BIDEN: A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER! CAIR Says Biden Will Lose, ‘Allah Willing.’
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March 19, 2024
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: There is no Dark Matter and the Universe is Twice as Old as We Thought.
Gupta went on to state that if the universe is 26.7 billion years old as his team believes, “the Universe does not require dark matter to exist.” I’m obviously nowhere near smart enough to grasp everything these eggheads are talking about, but the layman’s explanation for this part of it boils down to missing data. Previous studies all suggested that the universe is expanding faster than it should be based on the amount of physical matter we are able to observe in space. That’s why physicists had to dream up dark matter (and its corresponding partner, dark energy) to explain what was being observed. But the vastly larger universe now being posited would allow for the apparent motion of all of the heavenly bodies.
Dark matter always seemed like a cop-out to me — insisting that something invisible must be there to make the theory work, instead of figuring out what might be wrong with the theory.
If Gupta is correct, now we just need to figure out how we got the age of the universe so wrong…
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: The Woke Are Just Trying to Inflict Their Misery on Everyone Else.
KANGAROO COURT LANDS UNC IN REAL COURT. Working as a lawyer in this field, I see, over and over again, that campus HR and discrimination investigators don’t feel bound even by their own rules. Courts usually go out of their way to enable this behavior, too, to an extent where I wonder if judges have an unspoken understanding that if they started holding colleges to their own rules, the resulting explosion of litigation would cripple the judicial system. Hopefully this case will be different!
READER FAVORITE: VIKING Microfiber Cloth for Car or Home. #CommissionEarned
CHANGE: Young Americans Lose Hope — and Turn Against Biden.
Consider the calamities and policy collapses experienced by Generation Z, the demographic born since 1998 and raised in this century. These young adults – 41 million of whom will be eligible to vote in 2024 – have vivid memories and lived experience of the Great Financial Crisis, intense political and cultural polarization in society, and the tyranny of the unscientific and illogical virus panic starting in 2020.
In fact, regarding the lockdowns and other macro abuses of the Covid panic, young Americans suffered the pain of the inane policies most acutely. At times, it seemed as though Covid tyrants like Anthony Fauci and Governor Gavin Newsom were actually trying to inflict maximum pain on the young, even though statistically young people were nearly invulnerable to harsh consequences of the virus.
Those same young people have also endured an education system that focuses on indoctrination rather than teaching usable skills. Specifically, they were subjected to curricula and a pop culture that impart lessons of collective guilt and shame, rather than patriotism and pride.
Nonetheless, young Americans were encouraged to take on mountains of personal debt to fund these toxic educational experiences. Upon leaving school, far too many of them discovered that they were prepared for little besides unhealthy self-loathing.
Read the whole thing.
FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY: L.A. County orders closure of indoor malls, shopping centers and non-essential retail businesses: The order also prohibits gatherings in enclosed spaces of more than 10 people.
Things would quickly get far weirder in California:
—Jack Dunphy, PJ Media.com, April 6th, 2020.
—CBS L.A., April 17th, 2020.
THEIR TEARS ARE SWEET: Outrage erupts over Kyle Rittenhouse campus tour.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Hotel California: Majority of Small Business Bosses Want Out but Feel ‘They Can Never Leave.’
THEY’RE BAD FOR BUSINESS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: CEO steps down after being hit with expensive EV repairs and low resale prices following purchase of 100,000 Teslas.
Stephen Scherr, who ran Hertz for just over two years after three decades at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has decided to step down, the rental-car company said late Friday in a statement. It’s replacing him with Gil West, the former chief operating officer of General Motors Co.’s Cruise robotaxi unit. West also will join the board of directors on April 1, according to the statement, which confirmed an earlier Bloomberg report.
Scherr, 59, joined Hertz several months after it emerged from bankruptcy and started making splashy wagers on electric vehicles. Under new owners Knighthead Capital Management and Certares Management, the rental company announced plans to order 100,000 vehicles from Tesla Inc., sending the automaker’s market capitalization soaring past the $1 trillion mark at the time.
Business is oftentimes no more immune to popular fads than individuals are, sad to say. But you have to wonder if, in Hertz’s case, bringing in a finance guy from a Democrat-friendly Wall Street firm made them extra susceptible to the EV frenzy.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Now More Than Ever, the Left Is Terrified of Free Speech. “This all gets back to the Democrats’ disinformation fairy tale. They would prefer to be able to label any truths that interfere with their false narratives as disinformation and to lean on social media platforms to censor conservatives. Traditional media is already doing their bidding, so they don’t need any help there. Dems are also nervous about not having Twitter/X in their pockets anymore.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The dumber their ideas get, the more afraid of contradiction they become. And they’ve gotten pretty damn dumb.
OUT OF TOUCH BUBBLE DWELLERS: Biden’s Speech Was Not the Win the Political Class Thought It Was.
THE NEW SPACE RACE/ELON MUSK’S INSURANCE POLICY AGAINST DEEP STATE EFFORTS TO SHUT DOWN SPACEX: SpaceX building hundreds of spy satellites for US government, report says.
SpaceX is “building a network of hundreds of spy satellites” for a US intelligence agency under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021, Reuters reported on Saturday. Reuters cited “five sources familiar with the program” in its report on SpaceX’s classified contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a Defense Department agency that deploys surveillance satellites and calls itself the “global leader in space-based intelligence.”
“The satellites can track targets on the ground and share that data with US intelligence and military officials, the sources said,” according to Reuters. The newly reported details are consistent with a Wall Street Journal report in February 2024 that said SpaceX had “entered into a $1.8 billion classified contract with the US government in 2021.”
Reuters wrote that it “was unable to determine when the new network of satellites would come online” but stated that about a dozen prototype satellites have been launched in the past few years. The prototypes reportedly launched “among other satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.”
SpaceX, of course, has deployed thousands of low-Earth orbit satellites for its Starlink division that provides broadband service to consumer, business, and government customers. The spy satellites for the NRO also operate in low-Earth orbits, the Reuters report said.
“The plans show the extent of SpaceX’s involvement in US intelligence and military projects and illustrate a deeper Pentagon investment into vast, low-Earth orbiting satellite systems aimed at supporting ground forces,” Reuters wrote. “If successful, the sources said the program would significantly advance the ability of the US government and military to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe.”
Combine that ability with “rods from God” and other rapid-delivery systems and you’ve really got something.
On the other hand, after everything else we’ve learned about Washington these last several years, I hope Musk built in a single kill switch for the entire constellation.
KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANTS! Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘concerned’ First Amendment is ‘hamstringing’ government from censorship.
Or in other words:
Ketanji Brown Jackson Warns Right To Free Speech Could Lead To People Speaking Freely https://t.co/ZdloRSuMOa pic.twitter.com/hf6XiJNn8p
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 18, 2024
And:
"Neglecting that central question, The New York Times portrays [Murthy v. Missouri] as part of a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters to undermine democracy by promoting false claims that mislead voters and threaten the peaceful transfer of power." https://t.co/emkhlqxUjB
— Matt Welch (@MattWelch) March 17, 2024
VIDEO: A Federalist Society Webinar on Scott Gerber’s lawsuit against Ohio Northern University. He was (apparently) fired for criticizing their diversity policies. I say apparently because Ohio Northern has been unforthcoming about their reasons.
Background here.
But wait, it gets worse:
Unhinged Trump Threatens More Violence By Promising To Trigger A 'Landslide' On Election Day https://t.co/wumgO01NKd pic.twitter.com/LceBme4FVv
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 18, 2024
MY LOW OPINION OF THE CHENEY FAMILY HAS COME TO A MIDDLE:
'Never Has America Faced A Greater Threat Than Donald Trump,' Says Guy Who Started Two Wars And Shot A Dude In The Face https://t.co/7xNBIdkIYx pic.twitter.com/vl4aTHVGV6
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 18, 2024
GET READY FOR SPRING: Armor All Cleaning Supplies Deals. #CommissionEarned
SCHLICHTER: Stunning! There Is Some Very Good News for Republicans.
We’re not used to hearing it, but for the last week or so, the RNC has done everything right. The organization has totally failed for seven years under the rule of the dumbest member of the Romney family. People like RedState’s own Jennifer van Laar and superlawyer Harmeet Dhillon would point out how she was wasting tons of money on useless fluff, donors would stop giving, and she would just continue wasting tons of money on useless fluff. She studiously ignored the grassroots and imagined that her role was to go on TV and talk about policy as if anyone cared what some party bureaucrat thought. But now she’s gone, and good riddance.
Her replacements have, astonishingly, done the right things, and they have done it right away. First, they clearcut a bunch of the deadwood at the RNC, firing tons of people. Some characterize that as a purge of unbelievers, but what it really is is a purge of unachievers. Have you seen a lot of election integrity lately? People who do a bad job should be fired. This used to be basic knowledge and understood by Republicans. But apparently, some people think we ought to have a tenure system in our party apparatus. No. Party flacks and functionaries ought to live in perpetual fear that they will be canned should they fail to perform adequately. These mass firings are a great sign. The new leadership has even started to build an election integrity team.
The best time to build an election integrity team was four years ago. The next best time is right now.
THAT’S A FANCY WAY OF SAYING “PARTY APPARATCHIK”: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Has a Horrifying View of the First Amendment.
#CommissionEarned
Two brothers fight for freedom. A lost colony’s governor strives to reinvent the feudal state. Can Martha’s sons escape to liberty and a future?Thaddeus Dawe is a patient man. On a planet where only the valley of First Landing is fully terraformed, he waits for spring’s agonizingly slow arrival. He plans to take the colony’s last terraseeder to fortify a secret northern enclave outside the governor’s control. When the palace loses power in late winter, Thaddeus scrambles to save his and his brothers’ hopes for independence.
Peter Dawe suffers under another secret. When he receives his brother’s call to return from exile to save the terraseeder, Peter forces himself to disclose his long-planned departure to those who sheltered and befriended him, including the woman he wants in his life. None of that goes as planned, and he heads north responsible once again for too many lives.
With the terraseeder losing power, a promise he has yet to fulfill, and the governor’s men against him, Thaddeus fears the new chaos marks the imminent death of the essential terraforming microbes and the failure of the new world he plans to build. Peter has spent the winter learning skills for his brothers’ northern plans, but joining Thaddeus’ team puts not only his own life at risk, but that of the woman he gives up to friendship.
Can the Dawe brothers escape the governor’s dominion with the life-giving terraseeder in time, and with their friends and loved ones alive?
The Wheels Run Truly is the final installment in the gripping science fiction colonization series, Martha’s Sons. If you like driven heroes, deep bonds of love and friendship, and a fight for freedom, you’ll need to read Laura Montgomery’s thrilling adventure tale.
OUT: SOCIAL JUSTICE. In: Sexual Justice.
“We don’t like the word ‘force’,” said Darcy. “We prefer to say that the state prohibits the withholding of sex from the underprivileged.”
“But isn’t that… rape?”
“No, it’s not rape, because it’s done through the democratic process. So you’ve already consented to it by being a part of a democracy. We as a society agree that it’s the right thing to do, so to think of it as ‘rape’ is incorrect. It is Sexual Justice.”
Just like taxes aren’t theft because people don’t take the money directly from you and use it themselves, the state does so with democratic approval and then gives the money to people. Totally different.
THEY WILL COME AROUND AGAIN: Another Turn Of The Wheel.