AN IMPORTANT WINTER SAFETY TIP FROM THE GLEN ROSE TX VETERINARY CLINIC:
Even if you don’t own a pet, this is still a key health tip to familiarize yourself with.
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Archive for 2019
November 17, 2019
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#NARRATIVEFAIL: Brooklyn: Man Arrested for Egging Synagogue Turns Out Not to Be a White Supremacist. “The young activist’s name turns out to be Mohib Hoque.”
OPEN THREAD: Commenters, take the wheel.
DISPATCHES FROM THE LUXURY BELIEF CLASS:
The economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell once said that activism is “a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” The same could be said for luxury beliefs. They are similar to luxury goods, but present new problems. Attaching status to luxury goods or financial standing meant there were limits to how much harm the leisure class could do when it came to their conspicuous displays. For example, fashion is constrained by the speed with which people could adopt a new look. But with beliefs, this status cycle accelerates. A rich person flaunts her new belief. It then becomes fashionable among her peers, so she abandons it. Then a new stylish belief arises, while the old luxury belief trickles down the social hierarchy and wreaks havoc.
Read the whole thing.
BEWARE: Officials warn about the dangers of using public USB charging stations. “Travelers should use only AC charging ports, use USB no-data cables, or ‘USB condom’ devices.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: NPR Strikes Different Tone When Writing About Matt Bevin’s Election Fraud Claims Than Stacey Abrams.’
As Tim Graham of NewsBusters adds, “NPR’s online story was headlined ‘Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects’…NPR’s online headline last year on this story was ‘Georgia’s Stacey Abrams Admits Defeat, Says Kemp Used ‘Deliberate’ Suppression To Win.’”
I know I’m getting way over my skis for saying this, but just think of NPR as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.
I WONDER IF WILLIE SUTTON’S LAW* APPLIES? Why Is the ‘Impeachment Inquiry’ Focusing on Ukraine?.
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HOW DARE YOU! Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Heads To Spain On Yacht Made From And Powered By Petroleum Products. “‘The irony of protesting capitalism and oil on board a carbon-fiber (petrochemical) yacht owned by European royals who made billions operating Monaco as a tax haven was rich,’ CFACT President Craig Rucker said, The [Washington] Times reported.”
THIS IS CNN: CNN Contributor Claims Doctored Pic of Elise Stefanik Is ‘Fake,’ but ‘Believable.’
And the original Mister “Fake But Accurate,” whose producer inadvertently gave PJ Media its first nom de Web, is himself is a regular on the network: As irony is laid to rest, Dan Rather appears on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources.’
SELF-AWARENESS DEFICIENCY ALERT: Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is launching a social-media website called WT: Social. The platform aims to compete with Facebook and Twitter, except instead of funding it using advertising, Wales is taking a page from the Wikipedia playbook and financing it through user donations.
Says Wales:
“The business model of social media companies, of pure advertising, is problematic,” Wales told Financial Times. “It turns out the huge winner is low-quality content.”
If there is any human being in the known universe who truly understands “low-quality content”, it is Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia might be the go-to site for cretins like Soledad O’Brien and Alexandria Occasional Cortex but for the rest of the literate world…
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: The Old School.
FASTER, PLEASE: Iowa wind farm sending many giant blades to landfills.
VISITING THE UNCANNY VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
SO WE’RE IN DFW, where our CRJ75 is grounded after the pin securing the door cable failed when they tried to close the door, forcing them to deplane us while they try to figure out what to do. This is the second time I’ve experienced this exact failure, suggesting that it’s a not-uncommon issue, though the airline folks seem flummoxed. Canadair, you may want to look into this. Meanwhile, waiting to see if they’ll fix it, or get us another plane. It was Delta last time, this time it’s American.
UPDATE: What were we doing? It was the PJ Media reunion in California.
With Stephen & Melissa Green.
Sell the website, but keep the Orb Of Power! With Gerard van Der Leun.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Well, give American Airlines credit — they had us on a new plane in 30 minutes and got us home only a half-hour late.
And here’s Insta-co-blogger Austin Bay with Richard Fernandez. They had extensive and lengthy discussions about the strategery of what’s going on both domestically and internationally.
And since people are talking fitness in the comments, I’ll note that Col. Bay can still do handstands.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A New Strategy on Campus: Blame the Jews.
EYES WIDE SHUT: Prince Andrew’s Epstein-Related BBC Interview Was “Catastrophic Mistake.”
During the interview, the Duke of York was also asked about Virginia Giuffre, who was pictured with and claimed she had sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17-years-old.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,” said the Duke.
“You don’t remember meeting her?” he was then asked.
“No,” responded Prince Andrew.
During his answer, the Duke blinked no less than 10 times in the space of just 10 seconds…
Earlier: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN Have Corporate Parents; What Will They Do About Cover-up of Epstein Story?
OUT ON A LIMB: Most Say Media Working With Democrats to Impeach Trump.
KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Northwestern’s bungling student journalists were just copying the professionals.
On and on it goes: NPR fired a movie critic, David Edelstein, for making a joke about an infamous movie scene (that butter in “Last Tango in Paris”). ESPN hired the controversial commentator Rush Limbaugh and then fired the controversial commentator for producing controversial commentary, i.e. that a black quarterback had been overestimated for reasons of racial politics.
The strange thing is that while doing real journalism will get you fired or produce a groveling apology, inept journalism generally will not: Nobody actually got fired when Rolling Stone published a hard-hitting story in 2014 about a horrifying rape at the University of Virginia that turned out to be an utter fiction; managing editor Will Dana was permitted to make a graceful exit some months later without the stigma of being given the boot. The New York Times published a hit piece during the 2008 presidential campaign suggesting John McCain was having an affair with a lobbyist based on precisely squat (the paper’s own ombudsman confessed as much) and later published an absurd non-retraction retraction — after the election, in the face of litigation. Jim Rutenberg, the lead author on that article, still writes for the Times.
Read the whole thing, as needless to say, Kevin knows a thing or two firsthand about “professional” journalism’s cowardice in the face of the mob. Thinking of the MSM as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, does help to make a bit more sense of it all, however.
MAYBE LOUISIANA GUV WAS MORE PRO-LIFE WIN, LESS TRUMP LOSS: Rod Dreher, who knows a thing or seven about Louisiana politics, offers a number of observations about why Gov. John Bel Edwards won re-election, including the fact his GOP opponent had no platform. That’s right, no platform.
NEW DOCUMENTS ALLEGE MILLIONS WENT TO BIDEN’S AND KERRY’S FIRM.
UPDATE: As Ambassador De Sadesky would say, our source was the New York Times…
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THE CORBYNIZATION OF JEREMY CORBYN’S PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Labour Election candidate ran secret Facebook group which advises party ‘Holocaust deniers’ how to beat charges of antisemitism.
Related: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and more. The signatories “describe Corbyn as a ‘life-long committed anti-racist’ and claim that ‘no political party or political leader has done more to address [antisemitism] than Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.’”
