conference downtown, courtesy of my oldest daughter who has been interning this summer with BTC Inc., the sumptuously overstaffed company that runs the conference. We wanted to see Trump and RFK, Jr. speak, and so my oldest daughter found us two free tickets, worth a combined street value of $1398.00 in fiat money.
Like many Americans, I kick myself hard for not putting money into Bitcoin back in the day. Unlike most Americans, however, I learned about Bitcoin very, very early on, in 2010, when fellow posters in online forums started touting it as the next big thing when the price was somewhere around 50 cents per coin. Of course, in response to this great discovery, I immediately and mercilessly mocked anyone who said they’d bought Bitcoin. I’m the guy standing on the dock when Columbus returned, calling him a liar.
In my favor, I was not alone in mocking Bitcoin buyers, almost all sensible people were doing that, because everyone who was into Bitcoin in 2010 was doing so to buy illicit drugs, or so it seemed.
Welp. Here we are. It’s the future and the stoners and autistic edgelords have won. Bitcoin 2024 has taken over the Music City Center and forced various politicians to come and kiss the disembodied ring of the electronic God Emperor, Big Daddy Bitcoin.
Read the whole thing.