Archive for 2024
November 26, 2024
FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING: Scientists Officially Declare End of ‘Climate Emergency’ During Prague Climate Conference.
IS SHE STRAIGHT UP JUST DROPPING ACID NOW? Should Kamala Harris Run For President Again in 2028? (Reader Poll).
IT’S BETTER THAN BEING INVADED: Trump Vows 25% Tariffs on Goods From Mexico, Canada Over Border Crisis.
And it’s better than a war to prevent it.
READ THIS: 2025: A Moment Of Opportunity In Space.
November 25, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
OLD AND BUSTED: Daniel Craig Is James Bond.
The New Hotness? Daniel Craig Is Sgt. Rock! Is James Bond Star Daniel Craig Entering DC’s Superhero Universe? Here’s What We Know.
James Bond actor Daniel Craig is reportedly in talks to star in a DC Studios adaptation of Sgt Rock. The project is being directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, who had earlier collaborated with Craig for Queer. It seems that this is the project Guadagnino is set to direct next, before taking on Lionsgate’s American Psycho reboot. Sources say the screenplay for Sgt. Rock, written by Challengers and Queer scribe Justin Kuritzkes, is in solid shape, reported Deadline.
The report added that no deals have been finalized between DC Studios, Craig, and Guadagnino yet. However, Sgt. Rock is shaping up to be another major project for the Safran-Gunn slate, joining the likes of Superman, which is set to launch DC’s new Gods and Monsters Phase One; the Supergirl movie; and the animated series Creature Commandos, which debuts on Max on December 5.
Details about the script remain under wraps, and it’s unclear which specific Sgt. Rock storyline the new film will be based on. The character, Sgt. Franklin John Rock, was created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert and first appeared in 1959 in Our Army at War. He’s depicted as a World War II infantry soldier, and his popularity surged in 1977 when he was given his own comic series, which ran until July 1988. Sgt. Rock is known for his extraordinary combat skills, including taking down German planes with a submachine gun, throwing grenades with precision, and excelling as a street fighter. With a calm demeanor, he also possesses a “Combat Antenna” that allows him to sense incoming enemy attacks.
This is the Sgt. Rock I remember from the comic books in the 1970s:
I’m not sure if the most emo James Bond ever is quite up to the task of portraying him.
THE JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES: ISS crew reports “unexpected odor” from Russian Progress cargo spacecraft.
NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD How to Talk to Your Racist MAGA Uncle This Thanksgiving (Video):
THE REDSKINS ARE BACK, BABY! Well, at least their logo is: Washington Commanders Agree To Un-Cancel Redskins Logo.
Washington Commanders managing partner Josh Harris and the NFL Commanders ownership group have agreed to un-cancel the Redskins (the iconic Blackfoot chief logo) history.
In a post on Facebook by Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the Congressman wrote that “The censorship of the former Commanders logo was a classic case of woke gone wrong. I applaud the Commanders & the NFL for their commitment to never censor the logo again.”
“And for working with the [Walter ‘Blackie’] Wetzel family to restore the logo to a place of prominence and honor to benefit Indian Country,” he added mentioning the “Native American artist who used Blackfoot chief John Two Guns White Calf as the inspiration for the logo the NFL team used for almost 50 years.”
In 2020, the team announced it was removing Redskins from its name and two years later announced the national professional football team would be called the Washington Commanders.
The name change came about from pressure from the cancel culture mob following the death of George Floyd and those who claimed that the term was racist and offensive to Native Americans.
More fallout from the woke revolution of 2020, where back on planet earth that year: Poll: Less Than 30 Percent Of Americans Say Redskins Should Change Their Name.
However, much like Kamala Harris’s craziness the previous year, team Biden couldn’t or wouldn’t risk alienating their ultra-woke core constituency; in 2020, CNN broadcast a photo supplied by the Biden campaign with the Redskins’ logo Photoshopped out of Hunter Biden’s ski cap in a 1970s-era photo with where he was being held by Joe. “[Joseph Wulfsohn of Fox News] reported that the Biden campaign has now admitted editing the photo and blamed it on copyright concerns. According to a CNN source cited by Washingtonian magazine, ‘We received this picture and many others from the Biden campaign, and any additional inquiries should be sent their way. Future airings will include the original photo.’”
RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE BIRTHRIGHT: The rage of the entitled overclass.
The collective mental breakdown among self-styled progressives since Donald Trump’s re-election has been quite the sight to behold. The subsequent declaration by many that they will leave X, in protest of that platform’s supposed descent into fascism, has made matters all the more entertaining. What a glorious outpouring of self-importance and self-righteousness, combined with an utter lack of self-awareness.
Though such tantrums are amusing, the spectacle has also been appalling. This has been a grim cocktail of piety, sanctimony and belligerence, with rancour and malice thrown in, too. If the cleavage between remote, moneyed liberals and normal people was laid bare by the US election result, the fall-out since has made the gap appear all the more cavernous.
We should have been prepared for this behaviour, of course. We witnessed such sneering petulance from the entitled overclass back in 2016, the year that saw Trump first elected as US president, and also the year a majority of the British public voted to leave the European Union.
Up to then, the elites had silently become ever-more detached from the lower orders, regarding them with increasing disdain. This antipathy suddenly erupted in spectacular fashion. They had grown so accustomed to getting their way that they just couldn’t process or accept that, for once, their demands had not been met.
In America in 2016, there was rage and grief. ‘You’re awake by the way’, said MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, in a clip widely circulated from that fateful night in November. ‘You’re not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, you’re not dead, and you haven’t gone to hell’, she continued. ‘This is your life now.’
Eight years later, the DNC-MSM are taking his reelection even worse: Axios CEO Beclowns Himself Defending Journalisming.
Did you know that journalisming is “hard, really hard?”
That is the message that Jim VanderHai, the CEO and founder of Axios, made to the National Press Club as he was honored for being a Serious Journalist™.
The best part of this sanctimonious rant is when he uses Qatari-funded Al Jazeera as an exemplar of a media outlet that does real truth-seeking reporting without fear or favor. https://t.co/AIeOH5Ga9W
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) November 25, 2024
In principle, I like the idea of there being professional journalists who spend most of their waking hours chasing down news and information. After all, the division of labor exists for a reason. Specialization increases productivity, and theoretically, people who specialize in a task increases productivity by orders of magnitude.
Yes, but. Modern journalists, with few exceptions, suck eggs. They are ideological propagandists; most are lazy and self-satisfied, and their concept of the job is to schmooze with sources and repeat what they are told. They don’t report without fear or favor–they serve the same function as Pravda.
If you were on Twitter/X you had a MUCH better sense of the reality on the ground. The downside of X is that you have to wade through a lot more noise to detect the signal, but at least the signal you discovered was likely true. Reading the Pravda media led you to have a totally distorted view of reality.
And then there’s the journalist who believes that Pravda is far too conservative and right wing: Nate Silver Wonders Why Taylor Lorenz Won’t Post Her Age or Birthdate (and She Actually Posts Her Age).
The infantile woman who outed LibsofTikTok’s name and place of business is complaining about someone “directing online hate” towards her.
White lefties have been in a bubble of privilege so long and subscribe to a political philosophy — or, more accurately, a political cope — that says they are owed even more privileges.
They melt down and scream when they don’t get the privileges they believe they’re entitled to, so many people have coddled them these past ten years and granted these privileges, thinking, wrongly, that it was easier to give baby their ba-ba than to stand up to them.
They were wrong. Giving in to these entitled terrorists’ demands only encouraged, get this, more terrorism, and has led to more and more extravagant demands of privilege and deference.
But people are now pushing back. And the coddled, privileged lefties are melting down even more crazily now, because they’ve become so accustomed to getting their own way when they crime, scream, and stamp their feet.
But this 71-year-old woman, whose car was hit by an uninsured Millennial who then fled the scene, isn’t having it.
Uninsured Kamala voter hits a car and then has an emotional breakdown when asked for her insurance. pic.twitter.com/IO5aDSQVlK
— Adam Francisco (@adamfrancisco_) November 23, 2024
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As Halperin said, we’re headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We’re going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them “no.”
For some, this will be an extinction burst, and they will begin comporting themselves to the New Rules.
For others: They’ll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.
It’s going to get a little choppy.
Perhaps literally so, alas: Here’s VDH from last year on “Left-Wing Violence Chic.”
Heh, indeed. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, here’s a flashback to June of 2014: Brendan Eich was only the beginning.
JUST A FEW YEARS AGO THE SCIENCE WAS “SETTLED” ENOUGH TO CUT OFF FUNDING FOR ALTERNATIVE THEORIES: Alzheimer’s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, an Expert Reveals.
READER FAVORITE: Alpha Grillers Instant Read Meat Thermometer for Cooking. #CommissionEarned
CORN, POPPED:
BREAKING: Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, is warning sanctuary cities that he will request Justice Department authority to charge officials with obstruction and harboring if they refuse to hand over illegal border crossers in their custody.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) November 25, 2024
Do Denver first, please.
THE NEW SPACE STENCH: Astronauts Report Alarming Stench Coming From Russian Spacecraft Docked to ISS.
A Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) didn’t just bring supplies to the ISS—it also brought a foul odor. The unpleasant aroma was strong enough to prompt astronauts to close the hatch connecting it to the rest of the space station and initiate anti-contamination procedures.
The Progress 90 cargo ship arrived at the Russian Poisk module at 9:31 a.m. ET on Saturday, November 23, delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for members of the Expedition 72 crew on board the ISS. After opening the hatch between Progress and the Poisk module, the crew noticed a noxious smell and droplets coming from the cargo ship. The Roscosmos cosmonauts closed the hatch immediately, fearing a possible contamination hazard, RussianSpaceWeb.com reported based on communication between mission control in Houston and the ISS astronauts.
NASA confirmed the report, adding that the foul smell does not indicate a safety concern for the ISS crew. “Space station air scrubbers and contaminant sensors monitored the station’s atmosphere following the observation, and on Sunday, flight controllers determined air quality inside the space station was at normal levels,” NASA wrote on X. “There are no concerns for the crew, and as of Sunday afternoon, the crew is working to open the hatch between Poisk and Progress while all other space station operations are proceeding as planned.
The cargo ship is supposed to stay docked for about six months. Let’s hope the stench doesn’t linger with it.
EFFECTIVE, BUT LOUD: Is .357 Magnum Good For Self-Defense?
AGAINST POST-ELECTION INFANTILIZING. Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated.
BIDEN IS ON HIS WAY OUT, THERE’S NO NEED TO KEEP LYING FOR HIM: Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable this year.
The costs of this year’s holiday feast — estimated at $58.08 for a 10-person gathering, or $5.81 a head — dropped 5% since last year, the lowest level since 2021, according to a nationwide survey of grocery prices by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which represents millions of U.S. farmers. But the picture improves further when adjusted for inflation.
“If your dollar had the same overall purchasing power as a consumer in 1984 … this would be the least expensive Thanksgiving meal in the 39-year history of the AFBF Thanksgiving survey, other than the outlier of 2020,” the authors wrote.
For plenty of households, it doesn’t feel that way.
Feel?
It’s our turn to host Thanksgiving this year so I showed this story to my wife who got a bitter laugh out of it. She has the receipts, and they ain’t pretty.
READER FAVORITE: Apple iPad Air 11-inch (M2). #CommissionEarned
PLEASE, STOP — THEY WON’T LET ME VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN: Trump ‘to fire entire Jack Smith team and use DOJ to investigate 2020 election.’ “Trump plans to eliminate the entirety of Smith’s team, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution, according to a report from the Washington Post. Smith had previously said he will resign from the post and wind down his federal cases against Trump before he takes the oath of office in January.”