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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 19, 2024
THEY’RE ALWAYS ERASING WOMEN, BUT WOMEN STILL VOTE FOR THEM:
In the press filing center at the DNC, organizers took away the ladies room. pic.twitter.com/YsnVbacjEW
— Susan Ferrechio (@susanferrechio) August 19, 2024
Well, unmarried women, mostly.
WHY IS THE COLLAPSE OF THE ICON OF A VICIOUS THEOCRACY A BAD OMEN? ‘Bad Omen’: Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapses Into Pile of Rubble. I mean, we’re tearing down statues here.
R.I.P. PHIL DONAHUE. “The humorist Erma Bombeck, a friend of his from Dayton, described Mr. Donahue as ‘every wife’s replacement for the husband who doesn’t talk to her.'”
I like to remember him for this gem:
Imagine how Milton Friedman would be treated on The View.
WOEING: Space Suit Designs Could Stall Boeing Starliner Astronauts’ Return From the International Space Station. “Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two astronauts Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft ferried into space in June, face an interesting conundrum about how they finally get home. Their ride back to Earth is in question thanks to issues with Starliner, and NASA is poised to make critical decisions on the issue soon. One of the toughest questions about their return trip from space has nothing to do with rockets. Instead, the latest issue centers around space suit sockets and seats. . . . The problem is simple: Should Butch and Suni need to fly back aboard SpaceX’s vehicle, their suits won’t fit in Dragon’s seats.”
HMM: Feeling Less Fulfilled? It Could Be an Early Sign of Dementia. Or, you know, of the current administration/economy.
MOSTLY LEARNING FROM FAILURE, ALAS: Ten Months of Lessons from the Red Sea. “Since the Houthi joined a second front with the Gazans against Israel by attacking international shipping in the Red Sea and its approaches, the US Navy has led the international response and has been engaged in continuous combat operations facing almost all anti-ship weapons that any navy would expect to face in 2024.”
VIDEO: Blue Origin New Glenn Status and Factory Tour. I want Blue Origin to be successful, but at this point I need them to show me something.
COPY EDITORS? WHAT COPY EDITORS?
This is what happens when you airdrop a candidate who received zero votes and delegates. 🤷 https://t.co/1DShi1p4v5
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 19, 2024
WELL, THEY COULDN’T RISK ENCOUNTERING THE REALITY OF WORKING-CLASS TRUMP SUPPORT WHILE KAMALA WAS POSING AS A WORKING CLASS HERO:
Everything about the Harris campaign is fake.
Prior to her stop at Primanti’s (the PA sandwich chain), every single customer was kicked out and replaced with actors.
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) August 19, 2024
Related:
Not a single store in Milwaukee boarded up their businesses when thousands of Republicans came to the RNC.
These business owners are boarding up ahead of the DNC.
Why are Democrats always so violent? pic.twitter.com/jOz8ciX80I
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 18, 2024
Flashback: Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.
Plus: You can tell it’s a working-class election by the lies Harris and Walz choose to tell.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why We Practice. “Over the years, I have tried to find ways to get the most out of my practice sessions. I quickly found that marathon sessions, spending hours as the shooting range, were generally a waste of time. Short sessions, where I really focus, seem to be the most productive.”
This is my approach. It works pretty well. I’m a competent, but not brilliant, shooter.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Methamphetamine-involved psychiatric hospitalizations have increased, study says.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Report: ULA is losing engineers; SpaceX is launching every two days.
WHEN THE BILL FOR THE GRIFT COMES DUE: Clean Fuel Startups Were Supposed to Be the Next Big Thing. Now They Are Collapsing: Hydrogen and biofuel projects have become money pits, threatening climate progress.
Startups promising to power planes, ships and trucks with clean fuel are sputtering before they get off the ground, showing how hard it will be to wean many industries off oil and gas.
A company backed by United Airlines that raised hundreds of millions of dollars to turn trash into jet fuel appears to have shut down. Another, backed by Airbus, JetBlue and GE Aerospace, that was working on using hydrogen to power planes went bust. Chevron, BP and Shell, meanwhile, are scaling back projects to make biofuels from cooking fats, oils, greases and plant material.
“The excitement of the early days has not lived up to the hype,” said Andy Marsh, chief executive of Plug Power, a startup that recently opened one of the country’s first plants making green hydrogen, a potential replacement for fossil fuels in industries such as steel making and chemical production.
Shares of Plug Power have tumbled more than 90% since the passage of the U.S. climate law two years ago. Shares of biofuels startup Gevo, where Marsh is a board member, are down about 80% in that span.
The failures and delays are all but extinguishing the early optimism after the climate law passed. Rising costs have pushed out project timelines and made it more difficult for companies to raise money. The government’s delays in completing tax credits are adding to the challenges.
Without clean fuels, emissions at many companies are expected to keep climbing, threatening U.S. and global climate targets. Industries including aviation and shipping are counting on the new fuels because wind and solar power and batteries can’t meet their huge energy needs.
Emissions are the least. If the greens had practiced sound science and replaced coal with nuclear plants 40 years ago, we’d have plenty of cheap power and a cleaner environment.
HE’S NOT WRONG:
Make it to the Olympics and be the 12th best swimmer out of 8 billion people in the world, and you win nothing.
Be the 12th best plumber in a city of 1 million people, and you are set for life.
Life is a game. Be careful which games you play.
— Brandon Avedikian (@bavedikian) August 4, 2024
AS WITH ANY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM, SPENDING MORE DOESN’T ALWAYS MAKE THINGS BETTER, AND CAN IN FACT MAKE THINGS WORSE: Searching for the military Laffer Curve: More May Not Be Better.
HOW BAD IS THE BIDEN/HARRIS ECONOMY? THIS BAD: NY Times: Abortion Clinics Everywhere Are Going Broke. “A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn’t the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP’s president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way. Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost anywhere you look around the country. The story recounts the experience of a clinic in Washington DC which tried to expand in the Los Angeles area. It didn’t go well.”
Next Kamala campaign move: Blame pro-lifers for inflation.
WELL, CHELSEA HANDLER:
Liberal White women are batsht crazy.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 18, 2024
TROUBLING IF TRUE. BUT BELIEVABLE.
The West, particularly the Biden-Harris administration, isn't just delaying and denying military aid to Ukraine; it's actively sabotaging Ukrainian military operations and leaking details to the Russians in a concerted effort to prevent Russia's defeat. 1/6 https://t.co/SS64tB6pG6 pic.twitter.com/5ByjuGVdlY
— Ukraine Reporter (@StateOfUkraine) August 18, 2024
As I’ve mentioned before, the Biden/Harris Administration seems to want Ukraine (and Israel) fighting, but not actually winning.
HE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE: To Beat the Democrats, Destroy the Media First. Think of control of the news media as air superiority. You can fight without it, but it’s hard to consistently win without it.
WE GET IT, YOU’RE ASSHOLES: Anti-Israel activists disrupt Rutgers new student orientation, brag on social media.
OH NO, NOT THE STAYING HOME PART: College socialist students plan to ‘strike for Palestine’ by staying home and skipping class to cause ‘disruption.’
I love when people who produce nothing think they can wield power by going on “strike.”
DESPITE ALL THE FLUFFING, SHE’S STILL A WEAK CANDIDATE: Different Candidate, Same Plan: Despite the widespread enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, she is a weak candidate—and the race may still hinge on what Donald Trump does or doesn’t do. Widespread enthusiasm?
Meanwhile, a friend in Boston texts: “In bluest Mass, all over Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, haven’t seen a Harris-Walz bumpersticker in days. FYI. Could prob count on one hand the ones I’ve seen since she ascended. Also notably absent is any update of ‘Any functional adult in 2020.’ Apparently functionality is no longer a concern. But it’s unclear what is. Obviously a lack of enthusiasm for this situation that was foisted on them. Does foisting another, like these Michelle DNC rumblings, fix that? I dunno. I mean, a lefty port in a storm, I suppose. All that being as it may be, it’s all entirely irrelevant when elections are decided by antifa with stacks of unverifiable mail-in ballots.”