SKYNET FLIES: Evolving artificial intelligence capabilities in space.
I GUESS ELECTION DENIAL IS OKAY AGAIN: Senate Democrats craft bill recognizing Maduro opponent as Venezuela election winner. I mean, they’re right, of course, but . . .
BOOM! SAID THE PAGE: Israel Is in Hezbollah’s Pockets — And That’s Great
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BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR: Students attending protest told to ‘wear blue’ to mark them as ‘colonizers.’
Middle-school students forced to take part in a political protest this week were allegedly asked by teachers to wear blue shirts in order to identify them as “settlers” and “colonizers.”
Family members and officials are speaking out after it was revealed this week that several Toronto District School Board middle schools sent Grade 7 and 8 students on a “field trip” to take part in a downtown Toronto political protest.
Students were ostensibly meant to “observe” the protest supporting Grassy Narrows First Nation and their decades-old water crisis, but the demonstration quickly morphed into an anti-Israel rally, with organizers and students seen on video waving signs and chanting anti-Israel slogans.
On the permission slip it explicitly stated that “students will not be participating in rallies itself”
Then what is this? @tdsb your schools are now openly lying to parents and sending them to scream anti-Israel slogans with no understanding. @JillDunlop1 it’s time for action pic.twitter.com/C6Pytn8qjo
— Ariella (tortured poet version) (@ariellakimmel) September 19, 2024
But despite letters to parents insisting the schoolchildren were to just “observe” the proceedings, video and eyewitness accounts suggest students were handed face masks and encouraged to take an active role in the demonstration.
A Tweet from the day of the protest by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto specifically mentioned “students” taking part in the protest, with schoolchildren seen on video marching alongside flag-waving union members.
Read the whole thing.
(Classical reference in headline.)
KENTUCKY FRIED FRISCO: San Francisco Police Are Fighting Crime By Dressing up in Inflatable Chicken Costumes to Catch Drivers Speeding Through Crosswalks.
Look guys, San Francisco has to start somewhere. The homicide rate rose by 83% last year. Overall violent crime by 4%. The homeless population continues to skyrocket. Kale salads cost $32 a leaf. An earthquake is liable to decimate half the city at any moment. The city has seen better days.
There’s a lot of people who are critical of San Francisco and they way they handle… well, everything about their city. But at least they have somebody like Police Capt. Amy Hurwitz who’s taking logical, tangible steps to improve the safety of the Bay Area one harebrained scheme at a time.
NY Post – The San Francisco Police Department is dressing up in inflatable chicken costumes to catch drivers speeding past crosswalks in a new stunt.
SFGate reported Monday on San Francisco police Lt. Jonathan Ozol wearing the costume while walking down a crosswalk on Alemany Boulevard near the intersection of Rousseau Street. The idea, Capt. Amy Hurwitz explained, is for drivers to take notice and yield to pedestrians.
And before you say, “Wow, her big idea was to go out and buy an inflatable chicken costume and have an officer stand next to a crosswalk?” No. They’ve done more than that. They’ve bought multiple inflatable costumes, including a unicorn and a Big Bird (pictures unfortunately not available)
NEW: The San Francisco Police Department is dressing up as inflatable chickens to catch speeding drivers going through crosswalks.
The officers are giving out citations to those who don't stop for the chicken crossing the road.
The gig is paying off as the department has… pic.twitter.com/b9U7ekBZXP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 21, 2024
Mister we could use a man like Dirty Harry again.
IF THE PRESS CAN DRAG HER ACROSS THE FINISH LINE, YES: VDH: Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-Out-The Clock Campaign Succeed?
“AMERICAN POLICY”? WUT? OK, AOC has never been accused of being the brightest candle in the church. Fine. But her comments on the pager-bombing of Hezbollah terrorists defies any comprehension of foreign policy.
Just the News reported that Squad Member Sandy says that:
“Yesterday my House office was tagged with blood-splattered signs accusing me of supporting terrorism after I questioned the pager operation, which clearly runs counter to US policy,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post on X. “They must live under a rock to not know I don’t take well to bullies.”
No, if it’s true, I can’t support vandalism, although given her track record of making sh*t up, I’m not convinced that it was “blood.” I’ve seen no Capitol Police reports confirming that.
But the real point is where in the world does she get off tying “US policy” to the pager attacks? Even her pals at Hamas and Hezbollah haven’t suggested any evidence that the US was involved.
More importantly, and the question IP readers should ask is why she and Omar Ilhan, Rashida Tlaib, Hakeem Jeffries, and other squad members are consistently silent on how female genital mutilation, capital punishment for being gay, and using civilians as human shields is off the table as to U.S. policy. Those are not part of U.S. policy, but…crickets.
Could it be that the disease of DEI automatically gives such barbaric human rights abuses a free pass? “You don’t understand,” say the Democratic apologists. “We have no right to judge their cultural differences.”
And god forbid Kamala Harris make a meaning statement on this issue.
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CRIES FOR HELP FROM THE FAR LEFT:
Tim Walz apparently forgot who's currently in office. https://t.co/QJVDNES7go
— Mr Reagan 🇺🇸 (@MrReaganUSA) September 22, 2024
Joe Biden agrees! Biden wears ‘Trump 2024’ hat at Pennsylvania fire station to promote unity.
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported the story on September 11th: In Brief Moment Of Lucidity, Biden Endorses Trump.
REMEMBER WHEN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ENABLED HEZBOLLAH?: Politico flashback: The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook.
The story is so bad, it’s almost unbelievable. A few choice excerpts: “In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.”
“One Obama-era Treasury official, Katherine Bauer, in little-noticed written testimony presented last February to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, acknowledged that ‘under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.'”
“As a result, the U.S. government lost insight into not only drug trafficking and other criminal activity worldwide, but also into Hezbollah’s illicit conspiracies with top officials in the Iranian, Syrian, Venezuelan and Russian governments — all the way up to presidents Nicolas Maduro, Assad and Putin, according to former task force members and other current and former U.S. officials.”
“By May 2010, Brennan, then assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, confirmed in a speech that the administration was looking for ways to build up ‘moderate elements’ within Hezbollah…. ‘There is certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing,’ Brennan said. ‘And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements.'” (And I still don’t understand how Brennan got his security clearances despite supporting the Soviet-puppet Communist Party USA candidate in 1980, much less how you can give someone like that top national security positions.)
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: UMich committee urges institutional neutrality, shows that leftist views ‘dominate the conversation’: Official university pronouncements on controversial matters ‘[suggest] that those who disagree are unwelcome,’ the report concluded.. “‘There is a strong barrier to express criticism of policies related to DEI, antiracism, etc. Such criticisms are often branded as intolerant or racist, and brushed off,’ one respondent said.”
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THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE AND WILL ACCELERATE EXPONENTIALLY UNDER HARRIS-WALZ: Harris would fill her administration with anti-Israel radicals.
FIGHT THE POWER: My New York Post column: Amid Brazil’s battle to muzzle Musk’s X, Elon eyes tech triumph in free-speech wars.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: As His 100th Birthday Approaches, Concert Honors Jimmy Carter’s ‘Singular Achievements.’ Like What?
The performers showered him with praise. Michael Trotter Jr. “of the married duo the War and Treaty” called him “our forever president.” Carlene Carter added that Jimmy was a “mighty fine man.” Hannah Hooper of “the alternative rock band Grouplove” gushed that he was “an environmental god.” Musician Dave Matthews, addressing the hero of the night, who was not present, said: “You are most definitely the rock ’n’ roll president.” Chuck Leavell of the Allman Brothers band said: “We were so proud of his administration and all the accomplishments that he made.”
Accomplishments? During his one term as president, Carter fought the “energy crisis” by scolding Americans for using too much energy and overseeing a proliferation of government regulation in order to make Americans become more energy-conscious and less wasteful. But the whole endeavor was built on sand: there was actually no energy crisis. The world’s oil reserves did not run out in the 1980s, as had been predicted, and not because Carter saved the day by winning what he called the “moral equivalent of war.”
Carter only made the real problem worse: oil companies were so beset with restrictions and regulations that they couldn’t take adequate steps to find new oil supplies. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, changed that, and the days of the energy crisis were over, at least until apocalyptic climate hysteria of a different kind became the centerpiece of later Democratic presidents’ efforts to assert even more federal control over the lives of Americans.
There’s no doubt that prior to the arrival of Obama and Biden-Harris, Carter was our worst, most feckless president in a very long time. But he did have one shining moment, which foreshadowed the success of the man who would replace him in 1980: When Democrats Loved Deregulation.
And speaking of concerts, perhaps the immense musical pressure on Carter was enough to momentarily awaken him from his torpor:
ETHICS RULES? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ ETHICS RULES. Biden-Harris Admin Breached Its Own Ethics Rules In Blocking Trump-Approved Gas Project, Watchdog Group Says.
THE NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME CANDIDATE: Kamala Harris to skip Al Smith dinner, a traditional event for major presidential candidates.
JEFFREY CARTER: Small Towns: Rural America is Hurting, But Why?
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Surely Cheney, the IRS, Putin and Iran endorsing Kamala can’t all be wrong! 😑 https://t.co/e4VjMnUwZO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2024
Related: New York magazine, in between distancing themselves from Olivia Nuzzi and her digital dalliance with RFK Jr., note the strange turn 2024 has taken: Bush-Era Republican Supervillains Are Eager to Vote for Kamala Harris.
Green Day must be wondering how we’ve arrived at this moment in history:
WELL:
🚨BREAKING: The Democrat Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, Ameer Ghalib, just officially ENDORSED President Trump pic.twitter.com/jggPfPuq5k
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 22, 2024
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Amid Brazil’s battle to muzzle Musk’s X, Elon eyes tech triumph in free-speech wars.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The UN is a Joke: A rant and then some laughs.
OPEN THREAD: Keep rockin’!
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