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Archive for 2024
September 28, 2024
LEBANON LIVE UPDATES: Hezbollah Confirms That Leader Hassan Nasrallah Killed in Israeli Airstrike.
AP seems quite upset over his death. Did he ever stop by the office in Gaza? Sad Terrorist Noises: AP Mourns Loss of Colleague With Glowing Headline About Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah:”
AP on the death of a Republican Senator
vs
The possible death of a terror leader responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. pic.twitter.com/xy04v0s0dv
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 28, 2024
“Hezbollah is responsible not only for the deaths of Israelis, but hundreds of American troops. And the AP mourns their demise. You don’t despise the media enough. You really, really don’t.”
MAYBE I SHOULD UPDATE MY 13PRO: iPhone 16 and 16 Pro review: A worthy upgrade after three years.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
AND YET ASTRONAUTS SEEM TO BE PRETTY LONG-LIVED: Space travel might be harmful for human hearts.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Gen Zers are getting fired at shocking levels. Here’s why.
It’s easy to blame Gen Zers for their reported laziness and simply tell them to do better. But attributing these failures solely to the personal shortcomings of young people these days is an oversimplification that fails to capture the nuance of the situation. Young people are being raised in a particular environment that’s leading to these worse outcomes, and that means there’s plenty of blame to go around.
One chief culprit is surely the higher education system, which is supposed to prepare young adults for the workforce, but evidently isn’t doing a very good job.
“Many recent college graduates may struggle with entering the workforce for the first time as it can be a huge contrast from what they are used to throughout their education journey,” Intelligent.com concluded in its report. “They are often unprepared for a less structured environment, workplace cultural dynamics, and the expectation of autonomous work.”
That’s right: Modern colleges often infantilize young adults, through “trigger warnings,” safe spaces, grade inflation where it’s easy to get As, and other wildly unrealistic elements of campus life. I’ll never forget one time at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when my dormitory put Care Bears up on the walls — yes, Care Bears! — reminding college sophomores and juniors to drink water, brush their teeth, and sleep eight hours a night. Have you ever heard of a workplace that remotely looks like this?
It is not surprising that college students who “graduate” from this kind of adult daycare then struggle in the real world. And frankly, it’s not even all their own fault.
Who could have seen this coming? “With all the attention being paid to college-aged social justice warriors and microagressions, one has to ask: What happens when all these delicate snowflakes enter the workforce?”
—Ashe Schow, the Washington Examiner, March 26, 2015.
And from earlier this year, our look at what happened when all those delicate snowflakes entered America’s newsrooms.
“ARSONIST RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME:” CNN’s Scott Jennings Has the Perfect Line for Kamala’s Disastrous Border Visit.
What I love about streaming video is all the memberberries it serves up:
Exit question: “Will they hire Dan Rather too?”
I hear he has prior commitments to CNN and Netflix.
Related: Mark Judge: Bezos Gets It Backwards: He Should Run Amazon Like the Post and the Post Like Amazon.
#FACT-CHECKING:
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 26, 2024
STAY SAFE IN A POWER OUTAGE: Etekcity Camping Lanterns for Power Outages 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned
SPACEX WILL LAUNCH ASTRONAUTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TODAY AT 1:17 PM EDT. You can watch it here.
WAR ON OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTITUTIONS: Democrats up pressure on Supreme Court with bill adding six justices.
But Trump and the GOP Congress should just reintroduce it in 2025 and watch them howl.
ABOLISH THE IVY LEAGUE: Poison Ivies: Penn Offered Prof $50K to Shut Up and Take It.
No, seriously, abolish the Ivy League.
THE PURPOSE OF THE “ESCALATION MANAGERS” IS TO ENSURE THAT YOU DON’T WIN THE WAR:
The first rule to win wars is:
1) Ignore the Biden White House. https://t.co/rzeMz05p3z
— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) September 27, 2024
Related:
Logical for the Israelis. When we don’t even respond to our own battleships being fired at by Iranian proxies in Yemen, why would Israel think that we would be helpful to them after they were fired on by Iranian proxies?
— Ruthie Lockhart (@HeartLock101) September 28, 2024
YES, BUT HEZBOLLAH IS AN IRANIAN CLIENT AND OUR ELITES ARE ON THE IRANIAN PAYROLL: America Must Side With Israel Against Hezbollah: No more diplomatic games from Biden and Blinken.
EARLY PRIME DEAL: Nespresso Vertuo POP+ Deluxe Bundle by Breville Coffee. #CommissionEarned
THE PEOPLE TRYING TO SAVE HEZBOLLAH ARE GARBAGE: The Rush to Save Hezbollah from Israel’s Justice. “Western democracies squirm with discomfort whenever Israel vigorously exercises its right to self-defense, but the group it is presently dismantling with extreme precision is a terrorist sect with Western blood on its hands. Israel is meting out long-delayed justice not just in its own name but ours, too. And for this generous dispensation, Israel gets nothing but grief from its supposed allies.”
TO BE FAIR, TLAIB IS A TERRIBLE PERSON: The Moral Inversion of Rashida Tlaib—and the Smearing of Dana Nessel. “Tlaib speaks for evil, and represents the mainstreaming of anti-Semitic progressives in the Democrat Party.”
September 27, 2024
BECAUSE IRAN HAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR SO MANY OF OUR POLITICAL LEADERS: Why Are Iran’s Thugs Free to Walk the Streets of New York?
Worse yet, they’ve done that with money that our leaders sent them. And they’re not the only countries to do that.
OPEN THREAD: Thank God it’s Friday.
CHANGE: Air France plans to connect entire fleet to Starlink Wi-Fi. “Air France said Starlink would enable ‘ground-like’ ultra-high-speed connectivity, enabling passengers to play video games online, stream TV and access other services requiring a low-latency connection via LEO satellites orbiting much nearer Earth than GEO.”