I like that he was killed, and it’s better that he was killed in Iran where he probably thought he was safe. Sends a better message.
Archive for 2024
July 30, 2024
MORE FEEL—GOOD NEWS: Breaking: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah assassinated… in Tehran!
BOLD STRATEGY, COTTON, LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR THEM:
The Harris campaign has decided they want to fight a culture war this summer with the GOP. Their cultural priorities are:
—Sex changes for minors
—Drag shows for kids
—Pornography in schools
—Men in women’s sports
—Men in girls’ restrooms and locker rooms
—race-based everything— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) July 30, 2024
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A JUDGE FROM AN ERA LONG GONE: Federal judge Richard Stearns, a Clinton appointee, has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit filed by Jewish students against MIT. Boston judges have a history of protecting the local elite institutions (MIT and Harvard) from lawsuits, so this isn’t a great surprise, though shows extremely dubious legal judgment to dismiss a case like this on a motion to dismiss before there has been any discovery. This is especially true given that Stearns acknowledges that MIT Jewish students have faced serious discrimination.
That aside, though, what really struck me about the opinion was why Judge Stearns determined that MIT could not be held responsible for the harassment and so forth that MIT students meted out on their Jewish classmates. I literally laughed out loud when I read this, and wondered whether Stearns was gaslighting, or whether he simply had a weirdly naive and outdated view of what elite universities have been like since the era of political correctness began in the late 1980s. So I looked up his bio, and discovered that he graduated college in 1968(!) So I will give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume he really believes that “tolerance and respect for others” are the value “that modern liberal university education seeks to instill,” and that MIT administrators therefore could not have been expected to anticipate that many of its students had not internalized those values.
THE POLICE AREN’T THERE TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM CRIMINALS, BUT TO PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM CITIZENS. BUT IF THEY OVER DO THEIR JOBS, WELL . . . Violent crowd clashes with UK police after young girls killed. “A large crowd of anti-Muslim protesters clashed with police on Tuesday in a northern English town where three girls were stabbed to death and five other children critically wounded during an attack on a Taylor Swift-themed event on Monday. The horrific stabbing incident in Southport, a quiet seaside town north of Liverpool, has shocked the nation. Police have said it was not linked to terrorism and that the suspect was born in the UK.”
They won’t release his name or anything about him, though, which has people drawing the obvious conclusions. Dumb.
OPEN THREAD: Underneath this big top, you’re the big cheese.
INTRODUCE LEGISLATION REMOVING PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION FROM THE SECRET SERVICE AND ASSIGNING IT TO ANOTHER BRANCH:
The Secret Service director to me today: a lot of people made a lot of mistakes but we won’t tell you who and we won’t fire anybody
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 30, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 5th test flight (photos, video).
READER FAVORITE: Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream with SPF 30. #CommissionEarned
NEEDED: MORE EMPHASIS ON CLEANING, LESS ON PRONOUNS. Infections Spreading in US Hospitals Are on The Rise. Here’s Why.
FORMER PRESIDENT:
He has literally no idea what he saying.
But they staged the coup, it’s compete and we just move on… https://t.co/JZjDSSFTox
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 29, 2024
I FEEL LIKE THE ANSWER TO THIS HAS TO BE NO: Is PowerPoint Cool Now?
THIS IS HOW LITTLE THEY VALUE YOUR PRIVACY — THEY SOLD IT FOR CHEAP: Automakers Sold Drivers’ Data for Shockingly Low Amounts of Money. “One shocking revelation from the letter is just how little the manufacturers actually profited from selling the data. Staffers from Sen. Wyden’s office investigated the three automakers and found that Verisk paid Honda $25,920 over four years for information about 97,000 cars, amounting to just 26 cents per car. Hyundai was paid just over $1 million for data on roughly 1.7 million cars over a six-year period, totaling 61 cents a car. GM would not reveal how much it was paid, according to Sen. Wyden, though a new report this week from the New York Times suggests the manufacturer sold data for more than 8 million cars.”
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Norah O’Donnell to Quit the ‘CBS Evening News’ After the Election.
HOW IT STARTED: Ron DeSantis Sends Two Planes of Illegal Immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
—Fox News, September 14th, 2022.
How it’s going: The wealthy sanctuary state that’s going broke under its $1.8 trillion migrant ‘time bomb.’
—The London Daily Mail, today.
Flashback:
YOUR FEEL-GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: The Israeli Air Force eliminated this guy in Beirut today.
BUT NOW THEY’RE PRETENDING IT NEVER HAPPENED: Flashback: That bullet intended for Trump could have completely ripped apart American life.
OF COURSE THEY ARE: Gun Control Industry Shoving Their Cash at the Kamala Harris Campaign.
Think of the gun control industry as a money laundry for Democrats and grifters and you won’t go far wrong.
NO THANKS, I’M STILL SOCIAL DISTANCING: Meet the Trans-Identifying Male Felons of the Washington State Women’s Prison.
UPDATE: Well, now we know who was dialing into “White Dudes for Harris” last night:
Here's Kamala bragging about her work to ensure "every transgender inmate in the prison system" has access to taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries. pic.twitter.com/YRukQk7b6y
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 30, 2024
KEEP ROCKIN’! LA Times Bemoans Death of California Journalism – Fails to Acknowledge It Helped Kill It.
What the Times missed entirely is how newspapers – at least in part – brought this situation upon themselves. When the internet really started going – say, about 15 years ago, the papers decided they needed to get on board and began offering their stories for free on the assumption that people would stick with their trusted news source and they could sell banner ads and the like.
Oops.
In reaction to declining revenue, the papers started slashing jobs, mostly local news jobs. Papers then found out they had no one to cover local news – go to council meetings, sit through planning commissions and such – and that they had forfeited the one massive advantage they had over tech: typically trusted local news coverage that cannot be found anywhere else.
Oops, again.
And then things got very silly – papers that had literally sold for a billion dollars just a few years before were being bought for their real estate alone and billionaires – like the Times’ own Patrick Soon-Shiong – started picking them up on the cheap for influence purposes, hoping that they would at least break even.
But the destruction of daily grind local news at the bottom and the plaything mentality at the top only amplified the problems, particularly in the case of the Times which became the domain of Soon-Shiong’s permanent grad student, horrifically woke nightmare daughter Nika.
Her politics, reportedly, drove and drives the news coverage of the Times and that was that. And yet another mistake was made – and not just by the Times – that by being so woke, so scolding, so ideologically driven, so pointless, so full of propaganda that the majority of the public that wanted to read a daily newspaper simply turned away because there was no point to it – no point, that is, if you wanted to get relatively unbiased hard news coverage of local issues.
The Times also notes how sad it is that so many “journalists” have been laid off recently. At least it mentioned its own layoffs, no matter how obliquely.
Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record: Exhausted Journalist Finally Gets To Bed After Long Day Of Copying And Pasting Democrat Talking Points.
(Classical reference in headline.)
SCOTT PINSKER: The ‘Weirdness’ of the Democrats: If You Listen Closely, Kamala Harris Just Exposed Her Achille’s Heel. “Like all issues in the public forum, he who frames the issue usually wins the issue.”
WHAT’S WRONG WITH BEING SEXY? Olympics Camera Operators Warned to Avoid ‘Sexist’ Filming of Female Athletes.
According to a report by The Guardian, OBS is responsible for the TV coverage of the Paris Olympics, with its images shared with rights holders around the world.
Exarchos told reporters in Paris that his organization has updated its guidelines for camera operators, most of whom are men, to avoid “sexist” portrayals of female athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
“Unfortunately, in some events they [women] are still being filmed in a way that you can identify that stereotypes and sexism remains, even from the way in which some camera operators are framing differently men and women athletes,” Exarchos says.
“Women athletes are not there because they are more attractive or sexy or whatever. They are there because they are elite athletes.”
“[Equal participation of women] is not enough. It has not been enough for us,” the OBS head adds.
“We wanted to make sure that the actual sports content was also reflecting this equality.”
Exarchos pointed out that the problem primarily stems from “unconscious bias,” which leads to camera operators and TV editors favoring more close-up shots of women than of men.
The 2024 Paris Olympics are the first in the 128-year history of the modern Games to achieve gender parity between male and female athletes, with women’s sport also given more prime-time broadcast spots to help raise its profile.
“The schedules of sporting events have traditionally been biased towards highlighting men’s events, almost always you have women’s competitions in the mornings, then the men’s,” Exarchos tells reporters.
“We have worked during these years together with our partners in the federations and our broadcasters in order to make the schedule, the program of competition of the Games of Paris, as equal as possible.”
So the cameramen are being instructed to make the coverage of female athletes as chaste as possible, while the opening ceremony seemed piped in from Sodom and Gomorrah? Allahpundit used to make jokes about “the Woke Olympics” when the NFL was in its full-on kneeling for the National Anthem phase back in 2017. In 2024, welcome to the real thing.
Classical reference in headline:
UPDATE: What’s the story behind this insane, viral Olympic surf shot?
WELL, THAT’S BIG OF ‘EM: Chevy Will Build as Many Corvette ZR1s as People Want to Buy.