COWBOYS NOW BOMBING EVEN BEFORE GAMES BEGIN! Metal fragment falls from AT&T Stadium roof after opening before Texans-Cowboys game.
Archive for 2024
November 18, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Shotwell predicts Starship to be most valuable part of SpaceX. “I would not be surprised if we fly 400 Starship launches in the next four years.”
THE NIGHT THAT WRECKED HOLLYWOKE:
[Rachel] Zegler ends with the coup de grace on Snow White and possibly her career, an actual threat. “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”
Naturally Disney made her walk the plank again with another groveling insincere apology. “I let my emotions get the best of me,” Zegler wrote on Instagram.” Hatred and anger have caused us to move further and further away from peace and understanding, and I am sorry I contributed to the negative discourse.”
“This week has been emotional for so many of us but I firmly believe that everyone has the right to their opinion, even when it differs from my own,” she continued.
You can almost feel sorry for the poor, indoctrinated Zegler, discovering the limits of her Hollywoke bubble. If she thought November 5th, 2024 was a rough night, she should wait till March 21st, 2025, premiere date for Snow White. She’ll be begging Trump voters to fill those empty theater seats.
Assuming it actually arrives in theaters at all; Disney could still do a Batgirl on the project and toss it down the memory hole. As Ed Morrissey wrote on Friday after Zegler’s faux-pology, “I doubt this apology will do much to ameliorate it, which raises the question of whether Disney will release Snow White at all. The added costs of distribution and marketing will make this a $500M release, with almost no hope of recouping much. Is it better to Batgirl it and get the insurance payout?”
MODERN PROBLEMS REQUIRE MODERN SOLUTIONS:
GERMANY PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939 AGAIN: Jews and gay people should hide identity in ‘Arab neighborhoods,’ says Berlin police chief.
SOON BEING SKINNY WILL BE A MARK OF PHARMACEUTICAL USE, NOT SELF-DISCIPLINE: New Weight Loss Drug Boosts Energy and Reduces Appetite Without Side Effects.
BLUESKY IS WHERE PEOPLE ARE FLEEING BECAUSE THERE’S NOT ENOUGH CENSORSHIP ON X: “BlueSky is nothing more than complete and total anti-Trump pathological madness, in addition to a plethora of weird anime, topped with a heaping scoop of degeneracy. Far from its corporate media-advertised depiction as a place for joy and friendly conversation. BlueSky is a safe space for seething left-wingers to engage exclusively with their political allies and to rage at their perceived enemies.”
I’m happy to have them concentrated where I don’t have to see them.
TRUMP PICKS FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER REP. SEAN DUFFY FOR TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY:
President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he will nominate former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy to be secretary of transportation.
The choice of Duffy, 53, is the second time Trump, 78, has raided the Fox News talent stable to help staff his administration.
Duffy, a former prosecutor who represented the Badger State’s 7th District for more than eight years, is a Fox News contributor and co-hosts the evening Fox Business Network program “The Bottom Line.” His wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, co-hosts “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
On the program, Duffy has been critical of current Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, including for the airline travel chaos that unfolded under his watch back in 2022.
Assuming Duffy is confirmed, we’ll know how good a job he’s doing by how anonymous he becomes:
I THINK WE ALREADY DID KNOW THIS: Study Finds Potential Downside to Vigorous Exercise That We Didn’t Know About. “Bad news for any extreme exercise junkies out there: excessive vigorous exercise could muffle your immune system. At least, that’s what a 2023 study analyzing over 4,700 post-exercise fluid molecules from firefighters suggests.”
TAYLOR LORENZ: NPR is “Extreme Right Wing:”
But in Taylor’s mind, is NPR more or less “right wing” than the New York Times? Taylor Lorenz Says NYT Only Allows Right-Wing Opinions At Newspaper.
As I wrote a year ago, “Elderly Socialist Tacitly Admits That Her Worldview is to the Left of Stalin”; she’s just confirmed it again, and she’ll be right at home on Bluesky: End Wokeness’ ‘Two Genders’ Post on Bluesky Doesn’t Last 30 Seconds.
20 YEARS IN THE MILITARY ISN’T GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE, I GUESS.
.@60Minutes slammed Pete Hegseth tonight for having “no government experience”
NEWSFLASH: The Pentagon is full of people with decades of “government experience” and they just failed their 7th audit in a row.
The American people re-elected President Trump with a resounding… https://t.co/EFcgIPBzIB
— Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) November 18, 2024
THIS LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THOSE CURSED PRODUCTIONS ALTHOUGH, TO BE FAIR, DISNEY CURSED ITSELF: Maybe THIS Is the Furious Backpedal That Will Save Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Reboot.
NFL CAN’T FLEX BENGALS-COWBOYS MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FOR HILARIOUS REASON:
The NFL has a mechanism for when prime time games aren’t as important as they’re supposed to be late in the year. Networks like ESPN can work with the league to “flex” the game out of the time slot and replace it with a more enticing contest. Thus, after the Bengals lost to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday evening to fall to 4-7, many expected Bengals-Cowboys to be flexed out and replaced by a more competitive matchup.
And normally, it would be! But on Monday it was revealed the game can’t be flexed out for a truly hilarious and unexpected reason: The Simpsons.
ESPN and Disney have been planning a Simpsons alternate cast for the December 9 Monday Night Football game and apparently it is standing in the way of the game being replaced.
“For those asking, the Bengals-Cowboys MNF game is not eligible to be flexed out because of all the drawings, voiceovers and other work that has been done for The Simpsons alt-cast that will air that night,” reports Bengals beat writer Jay Morrison of BengalsTalk.com.
Who would have guessed that Homer Simpson would be the reason millions would be subjected to a subpar football game instead of one with stakes and quality play?
What a world.
To be fair, at least watching the Simpsons, we’ll know which is the more professionally produced cartoon airing that night.
HEH:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2024
WORTH READING: Amir Tibon, The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands. Amir, an acquaintance of mine, became famous when his dad, a retired general armed only with a pistol, drove from Tel Aviv to Israel’s border with Gaza in the middle of Hamas’s October 7 attack to rescue Amir, his wife, and two small children from Hamas terrorists who had invaded their kibbutz. But as dramatic as that is, the full story is even “better.”
READER FAVORITE: Doctor-Developed Gym Wrist Wraps/Lifting Wrist Straps for Weightlifting. #CommissionEarned
MATT MARGOLIS: This Might Be the Best Defense of Matt Gaetz I’ve Seen.
THEY’RE ADDICTED TO OUTDATED RACE AND GENDER STEREOTYPES: Gun Safety Advocates Continually Surprised by the Diversity of Modern Gun Owners.
SPACEX ISN’T SCREWING AROUND WITH TOMORROW’S STARSHIP TEST FLIGHT:
Starship’s upper stage will fly the same suborbital trajectory as the previous flight test, with splashdown targeted in the Indian Ocean.
An additional objective for this flight will be attempting an in-space burn using a single Raptor engine, further demonstrating the capabilities required to conduct a ship deorbit burn prior to orbital missions.
Several thermal protection experiments & operational changes will test the limits of Starship’s capabilities & generate flight data to inform plans for ship catch and reuse.
The flight test will assess new secondary thermal protection materials &will have entire sections of heat shield tiles removed on either side of the ship in locations being studied for catch-enabling hardware on future vehicles.
The ship also will intentionally fly at a higher angle of attack in the final phase of descent, purposefully stressing the limits of flap control to gain data on future landing profiles.
Plus: “Depending on how well Flight 6 goes & the launch site survives the launch & catch attempt, there may be a slightly longer period of time between flight 6 & flight 7. This is also due to the move to a completely new V2 Starship design.”
Traditional space launch’s destructor has not yet taken its final form.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Oh, Thank Goodness — Joe and Mika Survived Their Trip to Trump’s Death Camp.
GREAT GIFT: CRAFTSMAN VERSASTACK Mechanics Tool Set. #CommissionEarned
WHO ‘ADJUSTED’ FBI MURDER DATA? Just Facts says the gap between the number of murders reported by the FBI annually and the total indicated by death certificates has been widening since 2003.
The reason is a change in how the FBI calculates the data, but that change has never been communicated or explained to the public. And the gaps between the FBI’s claimed annual total for homicides and the total from death certificates is huge. As Gomer Pyle would say, surprise! surprise! surprise!
I held my tongue for a long time, because as an American I believe we should respect the Oval Office and our leaders whether we agree with some of their decisions or not. But I can’t. I look back on the last four years and can only come to one conclusion about the man many pundits said early in this election, should be on Mt. Rushmore. This was one of the most corrupt men to ever sit in the White House. This man, I now believe without reservation, stole the 2020 election. There is no way he got 81,000,000 votes. He could not have campaigned from his basement and been more popular than Obama. With the news of PA counting illegal ballots today, it is ever so clear, Trump at least won the EC in 2020. Biden destroyed our sovereignty by erasing our borders on purpose without our consent. Never asked the American people what we thought. Just flew them in the cover of darkness and told border agencies to stand down. In doing so, put Americans in further danger and strain. Prior to that, hid information from the American people that showed he was more than likely bought and paid for. A completely compromised man who had no business being in political office. While Americans suffered under his bad economy, his family was getting rich and trying to hide how. Engaged in such divisive and inflammatory rhetoric that it almost got his rival killed and weaponized the justice system against him. His words divided us further while claiming to be a uniter. His feckless leadership emboldened and empowered our enemies and lit three proxy wars. He picked an embarrassment of a VP and knew it. His entire cabinet was filled with gaslighters, liars and fear mongers. Mt. Rushmore my butt. This was the worst and most corrupt President in my lifetime. I’ll be glad when he finally shuffles out of the White House. I literally owe George W. Bush an apology [for calling him “the worst president in my lifetime”].
Well said.