Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 6, 2020
“MOSTLY PEACEFUL” MEANS “PARTLY VIOLENT”: Here Are The Four Portland Teenagers Facing Federal Charges Related To Violent Protests.
THEN STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS: More than 80% of black Americans want same or more police presence in neighborhood.
August 5, 2020
WILL HE CHOOSE THE FAR-LEFT RADICAL OR THE FAR-FAR LEFT RADICAL? Sources Close to Biden Say He’s Narrowed His VP List to Two.
TODAY AT 3:30 P.M. ET: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Preston.
These chats have been a lot of fun to do, and not only as an excuse for day-drinking.
COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Ted Cruz: Antifa Rioters ‘Are Profoundly Racist.’
IT SURE DID LOOK EQUIVALENT TO A TACTICAL NUKE: Beirut Blast: How Many Kilotons? “I wrote Lebanon expert Michael Totten to ask about the blast, and he said he heard that the Lebanese Army has been storing confiscated high explosives there since 2014. If we assume that it’s ANFO rather than straight ammonium nitrate, that’s about 72% as effective as TNT, and with just under twice the detonation velocity of ammonium nitrate. That yields a blast of 1.98 kilotons.”
Read the whole thing.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Did CNN, PBS Cross the Line with Two New Documentaries? “The publicly funded network shillls for the left, while CNN promotes itself.”
IT ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: ‘Hittin’ the Franzia pretty hard?’ Thread taking S.E. Cupp’s ‘president wish list’ apart is so BRUTALLY GOOD we had to share it.
TOM KNIGHTON: Guns Seized In VA’s First Red Flag’ Case.
SAD: Joe Biden Refuses 1 Simple Cognitive Test, His Weird Excuse Is Cringeworthy. “Well… if he can’t figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘Kindergarten Cop’ Triggers Cancel Culture Police.
Insanity Wrap believes that cancel queen Lois “Karen” Leveen has never actually seen Kindergarten Cop because there’s no way she could have let slide the movie’s second-funniest line.
”Boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina.”
Her head would have literally figuratively exploded.
Plus so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
SKYNET SMILES: Russia to Hold Firing Tests of Its Combat Robot. “To date, the shooting tests of the Marker robotic combat platform have shown that it can strike targets quicker and more accurately than professional shooters, while the combat robot is also capable of distinguishing between civilians and military personnel. It has been ‘trained’ to determine the difference between unarmed targets and those that pose an active threat and to only fire at the latter.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Which Biden VP Option Would Be Less of a Train Wreck? “Let’s be honest, it’s been heading towards ‘train wreck’ ever since Biden committed to picking a female running mate. He’s now all but obligated himself to picking a woman of color, which probably has all of the ulcers on his campaign staff bleeding double.”
HMM: Baby Boomers Are Experiencing Greater Cognitive Decline Than Previous Generations, Study Finds.
Though people do generally lose a step or two in their brain power as part of the normal aging process, the study found there was an improving trend in cognitive function across generations born before and during World War II. The study had data for the following cohorts: Greatest Generation (born 1890-1923); Early Children of Depression (born 1924-1930); Late Children of Depression (born 1931-1941); War Babies (born 1942-1947); early baby boomers (born 1948–1953); and mid baby boomers (born 1954–1959).
While each generation before the boomers had improved later-life cognition compared to the one before it, the boomers showed a decline compared to war babies, breaking the pattern of improvement.
“It is shocking to see this decline in cognitive functioning among baby boomers after generations of increases in test scores,” study author Hui Zheng, professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, said in a statement released by the university. “But what was most surprising to me is that this decline is seen in all groups: men and women, across all races and ethnicities and across all education, income and wealth levels.”
Zheng also tried to account for age-related declines in cognition by looking only at the scores of people in their early 50s. But again, early baby boomers in their 50s on average had lower test scores than did people from earlier generations in that same age group. That likely means that whatever is causing this drop in cognition, the decline started becoming apparent by the time baby boomers were still middle-aged.
If this study pans out, I’d guess the results are due to increases in obesity and/or drug use.
2020 SUMMED UP IN A SINGLE HEADLINE: Popular queer Native American Twitter account turns out to be unpopular straight white woman.
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Seattle Police Violated Civil Rights by Defending Themselves, Protesters Claim in Orwellian Lawsuit.