Archive for 2024
August 25, 2024
THIS IS THE DUMBEST TIMELINE:
She has no clue what collective bargaining is.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) August 24, 2024
KIDS ARE OFF LIMITS, UNLESS THEY’RE REPUBLICANS’ KIDS: Sarah Palin Lights Rick Wilson Up Over His Sudden Concern Over Attacking the Children of Politicians.
AS ALWAYS, THEIR INSTINCT WAS TO TURN ON HIM, MEAN-GIRLS FASHION: Kennedy’s indictment of his former party, along with his endorsement of Donald Trump, has sent shock waves through the chambers of the self-appointed elite who would rule us.
MATT TAIBBI: Note to Philip Bump: The Washington Post columnist speaks on CNN; a brief reply.
Bump says the Twitter Files stuff has been “debunked a thousand times over.” In fact it caused Washington Post editors to append numerous corrections, including to Bump’s own work.
THIS DOES SEEM RIGHT: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Keurig K-Mini Single Serve Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned
OUT: ONLY WEIRD, ANTI-SCIENCE CONSPIRACY NUTS WORRY ABOUT FLUORIDE IN WATER.
IN: US government report says fluoride at twice the recommended limit is linked to lower IQ in kids.
JOHN LUCAS ON THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THE U.S.
OUT: ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH. IN: ENGLAND FOR EVERYONE BUT THE ENGLISH. Fascism Alert: Teenager Who Waved English Flag Near North Yorkshire Islamic Centre Jailed.
August 24, 2024
OPEN THREAD: You know those good ole boys blog commenters are ready to fight, ’cause it’s almost Saturday night.
TRYING TO WORK THEIR WAY UP TO ELON: Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France. “Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation. TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.”
What’s criminal is arresting people for not censoring people governments want censored.
BYE, CHEVRON: Supreme Court case could affect orbital debris mitigation rules.
There is no federal law that explicitly authorizes the FCC, or other agencies, to establish and enforce debris mitigation rules. The FCC has argued since it first adopted such rules two decades ago that its authority stems from the Communications Act of 1934, which directs the FCC to encourage “the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest.” Orbital debris, the commission explained, can negatively affect that effective use of radio in the public interest, thus giving it the authority to enact rules to mitigate it.
Some, though, believe that might not be explicit enough now that Chevron deference is no longer in place. “That’s a pretty broad statement, and some would say it’s a leap to apply that to orbital debris for an agency that is supposed to be regulating communications,” said Jason Kim, chief of staff in the Office of Space Commerce, during a session at the recent AIAA ASCEND conference.
Yeah, I agree.
NOT IMPRESSED BY THEIR LOGISTICS BUT I AM IMPRESSED BY THE DEPTH OF THEIR STORAGE:
Russia continues to dig deeper into the backlots of its artillery park.
An M-30 Model 1938 122mm howitzer is shown in a camouflaged position.
This was the workhorse divisional artillery system against the Germans in WW2. pic.twitter.com/oRhP1yXoac— Roy🇨🇦 (@GrandpaRoy2) August 24, 2024
I THINK THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION:
The weakness to this 'coup' was that it yielded preference falsification. Once the taboo is broken a completely different picture may emerge.https://t.co/n9QQ0fj04Y
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 24, 2024
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Trump and Kennedy would both take a bullet — literally — to save the country, and you can feel it.
Harris would let both of them take a bullet so she can be president.
Different vibe.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 24, 2024
HMM: Fauci Hospitalized With West Nile Virus. “West Nile virus is commonly spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. While most people don’t experience symptoms, about one in five can develop a fever, headache, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash, according to the CDC. About one out of 150 infected people develop a serious, sometimes fatal, illness.”
IT WORKED FOR GREG ABBOTT: Hungary May Send Migrants To Brussels To Avenge Asylum Fine. “Several years ago, Texas had a brilliant idea: take the millions of illegal immigrant that were flooding its territory as a result of policies adopted in faraway places like DC, and bus them to places like New York and DC, other so-called sanctuary cities and, best of all, Martha’s Vineyard where those who run New York and DC tend to go on vacation. The result was an immediate revulsion by the false virtue-signaling NIMBY crowd, which cried foul at having to suffer the consequences of its actions. . . . Now, one European country has decided it also has had enough: Hungary suggested that it might – like Texas – start transporting migrants who show up at its border straight to Brussels, unless it can resolve a dispute with the European Union on penalties for its asylum policies, Bloomberg reported.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: iRobot Roomba Combo j5 Robot. #CommissionEarned
POLITICS IN THE BLUE ZONES: Dems Went Hard on Gun Control in a City Where It’s Failed to Slow Violent Crime.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Vegetable Chopper, Pro Onion Chopper, Multifunctional 13 in 1 Food Chopper. #CommissionEarned
A FRIEND WRITES: “I forget who it was, but someone made the point that the Democratic ‘weird’ critique is basically a feminized aggression tactic writ large onto political strategy. The argument was that men will argue you’re wrong, and women will argue you’re outside the group. This is amplified by social media and its effects, which reward verbal repartee and social signaling that are present in the novels of Jane Austen, but not in those of Cormac McCarthy. . . . Enthusiasm for Tim Walz as a dad figure is certainly a psychological tell — not on him, but on those doing it.”
I guess if I were going to ride that “weird” angle I wouldn’t have had an abortion-and-sterilization van at my convention.
WOEING: Boeing Starliner returning empty as NASA turns to SpaceX to bring astronauts back from ISS. “Starliner crew flight test was supposed to be a final box checked for Boeing and a key asset gained for NASA. The agency was hoping to fulfill its dream of having two competing companies — Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX — flying alternating missions to the ISS. Instead, the flight test is further setting back Boeing’s progress in NASA’s Commercial Crew program and, with over $1.5 billion in losses absorbed already, threatens the company’s future involvement with it.”