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September 18, 2024
READER FAVORITE: ecozy Nugget Ice Maker Countertop. #CommissionEarned
THIS WAS THE STUFF OF APOCALYPTIC SCI-FI NOVELS JUST A FEW YEARS AGO: Pacific Dragon: Is the Shipping Industry Ready for Containerized Missile Warfare? “In a groundbreaking naval exercise, the U.S. Navy and its allies tested the launch of one of its most powerful defensive missiles from a shipping container, marking a significant leap in ship defense technology. During Pacific Dragon 2024, the system successfully launched Raytheon’s SM-3 Interceptor anti-ballistic missile, showcasing a new level of flexibility in defending against airborne threats. What’s even more intriguing—and unsettling for some—is the potential to deploy these containerized missile systems on commercial vessels, blurring the lines between civilian and military assets.”
WTF IS WRONG WITH MICHIGAN? Michigan Officials From Whitmer to Slotkin Silent In Wake of Assault on Jewish Student.
QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Can a Dachshund be ‘genderfluid?’
How would you react if your coworker told you his dog is transgender? With laughter? Confusion? Denial? For one unfortunate social worker, this very situation landed her in hot water with her employer and kick-started an absurd legal battle.
Sixty-two-year-old Elizabeth Pitt was employed as a social worker by Cambridgeshire County Council. In January 2023, Pitt, who is a lesbian, attended a meeting of the council’s LGBT employee group. A colleague piped up to say that his dog is ‘genderfluid’. This means that its gender identity supposedly fluctuates depending on the day, time or situation. One day, Fido is cocking his leg up over the fire hydrant, the next she is complaining that the term ‘sausage dog’ is outdated and cisheteronormative.
Somehow, this Dachshund with a brain the size of a walnut was able to not only understand and define its own ‘gender identity’, but also convey that to its owner. Given that dogs can barely get their heads around object permanence, I’m not convinced they’re capable of experiencing gender dysphoria or even ‘identifying’ as anything.
The 21st century isn’t working out as I had hoped, not least of which, on Airstrip One.
UPDATE: Trans Women Are Bullies: J.K. Rowling DROPS Man Forcing a Woman to Say ‘Trans Women Are Women.’
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Unsold Electric Cars Stacking Up Like All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes.
RULING OTHERWISE WOULD OPEN A CAN OF WORMS: 11th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks.
DON’T GET COCKY: Gallup: Trump Is More Popular Than Harris Now. “Trump’s favorability today is substantially higher than in 2016 or 2020, despite the vitriol that has been aimed at him for years. This data seems to suggest that Trump is in much better position to win than the public polls suggest, and it lends credence to the suspicion that the polls themselves are part of an attempt to create a narrative in which Harris is cruising to victory.”
No, seriously, don’t get cocky. Are you donating? Volunteering? Phone-banking? Poll-watching? Commenting on blogs doesn’t count.
BREAKING: Walkie-Talkies Explode in Hezbollah Strongholds In Second Wave; UPDATE: ACME Again? “Operation 1980s Called And Want Their Tech Back may not yet have ended. According to multiple reports, a second wave of explosions have taken place in Lebanon, primarily in Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. This time, the explosions have been created by ‘networked devices’ and possibly walkie-talkies.”
HE’S RIGHT. Austin Bay: The US Election’s Dirty Issue: Undisciplined and Corrupted Security Agencies.
Related:
Trump is trying to "steal your democracy" by running for office.
Meanwhile, Democrats are. . .
Importing millions of fake asylum seekers to political battleground states to create one-party Democrat rule.
Pack the Supreme Court to remove it as a separate branch of government.…
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 17, 2024
THIS IS GREAT:
🚨 Breaking: Thousands of Hezbollah radio devices ("Walkie-Talkie") have exploded during the past hour, in what appears to be the second wave of the attack..
Below is a footage from today, exploding during the funeral of another Hezbollah terrorist who was killed yesterday 👇 pic.twitter.com/o3ljPtgSZo
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) September 18, 2024
Plus:
KEVIN WILLIAMSON HAS BEEN A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT: It is striking that these defenders of democracy spend so much time attacking not Trump but Trump’s supporters. They throw outrageous insults at them, portraying them as ignorant poltroons who should learn to code, take up voodoo or santeria if they want to fit into their communities, and, for God’s sake, learn Creole. Trump has forced many of these people to reveal something that was either true always about themselves or has become true as Trump derangement syndrome has rotted their minds: they hate Americans.”
A key weakness of America’s ruling class is that one of its major bonding tools is open contempt for those it rules.
FOLLOW THE MONEY:
The mayor of Springfield, Ohio is making millions by replacing a third of the population of his town with Haitian immigrants
Let's take a look at such an impressive abuse of power and bag chasing: https://t.co/hGSOpYC9YJ pic.twitter.com/1VVEnLEHBd
— 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜 (@718Tv) September 16, 2024
Read the whole thread.
I’d just add that I’ve been waiting — and writing — for years for Americans to wake up to just how badly we’re being ripped off. Maybe that’s starting to happen. And it’s no coincidence that these reports are going public first on Elon Musk’s X.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE AND BIGOTRY? U. Michigan police investigating ‘ethnic intimidation,’ assault of Jewish student.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Harris Keeps Embarrassing Herself and… IMPROVING IN THE DAMN POLLS?
MAKING IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM LOOK GOOD: Anti-Israel activists vandalize Ben Franklin statue at UPenn, call it ‘symbol of imperial violence and colonialism.’
“The group called the disruptive vandalism a ‘visual reminder of the over 186,000 martyrs and the university’s complicity in genocide.’” Oh, dry up.
ORWELL KNEW: The rise of the Keffiyeh Karen.
In her ready and confident fury, her rudeness, her iron-fisted appetite for confrontation over infractions of what she deems political and moral gospel, the Keffiyeh Karen is related to a broader epidemic of the Gen Z Mean Girl. These Mean Girls have graduated from running the schoolyard to terrorizing the workplace. If there is one type to be afraid of in modern offices, it isn’t the lech or the shouty, hungover male middle manager. It’s the twenty-three-year-old gluten-free vegan graduate, wet behind the ears. We know what these misanthropic misses are capable of — we’ve seen the Phoebes and Annas of Just Stop Oil chuck soup on Van Gogh.
Several good friends of mine who work in corporate settings have told me tales to chill the blood — women in their early twenties conducting bullying campaigns, being proudly insubordinate to their bosses. They never face consequences.
I’ve noticed their boldly aggressive style myself in the astonishingly disrespectful tones in which they harangue those they disagree with on social media.
Read the whole thing but first, Orwell: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: 12×56 High Power Monocular Telescope. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: We Live in the Golden Age of Exploding Pagers. “In the era of smart phones that are more powerful than any of the first several computers that I owned, it’s odd to see the lowly pager making such a splash in the news.”
HARSH BUT FAIR:
Russia has… how do we put this?
An inordinate amount of dying experience.
— Andrew Walkowiak (@AJ_Dual) September 18, 2024
PLANS WITHIN PLANS:
Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions, social media posts, electronic communications, news footage, and medical records, linking them all to people who had these pagers today. Forget the injuries and deaths; Israel just created a massive and growing trove of…
— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) September 17, 2024
Daylight is the best disinfectant and also for the treatment of other vermin.