MARK JUDGE: Carlos Santana Risks Cancellation: “Woman is a Woman and a Man is a Man.”

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Iconic Retailer Nordstrom Closes Shop In San Francisco Thanks To Rampant Crime.

OH, SEATTLE! Watch This Wacky Home Invader Guzzle Gasoline as Police Move in to Make Arrest.

It’s unfathomable why anyone would do that to himself. “Swallowing gasoline can cause a wide range of problems for your vital organs,” advises Healthline. I can’t imagine it tastes very good, and it can produce miserable symptoms such as difficulty breathing, burning pain in the throat, abdominal pain, vomiting, loss of vision, convulsions, and loss of consciousness.

Obviously, there was a mental crisis in progress. Perhaps this burglar attended the same wacky class as David DePape, the 42-year-old who broke into Paul Pelosi’s house, also wielding a hammer. At any rate, his thirst for petrol seemed unslakable:

Officers gave multiple commands for the suspect to exit the vehicle, but he refused and continued to consume more gasoline. With the suspect endangering his own life and the hazard the gasoline created, police broke the driver side window and removed the man from the driver seat.

The suspect resisted officers while they pulled him out of the vehicle, but he was eventually taken into custody. Seattle Fire provided aid to the suspect at the scene.

To boldly go where one Korean War veteran has gone before:

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden will observe 9/11 in Alaska instead of the traditional NYC, Virginia or Pennsylvania events.

Biden will not participate in any of the observances at 9/11 memorial sites in New York City, Virginia or Pennsylvania. Instead, the president will stop in Alaska for a Sept. 11 observance at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on his way back to Washington after a trip to Asia.

Biden is scheduled to travel to India from Sept. 7-10 to attend a summit with other world leaders, followed by a stop in Vietnam.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will participate in the annual observance at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan.

First lady Jill Biden will lay a wreath at the 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon.

Alaska reduces the odds of an iPhone capturing yet another Biden gaffe, or worse:

This also gives Harris a chance to act (try not to laugh) as presidential as possible for what will be a widely covered event.

But like John Larroquette at the end of Stripes, would it possible to transfer the (p)resident to Alaska permanently?

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Jemele Hill Labels Nikki Haley Racist for Suggesting Indian-American Kamala Harris Is Incompetent.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Ha! Iowahawk Ends Glorious Thread On Climate Activists Getting Worked in NV by Owning Whiny Troll.

What makes this extra amusing is that the "Rangers" are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man. Native American cops busting up a standoff between two tribes of white progressives is straight up comedy gold https://t.co/YQzvVmTuo2

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 28, 2023

RIP: ‘Joe The Plumber,’ who rose to fame after confronting Obama on 2008 campaign trail, dead at 49.

FLASHBACK: Obamacare Just Spread $11 Billion of Wealth Around.

As Lord Melbourne (1779-1848) would say, “What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): From the comments: “Funny how when these guys spread the wealth around, most of it sticks to them.”

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Is masking coming back? As new COVID variants emerge, here’s what experts say.

Related: Mask study published by NIH suggests N95 Covid masks may expose wearers to dangerous level of toxic compounds linked to seizures and cancer.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Biden advisers bristle at Gavin Newsom’s plan to debate DeSantis.

THIS IS THE WAY: Things Don’t Go Well For Climate Activists When They Block Road to Burning Man Festival.

🚨#BREAKING: Nevada Rangers has rammed their truck through climate protesters as they attempted to shut down the Burning Man Arts and Music Festival

📌#Blackrock | #Nevada
⁰Climate activists attempted to halt a significant music and arts festival known as Burning Man, which is… pic.twitter.com/ormnHYIPgy

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2023

Or to put it another way:

RIP: Bob Barker, longtime The Price is Right host, dead at 99.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Mugshot Edition.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Tyler O’Neil: What My Experience Preventing Wildfires in Colorado Taught Me About Maui and Climate Change.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Trump Pays $12 Extra To Get The Cool Laser Background Mugshot.

HOW IT STARTED: How Empathy Defines Joe Biden.

—Forbes, August 20th, 2020.

How it’s going: Hawaiian business goes viral for sign slamming Biden’s kitchen fire comments: ‘not always about you.’

An equipment rental business in Honolulu, Hawaii, slammed President Biden’s recent comments comparing a fire in his kitchen to the deadly and devastating Maui wildfires.

Hawaiian Rent-All, known online for its witty signage, changed its business’ storefront to send Biden a message after his recent speech in Hawaii.

“Sorry you almost lost your ’67 Corvette in a fire, Mr. President,” the sign reads. “Maui strong.”

Hawaiian Rent-All posted a picture of the sign to the company’s Facebook page where the firm commented that genuine “sympathy is better than contrived empathy.”

“It’s not always about you, Mr. President,”* the company added.

The post caught fire online, going viral on X — the app formerly known as Twitter — with users posting comments on the jab against Biden.

—Fox News, today.

* But it is always about Joe, and it always has been. Charles Cooke explores “Biden’s Twisted Idea of Empathy:”

Whatever the topic, Joe can make it about him. Civil rights? He doesn’t just support them; he is them, having participated in a sit-in in the 1950s (he didn’t), helped to desegregate movie theaters (never happened), and worked as a lawyer for the Black Panthers (nope). Gay marriage? Biden didn’t just change his mind on it, he remembered all of a sudden that, in the Scranton of the 1950s, his working-class Catholic father liked to endorse the sight of two men kissing in the streets. Race? Ethnicity? Religion? Biden is all of them at once. He’s Catholic, black, Jewish, Greek, Puerto Rican, Polish. One can only imagine what Biden might have said had he been president at other points in history. There’s been a mass suicide at Jonestown? “I, too, have had food poisoning.” A second plane has hit the World Trade Center? “Jill and I know all about flight delays.” The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor? “My Dad once had to sell his fishing boat.”

There are three plausible reasons as to why President Biden keeps doing this. The first is that he is a narcissist who is genuinely incapable of thinking beyond his own frame of reference. The second is that he’s an amnesiac, whose collection of applicable anecdotes has now narrowed to the vanishing point. And the third is that he believes quite genuinely that this is what empathy looks like, and that there is nobody around him who is willing and able to correct his course. Whatever the cause, it’s a problem. Without any sign of guilt or self-reflection — and egged on by a press that is incapable of honestly holding him to account — the president has taken to playing Bereavement Bingo. When one learns that Biden intends to respond to a tragedy, the question is not if he’ll make the calamity about himself, but in what manner. Before long, one expects Las Vegas will be taking bets.

No wonder he fit in so well with another legendary narcissist, his former boss, President Obama.

JUST ANOTHER DAY AT NBC NEWS:

● NBC News reporter wants Libs of TikTok’s comment on her inciting a murder.

“When asked about the post, [Chaya] Raichik said in a message to NBC News, ‘Why are you comparing anyone who criticizes the progress pride flag being shoved down the throats of children, to a violent murderer?'” Good question.

—Twitchy, yesterday.

● MSNBC Attacks ‘Weird’ GOP Debate For Talking Policy Instead Of Trump.

—NewsBusters, today.

● Vivek Ramaswamy, Indian-American Neo-Nazi!

● Carlos Santana makes polarizing anti-trans comments in viral concert clip.

Carlos Santana is on the hot seat* after a video of him on stage, making polarizing remarks about gender, quickly began circulating online.

In the clip, the “Oye Como Va” singer is seen addressing the audience in between songs. Through the applause, Santana can be heard saying: “When God made you and me — before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right. Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”

The clip ends with Santana lining one hand behind the other, and adding that he was “Like this with my brother Dave Chappelle.”

—NBC News, yesterday.

* That phrase, “Carlos Santana is on the hot seat” is sure doing some serious heavy lifting there, given the symbiotic relationship of the news media and the outrage mobs of social media. NBC is lighting up the Batsignal, instructing the mob where to attack next. Like Chappelle, Eric Clapton, and J.K. Rowling, Santana likely has plenty of “f*ck you” money to weather the media/outrage mob industrial complex. (How do you cancel a guy who sells out hockey arenas?) But attacking him certainly sends a chilling warning to up and comers to avoid doubleplus ungood crimethink.

YOU WENT FULL WEIMAR, GERMANY. NEVER GO FULL WEIMAR: Evil: German daycares introduce “sexual exploration rooms” with rules for children to “pet and explore each other” while nude.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This isn’t new in Germany: Germany’s secret paedophilia experiment: Under the ‘Kentler Experiment’ of the 1970s, Berlin welfare authorities handed over homeless teenagers to known paedophiles.

Plus: The Roots of Abuse: Decades of Molestation Haunt Odenwaldschule. “Everyone should have known what was going on.” Oh, they did.

Also:

Eventually the permissiveness became almost total, and it wasn’t the tormentors but the tormented who were made to feel guilty. “The declared minimum objective was to be bisexual. If you didn’t achieve that, you were a failure,” says former pupil Gerhard R., who came to the school in 1975 and was first abused by his music teacher the following year. “We knew one thing: Everything was permitted at any time,” Gerhard R., the alumnus who recalled Gerold Becker fellating him like a possessed man, says of his schooldays.

German television presenter Amelie Fried attended the Odenwaldschule starting in 1969. In a book published to mark the school’s centenary, she recounts how a teacher coaxed her into playing strip poker in his apartment. She says he mercilessly goaded her for being a “prudish, petty bourgeois Swabian girl” until she “finally caved in to the pressure,” though she was “terribly embarrassed” and subsequently repressed her memory of the incident for decades.

Does this sound familiar?

(Updated and bumped.)

ALL ROADS LEAD TO DETROIT: Illegal Immigrants Unleash Chaos in Upscale Manhattan Neighborhood.

The Stratford Arms hotel on W. 70th Street used to function as a student dormitory, operated by the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). That is, until May, when “migrants showed up with suitcases,” Brenda McIntyre, who’s lived on that block since 2007 and in the city since 1999, told National Review.

* * * * * * *

McIntyre leaves very early in the morning for work. At about 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, she noticed “there were a lot of people coming home from clubbing, and they were bringing people into the shelter.”

“I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, this is crazy,’” she said.

She’s noticed some migrants having sex in public in the median area of Broadway, where there are park benches. On Wednesday, she was unloading her car and saw someone she believed to be a male migrant sitting on a moped waiting for a woman to come out of the shelter. When security told him to move because he was in a no-parking zone, he refused, even when spoken to in Spanish, she said.

Joe Germanotta, the father of the famous pop singer Lady Gaga, lives on the block and, along with McIntyre, belongs to a new residents’ association committed to ending the migrant crisis in the UWS.

“The city did not think this through,” Germanotta told National Review. “And we’re all suffering. They dropped 500 people into the neighborhood that have no code of conduct.”

“We’re probably 18 months away from looking like San Francisco.”

Which already looks like Detroit. Why are Democrat-monopoly cities such cesspits?

¡NO PASARÁN!: Trump was not only allowed to dispute an election he felt was fraudulent, but as president was constitutionally obligated to do so; that is the opposite of criminal — In fact, he is one of the only public officials willing to uphold the oath he swore.

UNEXPECTEDLY! MSNBC: Woke is the new n-word.

But of course. MSNBC is gonna MSNBC during an election cycle. Flashback to 2012: Words like “golf” and “Chicago” are racist dog whistles from the GOP.

BOMBER PILOTS HAPPILY RETURN HOME AFTER BLOCKBUSTER RAID OF ENEMY TARGET: The hangover! San Fran ad agency behind disastrous Dylan Mulvaney-Bud Light tie-up returns from boozy Cannes trip and CUTS 5% of staff after ‘performance reviews.’

Unfortunately, the squadron commander was placed on indefinite leave of absence: Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light Marketing Vice President, on a ‘leave of absence’ following Dylan Mulvaney controversy.

Exit quote:

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Delaware prosecutor Alexander Mackler who worked with investigator probing Hunter Biden’s shady overseas dealings was so chummy with president he used his secret email address under the name ‘Robin Ware.’

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: India becomes the 4th country to successfully land on the moon.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: John Nolte: Good News! Artificial Intelligence Can Resurrect Classic Movie Stars.

People under 40 have no idea how good life was when movie stars walked the earth. Because people mattered, the movies used to be about real human experiences we all shared. These movies brought us together through laughter, thrills, and tears. Those movies weren’t hollow amusement park rides and jump scares. We used to care about the characters and get lost in their emotional journey.

Thanks to stars, movies almost always had something interesting and important to say about who we are, where we came from, and where we might be going. We were taught to aspire, never to give up, and that we’re imperfect people who can always be better.

What if AI could bring back John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Barbara Stanwyck, Better Davis, Clark Gable, Burt Reynolds, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Ingrid Bergman, and the rest all in their prime? What’s the downside?

Oh, I realize some terrible producer could pull a Kathleen Kennedy. What I mean is this… In the same way, Kennedy resurrected Indiana Jones and Luke Skywalker just so she could dump all over them; some hideous producer could make Humphrey Bogart gay or Jean Arthur a transsexual. But I go back to what I said last week about AI taking over screenwriting…

Can things get any worse?

I’ll take a new Veronica Lake/Alan Ladd movie over whatever the insufferable Rachel Zegler and Seth Rogen are serving. At the very least, Lake and Ladd have actual charisma and appeal. Most every so-called “star” today sucks. Zero charisma. Zero appeal. Very little talent… Given the choice, I’ll watch Ava Gardner read the phone book over Jennifer Lawrence’s next project.

The resurrection of past stars via AI was something that Arthur C. Clarke predicted in his 1986 book,  Arthur C. Clarke’s July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century. In addition to virtual movie stars filling the big screen, this technology will likely open the floodgates to dead artists promoting the newest products. Remember when Fred Astaire was dancing on the ceiling — and vacuuming it as well? Or John Wayne shilling for Coors Beer?

Eventually, AI may allow home viewers to create their own movies and mashups, such as Han Solo once again shooting Greedo  first, Darth Vader preventing the rebels from destroying the Death Star, and Adam West starring in a Christopher Nolan Batman movie in place of Christian Bale. Or allowing the computer operator himself to don the cape, cloak and utility belt.

UNEXPECTEDLY! Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin ‘on board’ crashed Russian plane.

Fritz Todt could not be reached for comment.