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October 15, 2024
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:
Kamala Courts Indigenous Voters By Telling Crowd She Grew Up In A Middle-Class Teepee https://t.co/y8RSEZAXAm pic.twitter.com/DiIPU158DK
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 14, 2024
LIMITED TIME DEAL: KYOKU Steak Knife Set of 6. #CommissionEarned
WOEING: Boeing’s defense unit logs massive $2 billion in losses for third quarter.
Boeing’s defense unit will take $2 billion in losses on fixed-price contracts when it reports its third quarter results later this month, the company disclosed today, bringing total defense-related charges for the company up to $3.2 billion this year. The wider company also announced plans to slash 10 percent of its total workforce.
The charges to its defense arm come as the US planemaker hemorrhages money amid an ongoing strike by its Seattle-area machinists union and as it announced the conclusion of its 767 freighter production — both factors the company states contributed to losses on the T-7A trainer, MQ-25 tanker drone, KC-46 tanker and NASA’s Starliner in the most recent financial quarter.
The T-7 trainer logged the largest charge, worth $900 million, due to what the company said were higher estimated costs for production in 2026 and beyond.
Behind it, the KC-46 logged a $700 million loss due to Boeing’s decision to end production of the 767 freighter, the commercial aircraft on which the militarized tanker is based. The company also pointed the finger at the ongoing machinists union strike, which has paused production of commercial airplanes, such as the 767 made in the company’s Seattle facilities.
The company did not lay out a breakdown for the losses incurred by the MQ-25 and Starliner programs.
There are still three available Commercial Crew missions to ISS on Starliner that Boeing was expected to win and three that the company is already contracted to fly. But there’s no word yet from either Boeing or NASA on Starliner’s fate.
HAHA:
Man Pretending To Be Straight Pretends To Hunt https://t.co/fOGIEenRWw pic.twitter.com/GDngCnrQyp
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 12, 2024
Also fun, but not satire this time:
Absolutely BRUTAL moment for Bill Clinton as a McDonalds employee confuses him for ‘Joe’ Biden while out on the campaign trail for Kamala 😂pic.twitter.com/7G6CRh0Rh2
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 14, 2024
SPEAKING OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Check out HillFaith’s newest feature, “Faith of the Founders,” which once a week digs into the treasure trove of historical fact to recover gems illustrative of the faith that helped shape the founding generation’s understanding of individual liberty, the relationship of citizens to each other and their government, and the nation’s destiny.
Today’s entry gives an idea of how George Washington encouraged us all to treat one another. Probably sounds corny or naive to modern ears, but things would be so different in this country today if Washington’s advice was still heeded.
PUNCTURING THE ‘SOUTHERN STRATEGY’ MYTH: Don Surber addresses that perennial illusion trotted out every four years by Democrats and their media allies — the idea that 1964 GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater carried only his home state of Arizona and five Deep South states, thereby launching a fundamental realignment in American politics.
Those five Southern states were the anchor of the “Solid South” that had been uniformly Democratic since the Civil War aka “the Late Unpleasantness.” Goldwater carrying them against LBJ supposedly signified the GOP becoming the favored party of bigots, KKKers, ignorant rednecks and fans of Jim Crow.
Not true — not even close to true — and the historical facts on the ground cited by Surber today prove it.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: America’s competence gap reveals a culture of failure — but there’s hope.
OF COURSE, THEY BREAK OUT THE FAKE NAZIS WHEN THEY’RE WINNING, TOO: Kamala Is Going Down Like the Hindenburg? Break Out the Fake Nazis!
UN-READINESS: Running out of SM-3 at Sea? “One of the things that came up in yesterday’s Midrats was the intersection of a couple of bits of OSINT that, if correct on my part, is just another blinking red light warning that we are not equipping ourselves for a serious conflict west of the International Date Line. . . . The use of ballistic missiles by Iran twice this year to attack Israel and their ongoing use by proxies against, well, everyone, is not a ‘surprise.’ This has been known for a long time. Same as China’s ballistic missiles—both land attack and anti-ship—these too are not new, and their numbers are huge. Any military move by the US Navy west of the international date line will face thousands of conventionally armed ballistic missiles in addition to anti-ship cruised missiles, aircraft and submarines. Of all the challenges, the ballistic missiles are the hardest.”
October 14, 2024
LEFTIES: ELON HAS RUINED TESLA.
DATA:
Here are all U.S. Q3 2024 EV sales ranked by units sold, based on data from Cox Automotive.
• Tesla Model Y: 86,801
• Tesla Model 3: 58,423
• Tesla Cybertruck: 16,692
• Ford Mustang Mach-E: 13,392
• Honda Prologue: 12,644
• Hyundai Ioniq 5: 11,590
• Chevrolet Equinox EV:… pic.twitter.com/WVTL3KyLCk— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 14, 2024
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Some Columbus Day Thoughts About Elon Musk: Big achievements and the hatred of the petty-minded.
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I’LL TAKE THAT DEAL:
hilarious that Republicans got space and Democrats got the NFL in the national divorce https://t.co/0xntMZiIin
— sneed kuan yew (@sneedkuanyew) October 14, 2024
Related: Elon Musk works another miracle as Lilliputian progs snipe.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: ‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm.
EMPLOYEE OF ABC NEWS DEMANDS MORE OF HER FELLOW DEMOCRATS WITH CHYRONS: Sunny Hostin Demands Media Do More to Drag Kamala Harris Over the Finish Line.
CRISES BY DESIGN: Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking.
At the barbecue joint off Route 75 in Dallas, Lisa pulls out her phone to show me the dozen or so online platforms that traffickers and pimps use to sell girls for sex. The platforms—which include apps like TikTok, OnlyFans, and Facebook—are chockablock with ads of women, usually wearing lingerie, their faces covered to prevent anyone guessing their age. The sheer number of ads is astonishing. “Each week, we track over 12,000 ads for women in Houston, 2,600 in San Antonio, 3,500 in Austin, and 14,000 in Dallas,” says Lisa.
I ask her if the sex trafficking of migrant girls had increased since the Biden administration threw open the border, leading to 8 million migrants crossing the southern border since 2021. “Yes,” she says. “Nearly all of my sex-trafficking rings now are migrant girls. The ads exploded within the first three months of the border being open. We started noticing new sites and ads in Spanish. That was very few before. Then sites dedicated to Latino girls popped up everywhere.” Since the border opened, Lisa added, over 90 percent of the ads are for migrant girls.
“If I wanted to, I could order a girl within 15 minutes,” Lisa says. “It’s that easy.”
Martha Raddatz would say, wait until you get those numbers under five minutes before we declare it a crisis.
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY FROM KAMALA! Trump campaign rips into Kamala Harris over resurfaced clip of her wanting to ‘cancel’ Columbus Day.
Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign berated Vice President Kamala Harris for trying to cancel Columbus Day, which is recognized as a federal holiday on Monday.
Old video clips of Harris promising to get rid of Columbus Day resurfaced on the holiday Monday as social media users reacted her controversial proposal.
Harris endorsed the idea of an effort by the federal government to change Columbus Day to ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ in response to a question from an activist in a New Hampshire town hall in 2019.
‘Sure, sure. Yeah,’ Harris replied. ‘And why it matters is to your very point, we have to remember history … we have to remember our history, uncomfortable, to your point about truths, though it may make us.’
Harris applauded the effort to address the ‘vestiges of all of that harm.’
‘Count me in on support,’ she concluded.
As Vice President, Kamala Harris recognized Indigenous People’s Day during a speech to the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention in October 2021.
She pointed to the full ‘truth’ behind the ‘explorers’ who came to America from Europe.
‘Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease,’ she said. ‘We must not shy away from this shameful past and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on native communities today.’
Harris has also pointedly issued statements on social media and from the White House recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but not Columbus Day.
The Trump campaign reacted to the clips by reminding voters that Harris was a ‘stereotypical leftist.’
“Stereotypical leftists” have a new reason to hate him even more: Christopher Columbus was secretly Jewish. DNA tests suggest explorer hid true identity due to rampant anti-Semitism across Europe.
UPDATE: So much for blaming resurfaced clips and tweets; Harris (or at least whoever writes her tweets) is sticking to her guns, still referring to “Indigenous People’s Day” on Columbus Day 2024.
Harris is already seen by much of the public as a shallow phony. These blatant acts of plagiarism fit perfectly within that narrative. Team Trump should see this report for what it is — a political gift they should exploit to the hilt.
Let me tell you something else… Look at how far Harris rose — attorney general of California, U.S. Senator, Vice President, and Democrat presidential nominee, without the corporate media discovering this. Think about that… Think about all the corporate media outlets out there that are supposed to be vetting candidates and competing for scoops… Think of the endless resources available to them: billions of dollars and tens of thousands of staffers… And yet, they either never bothered to vet Kamala’s book — or they did, discovered the plagiarism, and hid it from the public.
The media did zero vetting of Obama in 2008 (quite the opposite, of course), but he was running an actual change campaign against a by-then exhausted administration that had been in office for eight years, and whose veep chose not to run to succeed the president. But Obama (who had his own issues with plagiarism) had the rock star charisma for his composite character creation to easily get the job done in November. Kamala is having, by contrast, a much rougher go of it at the moment: The Kamala Harris plagiarism row is a disaster for her campaign.
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Drinking Caffeine May Reduce Alzheimer’s Clumps in The Brain, Study Finds. I remember when people acted like coffee was bad for you.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: America’s competence gap reveals a culture of failure — but there’s hope.
WEIRD THAT SHE’S NOT DOING BETTER IN THE POLLS:
Sounds a lot like the migrants crossing the border right now!
— BlueCollarPatriot🇺🇸 (@JustinSutliffe) October 14, 2024
The comeback is funny too. Columbus brought diversity to a continent in need of it. Cortez and Pizarro fought imperialists on behalf of those imperialists’ oppressed subjects. And wealth was redistributed.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Astounding New 3D Images Reveal Ancient Asteroid Crater Hidden Beneath Atlantic Ocean.
SO THAT’S WHY JOE BIDEN TAPPED KAMALA AS VEEP: Christopher Rufo on “Kamala Harris’s Plagiarism Problem. The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.”
To her supporters, the vice president’s rhetorical flourishes represent the values of compassion and optimism. To her detractors, her reliance on platitudes and tautologies demonstrates her unfitness for the presidency.
But, as we have discovered in this exclusive report, another element appears to exist within Kamala Harris’s rhetorical universe: plagiarism.
At the beginning of Harris’s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California’s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O’C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. The book helped to establish her credibility on criminal-justice issues.
However, according to Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian “plagiarism hunter” who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world, Harris’s book contains more than a dozen “vicious plagiarism fragments.” Some of the passages he highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions—reproducing small sections of text; insufficient paraphrasing—but others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those found in Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis. (Harris did not respond to a request for comment.)
No word yet if Neil Kinnock will be endorsing her, as he did Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, a well-known Republican is pouncing and/or seizing in response:
UPDATE: The New York Post called Hamilton after Rufo’s story broke, leading to this terse exchange:
“Oh gosh,” Harris’ ghostwriter told The Post over the phone shortly after the allegations were published.
“I haven’t seen anything,” she added. “I’m afraid I can’t talk to you right now, though, I’m in the middle of something. Let me go try to figure that out.”
I doubt the paper is waiting for a call back.
UPDATE (6:48 PM): I did the “pouncing and/or seizing” joke above about Vanz, but the New York Times actually does the meme for real about Rufo! Sad Trombone: The New York Times Is Not Handling the Kamala Harris Plagiarism News Well at All:
The Gray Lady’s then-ombudsman confirmed the paper’s leftist bias way back in 2004, but by employing the “conservative activist seizes” headline, it’s good to see the Times remind its readers of its ideology twenty years later. As well as reminding them that paper exists to protect Democratic Party candidates, not break actual news about them.