Archive for 2023

OPEN THREAD: Come Monday, it’ll be all right.

IT CAME FROM A DISTANT GALAXY, LONG AGO: Material Found in Ocean Is Not From This Solar System, Study Claims. “The analysis contributes to a growing field of study on the exchange of rocky materials between stars. In theory, objects orbiting one star could be flung with enough force to send it into the orbit of another on a fairly regular basis. In cosmic terms, however, ‘regular’ could still make it a rather rare catch for human observation. We only confirmed our first local interstellar exchange in 2017, when the odd behavior of an asteroid dubbed Oumuamua caught our eye.”

TWO WHITE HOUSES IN ONE!

● Shot: Biden makes appeal to unions as possible UAW strike looms over 2024 reelection bid.

—The Washington Examiner, today.

● Chaser: Pete Buttigieg Wants You to Stop Driving Cars.

No gas stoves, no gas-powered cars, and no beer are just a few things the Biden Administration has put the kibosh on.

The Democrat-controlled White House is now fear-mongering Americans into believing all cars cause climate change and promote racism and should, therefore, be banned. 

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appointed an Obama-era group made up of 24 “leading experts” to advise him on “transportation equity,” claiming the privilege of owning a car ignites “systemic racism” and should be banned because of their negative impact on the environment. 

Members of the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity include “spatial policy scholar” Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, who says, “All cars are bad” and calls for “zero emission transit.” 

However, she told the Free Beacon that she is not “advocating for a complete erasure” of cars but hopes to convince Buttigieg to re-direct the U.S. from relying on private motor vehicles.

Townhall, today.

Why isn’t Biden supporting the UAW’s strike, then?

TRUST YOUR LEADERS. FOLLOW THE SCIENCE.

GEORGE ORWELL TO THE RED COURTESY PHONE, PLEASE: How a kids playdate in Oakland became a flashpoint for racists.

The equity and inclusion committee at Oakland’s Chabot Elementary School didn’t publish the emails and phone numbers of organizers when advertising its “playdate” for students of color on Aug. 26.

“Something told me not to do it,” said Briana, the co-chair of the committee who is Black, has a child who attends the school and asked that I not use her last name due to safety concerns. “Maybe it was my ancestors talking to me.”

Those ancestors must have known racism is still thriving in the nation. The Bay Area is no exception.

Two days after the playdate, hate mail, racist phone calls and bomb threats were sent to the school and several Oakland residents after extremists online deemed the event an affront to their delusional idea of equality. About 30 students and staff members were safely evacuated from the school before classes began. Parents dropping their kids off for school were told to go home. Police eventually swept the campus with bomb-detecting dogs but turned up nothing suspicious.

“Creating spaces for Black, brown and AAPI kids is seen as some kind of zero-sum game for people who are against it,” said Macheo Payne, a professor of social work at Cal State East Bay. “They ask where the white spaces are, which disregards how those spaces exist by default in society.”

Exit quote:

BARBARIANS: Remind me again about the “Religion of Peace”, again? Saudi Arabia sentences retired teacher to death for Twitter posts.

According to teh Google, the last Christian sentenced to death by Christians for blasphemy was in 1697. Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in the UK to be executed for the crime of blasphemy.

“Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can hand down the death penalty for nothing more than peaceful tweets,” Human Rights Watch Saudi Arabia researcher Joey Shea said.

If God is so great, why do people think they need to “protect” him from people who...say things?

FASTER, PLEASE: Let me show you some proof that US culture is trending quickly to the right.

HOWIE CARR: Let’s set up Bidenvilles in posh Martha’s Vineyard, maybe Nantucket and Naushon Island, too.

I have a modest proposal.

Now that Labor Day is here and the Beautiful People will be flying back to New York in their private Gulfstreams and Lear Jets, let’s round up all the illegal aliens and ship them over to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, and Naushon Island makes three.

Plenty of room over there for the winter, and not just in the $20 million oceanfront mansions and swank resorts. How about new tent cities on all the conservation land and private golf courses?

The undocumented Democrats could set up Bidenvilles in the posh boatyards. Their welfare grub could be delivered by all those world-class restaurants — the Chanticleer, the Wauwinet and the White Elephant, just to name three on Nantucket.

After Monday, the islands will be basically empty. Sure they’re zoned NHP — No Hoi Polloi, hoi polloi being defined as anyone who goes to church on Sunday and/or doesn’t have a trust fund.

But this is an emergency, dammit. Gov. Maura Healey called out the National Guard Thursday to make sure the foreign freeloaders can get all their free stuff with no inconvenient waits like American citizens must endure.

Flashback: “Immigration Issue Stirs Heartfelt Response on Martha’s Vineyard” – until actual illegal immigrants begin to arrive, and the locals rapidly lose their “heartfelt response,” and declare a “humanitarian crisis.”