Archive for 2024
August 9, 2024
鸟不是真实的: China Shows Off New Drones Disguised as Birds. “A newly released video showed a well-known Chinese elite special operations force using a biomimetic drone disguised as a small bird during a shooting competition in the country…According to Chinese military observers, this drone is classified as a miniature biomimetic ornithopter, an aerial vehicle that flies by flapping its wings like birds and insects. Due to its realistic appearance, this type of unmanned aircraft has military application potential.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
WAIT, I WAS ASSURED THAT THAT STUFF WAS HARMLESS: Cannabis use tied to head and neck cancer.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD NOW DOING STRAIGHT-UP REPORTAGE: Tim Walz Clarifies That He’s Never Been To Iraq, But He Has Been To Downtown Minneapolis Which Is Basically The Same Thing.
SHE PRACTICALLY BRAGGED ABOUT IT: Nancy Pelosi Finally Admits Her Role in the Biden Coup.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: New ‘electric bandages’ might accelerate wound healing.
IT’S FUN TO WATCH THEM DEBASE THEMSELVES TRYING TO GET HER ELECTED: ‘Fact Checker’ Whitewashes Kamala Harris’s Call for AR-15 Confiscation.
Did you notice that the media only deployed “fact checkers” once the facts started to get out?
WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE, ANYWAY?
Biden's schedule this week is truly absurd. 1 phone call on Monday. Nothing Tuesday or Wednesday. 1 phone call and a ceremony on Thursday & then off to the beach house.
Any employee or CEO who did would be fired. Biden is the leader of the free world working 10 hours a week. pic.twitter.com/JKDO1jEilP
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 8, 2024
It sure would be nice to know who the president is.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): PE teacher at school in southwest Sydney accused of sex with student. “Brailey was charged with sexually touching a person aged between 17 and 18 under special care, sexual intercourse with a person between the same ages while under special care and aggravated sexual assault where the victim was under the authority of the offender.”
MARK FELTON: The People Still Living in WW2 — UK Wartime Prefabs in 2024 (Video).
DON’T SLEEP IN THE SAME PLACE TWICE, YAHYA: Hamas Proclaims New Leader Who Was Involved in Oct. 7 Attacks.
SPRINGTIME FOR HARRIS: Tim Walz Now Caught in a Scandal Involving a Muslim Cleric and Adolf Hitler.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.
The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders in May 2023 for a meeting about mosque security with Walz’s gubernatorial office in Minnesota. Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death. In April 2019, the cleric delivered an invocation before Walz’s state address — just months after Zaman called for an end to a government shutdown at a press conference with Walz in January 2019.
Zaman, moreover, attended a May 2019 event that Walz hosted for Ramadan, social media posts show.
Red State’s Bonchie writes, “I believe Harris is stuck. To make a switch just prior to the DNC would be a major admission of defeat, and I don’t think she would even entertain doing that voluntarily. Democrats are stuck with Walz, and from what I’m hearing, there’s a lot more to come on various subjects.”
But the DNC is totally plug-and-play at this point. Plug in Harris for Biden, plug in somebody new for Walz, and the MSM will quickly write 2000-word “explainers” on why each was a brilliant move.
GODSPEED: SpaceX targeting Aug. 26 for historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission. “Polaris Dawn will take the quartet to Earth orbit, on a free-flying mission that does not link up with the International Space Station (ISS). The planned private spacewalk(s) aren’t the only way it will make history: Polaris Dawn will circle our planet at an altitude of about 435 miles (700 kilometers), taking the crew farther from Earth than any mission since the Apollo era.”
Polaris Dawn reminds me a bit of Mercury and Gemini — projects for earning the technology, experience, and skills needed for a much grander project.
HERE COMES A RANKED CHOICE BLITZ: Haven’t heard of “ranked choice” voting? That’s where you get to rank your preferred candidates rather than being only able to choose one of them. The Federalist’s Morgan Washburn reports the liberal funding the push for ranked choice voting is making a determined effort to attract GOP support.
THE DEBATE IS ON: I’m Not Saying Trump Reads VodkaPundit But…
MORE ON BUGS: The Fascinating Bug Book for Kids: 500 Startling Facts! #CommissionEarned
DON’T GET COCKY:
So after the best coverage any presidential candidate has ever received, and after taking zero questions for 19 days, this is the result. Jig is up. https://t.co/xBv1bMxQx4
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 8, 2024
I wrote last week that August would be “gut-check time” as the media did everything in their power to boost Harris. But they can only work with the material they have and, despite White House/Media collusion to keep her out of sight, it isn’t like she’s an unknown commodity after four years as veep.
Still… don’t get cocky.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXISM? Male students do better on ACT, get less financial aid: While male students get lower grades, they outperform females on some tests.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! As a San Francisco prosecutor, Kamala Harris declined to prosecute Catholic priests child sexual abuses cases investigated by her predecessor, according to The Lid, quoting Peter Schweitzer and others.
SPOILER: SHE IS AN AUTHORITARIAN JACKBOOT. You Don’t Have to Wonder if Kamala Is an Authoritarian Jackboot, Just Look at Her Record.
DID YOU KNOW? The 1964 Civil Rights Act explicitly banned race-based hiring quotas, but that didn’t stop Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz from instituting such a system in a state department? Just so, reports Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Silbarium.
HAVE YOU HEARD? When a politician continually evades answering a question, he or she is dancing to the Harris Walz.