MOSTLY PEACEFUL MEANS PARTLY VIOLENT: BLM ‘Protesters’ Take Over a McDonald’s, Assault the Black Manager.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 8, 2020
WHO? BidenWatch for September 7, 2020. “Dueling Kenosha visits, Biden’s polls fall, 2016 all over again, and more Chinese shenanigans.”
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Senior BBC producer admits sharing ‘inaccurate’ pro-Palestinian propaganda on Twitter.
WOEING: Another popular Boeing plane is reportedly being investigated by the FAA after newly discovered production errors ground 8 aircraft. “After Boeing notified airlines in late August of manufacturing issues with some of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft stemming from quality-control issues during production, eight planes were grounded as a result. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration is stepping in to investigate potential defects in the aircraft program’s production.”
BRAVE SIR ROBIN BRAVELY TURNED AND FLED: The Atlantic Editor In Chief Jeffrey Goldberg Says Anonymous Sourcing Is ‘Not Good Enough’ After Backlash Over Trump Story.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Minneapolis Hypocrites Arrest #DefundThePolice.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When you use a smear to prove something that turns out to be a lie, is the smear true?
Answer: It is when you’re Atlantic smear artist Jeffrey Goldberg.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
When did John McAfee become our nation’s voice of sanity?
The Left loves the workingman (and other lies).
#DefundThePolice hits a roadblock.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: The Media Are Lying About The Election Again.
Incredibly, both NBC News and the Cook Political Report continue to rate Florida as “Lean Democrat” according to their “experts.” No offense, but do they think people are stupid? [Think it? They’re counting on it. –Steve]
Trump won Florida by more than one point four years ago and a state Democrats were unable to carry in 2018, when they lost both the governor and senate races. That year, the RCP polling average predicted Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum would win by 3.6 points. He in fact lost narrowly to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The RCP polling average predicted Democrat Bill Nelson would win by 2.4. He lost to Rick Scott narrowly. Those polling averages were less off than the final result mostly because Trafalgar called the race correctly.
The latest Quinnipiac poll shows a 10-point momentum in Florida toward Trump, where he trails within the margin of error, and where Trafalgar has the president ahead by three points. (For what it’s worth, Trafalgar was the only pollster to correctly poll key states in the 2016 and 2018 races.)
The media and the Democrats may not like it, but this race is clearly different from where it was at the end of June, where Trump’s job approval had been going down for three straight months and he bottomed out at 41 percent in the RealClearPolitics average. Today Trump’s job approval is on a three-month upswing and is over 44 percent in the RealClearPolitics average. Three points may not seem like a lot, but in the real world where the critical battleground states will likely be decided by less than that amount, three points are the difference between winning and losing.
It isn’t that Mollie Hemingway is wrong about anything in this column, it’s just that this is no time to get cocky.
DECOUPLING, GOOD AND HARD: Chinese chip giant SMIC ‘in shock’ after US trade ban threat.
Related: U.S. ban worries cloud China’s hopes for chip self-sufficiency.
Faster, please.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Is Unloading Both Barrels on Critical Race Theory Just in Time. “While Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep continues history’s most tragic struggle with teleprompter reading, President Trump is busy using the power of the incumbency to laser focus and finish big. The reason that the media is working hard to keep the hit piece on Trump by The Atlantic alive is to deflect from Biden’s complete lack of a real campaign.”
IT’S REALLY BAD: Northern Colorado wildfire’s growth prompts new evacuations; firefighters say coming snow could help.
Here in Monument, we’re about 115 miles south of Fort Collins and the air was so bad yesterday I couldn’t step outside without stepping back inside long enough to swap out contact lenses for glasses.
HMM: China celebrates safe landing of secretive spacecraft as ‘important breakthrough.’
Very little is known about the spacecraft, including even its basic design. There are no picture or renders of the craft, but there have been rumors it is a spaceplane similar to the Air Force’s X-37B. A Chinese military source told the South China Morning Post they could not provide details on the mission but that “maybe you can take a look at the US X-37B.”
The X-37B is a spaceplane roughly a quarter the size of America’s Space Shuttle orbiters, a series of spaceplanes that were launched into orbit from rockets between 1981 and 2011, and were able to glide back to Earth and land on runways to be repaired and reused. The X37-B follows the same basic operation but is always uncrewed. The US Air Force describes the X37-B as an “experimental test program” that is being used to demonstrate reusable space technologies.
The relatively abrupt test of the mysterious Chinese craft may surprise some, but it tracks with the country’s ambitions to create reusable spaceplanes, says Andrew Jones, a freelance journalist who follows China’s space program. Jones told The Verge last week: “There’s lots of interest in China in spaceplanes.” He added: “They’ve said that they’re going to do this, and they seem to be doing it kind of somewhat on schedule.”
More to come, I’m sure.
THE NEW NORMAL UNDER A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Harris Refuses to Back Stronger Police Presence.
Or maybe she’ll do a 180 after the next internal poll on law and order.
IMPRESSIVE: ‘Sci-Fi Awesome’—A U.S. Army Howitzer Just Shot Down A Cruise Missile.
The cannon-based air-defense was part of a two-day trial of a new command system the Air Force is developing. The Advanced Battle Management System is an artificial intelligence that takes sensor data from a whole bunch of different sources—satellites, stealth fighters, blimps, ground-based radar installations—and combines it.
What results is a digital picture of a whole battlefield. The A.I. then identifies the friendly forces that could destroy a particular target and gives commanders a menu from which to pick a shooter.
ABMS is big, ambitious and controversial. The Air Force wants it—and is willing to give up existing command planes in order to free up the money. Congress is skeptical the new control system will work as well as the Air Force insists it will.
It worked well enough to help a howitzer shoot down a missile.
Most impressive.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump Takes Aim at Marxist Propaganda Behind the BLM Riots.
September 7, 2020
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Black Woman Takes Antifa Rioters to Task for Calling Her a ‘F***ing N****r B**ch.’
BUILD A MAN A FIRE AND HE’LL BE WARM FOR A NIGHT; SET A MAN ON FIRE AND HE’LL BE WARM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE: Portland’s Burning Man Inspires the Internet, Hilarity Ensues.