MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: You can tell it’s a working-class election by Harris and Walz’s dishonesty and lies.
UPDATE: From the comments:
Archive for 2024
August 12, 2024
ED MORRISSEY: The Honeymooners?
I LIKE MINE STUFFED WITH PULLED PORK OR BRISKET: Study finds baked potatoes can improve heart health for diabetics.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Cheat Sheet for the Da Vinci Code-ification of Mideast Reporting.
So what’s the updated number of casualties? Hamas says 40. After the strike, Israel released a detailed photo dossier of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists killed in the strike—19 of them. That leaves 21 possible civilians and proves that, yes, it was a command center after all and without any doubt a legitimate military target. (Israel also used smaller, more targeted bombs for the strike so it could hit the command center directly.)
Then Israel released another dossier with an additional 12 Hamas officials identified among the deceased. That brings our total number of terrorists killed in the strike to 31. (There is another report claiming that number can be raised all the way to 38, but it’s unclear at the time of writing if the level of detail available can definitively back up that number.)
There are, at most, nine possible civilians among the dead.
So let’s review. We went from 93 killed (“all” of them civilians, according to a source quoted by CNN) in a school and shelter to 31 Hamas officials killed in a targeted strike on a confirmed command center, with anywhere from two to nine possible civilians killed.
Those civilians should be mourned. Any innocent life lost is a tragedy. And now that we know it was a command center, we also know Hamas is to blame for their deaths.
Obviously, it would be much better if the media would report accurate information. But once you understand how these pieces of propaganda are put together, you can disassemble them yourself and construct the reality.
Read the whole thing, it’s an excellent guide to the division of Pallywood that cranks out their equivalent of “based on the upcoming motion picture” novelizations to accompany their videos.
IS $55,900 A CHEAP TRUCK NOW? Cheap Full-Size Truck Life Hack: Get a 2025 Ram 1500 Tradesman.
#JOURNALISM: THEY USED TO AT LEAST MAKE AN EFFORT TO HIDE WHO THEY WERE REALLY WORKING FOR.
Only sharp-eyed readers will be able to spot the difference in the coverage of the two proposals. pic.twitter.com/h9PMWCZzDX
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) August 12, 2024
Related:
The corporate media's mission, as they see it, is to help Kamala win, not denounce her for refusing to sit down in interviews and explain what she thinks about anything or why.
Even though she told TIME to f off, they still published hagiography of her:https://t.co/TjZ782Uf0s
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 12, 2024
UPDATE:
KJP just claimed that Biden supports "No Tax on Tips"
If that's true, then why did his IRS start cracking down on tips?
Why wouldn't he eliminate tax on tips right now?
Democrats will literally lie about anything.
They think you're stupid. pic.twitter.com/zeBUMjjTSK
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 12, 2024
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX Ties Another World Record Set by… Yeah, SpaceX.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Hang In There, Kathy!
WE ALL NEED ONE OF THESE, RIGHT? A .308 Win. rifle that packs away into a briefcase. “The Accountant isn’t just a rifle, however; it’s a complete rifle system that is fully contained in a locking leather briefcase. Custom-fit foam inside the briefcase ensures that the rifle is protected during transport.”
Carlos The Jackal was unavailable for comment.
I REMEMBER WHEN THE E.U. WAS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT A RETURN OF THE BAD OLD DAYS: Belgium bans Jews from sporting events like it was World War II.
LAUGHING WOLF HAS A FEW THOUGHTS ON Kursk. “To call the situation fluid is an understatement on par with referring to the Sun as warm. Ukraine has wisely not said a lot and apparently not shared a lot. For all that many suspect the U.S. knew and said nothing, I’m getting suspicious that we may have known and been told far less than that, and that Ukraine has learned a lesson about sharing plans and info with the U.S. Nothing concrete, just odd bits of data that don’t fit the pattern. Then again, most of our allies learn that lesson, sometimes painfully, as sharing with our politicians is pretty much a bad idea.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED BIGGER SCARE QUOTES AROUND “CONSERVATIVE”: A ‘Conservative’ Columnist Endorses Harris.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE Color Graphing Calculator. #CommissionEarned
TWO CANDIDATES, NOT ONE DAY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR:
Graphic showing how Trump, Vance, Harris, and Tim Walz have spend their adult lives. Striking that the Democratic ticket has literally no private sector experience. pic.twitter.com/IntZb6eLKT
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) August 12, 2024
Term limits might help.
WAS IT OVER WHEN THE TALIBAN BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?! The Political Demise of Tim Walz Continues, New Document Reveals He Thought Bagram Was in Iraq.
INSTAPUNDIT HAS PROTON MAIL, BUT I HAVEN’T TRIED PROTON DOCS: Proton Docs vs Google Docs: Should you switch? Proton Drive now has its own Google Docs competitor.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: The Atlantic: Golly, Why Are Kamala’s Politics So Hard to Pin Down?
First, let’s assess [David] Graham’s weak-tea attempt at a false equivalency in his parenthetical: “though Trump’s own platform is not exactly heavy on policy details either”. Trump actually has a platform page on his campaign website, unlike Harris, and a 16-page “white paper” explaining the details of his 20-point agenda. Maybe Graham’s too bored or too shattered by all of the GOP “seizing” to click onto the Trump website and check his facts. And, of course, we have four years of Trump’s presidency to assess his policies and positions.
What does Harris have? She’s been vice president for almost four years. Her party anointed her as the nominee three weeks ago. Kamala Harris ran on a progressive platform in California for the Senate and in 2019 for the presidential nomination, so she’s had years to develop her positions on all of the issues in play. Is she such an empty suit that she couldn’t put together a platform within the first couple of days of the campaign? If so, why did Democrats rush to anoint her?
Why aren’t reporters asking these questions, rather than just observing the “seizing”? Because the answer to why Harris is hard to pin down isn’t Republicans who pounce — it’s reporters and media outlets who refuse to do their jobs.
Such as asking about this incredible flip-flop: Before Kamala Harris Copied Trump’s Pledge To Scrap The Tip Tax, Biden-Harris Admin Moved To Enforce Tip Taxation.
SHE KNOWS WHOSE SIDE SHE’S ON: Kamala Uses Hamas Claims To Bash Israel.
SPREADING MISINFORMATION: AT&T rebuked over misleading ad for nonexistent satellite phone calling.
YOU DON’T SAY: Locking up items to deter shoplifting is pushing shoppers online.
Locking up merchandise at drugstores and discount retailers hasn’t curbed retail theft but is driving frustrated consumers to shop online more, retail experts tell Axios.
Why it matters: Retail crime is eating into retailers’ profits and high theft rates are also leading to a rise in store closures.
Secured cases can cause sales to drop 15% to 25%, Joe Budano, CEO of anti-theft technology company Indyme, previously told Axios.
Barricading everything from razors to laundry detergent has largely backfired and broken shopping in America, Bloomberg reports.
The big picture: Aisles full of locked plexiglass cases are common at many CVS and Walgreens stores where consumers have to wait for an employee to unlock them.
Target, Walmart, Dollar General and other retailers have also pulled back on self-checkout to deter shoplifting.
“Locking up products worsens the shopping experience, and it makes things inconvenient and difficult,” GlobalData retail analyst Neil Saunders said, adding it pushes shoppers to other retailers or to move purchases online.
Driving the news: Manmohan Mahajan, Walgreens global chief financial officer, said in a June earnings call that the retailer was experiencing “higher levels of shrink.”
The American-style retail shopping experience was invented in a high-trust environment. As trust erodes, so does the experience.
THE GRAUNIAD DISCOVERS ALEX P. KEATON, THE NEXT GENERATION: My son was struggling – then he fell for Trump’s toxic brand of ‘masculinity’. I’m heartbroken.
I’m a 59-year-old progressive and a special education teacher, and I’m voting for Kamala Harris in November. Nick* is 21, and he would say that he holds traditional, conservative values – but he’s conflating those values with radical Maga ideas, which correlate the right with patriotism, manhood, intelligence, independence and honesty. I understand where my son’s vulnerabilities came from, and why this rightwing posturing was able to seep into him. I understand it, but I still regret it.
Nick’s mom and I wanted to teach our son that democracy is an active sport. You don’t just sit back and watch. We lived in Houston, in the belly of the petrochemical beast, and I remember going to a demonstration against Halliburton, the Iraq war, and Dick Cheney’s role in the company. Groups brought puppets – it was almost like street theater – and we rolled Nick along in his stroller. That was the community we were plugged into: artists, musicians, teachers, writers. That’s how Nick came up.
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We had moved to the Bay Area in 2017, after Trump won the election. Nick was 15 or 16 when he said that he liked Trump. I can understand how Trump appealed to a childish sensibility: he’s this clownish figure who does whatever he wants.
I also know that when you come of age, you want to reject your parents’ beliefs. My father was a Reagan Republican who was really old school, values wise. A lot of my political development was a rejection of his values, so I wonder now how much of Nick’s fascination with Maga is a reaction against the way I brought him up.
If you don’t want to read the whole thing, here’s the Cliff’s Notes summary:
Somebody should do a TV show based on this story:
As Rob Long wrote at Commentary in 2020, “But by the time Family Ties made it to American living rooms, it had acquired the character of Alex P. Keaton, the blazer-wearing Young Republican teenage son of the loony-lefty parents, brought to unforgettable life by Michael J. Fox. We all know how this story ends: The parents are squeezed to the side, Michael J. Fox is on the lunch box, Alex P. Keaton is the heart of the show. In the end, Family Ties is about Alex raising his parents, shaking them awake from their 1960s brain fog, and teaching them what most Americans who do not live in Brentwood or who do not have tenure already know—which is that capitalism is terrific.”
WOEING: The Fall Of Boeing Is Complete: Imagine How Bad They Must Be To Be Called Out By NASA!
An honest appraisal of the many departments of the federal government would be hard-pressed to find an efficient and competent one in the sea of catastrophically wasteful and downright damaging divisions.
Okay…I can think of one. The United States Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing does a pretty good job of producing our coins and bills. Far too many, but that’s a different issue. And they are probably pathetically inefficient, but at least the end result is of good quality.
But in the main, the federal government is a pathetic collection of career apparatchiks, layabouts, no-nothings, no-shows, thieves, and the flat-out laziest people in the country. So when they criticize one of their biggest contractors, you know something is up!
NASA Inspector General Report Criticizes Boeing’s Quality Control
What should the astronauts stuck on the ISS by Boeing’s incompetence do to pass the time? The solution is obvious!
