THE NEW DNC HEAD: “I went to law school because I’m not very good at math.”
Archive for 2017
February 26, 2017
FOILING AN EFFORT TO CREATE FAKE NEWS.
Plus, good advice: “I ran into the college kids I interviewed. They were downcast, they had been interviewed by a leftist site and figured they had been played by them to make them look foolish and asked my advice. I told them if approached by anyone you don’t know or trust in that way agree to interviews on the condition that you are able to film them as they film you. If they decline presume dishonesty and decline as well.”
I HATE GIVING THE WASHINGTON POST INSTAPUNDIT LINKS: But this rates as good news — if it’s accurate and not fake.
I’m on a limb…I live on a limb…OK…I suspect it’s accurate.
The White House is preparing to propose boosting defense spending and slashing funding for longtime Republican targets like the Environmental Protection Agency.
Yup. DOD over EPA. All night long. And for the next 5,250 years. (Hey. If Egypt’s hung on 5,500 years –at least in hieroglyphics— why not the U.S.?) If this ain’t accurate news it ought to be. DOD is the real U.S. environment/economic/physical security protection agency and –by damn!– that’s Constitutional!
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Swedish policeman blames migrants for the majority of country’s rapes and shootings and accuses politicians of ‘turning a blind eye.’ “Prosecutors launched an inquiry, suggesting he had incited racial hatred, but later dropped the charges. Now Springare has told The Sunday Times: ‘The highest and most extreme violence – rapes and shooting – is dominated by criminal immigrants.'”
ADDING TO GLENN’S PRIOR POST: The Walther PPK is a very wearable solution for feminine defense. Now, my admiration for the truly gifted designer John Browning has no bounds. Why, my favorite John Browning creation, the M2HB .50 caliber machine gun, is an absolute work of beauty, an exquisite design, appropriate for all but the most heavily armored occasions. Yet it’s a helluva thing to lug. Ladies, you’d need a three-person purse to deploy it, plus an ammo team. On the other hand, Ma Deuce is an all-American accessory item (with a tough gal name) that makes a statement the bad guys (from Hitler to ISIS) understand.
RELATED: The Forever Machine Gun. I should have included this background information on Ma Deuce in my original post.
DIDN’T COL. COLT AND JOHN MOSES BROWNING TAKE CARE OF THIS OVER A CENTURY AGO?
No, that makes too much sense. Instead: “The winning team’s solution will autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert while transmitting information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds.” This is idiotic design. 90 seconds? When seconds count, a message to a “network of community responders” will definitely go out within a minute-and-a-half. That’s not security, it’s a joke.
MOST LIBERAL AND MOST CONSERVATIVE CITIES IN THE U.S.: I’m not sure I believe this list is accurate. I do believe that Forbes has come up with fantastic click bait.
It looks like Vodka Pundit lives in a sane place. If you believe Forbes. But I guess Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy are good indicators.
WOW, HE’S REALLY BREAKING NEW GROUND THERE: Jimmy Kimmel calls Trump a racist in opening Oscars monologue.
LIP BALM: The Ultimate Survival Tool?
WHY ARE LEFTIES SO MEAN? Slate Eulogizes Alan Colmes: ‘Buffoon And Patsy.’ And boy, Slate has really gone downhill over the years.
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SALENA ZITO: A Referendum On Trump In Newt’s Old District.
THOUGHTS ON THE OSCARS: If these movies are so great, how come we never heard of them? “Perhaps the hashtag should be changed from #OscarsSoWhite to #OscarsSoElite.”
WRITING A NONFICTION BOOK? Advice From Dan Drezner. This is good advice:
If you’re writing thousands of words a day, then don’t check your phone, don’t clean up your office, don’t spend inordinate amounts of time on food, and sleep only when you must. Apologize to your significant other that you are so distracted — but between the two of us, it’s really a #sorrynotsorry kind of moment.
Just take advantage of the moment and get the words on the page. Worry about everything else once the writing jag ends.
That’s how Helen got Men On Strike done in 3 months. . . .
ARMY REVISES TRAINING FOR COMBAT IN URBAN TERRAIN: Training to fight and defeat a “near peer” in cities and towns.
In Iraq and Afghanistan the troops got used to a foe who had no air power, few real electronic weapons and that enabled many American troops to acquire some bad habits for anyone trying to fight a more conventional opponent.
Read the whole thing.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXISM AND RACISM? The Stars of Sexist and Racist Hollywood Shine Bright Tonight.
HE HAS A PEN AND A PHONE: Proposed Executive Order Designating Certain Rifles for ‘Militia Purposes.’
STANDING UP FOR DIVERSITY! 28 Conservative/Libertarian Law Profs Demand That AALS Address Political Imbalance Of Law School Faculties. “There is growing awareness that conservative and libertarian scholars are grossly underrepresented in American colleges and universities and that this imbalance results from political discrimination. For several years now a number of legal scholars have asked the AALS to support the commitment to viewpoint diversity stated in its by-laws.”
MAUREEN CALLAHAN: God Help Us If Chelsea Clinton Runs For Office. “In the wake of Hillary Clinton’s devastating electoral loss, it seems Chelsea Clinton, historically boring and opinion-free, is mulling a run for high office.” She’s still boring, and I don’t see that changing.
FOLLOWING IN THE TRADITION OF WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS AND THURGOOD MARSHALL: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Signals She’ll Stay on Supreme Court as Long as She Can.