PUTTING PEOPLE WHO HATE OUR HISTORY IN CHARGE OF IT IS NATIONAL SUICIDE: The National Archives Provides a Chilling Taste of the Institutionalized Woke-ism Infecting America. “In order to counter supposed ‘institutional racism’ at the National Archives, NARA would institutionalize a new bureaucracy at all levels of the organization, staffing the agency with activists dedicated to a leftist agenda.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 8, 2021
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Capitol Hill Cowards: Reporters Were the Real Victims of the January 6 Riots.
Plus:
- The best parody video you’ll see all week
- Good guy with a gun… in California?
- It’s the return (exit, actually) of Creepy Porn Lawyer
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
HE’S TOO KIND: Reimagining Austin Police: Absolute Fucking Lunacy. “The document is filled top-to-bottom with wokespeak codswallop, but a whole lot of it boils to a single word: GIMME! Over and over again, the RPS task force, staffed from leftwing activists groups, demands that taxpayer money be taken away from the police and funneled directly into their pockets.”
DEEP STATE: There’s a New Twist in Tucker Carlson’s NSA Spying Claims. “The NSA leaked the contents of my email to journalists in an effort to discredit me. I know because I got a call from one of them saying, ‘Oh, this is what your email was about.’”
JOE CONCHA: Jen Psaki: Professional gaslighter on defunding the police.
Here’s how bad things are: In New York, murders are up nearly 50 percent compared to this point in (pre-pandemic) 2019. In Atlanta, the murder rate is up 60 percent from last year. Chicago has recorded more than 1,900 shootings, a 53 percent increase over 2019. In Portland, murders are up 800 percent. Seattle is seeing its highest homicide rate in 26 years.
And over the holiday weekend, at least 150 people were shot and killed during more than 400 shootings across this country.
Those are just a few examples. But all have a common thread: These cities are all run by Democratic mayors.
This recent New York Times headline sums up the overall situation: “With Homicides Rising, Cities Brace for a Violent Summer; Homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30 percent on average last year, and up another 24 percent for the beginning of this year, according to criminologists.”
As for keeping cops on the beat, someone should ask Psaki why police retirements are up 45 percent, while resignations are up 18 percent this year nationwide.
Someone should ask, but it isn’t like she has to face actual reporters each day.
BRYAN PRESTON: Revisionist History Now: How Will the Future See ‘Defund the Police’? “The white elites — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mayor Steve Adler, Mayor Jenny Durkan, and the like — who defunded the police voted to do something that systemically hurt people of color.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN: When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse.
Early Monday evening, at least nine men and women smashed cases and stripped shelves in San Francisco’s high-end Neiman Marcus store, fleeing with a fortune in designer handbags. The brazenness is out of control, is goaded on by the normalization of masks, and is directly enabled by district attorneys and other politicians.
The Golden City is joined by nearby Sacramento and Los Angeles, where retail crime has spiked, but across the country as district attorneys from Massachusetts to Missouri to Texas have declared they won’t defend citizens from theft, the story has gone much the same.
While it’s insane that crime is so severe and law enforcement so nonexistent in a prosperous city that businesses must close their doors early or shut them entirely, there’s more in store. Far more ominous than a sign of how bad things have gotten, darkened windows and shuttered doors reveal just how much worse things are going to get.
Spoiler: Lots worse.
But do read the whole thing anyway.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Suing Big Tech Fascists Is the Entertainment We Need. “This suit seems to be about a lot more than just Trump. It addresses the problems we have all been facing, especially since last year. A lot of us in conservative media have been dinged for questioning narratives about the pandemic or the election. Most of the time we’re proven right but the damage has already been done. That damage is has a dollar value, and it’s money that can never be recovered.”
INTERACTIVE MAP: Is Critical Race Theory at a school near you?
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Obama’s ‘Voter Protection Director’ Has a New Gig: Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
HMM: Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one.
Privately, multiple sources say, the relationship between Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance is not good. “There is great concern about this engine development,” one person in the industry said. “It’s much more than Tory Bruno is showing publicly. There is great concern that Blue is not putting enough attention and priority on the engine.”
For years, United Launch Alliance chief executive Tory Bruno had been saying the new Vulcan rocket, powered by two BE-4 engines, would launch in 2021. However, he recently told Aviation Week the first launch would slip into 2022. Bruno said this was due primarily to the mission’s customer, Astrobotic, whose Moon lander was not ready. Technically, Bruno said, Vulcan still had a chance to be ready for a 2021 launch.
This seems highly unlikely because it is already July, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) still does not have a pair of flight engines. After receiving the flight engines from Blue Origin, ULA needs to attach them to the Vulcan rocket, roll it to the launch pad, and conduct a lengthy series of tests before a hot-fire ignition. After this hot-fire test, the rocket will be rolled back to the hangar and prepared for an actual launch attempt. As of January, Bruno was saying this hot fire test with the flight engines would take place this summer. That will no longer happen.
In response to a question from Ars, ULA declined to offer an updated timeline for when it expects to take delivery of flight-ready BE-4 engines from Blue Origin.
ULA chose Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine back in 2014 to power its Vulcan heavy lift rockets — and seven years later no BE-4 has reached orbit.
WELL, IT IS RUN BY PROGRESSIVES WHO DESPISE ANYTHING POSITIVE IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Does San Antonio — the Alamo City — Hate the Alamo?
July 7, 2021
THEY’RE UP CLOSER TO 70% WHERE I LIVE: Gas Prices Have Increased 40% Under Democrat Joe Biden, Analysts Issue Warning About Future Prices.
SHALL NOT NOT BE INFRINGED: Cuomo’s New Anti-Gun-Crime Law Is a Shameless Gun Grab.
TONY KATZ: Did Rep. Cori Bush Violate Her Oath of Office? “Considering Speaker Pelosi’s willingness to excuse the anti-Semitism of fellow Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, I can only assume that Bush’s comments will not be given a second thought. But they should be. Americans should note the hate she spews, and the lies she tells.”
FORTUNATELY HIS TIME IS ALMOST UP: De Blasio Is Turning New York City Into a Toilet — Literally.
THERE REALLY IS NOTHING IT CAN’T DO: Did Caffeine Create The Enlightenment?
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Teaching Hate and Revenge: High School CRT Teacher Reveals the Horrible Truth About CRT.
Plus:
- The tweet collection Twitter doesn’t want you to see
- Justice comes for Brian Stelter’s former BFF
- If a Fauci wears a mask in the forest, does anyone care?
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
NOT THE LEGACY HE WANTED BUT THE ONE HE DESERVES: Bill de Blasio Will Be Replaced by a Cop or a Vigilante.
USEFUL IDIOTS? FELLOW TRAVELERS? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Twitter restricts account of expert who mocked China leader.
A New Zealand academic says Twitter temporarily restricted her account after she mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping.
University of Canterbury Professor Anne-Marie Brady is an expert on China’s attempts to exert political influence around the world and has been an outspoken critic of its ruling Communist Party. Last week, she sent tweets poking fun at the party’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
She said two of those tweets were temporarily marked “unavailable” by Twitter and her account was temporarily restricted over the weekend, before it was restored on Monday.
Twitter did not say what prompted its actions.
Edward Lucas, a columnist for The Times newspaper in Britain, wrote that it probably resulted from an online campaign of complaints by Communist Party agents which would have triggered an automatic response from Twitter while it investigated.
“After I had stoked a furor on Twitter and sent umpteen complaints, her account was restored,” Lucas wrote. “Less prominent victims of Chinese censorship would have scantier chances of redress.”
Indeed.
IT IS UNWISE TO ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE: If New COVID-19 Variants Need to Be Taken Very Seriously, Why Isn’t Biden Closing the Border?
SPACE… WELL, MARTIAN AIRSPACE: Mars Helicopter Sets Records in Most Challenging Flight Yet.
PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: Democrat Officials Are the Real ‘Domestic Terrorists.’