MAYBE IT’S A BIG LIE, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN:

Ironically all that the caring, inclusive and peace loving policies seem to have done is create poverty, racial and religious riots and war. What bad luck.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 7, 2024

HAVE A BLAST: Celebrate National Shooting Sports Month.

IF HE’S BEEN ALIVE FOR THAT LONG, WE CAN JUST ASK HIM ABOUT IT! 135-million-year-old marine crocodile sheds light on Cretaceous life.

WOEING: Boeing Starliner astronauts might not return to Earth until next year, NASA says. “Boeing Starliner astronauts, stranded at the International Space Station after a weeklong test flight turned into a two-month stay due to thruster problems, may be forced to fly home on SpaceX in 2025, NASA has admitted. NASA updated reporters Wednesday at a news conference, which Boeing did not attend, on the timeline for crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. The astronauts have been in space for 63 days with no return date in sight.”

Martin Caidin, call your office.

UPDATE (From Ed): You too, Kamala!

Perhaps the astronauts could still be recovered even if forced to bailout into the cloud:

JUST BE SURE IT’S DUKE’S OR BAMA: Pass the mayo: Condiment could help improve fusion energy yields. Hellman’s is acceptable in a pinch.

“Pinch” in a fusion post. I crack myself up.

I’M NOT A FAN OF ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS: Study finds more evidence of common artificial sweetener posing heart risk.

EASIER THAN AN EPIPEN, THOUGH LESS DRAMATIC: FDA approves nasal injection epinephrine for anaphylactic reaction.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Mpox outbreak puts Africa on brink of official public health emergency.

Flashback: You had one job, CDC.

WON’T BACK DOWN: Harrison Butker: ‘I stand behind what I said’ about homemaking, marriage.

Related: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?

STOLEN VALOR: Mackubin Owens on Tim Walz’s Military Service Controversies.

BLUE ON BLUE: Fordham prof’s book blames Latinos for anti-black racism.

EXACTLY:

It can happen with stunning speed even without WW3. For example Boeing.https://t.co/SFeC5TYgXs

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 10, 2024

JAMES LILEKS, AN ACTUAL MIDWESTERN DAD, LOOKS AT TIM WALZ: America’s Midwestern Dad?

The stories in the news talk about Walz’s “big dad energy!” Yay patriarchy, apparently. His legions of new fans describe his grounded Midwestern appeal, sensible and practical like the rest of the denizens of the great flat lands. The stories about his days as a high school teacher paint a picture of a man whose students liked him, a lot, and how he was a great teacher. No reason to doubt that.

And it doesn’t mean anything, anyway. I loved my teachers, too, but then years later you see their name attached to a letter in the paper yelling at Ronnie Raygun for being mean to the Sandinistas. Ohhhhkay well, I’ll just remember the good times, when he was failing me at chemistry.

It’s there to distract you from the fact that he’s basically a commie.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Second court crushes Biden’s assault on AR-style pistols.

FEET-VOTING: After Tim Walz Became Governor, Minnesotans Fled the State—and Took Almost $5 Billion With Them.

MAKE THEM PAY: The Legal Backlash to DEI Training. “It turns out that putting Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi in charge of the nation’s collective HR programs hasn’t gone smoothly in all cases. Who would have guessed? Today the Washington Post has a story about the legal backlash that ubiquitous anti-racism training has created. There are at least 59 current lawsuits brought against these training programs by people who say they felt discriminated against.

A good start.

WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE JEWS? Democrats Greenlight Campus Zionist Purge By Passing Over Shapiro: Democrats just gave anti-Zionists a win. It will be like blood in the water in a campus pool infested with anti-Israel sharks.

“RULE OF LAW:” U.S. Secret Service Breaks into Massachusetts Hair Salon and Tapes Over Security Camera, Allegedly to Let People Use the Bathroom During Kamala Harris Fundraiser.

The entitled, incompetent Secret Service should be disbanded and replaced by people who are competent and know their place.

#JOURNALISM:

One of the best parts of story: Willie asked Trump’s secretary for tail number of plane. She said you’ll know it when ya see it at Logan. He did: it had TRUMP emblazoned in zillion pt font

— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) August 10, 2024

ALL BUILT ON A LIE: ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’: The 10th Anniversary of Michael Brown’s Death.

OPEN THREAD: Happy Friday.

CHINA IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS: Chinese megaconstellation launch creates field of space debris.

HMM: 8 Minutes on TikTok Is Enough to Harm Body Image in Young Women.

ED MORRISSEY: Could the media already have tired of The Silence of the Kams? “Today, however, the leader of the Protection Racket Media signaled their curiosity — at least — about what Harris plans to do if she wins the election. Following up on a Trump tax-cut plan that they conceded could make a difference in the election, the New York Times wondered where Harris’ economic plan might be … and when voters can see it. Their headline wasn’t exactly subtle about it, either.”

So if you think Kamala needs policies to campaign you’d do this. But if you think she’s going to lose, you might also do this because you need eyeballs and ears and the Basement Campaign is boring.

SORRY, LADIES:

BREAKING: Imane Khalif, a male, just won a gold medal in women’s boxing.

What a time to be alive pic.twitter.com/2d0IRy0xXx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 9, 2024