Author Archive: Ed Driscoll
July 12, 2022
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 50 Insane Facts About The Apollo 11 Lunar Photoshoot (Video).
MY NIGHT WITH THE ROLLING STONES:
That’s another British prime minister the Rolling Stones have outlasted.
When the band first plugged in under that name at London’s Marquee Club on July 12, 1962, Harold Macmillan was in Number 10 dealing with the “little local difficulty” of sacking a third of his cabinet. Then came Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Ted Heath, Wilson again, Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, and now the soon-to-depart Boris Johnson. Thirteen administrations, an even dozen US presidents, and six popes. And through it all the Stones themselves have just kept rolling along. Not bad for a band of misfits that everyone, including them, thought would last a year or two at most.
When longtime Stones scribes like me come to consider the matter of the group’s most famous, or notorious, acts during their first sixty years together, they’re somewhat spoilt for choice. The hack’s eye might turn to some of the drug-related adventures of the 1960s, or to today’s superbly efficient mobile corporation, which even now continues to pack the sports stadiums of Europe. My own candidate for inclusion on the Stones’ greatest-hits list is more modest. It took place on the snowy night of February 12, 1977, at a thatched cottage in an otherwise silent village in the English countryside.
Read the whole thing.
ROD DREHER: Breaking Macy Gray — Once-brave singer forced to bow down before the Female Penis. “[W]hat they did to her is an example of what they will do to anybody who dares to speak out against transgender totalitarianism. If you want to have a successful career in entertainment, or a middle-class profession, you must salute the female penis. Most of us over a certain age understand how insane, morally and scientifically, that is. But the schools are working hard to brainwash the younger generation.”
QED: Josh Hawley Called ‘Transphobic,’ Accused of Inciting Violence in Incredibly Wild Senate Testimony.
UPDATE: That Senate Abortion Testimony Just Got Even Wackier.
Sen. John Cornyn: “Do you think that a baby that is not yet born has value?”
Khiara Bridges, law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law: “I believe that a person with a capacity for pregnancy has value.”
Cornyn: “You’re not answering.”
Bridges: “I’m answering a more interesting question to me.”
“Oh. Is that how Congressional testimony works now? You just answer the imaginary things that float into your head while the members of Congress twiddle their thumbs and wait for you to land back on Earth? I don’t think that’s the way this works and I’m not sure why Democrats put her forward because it certainly isn’t helping their cause for the midterms when Americans see and hear this kind of testimony. It’s hard to imagine that she teaches people. But this is where Democrats are at this point, pushing nonsensical assertions.”
(Updated and bumped.)
I’LL TAKE STATEMENTS NO ONE IS UTTERING IN TEXAS RIGHT NOW FOR $500, ALEX:
As Glenn has written, why not start with a pilot program first? Ban A/C for DC! “We won two world wars without air conditioning our federal employees. Nothing in their performance over the last 50 or 60 years suggests that A/C has improved things. Besides, The Washington Post informs us that A/C is sexist, and that Europeans think it’s stupid.”
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: National Association of Hispanic Journalists to DOCTOR Jill Biden: “We Are Not Tacos.”
TEAM BIDEN REVEALS ITS CYNICISM BY PUNISHING BORDER PATROL AGENTS:
When the story broke, President Joe Biden—a man known to pay careful attention to detail—quickly said the illegal immigrants from Haiti had been “strapped” by Border Patrol agents on horseback.
“I promise you, those people will pay,” Biden told reporters.
However, as the photos were examined and evidence came in, it became clear that no whipping had taken place and that partisans had grossly distorted the actions of the Border Patrol agents.
The story should have died there. But no, there had to be a lengthy official investigation.
After a ridiculous 10 months, the Biden administration found its verdict.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility last week released a report on the Border Patrol incident, finding that the mounted agents hadn’t strapped anyone, but were guilty anyway and subject to punishment.
Promises made, promises kept, I guess.
The Biden administration’s 500-page report essentially admits that Border Patrol agents didn’t whip the Haitian migrants, which had been quite clear to anyone who earnestly examined the photos and video.
But the administration still threw four agents under the bus, saying that they acted in an “unprofessional” manner and engaged in “dangerous” behavior.
Oh, and they used “vulgar” language.
Wait, doesn’t that make Biden unfit to be president? Different standards, I guess.
It’s clear from the report that the Border Patrol agents were just doing their jobs under difficult and chaotic conditions. Were they supposed to do nothing?
Probably, at least if the Biden administration had its way.
It doesn’t take 500 pages to conclude that the Biden administration found the Border Patrol agents guilty before this ridiculously lengthy “investigation” took place.
This is what happens when your administration takes its cues from the Twitter mob.
Related: How Journalists and Democrats Whipped Up Border Patrol Disinformation.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA:
Hawley: Why are you using the term “person with a capacity for pregnancy” instead of “woman?”
Bridges: “Your line of questioning is transphobic and opens trans people to violence.”
Hawley: “You’re saying I’m opening up people to violence by saying women can have pregnancies?”
They have supplanted reality with their mental delusions https://t.co/XqoRhB6G9o
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 12, 2022
GREAT MOMENTS IN OUTSOURCING: Jill Biden Has Her Press Secretary Apologize for Her Over Comparing Latinos to Tacos.
A few odd things. For one, it lacks the “x” the left loves to attach to the Latino community in order to make the term more “inclusive.” It’s a term the majority of the Latino community expressly rejects, so I can’t help but wonder if the lack of the “x” this time is the left’s way of doing a small bit of damage control.
Secondly, why didn’t the First Lady say this herself?
I feel like this was a message she could have delivered herself to a nearby reporter, yet she relegates this apology to a throwaway tweet by one of her underlings? That doesn’t actually convey regret, it conveys annoyance or cowardice. Either way, it’s not much of an apology.
This is a perfect opportunity to play the “what if it was a Republican” game. If someone outside of the Democrat Party had said something like this then you can damn well bet this would have been a blatant sign of racism according to the left. If a Republican had compared the Latino community to tacos you can bet they’d be blasting the term “racism and xenophobia” out of every working speaker.
Evergreen:
July 11, 2022
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why are online motorcycle forums drying up and dying?
As is obvious with the headline, this is a motorcycle forum-themed article. But anybody who has seen their favorite hobbyist Websites go from having huge active memberships producing loads of updated content to, in recent years, shrivel down to just a few remaining diehards, will relate to everything being described here.
MILTON FRIEDMAN ISN’T RUNNING THE SHOW ANYMORE: California Fights Inflation by Sending People Free Money.
CALIFORNIA DOCTOR FLOATS IDEA OF ABORTION SHIP OFF THE GULF COAST.
Shades of Saturday Night Live’s classic “Dukakis After Dark” Sketch, when painter Leroy Neimann, played by Kevin Nealon, tells Jon Lovitz’s dejected Dukakis that his latest painting is titled, “‘What Might Have Been.’ It shows the nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz after its conversion into a floating shelter for the homeless.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN PANDERING: Jill Biden Tells Texas Hispanics They Are as ‘Unique as the Breakfast Tacos’ During Speech in San Antonio.
First Lady Jill Biden told a group of progressive Texas Hispanic voters they were as “unique” as “breakfast tacos” during a speech Monday in San Antonio.
Biden addressed a crowd assembled for the UnidosUS Annual Conference, which began on Saturday.
According to video of her remarks obtained by Jorge Bonilla of the the conservative Media Research Center, she compared attendees to breakfast tacos.
She also mispronounced the word “bodega” when she said “bogeda.”
UPDATE: The Hunter Biden iCloud leak double-standard. “Cockburn isn’t one to traffic in conspiracy theory — but it does strike him as rather odd that two weeks before the presidential election, damaging information about Hunter was snuffed out of circulation… yet now, as poll after poll emphasizes the president’s unpopularity, embarrassing videos of his son seem to be fair game…”
(Updated and bumped.)
WHAT HAPPENED TO “MY BODY, MY CHOICE?” Transgender Teen Testifies About Regretting the Transition, Lefties Lose Their Minds.
LISTEN, SUG: DON’T FORGET TO SAY YOUR PRAYERS. NYC releases PSA for what to do in case of nuclear attack.
Forget “duck and cover”; “get inside” and “stay tuned.”
If a nuclear blast befalls the Big Apple, New Yorkers should immediately seek shelter indoors and stay put.
That’s according to a new public service announcement the city released Monday outlining the three key steps New Yorkers should take in case Gotham gets nuked, either by a foreign power or a terrorist with a “dirty bomb”:
- Get inside
- Stay inside
- Stay tuned
“As the threat landscape continues to evolve, it is important that New Yorkers know we are preparing for any imminent threats and are providing them with the resources they need to stay safe and informed,” said the city’s Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol in a statement on July 11.
>While the likelihood of such an attack in or around the Five Boroughs is “very low,” according to the Emergency Management Department, the agency released a short video online to show that they have a plan in case it does.
And don’t forget to wear your mask when you’re in the fallout shelter:
Here’s a link to the referenced document if you want to see it for yourself.
Flashback: The Unexpected Return of Duck and Cover.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Elon Musk Backs Out Of Twitter Deal After Realizing He Can Read The Babylon Bee By Going Directly To Their Website.
DICK DURBIN TO PROGRESSIVES: Come on, we’re not gonna impeach SCOTUS justices.
Why would he, when they finally accomplished one of his most important goals?
