I NOTE, THOUGH, THAT NO ONE HAS SHOWN WHAT SHE SAID TO BE FALSE: NY Times Op-Ed: Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 7, 2024
OPEN THREAD: This is it, we’ll hit the heights.
I’M NOT CONVINCED THAT THE FAA IS ADDING ANY VALUE HERE: The Federal Aviation Administration has granted approval for the Falcon 9 launch of the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission, but is keeping the vehicle grounded for now for other missions.
When your “grievance” boils down to “Jews exist,” it never matters, and neither do you. Targets waiting to be serviced, and I’m glad Israel is finally treating them as such.
BUT IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? One Dietary Supplement Found to Reduce Aggression by Up to 28%.
“CALL HER DADDY PODCAST” INTERVIEWS KAMALA: “I listened to the entire show, by the way. Of course, it’s a softball interview, a complete safe space for Harris, so we don’t get to see her tested under pressure. We never do.”
WELL, OUR RULING CLASS IN THE WEST IS MOSTLY GARBAGE PEOPLE: The West has turned its back on Jews. “Politicians and the media alike emphasise the parallel rise of Islamophobia. Yet two-thirds of all religious hate crimes in America were directed at Jews, despite them accounting for just two per cent of the population.”
It’s all about narratives.
FASTER, PLEASE: Stem cell therapy shows promise at treating holes in retina.
WELL, THAT WOULD BE NICE: Could a single drug treat the two leading causes of death in the US: cancer and cardiovascular disease?
ERICK ERICKSON: Ignoring Biden’s Hurricane Incompetence. “Instead of prioritizing the response to stranded Americans in North Carolina, Biden and Harris were tweeting about the humanitarian crises in Lebanon and Ukraine.”
Plus: “If the victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina were black and the President was a Republican, national media reporters would be covering the government’s incompetent response with the epistemic vitriol they did following Katrina. Instead, we’re forced to rely on local reporters and updates from nonprofits like Samaritan’s Purse to understand what’s happening on the ground.”
Related:
WATCH 🤣
Peter Doocy laid out the facts on Hurricane Helene and caused Karine Jean-Pierre to immediately leave the press room pic.twitter.com/b9uNZceUCE
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 7, 2024
THE E.V. BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: The Internal Combustion Engine Is Not Dead: A global slump in sales is prompting automakers to rethink the rush to EVs.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Sitting less helps stop back pain from getting worse.
WE WERE HAVING SUCH A NICE, QUIET HURRICANE SEASON: Hurricane Milton live updates: Now a monster Category 5 storm as Florida orders evacuations.
SO SOME PEOPLE — INCLUDING ME — HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT STARLINK ACTIVATING DIRECT-TO-CELL TECHNOLOGY FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS. Some phones, such as later model iPhones, have a limited “emergency” satellite capability already. But this T-mobile announcement and this Starlink page indicate that the new capability will work with any phone with LTE capabilities, which nowadays is nearly all of them, I believe. The Starlink page says: “Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky. No changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps are required, providing seamless access to text, voice, and data.”
Rolling out text this week, voice and data were scheduled for 2025, though that pace may be accelerated now. Impressive stuff.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: One year after 10/7 attacks and Democrat-run states have let antisemitism fester: Antisemitism is a big problem for blue states where protesters celebrate ‘death to Israel.’ “October 7th was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas invaded Israel, murdering people at random, raping, destroying homes and kidnapping people back to Gaza. There are more than 100 still held hostage, including four Americans. Raw and hurting, American Jews watched the streets of U.S. cities fill up with crowds. The people in the streets weren’t marching to stand with the slaughtered and the raped. They were gleeful, exuberant and there were many of them.”
Plus:
The ADL is a left-leaning Jewish organization, and yet they admit, “On a per capita basis, the states with the highest concentration of antisemitic incidents were New Jersey – with 8.93 incidents per 100,000 residents – followed by Vermont (6.64), Massachusetts (6.28), New York (6.23), Maryland (5.49) and Connecticut (5.09). On the city level, two cities – Manhattan (26.84 per 100,000) and Washington, D.C. (25.75 per 100,000) – stood out with far and away the highest levels of incidents per capita. Brookyln [sic], NY, stood out specifically in terms of physical assault incidents, with 1.16 assaults per 100,000 residents.” Again, all deep blue states and cities.
Why is Blue America such a cesspit of hatred and violence?
Related: “We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it.”
DIVERSITY PROJECT: Brown U. employees gave over 225 times more $$ to Harris/Biden than Trump.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Columbia updates policy to define race-neutral practices as discriminatory.
DONALD TRUMP: THE SALENA ZITO INTERVIEW. Trump on not letting anything get in the way of unfinished business.
Former President Donald Trump set the tone for the final stretch of the presidential race when he took to the stage here in Butler, turning away from the crowd for the briefest of seconds, just as he did 12 weeks ago, and said, “As I was saying.”
Starting where he left off on July 13 before he was shot.
Those four words told everyone, perhaps even more so than when he raised his fist toward the crowd shouting, “Fight, Fight, Fight,” that he was a man who was not going to be knocked down, and was willing to leave everything on the field to take care of unfinished business in the White House.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner before the rally, Trump was somber in explaining how important it was to him to honor the family of Corey Comperatore, the former volunteer fire chief who was killed during the shooting in July. . . .
Like East Palestine, Ohio, just 30 miles as the crow flies west, the people who live here in Butler are often anywhere from fourth to ninth-generation residents who would not care to live anywhere else. They are also often forgotten by the people in the national media, corporations, government, and academia, who view their sense of place as the “middle of nowhere.”
Trump says it is important to him to show up in places like Butler, but also in East Palestine, as he did a couple of weeks after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed, causing an environmental disaster.
The former president showed up that day, walking through the entire village through pounding sleet and mud, bringing crates of water bottles and buying hamburgers from the local McDonalds for the workers.
Read the whole thing.
CHANGE:
SpaceX and @TMobile have been given emergency special temporary authority by the @FCC to enable @Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cell phones in the affected areas of Hurricane Helene.
The satellites have already been enabled and…
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 6, 2024
UPDATE:
NEWS: SpaceX engineer Mike Coryell, who has been with the company for 10 years, has spent the past week in North Carolina.
He says they have already deployed over 1,000 Starlink kits in the valley, with each deployment enabling 10x more people to communicate. So far, they've… pic.twitter.com/A9nikFI1bg
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 6, 2024
ICYMI, MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Schrodinger’s Election.