ISRAEL SETTLING ALL THE FAMILY BUSINESS: Israel conducts raids in Lebanon ahead of potential invasion.
UPDATE: Netanyahu warns Iran: There is nowhere we cannot strike.
Archive for 2024
September 30, 2024
A VERY OLD KIND OF WISDOM: “It’s a very old kind of ‘wisdom’ that the contemporary world has walked past.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
Meanwhile, back in America, the @FAANews is smothering the national space program in kafkaesque paperwork! https://t.co/7sIpVu7zZ6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2024
IT ONLY AFFECTS ICKYY RED-STATERS THEY’D RATHER DIED OUT ANYWAY: The entire Biden-Harris Cabinet is missing in action on Hurricane Helene disaster response.. “Zero Cabinet-level officials are on the ground in the American South.”
UPDATE (From Ed): Missing in action?! Why the man himself says he was “commanding” — and on the phone for two hours!
"I was on the phone for two hours" as a response to Americans dying in floods ought to be remembered as one of the most shameful statements ever uttered by an American president. https://t.co/VbEe7uey3p
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 30, 2024
CHARLES COOKE: A British Politician Shocks the Press by Saying a True Thing.
In Britain, an attempt is under way to transmute the impressive MP Kemi Badenoch into the second coming of Bad Enoch. Her crime? To have said aloud what ought to be perfectly obvious to all and sundry: that “not all cultures are equally valid.” “I am not talking about cuisine,” Badenoch told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, “I am talking about customs.” Among the cultures that Badenoch listed as “less valid” were those in which women have fewer rights than men, those that celebrate child marriage, those that foster antisemitism, and those that persecute homosexuality. These, she concluded, ought not to be imported into the United Kingdom.
As one might expect, many within the English press treated this observation as if it were self-evidently scandalous. Badenoch, it was suggested, had not only “sparked a row” but had shown the temerity to provoke some criticism on TV. Even worse, her interview with the BBC had yielded a “tense clash” — the mere existence of which was deemed to be “extraordinary.”
To which one is obliged to ask: Really?
Related: Tories told to ‘unsmear’ Enoch Powell over Rivers of Blood speech.
The Tories must “unsmear” Enoch Powell over his infamous “rivers of blood” speech, a Conservative Party conference attendee has said.
An audience member told a debate on immigration and border security that the remarks made by the Conservative politician in 1968 were “a fair and accurate prediction” of what happened in the UK with migration.
The attendee, who identified himself as Christian Hacking, said: “Enoch Powell made what is now a highly Conservative speech in 1968 for which he was smeared and kicked out of the Conservative Party.
“Are the Conservatives willing to apologise and unsmear his name for what in hindsight has been quite a fair and accurate prediction of what came, which is not ‘rivers of blood’, he never actually said ‘rivers of blood’, but actually … heinous crimes have been committed by some of these unidentified individuals.”
Earlier: Mark Steyn on Rivers of Blood and the Tides of History.
KAMALA’S KATRINA:
Reporter calls out Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for not being in DC to coordinate the Hurricane Helene response.
Biden spent the weekend in Delaware, while Kamala was fundraising in California pic.twitter.com/E79TuUgdek
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 30, 2024
KAMALA’S KATRINA? NC Shelters Are Over Capacity, Short on Food, and FEMA’s Nowhere to Be Found.
Fortunately though: The President Announces Visit to Hurricane Helene Devastation. No, not Joe:
To paraphrase Woody Allen’s famous quote, eighty percent of leadership (and politics) is showing up. For all his “common man” conceits, Biden never learned the wisdom of presence. Kamala Harris doesn’t appear to have a clue about it either.
Trump, on the other hand, understands presence as a political value. He didn’t show up in East Palestine by mistake, and the lack of response from Biden and Harris gives him a great opportunity to provide a contrast in leadership. Flying aid into the area will give those on the ground a real boost in morale, not to mention address the real needs of those in the devastated region, incrementally at least.
Biden, meanwhile, just got back to the White House after spending the hurricane at Rehoboth Beach on vacation. Where’s Harris? She’s cutting short a campaign visit to Nevada to go back to Washington DC. Neither one will go to the disaster area until later in the week, the White House says, to avoid disrupting the emergency response. When George W. Bush did that after Hurricane Katrina, the press pilloried him for his lack of presence. Keep an eye on the Protection Racket Media’s narratives in this disaster.
As for the current (p)resident:
Earlier: “Previously, [the media] couldn’t grouse about the Iraq War without seeming defeatist (and anti-liberationist and maybe even selfishly isolationist). Even the Clintons never figured a way out of that trap…Katrina gives [the MSM] a way to talk about Iraq without talking about Iraq. No wonder Gwen Ifill smiles the ‘inner smile.’”
BREAKING:
BREAKING: Whistleblower says DHS employees expressed "serious concerns" about Tim Walz's ties to China in group chat
WASHINGTON (House Oversight Committee / News release) — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena to… pic.twitter.com/dkkUoB2ZDM
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 30, 2024
WE’VE SEEN HOW ISRAEL WEAPONIZED PAGERS, CAN’T LET CHINA WEAPONIZE OUR CARS: Is your car safe? Biden’s new ban could wipe Chinese tech off the road. “While the full report can be found on the Department of Commerce notice, the breakdown by the White House highlighted systems which could control or correct vehicle movement, any data collection on driver and/or passengers, all cameras, sensors, autonomous driving software, and anything which could record and/or send information about American infrastructure.”
WHAT ABOUT THE INDEPENDENTS? It’s a truism that elections in America are typically decided by the middle, and that made up mostly of independents. But a new survey highlighted today by Issues & Insights suggests the vast majority of independents are significantly more conservative than folks in the media would like the rest of us to believe.
TEXASL Fort Worth ISD Bets On ‘Equity,’ Loses.
There’s a recurring pattern where conservatives point out the obvious negative effects of leftwing policies, Democrats ignore them, and then are stunned by the obvious, foreseeable consequences of their actions. Be it the inflation from deficit spending and flu manchu shutdowns to Austin’s decision to let drug addict transients camp in the streets increasing the number of drug addicted transients camping in the streets, leftists are constantly making things worse and then throwing up their hands and proclaiming “How could I have possibly known?”
Which brings us to Fort Worth ISD. In 2022, over protesting parents, they hired a social justice superintendent eager to impose DEI on the district.
What happened next required the expected number of unexpectedlies.
JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR — UNTIL IT ISN’T: Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Next on Israel’s Target List?
EARLY PRIME DEAL: EF ECOFLOW Portable Power Station DELTA 1300. #CommissionEarned
THE HIGH COST OF CRONY CAPITALISM:
FYI – North Carolina would have 19,522 working @Starlink kits available today after Hurricane Helene had the FCC not revoked in bad faith the grant that was awarded to SpaceX as the winning bidder. pic.twitter.com/oXqTuyFBAc
— ALEX (@ajtourville) September 30, 2024
Left unsaid: Every time the FAA delays another Starship flight test, it pushes back radically reducing the cost of getting more capable Gen2 Starlink satellites — and everything else — into orbit.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
To be fair though, they better bring a lot of dimes to get the through the William J. Le Petomane Thruway:
MSNBC HAVING A NORMAL DAY:
"It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak — 'child hero' was the phrase generally used — had… https://t.co/rlENaJZIgL
— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) September 30, 2024
To be fair, this really is a normal day at MSNBC: Your Kids Aren’t Your Own.
Evergreen:
CATHERINE SALGADO: Gold Star Family’s Day and the Price of Freedom.
IT’S WORKING FOR ME: Massive Verizon outage — live updates and what to do with iPhone in SOS.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
NEW: Privately owned helicopters are delivering supplies to stranded victims as the government is "nowhere to be found" after Hurricane Helene demolished the Southeast.
Locals are volunteering their time and money to help Americans in need.
"Today, myself and my family cooked… pic.twitter.com/Ur9v04N9sp
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 30, 2024
Related:
@NC_Governor post videos from some kind of safe, isolated operation room or podium.@GovRonDeSantis is on the ground everywhere
Am I being unfair? Maybe it's not safe for the governor of North Carolina to be oit there. let's see what happens in the next couple days.
I sense… pic.twitter.com/oPzIcJKwmH
— Never Tread on Me Vikov (@NeverTreadOnWe) September 30, 2024
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BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: New York Times: Harris only ‘patriotic choice’ in presidential election.
The New York Times editorial board is backing Vice President Harris for president this fall over former President Trump.
In an editorial published on Monday, the Times said it is “hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump.”
“He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest,” the newspaper wrote of Harris’s Republican opponent. “He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks.”
For these reasons, the outlet continued, Harris is “the only patriotic choice for president,” regardless of “any political disagreements voters might have with her.”
As Byron York notes, the “Times editorial board didn’t just endorse Kamala Harris for president. It declared Donald Trump supporters unpatriotic.” But all leftists believe that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,”* and the New York Times, through much of its reporting, and in particular its “1619 Project,” believes that America is built on Original Sin, so how can one be patriotic about it?
The last Republican that the Gray Lady endorsed for president was Ike, in 1956.
* Robert Heinlein had some choice thoughts on that quote, and the man who said it.