Author Archive: Stephen Green

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Intriguing – Palm Beach to Decide Whether Trump Can Live in the Building He Owns.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is the owner of a property merely a guest on that property?

Answer: Palm Beach is going to get back to you on that one.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • Voter suppression is in the I of the FB
  • Sometimes the roads fall off
  • Kristen Cenoweth self-cancels with the most embarrassing Dem-worship ever

Bonus Sanity: Jared Kushner nominated for a much-deserved Nobel Peace Prize.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

IT WASN’T ANTI-RACISM: Asian-American Activists Blast Biden’s ‘Pandering’ Anti-Racism Order.

Biden signed an order to combat “racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders” on Tuesday. The order—which requires federal agencies to fight anti-Asian racism and promote “sensitivity” toward the Asian community in their pandemic response—was met with skepticism by some activists. Kenny Xu, an activist and author of an upcoming book, An Inconvenient Minority, called the order mere lip service aimed at progressives.

“I can see this whole issue of COVID racism being used as a way to satiate Asian-American victimhood mentality,” Xu said. “At the same time, the order is not addressing some real policy-based issues that Asian Americans face on a practical and actionable level.”

Xu and other activists worry that despite its pro-Asian-American rhetoric, the Biden administration will undo some of the Trump White House’s initiatives to combat anti-Asian racism. Chief among their concerns is the issue of affirmative action, which critics say rejects qualified Asian candidates to make room for other minority groups at elite institutions.

Message sent: Democrats aren’t interested in assimilated minorities.

IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE SHUT UP, FAT: Critics Who Called Trump ‘Authoritarian’ Are Silent On Biden’s Executive Order Spree. “This lack of reaction by the left comes after journalists, pundits, politicians, and other notable Trump critics spent years condemning Trump for using his federal authority to sign executive orders and execute his agenda. Beginning even before his time in office, Trump critics claimed democracy and the United States were threatened by the potential for him to pen executive orders.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Pathetic Republican Squishes Are Learning It’s Still Trump’s Party. “The moderate/left/LincolnProjectPedo wing (all 35 of them) of the GOP is insistent that the Republican hoi polloi reject all things Trump and do whatever they can to make The New York Times say nice things about them on occasion. Their dream GOP is a grandstanding bunch of mush that never really accomplishes anything or directly addresses the concerns of the people who elect them.”

UH-HUH: WhatsApp says new biometric features are nothing to worry about.

A Facebook account is not required to use WhatsApp, but whenever the update goes live, users must agree to grant Facebook access to metadata including IP addresses, user location, battery level, and IMEI numbers, or the permanent identifier associated with a smartphone.

“Trust us” — WhatsApp has gone on the defensive, trying to emphasize that Facebook cannot read users’ communications, nor does it keep logs of location data or private messages. But Facebook hasn’t been clear what it intends to use the collected metadata for. It could potentially be used to target users in advertisements. User data collected by Facebook has been misused in the past, such as to hide housing advertisements from users in poorer locales or target political ads discouraging certain demographics from voting.

Facebook hasn’t earned a whole lot of trust (cough, cough), and WhatsApp’s privacy-minded co-founders left shortly after selling to Facebook.

THE ALIENS AREN’T GOING TO BE TOO HAPPY WHEN THEY LEARN THE NAVY IS PATENTING THEIR INVENTIONS: The Navy Just Filed Patents for New Unbelievable Superweapons. “In 2019, the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) filed a number of seemingly out of this world patents that could, in theory, revolutionize not only military aviation, but just about everything. Chief among these strange new inventions is a High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator, which if functional, could produce massive amounts of power with far reaching military and commercial implications. Interestingly, the patent also closely resembles longstanding theories posited by UFO researchers about the means of propulsion seemingly employed by alien visitors to our world.”

HEALING: Ceramic-based ink enables 3D-printed bone tissue. “A ceramic-based ink could one day allow surgeons to 3D-print bone parts complete with living cells, claim scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Sheila Jackson-Lee Will Decide If You’re Sane Enough to Buy a Gun.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Would a law empowering the federal government to determine who is sane be the craziest thing ever?

Answer: Yes. Next question?

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • The Left looks and acts increasingly like third-rate Batman villains
  • Google drops the demonetization hammer again, now on Epoch Times
  • Chris Cillizza finally learns the awful truth about Andrew Cuomo, hems and haws anyway

Bonus Sanity: Everything you ever wanted to know about Jewish space lasers*.

*But were afraid someone would tell you.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.