BRYAN PRESTON: Burger King’s Cow Farts Ad Highlights Something the Left Hates — Private Sector Innovation Over Government Intervention. “You know, cow farts have been my number one environmental concern. Well, make that number two.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 17, 2020
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Shaq to the Rescue and the Sneaky Skinny Dipper.
TACKED ON TO A SMALLER ECONOMY, TOO: The Chinese property bubble is now bigger than the U.S. housing bubble that led to the Great Recession.
DENVER: No plans currently to address growing tent city near Capitol.
The area in question causing heartburn for Colorado Republican lawmakers is Lincoln Park, a piece of land that is owned by the state and bordered by Broadway and Lincoln streets on the east and west and 14th and Colfax avenues on the north and south. It lies just west of the state capitol building and just east of Civic Center Park.
There are no public bathrooms, the sprinkler system has been shut off because campers have broken sprinkler heads, rats can be seen in the park. Campers are defecating in public, and they are obstructing sidewalks.
“This is just another consequence of a lack of leadership in the metro area,” said Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, the Republican senator who represents multiple counties across eastern Colorado. “Officials don’t support the police, so law and order take a back seat.”
According to Colorado State Trooper Josh Lewis, his office is aware of the issues, and despite being the law enforcement division that oversees the one square block park, there is nothing troopers can do.
Denver is such a lovely city, it’s a damn shame what its voters and leadership are doing to it.
NOTHING GOOD. More Than Just a Fire: The Implications of the Bonhomme Richard Catastrophe. “As I write this, the USS Bonhomme Richard — a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship — burns at Pier 2, Naval Station San Diego. Scores of Navy and civilian firefighters have fought the blaze for over 72 hours and it is difficult to tell from afar how much progress is being made. One thing is clear: The ship will likely be, at best, out of action for years or, at worst, stricken from Navy rolls. In either case, there will be considerable impact to ongoing naval operations, force development efforts, and naval integration initiatives. While navalists tend to judge navies by the number of ships that comprise them, the plain truth is that not all ships are created equal. The loss of some ships is much worse than others. That is what Americans are watching happen before their eyes. Confidence in the Navy is shaken.”
TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS WHATEVER THE PARTY REQUIRES IS TO EQUAL:
And the video:
Unidentifiable? It literally says "police" in big yellow letters right on their uniforms. And these domestic terrorists have been committing serious felonies every night for months. Now they're finally being treated like the big boys they wanted to be. Congratulations. https://t.co/6dTNH1yEsB
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 17, 2020
Plus: “These terrorists have been wreaking havoc at will for months and now they’re fainting like helpless flowers because the government is finally dealing with them accordingly. Cry some more. Nobody cares.”
Indeed.
YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Racist Red Bull Map Gets Execs Fired, Plus Savage Airport Race Brawl. “Social media makes people dumber, coarser, and more intolerant, but probably only if they started out dumb, coarse, and intolerant. Therefore, Insanity Wrap recommends lefties stay off of social media for their own good.”
USEFUL IDIOT? FELLOW TRAVELER? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Democrat Senate Candidate Hegar Compares U.S. Border Facilities to China’s Concentration Camps As Ghastly Footage Resurfaces.
LIVING HISTORY: A student has rebuilt the machine that first cracked German Enigma codes. “A student at the University of Cambridge built the first replica of the 1930s Polish cyclometer.”
The British wartime decoding effort at Bletchley Park is far better known, but it was the Poles in the pre-war period who really got the cylinders turning.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Not Coming to a Town Near You—Joe Biden’s Invisible Presidential Campaign. “Because conspiracy theories all have some validity now (I’m even questioning the moon landing since the plague hit), it’s not a stretch to believe that the Biden campaign brain trust hopes that the COVID news gets worse to provide them with an excuse to keep Gropey Joe in the basement. I’ve been saying that for over a month and I’m not alone. Many believe that some sort of COVID-related crisis will be manufactured by Team Biden right before the first scheduled debate. If he does happen to be on the campaign trail at the time, the ‘crisis’ will be used as an excuse to whisk him away to the basement again.”
I’ve taken to calling him Punxutawney Joe.
MINXIN PEI: China’s Deepening Geopolitical Hole.
China is fast losing friends just when it needs them most. In the last few months alone, China’s relations with India have suffered a devastating blow after a bloody border clash left at least 20 Indian soldiers (and an unspecified number of Chinese soldiers) dead. To punish Australia for daring to call for an international investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, China imposed tariffs on Australian barley and threatened other punitive measures. On July 14, China’s foreign ministry denounced Japan’s recent Defense White Paper in unusually harsh language, raising doubts about the rapprochement Xi has been trying to engineer with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Chinese leaders have only themselves to blame for their growing international isolation. With an inflated sense of their power, they have overplayed a weak hand and driven friendly or neutral countries such as the UK, Canada, India, and Australia into the arms of the US, now China’s principal geopolitical adversary.
Read the whole thing.
I wrote here and at VodkaPundit years ago that China’s neighbors in East and South Asia and the Pacific would naturally gravitate towards the US as Beijing’s power grew — but that was an exceptionally easy call.
What was impossible to see ten years ago was that Xi’s haste and ruthlessness would frighten countries as distant from Beijing as the UK and Canada.
NON-SHOCKING HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Silicon Valley pours money into Biden’s campaign — and snubs Trump’s.
GORGEOUS: Scientists marvel as closest pics ever taken of sun show it is covered in flares. “So-called ‘campfires’ are ‘literally everywhere we look,’ say awed experts, suggesting they could be mini-explosions but admitting they don’t know exactly what to make of them.”
FREE ON HBO UNTIL AUGUST 4: ‘Welcome to Chechnya.’ “An underground railroad in the Russian republic of Chechnya risks all to protect gay people from the government’s official policy of torture and extermination.”
July 16, 2020
WE KNOW HOW THIS ENDS: Portland Protesters Copy Seattle, Form ‘Autonomous Zone’ And Kick Out Cops.
CHANGE: Amazon extends work from home order until January 8. “It comes after Amazon in May said employees who could do their jobs remotely are permitted to do so until at least Oct. 2.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of those “temporary” work-from-home positions become permanent.
TODAY’S INSANITY WRAP: Vote-by-Mail Madness and the Riveting Body Cam Video You Can’t Miss. “Knife-wielding baddy — who had allegedly just stabbed a 77-year-old man at a convenience store — was pulled over on Tuesday by a Michigan sheriff’s deputy and told to drop the knife. Instead, he just kept coming at her.”