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Archive for 2024
May 28, 2024
PARODY CONTINUES TO PLAY CATCH-UP IN JOE BIDEN’S AMERICA:
This is both satire and also exactly what the corrupt New York judge has told jurors. https://t.co/QGdqQFaEp2
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 28, 2024
CRISIS BY DESIGN:
NEW: Another 118 Chinese nationals crossed illegally into San Diego sector yesterday, per CBP sources.
I’m told San Diego sector has now had 30,000+ Chinese since October 1st.
Other San Diego sector nationalities since 10/1:
8,900+ India
7,800+ Turkey
2,900+ Uzbekistan
4,400+…— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 26, 2024
I already read Kurt Schlichter’s “The Attack” and would rather not live through it.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS SERVING UP HORRORS BEYOND IMAGINATION: Illinois brewpub serving cicada-infused Malort liquor shots. Malort is perhaps the worst drink ever, except maybe for Buckfast tonic wine.
DON’T GET COCKY: ‘Full-Blown Freakout,’ Democrats Are Having a Panic Attack Over Joe Biden’s Electoral Prospects.
Fortunately, one man can save them — and that man is Travis Bickle! “The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king’s men cannot put it back together again:”
BOB DENIRO IS A TOTAL MESS! pic.twitter.com/mm7V8u7iRh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 28, 2024
Although Travis wore Mohawks, not masks when he was getting ready to move in for the kill:
DeNiro wears a large mask walking outside years post-Covid only to take it off while speaking while surrounded by other people. Ludicrous speed already reached this week. https://t.co/dqouU6iZ50
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 28, 2024
DON’T GET COCKY BUT DO ENJOY STORIES LIKE THESE: The Great 2024 Democratic Party ‘Total Freakout.’
POOR GEN Z: The Global Loss of the U-Shaped Curve of Happiness. “Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy. . . . It seems that the well-being of young adults (ages 18-25), especially young women, went into precipitous decline beginning around 2017 (with some evidence showing around 2014).”
In space warfare, the U.S. military is seeking the ultimate high ground.
The satellites central to national defense and global communications have long faced threats from the ground, such as signal jamming and missile attacks. Orbital menaces are the next frontier.
Intelligence disclosures about Russia’s interest in antisatellite weapons and satellite launches from China have energized U.S. efforts to defend its interests hundreds and even thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface.
Defense companies are developing systems ranging from satellites that can chase other satellites in orbit to protecting ground stations that can beam signals to space. Those protections are critical as mobile navigation services and some television and internet services rely on equipment in orbit. Commercial startups are working on technologies, including orbital capsules, sensors and satellite structures, that could have military applications.
Pentagon officials are also doing something unusual: talking more publicly about the weapons that hostile nations might use in space to engage in warfare. Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force’s top operational leader, said adversaries are trying every day to restrict access that the U.S. and its allies have in space. . . .
The Space Force—the newest military branch—has stepped up training of its Guardians, including how to best maneuver U.S. satellites and predict what adversaries may be planning.
It has developed scenarios for countering lasers, jammers, grabbers and nuclear weapons being used in space. U.S. officials oppose placing its nuclear weapons in orbit, pointing to commitments under a decades-old space treaty, but the Pentagon has been looking to further deploy its own set of space-based arms and capabilities.
In the Space Force’s recent budget request, about 25% of the $29.4 billion funding would go toward so-called space superiority, a concept that Saltzman calls “responsible counter-space.”
To be fair, the United States has been working on this stuff for a long time. For an elderly but excellent history of the early days, see Paul B. Stares’ The Militarization of Space: U.S. Policy, 1945-1984. It’s quite impressive what was going on in the 1960s — operational satellite interceptors, AGENA drones tested for capturing enemy satellites, etc.
STATE CAPITALISM IS A GRIFTER’S DREAM AND THAT’S WHY JOE BIDEN IS SO FOND OF IT: China Throws Money At Semiconductors Again. “Do you remember the last time I covered where the money went to in those previous phases? The money went to companies like Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Result? ‘Hongxin’s unfinished plant in the port city of Wuhan now stands abandoned. Its founders have vanished, despite owing contractors and investors billions of yuan.'”
THIS WILL END WELL: Denver police say DRONES will respond to 911 calls instead of cops after city defunded the force by millions.
The Denver Police Department has launched a new program that will have drones respond to 911 calls instead of cops.
The law enforcement agency that was recently defunded by millions to pay for migrants is now launching its own drone program, along with other Colorado police departments.
Robert White, the former chief of The Denver Police Department originally disagreed with the use of drones in 2013 and in 2018, the agency’s only drone was shelved.
Now, the department is planning on using a $100,000 grant from the Denver Police Foundation to start the program. Denver police plan to buy several drones with that money, and begin their drone program within six to 12 months.
Phil Gonshak, director of the department’s Strategic Initiatives Bureau told The Denver Post: ‘It’s beginning to lift off.’
‘The long-term scope of what we are trying to do is drones as first responders,’ he added.
‘Basically, having stations on top of each one of our districts so we can respond with drones to critical needs or emergencies that arise throughout the city.’
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, based in Centennial, Colorado, has been using the robotic flying devices since 2017.
‘This really is the future of law enforcement at some point, whether we like it or not,’ Sgt. Jeremiah Gates, who leads the drone unit at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, said.
I’m so old, I can remember when Robocop was touted as “the future of law enforcement” – and he got far better results than these drones likely will.
CIVIL RIGHTS AND ANTISEMITISM AT COLUMBIA.
THEY MIGHT HAVE THE SOLUTION, TOO: How Big Tech Helped Bring on America’s New Energy Crisis.
MICHAEL WALSH: Good-Bye to All That.
The principal architect of the Tories’ demolition is [Boris] Johnson. Born in New York City with some notable Turkish ancestry, BoJo is the very model of a modern Briton: witty, quippy, raffish, well-read, part-foreign, and an absolute toff who panicked at the arrival of Covid and abandoned all pretenses of governing as a conservative from that moment on. He flouted his own Covid strictures and threw himself headlong into the economic stupidity of “climate change,” from which Britain has yet to emerge and certainly will not under Starmer. Johnson could debate, but he couldn’t lead. Just as the two Bushes squandered the post-Cold War legacy of Ronald Reagan, so did Johnson and the Tory ragamuffins who flanked him put paid to the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher.
As Harold Wilson, another Labour prime minister, once said, a week is a long time in politics, but so also can just a few years vanish in the blink of an eye: just ask Boris Johnson. With his victory in World War II, Churchill was shown the door by an unsentimental electorate. Now, 80 years later, his entire party may be about to get the boot, and it only need look in the mirror to understand why.
Exit quote: “Despite the Tories’ promise to address the issue of economic migration, the situation has only gotten worse in the decade since that article in The Guardian was published, and their repeated failure (despite the Brexit victory) to do so has left them on the edge of political purdah.”
OUCH: Buying a home is getting more difficult — and it isn’t just because of price. “Today’s homebuyer faces a smaller pool of options than in previous years. And there’s little relief in sight, as the pace homes are arriving on the market remains outstripped by demand.”
“IRAN DENIES” IS ONE OF THE LEAST-CONVINCING PHRASES IMAGINABLE: Iran Denies Sabotage in President’s Death After Helicopter Crash.
READER FAVORITE: Cruise Ship Essentials, Flat Extension Cord with Multiple Outlets. #CommissionEarned
JOANNE JACOBS: Yale wants science profs to ‘promote DEI through teaching.’
Yale wants biophysics and biochemistry professors to place “DEI at the center of every decision,” according to its website, Sailer writes. Every job advertised links to a rubric that tests candidates’ “knowledge of DEI and commitment to promoting DEI,” their “past DEI experiences and activities,” and their “future DEI goals and plans.”
The “exceptional” candidate will have a “clear and detailed plan for promoting DEI through teaching,” he notes. Anyone who expresses doubts about microaggressions, implicit bias and systemic racism need not apply.
“Diversity statements raise serious issues about free expression, and they also signal an ill-advised shift in priority — away from disciplinary excellence and toward social activism,” writes Sailer.
Cornell’s DEI policies are “corrupting” its science, math and engineering hiring, according to a report by the Cornell Free Speech Alliance, writes Carl Campanile in the New York Post. Twenty-one percent of applicants in a recent faculty search in a hard-science field were rejected because their views were deemed ideologically suspect, according to the alliance.
Trofim Lysenko smiles.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! University of Nevada hosts multiple segregated graduations.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas hosted five “affinity” graduation events, for Asian and Pacific American, “Latinx,” Native American, African American, and LGBTQ-identifying students this May.
“Please join us for our Affinity Graduations sponsored by Student Diversity Programs; which include APMIE, Latinx, Lavender, and Native Convocation,” the school advertised.
The Office of Student Diversity Programs organized the graduations, which took place from May 7 to May 10.
“We strive to serve a diverse student population, elevating and affirming their identities through an intersectional framework that champions student success,” the office’s mission statement declares.
The office recognizes “Identity Months & Weeks” throughout the year, including “LatinX Heritage Month,” “Womxn’s HerStory Month,” and “Multiracial and Multiethnic Awareness Week.”
The University of Nevada, Reno also offered segregated graduations from May 8 to May 13, including a “Lavender” ceremony for LGBTQ-identifying students, an “Indigenous Graduate Celebration,” and a “Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Graduate Celebration.”
The University of Nevada assures me that yes, these events are separate, but they’re all totally equal.
SPOILED WEENIES TRYING TO FEEL IMPORTANT: Data Analysis Confirms That Anti-Israel Protests “are overwhelmingly an elite college phenomenon.” Nate Silver re Washington Monthly protest data analysis: “Of course the stereotype was that these protests were concentrated at expensive elite colleges but I didn’t realize the rather extreme extent to which that’s actually true.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Lawmakers move to automate Selective Service registration for all men.
Interesting question on constitutionality. In Rostker v. Goldberg, the Supreme Court upheld men-only registration because at the time women weren’t eligible for combat. (A dubious rationale, given how many people serve in noncombat roles.) But that’s not true anymore, leading most to think that Rostker is no longer good law. On the other hand, at the time of Rostker, registration was a modicum of trouble, and non-registration was (and remains) subject to severe sanctions. But if the government automatically registers you, then it’s not making you do anything, it’s just compiling a list of its own. In that case, presumably no one would have standing to challenge a draft unless and until they actually started drafting men but not women.
ONE MORE SMALL STEP TOWARDS WASHINGTON DECIDING WHO GETS LIFESAVING MEDICAL TREATMENTS: Joe Biden’s ‘Equity Agenda’ Has a New Target: Kidney Transplants.
The Biden administration unveiled a plan that would push American hospitals to prioritize low-income patients when performing kidney transplants, a move Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra says is aimed at rooting out “racial inequities” in the “transplant process.”
The proposal, which Becerra’s agency announced on May 8, would place 90 of the nation’s 257 transplant hospitals into a pilot program that uses an annual point system to grade participants. Under the system, a successful kidney transplant counts as one point. A transplant furnished to a low-income patient, however, counts as 1.2 points thanks to a “health equity performance adjustment,” thus incentivizing the hospitals to prioritize such patients.
At the end of each year, those points are applied to a transplant quota. Hospitals that meet their quota receive as much as $8,000 per transplant; those that don’t may have to pay up to $2,000 per transplant.
I suppose it would be silly to ask where medical necessity fits into their calculations.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It Is Rocket Science, and the Government Is Awful at It. “Boeing and NASA are hardly a dream team. They’re both plagued by different kinds of bureaucracies that have had some historic misses. Those misses have all come with body counts.”
OUR ENDLESS ROUND OF MILITARY DEBACLES: From Abbey Gate to Gaza: Failure will continue until accountability improves. “This is a larger issue than anything happening in that impossible corner of the globe. Over the weekend, we saw yet more indications of an empire in decline deteriorating from bad to pathetic.”