IT’S (D)IFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT: New York Times Columnist Says What Other Leftists Are Thinking but Don’t Dare Say. “New York Times columnist John McWhorter has shown us this again recently by wishing someone would assassinate Donald Trump. Has he been arrested? Lost his job? Been publicly repudiated by his friends? Come on, man!”
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July 9, 2024
THE GOAL IS TO AVOID SERIOUS REFORM, OR ANY CONSEQUENCES FOR THE NOMENKLATURA: Moving the Priests Around: Columbia To Reassign Deans at Center of Texting Scandal.
THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY WANTS TO REGULATE HOMEWORK: That means they’ll regulate anything, up to and including the color of your underwear.
Assembly Member Pilar Schiavo says her bill–AB 2999–“definitely” doesn’t ban homework, but to watch her video she sure seems to believe her bill will move schools in that direction. Evidently, homework is causing students anxiety (and evidently that’s bad). We are doomed when these kids grow up and are in charge of our once-great civilization.
On the international stage, he wants to make a case for preserving global alliances in an era when many populist and nationalist leaders are looking inward, his advisers say.
But the tougher task will be on the domestic front, where he’ll need to plow through three days of meetings, speeches and dinners — capped by a news conference Thursday — with the vigor and focus that were noticeably absent during his debate with Donald Trump.
The summit should be a friendly forum for Biden, who is trying to stave off calls from fellow Democrats to drop out of the presidential race after his poor debate showing.
It’s happening on his home turf, so he won’t have to grapple with the overseas travel and late hours that he says left him depleted ahead of the debate.
“He’ll be on an international stage,” said William Daley, a White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama. “This is the first big stage for the president to have since the debate.”
It’s cute that NBC is still pretending that it’s Biden doing any of these things — or would be if the stakes weren’t so serious.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Cooling Bed Pillows for Sleeping 2 Pack. #CommissionEarned
WHAT OUR NAVY HAS BEEN DOING INSTEAD OF GETTING READY TO ACTUALLY FIGHT: Ready for a Lean Six Sigma Flashback?
While money and efficient processes are important when you look at the last quarter century, what did we gain?
Did the “business best practices” fads of the 1990s-2000s make LCS better? Did it make DDG-1000 a success? Did it control technology risk assessment with FORD? Did it create a more effective maintenance infrastructure?
Did our proposed cure for perceived ills – spreadsheets and motivational speaker seminars – really address the core problem?
Was it really the system that produced our process – and not the system that selected our people – that needed to be looked at? Was it both problems, but we decided to attack the more comfortable of the two?
The system that selects our political leaders is also deeply flawed, also with potentially fatal results.
JOE BIDEN, CHRONIC LIAR, THE CATALOG: Leave it to Issues & Insights (I&I) to produce the most concise and damning compilation of the many lies told over the five decades of a public “service” career. This is a must-read and copy-the-link, for informational purposes.
PROMOTED FROM LATE YESTERDAY.
THIS IS WHAT DESPERATION LOOKS LIKE: Legal Scholar Suggests Scheme To Put Obama Back In White House.
THERE IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING HIGHER THAN SEX-TRAFFICKED CHILDREN ON THE LEFT’S VICTIMHOOD SCALE: Leftists Oppose California Trafficking Law Because It ‘Disproportionately Targets [the] Marginalized.’
Actually, a lot of things.
STILL TRICKY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Final Chicago Holiday Body Count: 19 Killed, 89 Wounded…Mayor Blames Richard Nixon.
Sure, blame a dead Republican, and not the live Chicago Democratic politicians who are in bed with the gangs behind the violence.
Related: One More Time: It’s Not ‘Gun Violence’ It’s Gang Violence.
FROM HOLLY CHISM:
#CommissionEarned
Molly McGuire: murder for hire…
Working as a Certified Public Assassin was, after all, the fastest way to pay down millions of dollars of medical debt. Between that payment and the student loans from getting her associates’ degree, she’s barely making enough to keep body and soul together, but the debt’s almost gone.
Except…she’s paid her student loans. Many times over. There’s something going on, and her handler can’t figure out what. Hiring a hacker to track whatever’s glitching in the student loans database and programming seemed to be a logical next step; however, it isn’t just a glitch. Somebody’s got it in for Molly…and for everyone that has a license to kill.
This has barreled from circumstance through happenstance, and straight into enemy action. But who’s the enemy?
SURELY THEY DON’T EXPECT MANHATTAN OR BROOKLYN TO ABSORB THEM? NYC pols fume as migrants keep getting dumped on one borough: ‘It’s like the third world’.
CHASER: NYC’s poorest ZIP codes forced to bear brunt of migrant crisis, confidential docs reveal.
THE LEFT, THE FAR LEFT AND THE EXTREME LEFT WILL ALWAYS UNITE (BRIEFLY) TO KEEP THE RIGHT OUT: French leftist coalition poised to pull off surprise victory to defeat nationalist Le Pen.
WELL, Y’ALL KNOW HOW I FEEL: Is there a lever long enough to move Joe Biden?
I’VE READ SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS BASED ON THIS: Watch: 1982 Dan Rather’s CBS News report warning of ‘the so called greenhouse effect’ causing Florida to be flooded & a ‘widespread disruption of agriculture’.
WE LIVE IN A TIME OF VANISHING MASKS: Biden Is Outing the Mainstream Media.
The important thing is to remember, it’s always been like this behind the mask. For almost a hundred years now.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Biden Incoherently Attempts to Make His Case to Stay in the Race on Morning Joe.
DOES THIS MEAN HE’LL BE IN PULL UPS INSTEAD OF DIAPERS? White House: Biden to Hold “Big Boy” Press Conference on Thursday.
WELL…. THEY MIGHT HAVE ONE BRAIN CELL BETWEEN ALL OF THEM, WHICH THEY PASS AROUND LIKE THE THREE FATES AND THEIR ONE EYE: Key Squad Members Still Ridin’ With Biden.
LET’S STOP FINANCING KILLERS OF AMERICANS: Federal court allows action to enforce the Taylor Force Act.
YEAH, WHERE WOULD WE BE IF REPORTERS STARTED TELLING THE TRUTH? Philly Radio Station ‘Parts Ways’ With Anchor Who Told CNN About Biden White House Interview Questions.
MY FRIEND FRANCIS HAS HIS IDEA: Nailing My Colours To The Mast.
I actually agree with him on France. I don’t know enough about England to say if he’s correct, but it “tastes” right. On the US? I think he’s hugely simplifying the matter.
THIS IS WHAT I THINK: Spoiling For A Kicking.
But you know, we bet a beer when we next meet in a decade or so, so it probably won’t bankrupt either of us. Well, unless the left gets its way, and then we’ll already be bankrupt.
July 8, 2024
ALEX BERENSON IS NOT AMUSED: In stealing my story today, the New York Times committed a serious breach of journalistic ethics (yes, that’s a thing). Is it, really? Plus:
I want to explain why what Times reporters Peter Baker and Emily Baumgaertner did today in stealing my Saturday scoop about the visits by a Parkinson’s specialist to the White House was so offensive – and not just to me.
For the Times didn’t merely steal my reporting, it appears to have tried to hide its theft. Their original story – available at the Internet archive called Wayback Machine – claimed the White House had released the visitor logs showing that Parkinson’s specialist Dr. Kevin R. Cannard has visited the White House at least eight1 times since summer 2023 “in response to a request from The New York Times.”
That line is an apparent effort by Baker and Baumgaertner to explain how they discovered the visits – which the Times reported as “Breaking News” – and why they happened to write the article now, two days after mine, rather than months ago.
In reality the Biden Administration’s visitor logs are public, online, and available to everyone at any time. The Times did not need to “request” them, it simply needed to go to whitehouse.gov and search them, as anyone can. And – after I pointed out that fact on X – the Times secretly edited the story to remove that line.
Stealth edits are kind of their thing.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.