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August 1, 2024
.357 MAGNUM MEMORIES: I had a girlfriend in college who carried a .357, and she still does. A bit hot for me, but certainly gets the job done.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Don Lemon Sues Elon Musk Over Canceled X Deal.
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY:
There are not only Russian militants supporting Maduro, but also members of the Cuban military. Both understand on what shaky and especially illegitimate grounds the Maduro regime stands. They will act as the "commissars" (enforcers) of the Venezuelan military. But this takes… https://t.co/szgP5lT2FU
— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) August 1, 2024
More to come?
DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR WATCH: Progressive Pushback Against Top VP Contender Plagues Veepstakes.
SURVEY REVEALS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS NOT BORN YESTERDAY; DID NOT RECENTLY FALL OFF TURNIP TRUCK. FIRE’s national survey also found that, by wide majorities, “Americans do not trust the government to fairly decide what speech is annoying, disturbing, harassing, indecent, intimidating, terrifying, or threatening.”
SPACE: Possible signs of life on Venus surprise scientists: ‘They shouldn’t be there.’
“Phosphine and ammonia have both been suggested as biomarkers, including on exoplanets. So finding them in the atmosphere of Venus is interesting on that basis as well.”
The findings of ammonia on Venus — referred to by some experts as Earth’s “evil twin” — are “arguably” even more critical for the discovery of life, according to Clements.
“We’re a long way from saying this, but if there is life on Venus producing phosphine, we have no idea why it’s producing it,” he said.
“However, if there is life on Venus producing ammonia, we do have an idea why it might be wanting to breathe ammonia.”
That seems like a pretty thin reed to hang expectations of life on.
WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND THIS: Take all of the wealth — $152 Trillion — generated by every American since the first day this nation existed under the U.S. Constitution. Now compare that with the total federal debt, including all debts, liabilities and unfunded obligations — $142 Trillion.
In other words, the present government debt equals 93 percent of all the wealth generated in this country since the Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in 1778, according to Just Facts’ James Agresti.
BE NOT THE FIRST ON WHOM THE NEW IS TRIED: Bioengineered parasites may one day deliver meds into your brain.
COLD WAR II: WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich released by Russia in prisoner swap; Paul Whelan also being freed.
Presidentish Joe Biden, who said at the White House today, “Their brutal ordeal is over, and they are free,” seems to have forgotten (or never knew) when Russia took three out of the four hostage.
REPORTER TO BIDEN: "President Trump has said repeatedly that he could've gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that?"
BIDEN: "Why didn't he do it when he was president?" pic.twitter.com/B0CApYgb5a
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 1, 2024
Really, he’s fine. Still nasty and mean and wrong — but fine.
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT MUCH SOONER HAD HE BEEN A WNBA PLAYER: American journalist Evan Gershkovich released in biggest East-West prisoner swap since Cold War.
The American journalist Evan Gershkovich has been freed from a Russian jail as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War.
Sixteen prisoners were handed over to US officials on Thursday in a deal struck between the White House, the Kremlin and several other European nations.
Mr Gershkovich, 32, a Wall Street Journal reporter, has been in Russian custody since March 2023, when he was arrested on a reporting assignment and accused of spying for the American government.
Paul Whelan, a British-American former US marine, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British-Russian activist, and Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American reporter, are among the other Western prisoners released.
Russia received eight of its own nationals in exchange, including Vadim Krasikov, an intelligence agent know as the “bicycle assassin”, and Artem and Anna Dultsev, who were arrested living as deep cover spies in Slovenia.
The deal involved more Western countries than any other prisoner swap in history, and saw the release of Russian prisoners in Germany, Poland, Slovenia and Norway.
Gershkovich went out head held high:
In contrast, Creepy Joe Biden made an appearance today: Biden tells freed prisoner’s 13-year-old daughter: ‘No serious guys until you’re 30.’
And he brought along a serious case of Trunalimunumaprzure:
BIDEN SAID SO HIMSELF: Of Course Kamala Harris Was A DEI Hire.
FAIL, BRITANNIA:
Roma gypsies burn down a neighbourhood in Leeds , The police run away.
Muslims surround and attack a police station in Rochdale, The police hide away inside the station. Native British gather in London to protest the murder of 3 young girls ,The police assault a protester. pic.twitter.com/Qsq8M4Wixz— karma (@karma44921039) August 1, 2024
Britons gave up their guns.
SHE’S IN NO WAY TIRED, THE NEXT GENERATION: Kamala Harris Unveiled A New Accent Last Night And It’ll Make Your Skin Crawl.
Kamala Harris unveiled a brand new voice during her Atlanta campaign stop last night – her first as the presumptive democratic nominee – and it rocked this great country to the core.
If you thought her cackle was bad, strap the hell in, because this one is a doozy.
For those who missed it – and I don’t blame you, because I certainly did – this Kamala Harris rally was … something. It was an event, for sure.
I’m talking rappers on stage, asses twerking left and right, right in peoples’ faces, and, of course, Kamala taking hold of the microphone and introducing America to a new accent.
And buddy, we noticed:
Kamala Harris panders to Atlanta voters with a new voice: pic.twitter.com/qTXu4lbsc9
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 31, 2024
Classical reference in headline:
NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: A Brutal War (The Call of the Sea Book 12).
SUGAR IS BAD: Avoid added sugars to help keep cells young.
I remember when The Science(TM) told us that sugar was good because it wasn’t fat. Of course, The Science(TM) turned out to have been funded by the sugar industry.
Then there’s The Science(TM) about eggs and cholesterol. . . .
21st CENTURY QUESTIONS: “A woman on her knees sobbing after being punched hard in the face by an opponent who has characteristics of a biological male. She may have a broken nose. Is this sport now? Is this the Olympic ideal?”
Because that is what we have just witnessed. This is apparently justifiable. Angela Carini, a world and European Championships silver medallist, pulled out of a fight with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif after 46 seconds.
I don’t know how she stepped in the ring in the first place. She is no fragile flower but she said she had never been hit so hard before. Through her tears she said she was there to honour her father, and she was a warrior but just had to stop.
On Monday, Theodore Dalrymple wrote, “Cultural Decay Can Hardly Go Further.” He was referring the opening of the Olympics, but that headline neatly sums up much of what we’ve seen afterward as well.
WORD OF THE DAY: ‘Harrissplaining.’
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Study finds space industry growth uncorrelated to larger markets.
MICHAEL BARONE: The ‘White Dudes for Harris’ Zoom call was… weird.
Today, gender is more relevant. “Gender polarization,” the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson wrote, “is the skeleton key of the 2024 election.” To which the Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll replied, “It isn’t gender, it’s marriage.”
In support of that proposition, he quoted exit poll findings that both married men and married women favor Republicans by similar, in this case statistically indistinguishable, margins (59%-39% and 56%-42%), while there are huge differences between unmarried men (52%-45% Republican) and unmarried women (68%-31% Democratic). Thompson noted a similarly wide divide in this year’s polling between divorced men (56% Trump) and single women (29% Trump).
Those results are not atypical. The good news for Republicans is that three out of four groups favor their side. The good news for Democrats is that, in a society in which, contrary to the midcentury model, marriage is not universal, unmarried women are numerous and overwhelmingly on their side.
Normalize weirdness, claim marriage and children are weird, make more Democrats.
Long term, of course, there are problems — but nothing that opening the border won’t “fix.”
NEW EVIDENCE IRS IS OUT OF CONTROL: But will three GOP senators laying out this new evidence do anything concrete — like cut the IRS budget significantly — to force the bureaucracy to get back in line? That’s the issue prompting my latest PJMedia column.
IT WAS ONE HELLUVA OPERATION: Now We Know Exactly How Israel Assassinated Hamas Chief, and I’m Laughing Inappropriately.
HEALTH: Tackling 14 risk factors for dementia may prevent or delay nearly half of cases, report finds. “Based on reviews of the latest evidence, the Wednesday report by The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care adds two risk factors — high cholesterol and vision loss — to 12 others previously identified in its 2020 report. Those existing risk factors are less education, head injury, physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, hearing loss, depression, air pollution and infrequent social contact.”
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD — WHILE HAVING FOUR TIMES MORE FUN:
Cope and seethe, pinkos. pic.twitter.com/c1ARTPrSX4
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) August 1, 2024
But don’t get cocky, either.
There is no chance Kamala could survive a real 18 month run for POTUS. Her primary run fell apart through interviews, multiple debates, etc
But now she's only got to duck and hide for 97 days in friendly spaces + commit to a single debate. Major structural problem for Rs
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) July 31, 2024