IT’S ALMOST LIKE THEY’RE LYING CRAPWEASELS:

THIS IS CNN: This CNN Contributor Hates Israel So Much, He Praises Hitler For Killing Jews. Yes, Really.

OPEN THREAD: I would invite you, but these debutante balls would not excite you.

Background on the linked tune here.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING, BESIDES ANYBODY WITH A FUNCTIONING BRAIN? Inflation fears grow for White House. Which, to be fair, gets Biden off the hook.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. senator: China landing on Mars a reminder ‘we don’t own space anymore.’

THE SAINTLY CONSPIRACY BEGAN BEFORE 2020: Scott Walters, the Capital Research Center’s chief, pulls the curtain back on the rest of the story Mollie Ball kept out of her now-famous Time Magazine story about the Left’s shadow campaign that put Biden in the White House:

“So the ‘shadow campaign Ball claims popped up in 2020 actually predates Trump by decades. The mainstream media hasn’t reported on this sophisticated, highly coordinated effort by the Left to find ever stronger tools to turn out Democratic voters. But don’t blame the media for not knowing about it; most Republicans didn’t either.”

HEH:

WELL, GOOD: Heart study: Low- and regular-dose aspirin safe, effective. “An unusual study that had thousands of heart disease patients enroll themselves and track their health online as they took low- or regular-strength aspirin concludes that both doses seem equally safe and effective for preventing additional heart problems and strokes.”

YOU NEVER WANT TO GET AS HIGH AS HUNTER: Nashville gas station trolls Hunter Biden: ‘Hope gas prices don’t get too high.’

Absolutely savage:

VIA A FRIEND:

WHAT’S THAT ABOUT WHO YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE? Space Force Unit C.O. Relieved of Duty for Criticizing Marxism in the Military.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Concealed Carry Myths.

STARLINK UPDATE: It’s worked fine for me so far, still quite fast. According to the statistics panel, it’s had 5 minutes of downtime during the past 24 hours, due to satellite unavailability. The most I’ve noticed is a momentary hiccup lasting maybe 5 seconds, presumably while switching from one satellite to another. To be honest, it seems to be as steady as my Comcast service, which occasionally hiccups too for no obvious reason. (My old Bellsouth DSL service, though slow, never hiccuped.)

I’ve run the speed test several times and it’s been between about 200 and 300+ mbps down, and between 12 and 32 mbps up. Ping times generally around 30 ms, though the stats page shows the longest ping in the last 24 hours to be 327 ms.

One piece of advice for people getting Starlink: It comes with a tripod antenna mount. My excellent installers mounted that but made some modifications because they were afraid if they screwed it into my roof directly it would cause a leak. Starlink sells a number of roof- and wall-mounting kits on the website and you might want to look and order the one that looks best for your situation. They’re not very expensive.

WITH REASON: Poll Shows Low Trust in U.S. Public Health Systems.

SCIENCE DENIERS ABOUND: Despite CDC COVID Guidance, Some Still Require Masks.

OLD AND BUSTED: CNN Compares Trump to Hitler and Kristallnacht Years.

—Outkick.com, November 13th, 2020.

The New Hotness? Muslim CNN reporter: ‘The world today needs a Hitler.’

—Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, today.

A JEWISH SPEAKER ASKED AN ANTI-ISRAEL STUDENT IF SHE WOULD CONDEMN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HAMAS: Her horrific response sums up what’s happening today (video).

AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, A BIG PROGRAM FROM the McGill chapter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship on May 31, including Jordan Peterson, Barbara Kay, Gad Saad, and many others.

SO AT THIS POINT, MASKS ARE ALMOST PURELY A TOOL TO VIRTUE-SIGNAL: ‘Taking Away The Male Gaze:’ Some Women Want To Keep Wearing Masks Indefinitely.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is It Possible to Get Too Much Sleep? Here’s What Scientists Think.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel.

In these circles, in my experience, a distaste for Israel has come to be something between an acceptable prejudice and a prerequisite for entry. I don’t mean a critical approach to Israeli policies or to the ham-fisted government currently in charge in this country, but a belief that to some extent the Jews of Israel are a symbol of the world’s ills, particularly those connected to nationalism, militarism, colonialism, and racism—an idea quickly becoming one of the central elements of the “progressive” Western zeitgeist, spreading from the European left to American college campuses and intellectuals, including journalists. In this social group, this sentiment is translated into editorial decisions made by individual reporters and editors covering Israel, and this, in turn, gives such thinking the means of mass self-replication.

Read the whole thing.

Related: The Hamas Rocket Attacks Are Based on a Lie.

IT’S TIME: Another Group of Scientists Calls for Further Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus.

ISRAEL SHARED INTELLIGENCE TO US SHOWING HAMAS OPERATED INSIDE BUILDING WHERE AP, AL-JAZEERA HAD OFFICES:

Israel shared intelligence with the US showing how Hamas operated inside the same building with the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera in Gaza, officials in Jerusalem said on Sunday.

Officials in more than one government office confirmed that US President Joe Biden’s phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday was, in part, about the bombing of the building, and that Israel showed Biden and American officials the intelligence behind the action.

“We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building,” a source close to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said. “I understand they found the explanation satisfactory.”

[…]

The US was the only country to inquire about the IDF strike on the building, which the military said housed Hamas military intelligence offices, as well as AP and Al Jazeera, other news outlets, and other offices and apartments.

Also, a former AP reporter noted that Hamas operated in and around the building back in 2014, which shreds the statement from AP’s CEO who said that he had no idea Hamas was around the building or something.

Thus, we’re left with: Plausible Deniability, AP Style. “The ability of the modern press to be oblivious to facts they don’t wish to know or might prove harmful to their narrative is so well established and the ignorance of modern journalists is so obvious that the idea that terrorists could operate with impunity right under their noses for a decade is as believable as it gets.”

Why, it’s as if “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” to coin a favorite journalistic piece of moral equivalence.

FASTER, PLEASE: Bio-inspired scaffolds help promote muscle growth.