IMAGINE THAT: Evidently Laura Ingalls Wilder wasn’t a bloodthirsty Indian-hating Nazi after all.
Archive for 2018
July 1, 2018
ANALYSIS: TRUE. When Democrats Lose, They Try To Change The Rules.
CLARICE FELDMAN: Is Trump The Most Fun President Ever?
AT AMAZON, Bestsellers in Toys & Games.
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.
THE INSTA-WIFE: Toxic Femininity and Lack of Personal Responsibility.
WEIRDLY, ANTIFA WAS A NO-SHOW: ‘Bikers for Trump’ ride through Lexington.
SOUNDS LIKE A SOCIALIST: Ex co-worker no fan of Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Most of the staff at Flats Fix, the East 16th Street taco and tequila bar, say nice things about Sandy, as they knew her for the four years she worked there, until she quit six months ago to run for Congress.
But one waitress has a bad memory of working with Ocasio-Cortez, 28, as Ocasio-Cortez tended bar during the very busy Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017.
At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips she had gotten at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the waitress only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100, a source said.
“It says so much about her character,” said my source. “From that point on, I wouldn’t talk to her. I couldn’t look at her.”
Just think of it as wealth redistribution.
MEDIA JUMPS THE GUN AGAIN: You’d think that after Reuters editor and others immediately — and wildly incorrectly — linked Trump to the newspaper shooting in Annapolis, that they’d have learned a lesson. You’d be wrong. NPR just couldn’t help themselves. (Flushed down the memory hole, of course).
It’s almost as if they had no duty to investigate.
***UPDATE: NPR NOW SAYING TWEET WAS FAKE, 24 HOURS AFTERWARDS. As for me, I sourced the screen shot from several places, and constantly checked (several times) and queried NPR who did not respond prior to my posting. I don’t believe my post was an “endorsement” but if I led people to that conclusion with imprecise language I was wrong.
BY THE TIME I NEED ONE, I HOPE THIS WILL WORK: Robots may soon join ranks of Alzheimer’s caregivers.
YOU MUST MEASURE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR TO MANAGE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR: Why the One Drop Glucometer is the One to Buy
THIS IS NICE, BUT I SUSPECT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD FIND THE PHOTO HIGHLY TRIGGERING ON VARIOUS GROUNDS.
MICHAEL WALSH: No Substitute for Total Victory.
Read the whole thing.
VIDEO: HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SCHOOLS BBC REPORTER ON ILLEGAL MIGRATION.
The entire thing is pretty brutal, but some of the highlights come when Szijjártó addresses the accusations of an “unfair” election. The reporter raises the claim from the opposition that the ruling party used excessive campaign funds to run advertisements. The Foreign Minister is having none of it, saying, “You echo lies on this television. And I don’t think it’s fair. You are unbalanced, you are one-sided. You look only at the opinion of those who are frustrated because they lost the election.”
It’s worth reminding everyone that Hungary recorded voter turnout in excess of 70% in the last election and Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party won by a lopsided margin which reflected all of the polling leading up to election day. For the BBC to raise such an accusation based on nothing but the grousing of the losing party is a rather sorry display.
And sadly typical of the BBC. Watch the whole interview, which is a master class in not accepting the premises of the biased and sneering interrogator interviewer.
OLD AND BUSTED: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
The new hotness? Fighting Free Speech at the New York Times:
More problematic than his op-ed was an article by Adam Liptak – which ran, note well, as a news story, not an opinion piece – that the increasingly senile Gray Lady published on July 1. The headline, “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment” (on the front page of the Times‘s website, it read “How Free Speech Is Being Used as a Weapon by Conservatives”; in the print edition, it was “How Free Speech Was Weaponized By Conservatives”), drew on a June 25 comment by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. When the Court, on First Amendment grounds, struck down a California law forcing pro-life “crisis pregnancy centers” to post information on their premises about where to get an abortion, Kagan complained in her dissent that conservatives were “weaponizing the First Amendment.”
Read the whole thing.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: You’re Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong. “The most common issue, they found, was failing to rub hands with soap for the recommended 20 seconds, followed by not wetting hands with water. The researchers also observed that individuals only washed their hands after a possible cause of cross-contamination — such as handling raw meat — in about a third of instances.”
WHAT’S IT WORTH TO TEACH TRUMP A LESSON? #NeverTrump: Objectively Pro-Democrat
DISPATCHES FROM THE ROOSEVELT ROOM IN AUSTIN, TX:
That’s a “Boulevardier,” a 1927-era Parisian cocktail made with bourbon, Campari, sweet vermouth, and an orange peel I’m holding, early on during my visit there. Eric, the bartender who made it, and his associates know what they’re doing — the drinks are awesome, the bartenders put on a great show, the ‘70s-era hard rock and new wave on the Muzak is very cool and quirky (David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision,” which I mentioned in my Eventide Harmonizer review on Friday played), and the menu of cocktails is period authentic, down to:
But the real draw of the bar is its massive menu, which features roughly 60 classic cocktails—an impressive selection considering that many top-tier craft cocktail venues attempt fewer than 20. The drink options are laid out on a timeline and organized by era, with selections from the early years, the turn of the century, and Prohibition, as well as a handful of Tiki drinks, post-Volstead concoctions, and modern classics. In the middle of the menu’s timeline, from the 1950s through the 1990s, is a period labeled “The Dark Ages.”
The drinks on that section of the menu aren’t all bad—James Bond’s “Vesper” is a perfectly tolerable combination of gin, vodka, and Lillet, and the “rosita” is a mix of tequila, Campari, vermouth, and bitters that will appeal to Negroni fans. All of them, too, are crafted with care. But even among this bunch of expert selections, there’s a noticeable dip in the essential quality of the drinks themselves, which tend to be built around vodka and…well, vodka. The drinks aren’t concerned with maintaining a sense of balance, or any coherent theory of drink design.
A sloppily constructed spirits-dumpster like a Long Island iced tea has no sensibility. At a bar like The Roosevelt Room, the drink would be carefully measured and served with freshly squeezed juice, then presented with dense, clear ice and a colorful garnish in a thoughtfully selected glass. Even in an idealized form, though, it’s just an ironic wink at drinking’s barbaric past.
For most of its existence, the drink—a mix of gin, tequila, vodka, rum, and triple sec that dates back to the 1970s—would have been served with sour mix, a vile substitute for fresh citrus, then slopped together in unmeasured proportions over cloudy ice, in whatever large-enough vessel might be handy. The Long Island iced tea is, at heart, little more than a crude booze-delivery system. A proper cocktail is a statement, a liquid argument, about how to drink well.
And it’s a miracle it survived. The above quoted passage, where I first discovered the Roosevelt Room’s existence, is from Peter Suderman’s article last year at Reason titled, “Government Almost Killed the Cocktail — 80 years after Prohibition, the Dark Ages of drinking are finally coming to an end.”
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Ocasio-Cortez Claims Illegal Immigration Wasn’t Criminalized Before 1999.
Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview Wednesday that the U.S. did not add criminal penalties to immigration law until about 1999.
Verdict: False
The U.S. criminalized unlawful entry in 1929. Laws passed in the 1990s intensified criminal penalties relating to immigration.
Speaking of which, wait until Ocasio-Cortez discovers how tough an earlier and even more high-profile Democrat could be on illegal immigrants:
When Glenn embedded C-Span’s version of the same clip last year, a reader commented: “Donald Trump should televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state ‘I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.’”
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Being Heterosexual Was Her Biggest Hurdle. Now for the Rebound.
About to be the first female basketball player inducted into San Diego’s sports hall of fame, Candice Wiggins wanted to make a strong statement for the next generation. She sat down with her hometown paper to speak her truth to her community. It did not go according to plan.
The former WNBA star alleged in a fateful February 2017 interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune that her heterosexual orientation and popularity caused her to be bullied throughout her professional career. Her romantic preference for men, and the accompanying locker room headaches, was the “biggest hurdle of my career.” The kicker: “I would say 98 percent of the women in the WNBA are gay,” Wiggins said at the time. “It was a conformist type of place. There was a whole different set of rules.”
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The backlash was deafening. Some players, like Atlanta Dream center Imani Boyette, said they understood Wiggins’ concerns but were disappointed in her drastic overstatement. Others went the route of character assassination. The point guard’s college coach landed somewhere in between. “I don’t know that math was ever Candice’s strength,” Tara VanDerveer told the San Francisco Chronicle. “That to me sounds homophobic and negative.”
Wiggins admits that “98 percent” was “just what it felt like to me,” and she has since avoided the topic. “I knew it was painful, but it was my personal story, not the ultimate truth. My priority was helping people understand why I left,” she says. And Wiggins maintains that she has heard from supporters in private. “No one likes to discuss it because it’s such a private point of view,” she says. “One girl who had a much less successful career than me reached out and thanked me for speaking out. She was disappointed in her career.… That doesn’t make me happy, but it does make me content.”
Why are Democrat-monopoly institutions such cesspits of bigotry and oikophobia?
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC ACTIVISTS WITH BYLINES AND THEIR SILENCE MAKES PERFECT SENSE: Democrats are in a crisis and the media won’t talk about it.
As Jim Treacher says:
