SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: IDF Killed Hamas Terrorists. At Least 3 Jihadis Were UN Employees.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 13, 2024
WOEING JUST CAN’T SEEM TO CATCH A BREAK: 33,000 Boeing Union Workers Go On Strike, First Major Walkout Since 2008. “IAM said 94.6% of union members rejected the contract offer from Boeing, which called the offer ‘historic’ and highlighted the 25% wage increase over four years as ‘the largest-ever general wage increase.’ About 96% of union members approved the strike, now unfolding at the planemaker’s Seattle factories that make the 737 Max.”
IT’S A NUMBERS GAME AND WE’RE BEHIND: I Have Seen the Future of Drone Warfare and It Is Frighteningly Beautiful.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Far-Left Smear Factory’s Union Votes by 90% to Oust President After Mass Layoffs.
The SPLC — a far-left smear factory notorious for demonizing conservatives and Christians as being as hateful as the KKK and for spreading woke dogma in schools — has its own labor union, and members of that union overwhelmingly cast a vote of “no confidence” in SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang.
The vast majority of the SPLC Union’s voting members (141 of 156, or 90.4%) cast ballots urging the SPLC to find a new CEO. The union presented this demand to the SPLC Board of Directors on Aug. 30, and one week later, SPLC Board Chair Karen Baynes-Dunning denied the request.
According to a union press release, its members expressed a “lack of confidence in Margaret Huang and want SPLC to find a new CEO.”
The move comes two months after the SPLC Union broke the news of mass layoffs at the SPLC in June. The SPLC “gutted its staff by a quarter,” laying off more than 60 union members, including five union stewards and the union’s chair.
Say, maybe both sides can lose.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Seeing a Trump Speech In Person Was Just What the Doctor Ordered.
It’s nice to see that Coastal Media Bubble™ post-debate swooning over Kamala Harris may not be trickling down to regular American voters. That perked me up a little.
The universe was working in my favor this week, and Trump’s first scheduled speech after the debate was here in Tucson, my hometown and the bluest city in Arizona.
So I wore pants and left the house.
I hadn’t seen Trump in person since 2017, shortly after he was elected, and I was overdue.
Here are some impressions.
Much more at the link.
COMMUNITY NOTES REMAINS UNDEFEATED:
Another incredible Community Notes burn! The media doesn’t realize yet that they can’t just lie with impunity anymore now that we have free speech on X. pic.twitter.com/5xA65WY98i
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 12, 2024
Then there’s this:
My GOD, @Google is just complete leftist garbage now. It was bad before but it's just completely impossible to find anything other than left wing sources when searching. Unfortunately, @DuckDuckGo has become almost as bad.
@elonmusk please consider creating a search engine site!— CarolinaConservative3 (@1776Carolina3) September 12, 2024
X’s Community Notes is wonderful for correcting news stories and viral tweets but search is even worse now than Twitter was before Musk bought it.
An X-branded search engine seems like a no-brainer.
CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Downsizing Comes to Late-Night TV, So They Finally Got a Laugh Out of Me.
HMM: ‘Shy’ Jewish voters, key in swing districts, are turning against the Democrats.
Jewish voters are fearful, yet determined to vote in the coming presidential election — and their support for the Democratic Party is eroding.
That’s what the non-partisan Teach Coalition and Honan Strategy Group recently found in a poll aiming to explore the mindset of Jewish voters in purple Pennsylvania and swing congressional districts in New York.
We sought to understand the level of political engagement among this voting bloc in light of the upcoming anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel and rising antisemitism domestically and internationally.
To understand this mindset, we conducted public opinion polling among 800 self-identified Jewish voters in two critical geographies: the swing state of Pennsylvania and the closely divided New York congressional districts 1, 4, 17, 18, 19 and 22.
The results: Jewish voters are highly politically engaged and ready to cast what could be decisive ballots on Election Day.
If true, it’s welcome and long past due.
September 12, 2024
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
“Above all else, the devil cannot stand to be mocked.” – C.S. Lewis
Author of “White Fragility” deletes her account after being fooled into an interview that made fun of her ridiculous racism. Solid work @MattWalshBlog. pic.twitter.com/XIbAAUbMGp
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) September 12, 2024
Another plus: Walsh finally found the white fragility.
AND RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE ON WHOSE WATCH? Trump Is a ‘De Facto Russian Asset’ Says Former FBI Deputy Director.
Come to think of it, Trump is the only president we’ve had during this century who was not in office when Russia invaded a neighbor. Bush was around for the invasion of Georgia, Obama for the smaller-scale Ukraine invasion of 2014, and Biden for the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Some asset, eh?
INVASION BY INVITATION: Venezuelan Gang Takes Over El Paso Hotel. “Remember the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang that took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado? That same gang has taken over a hotel in El Paso.”
HEY, REMEMBER THAT TIME THE SECRET SERVICE FAILED IN MULTIPLE WAYS DURING THAT NEAR-ASSASSINATION OF DONALD TRUMP AND THEN IT ALL GOT SWEPT UNDER THE RUG?
Dem CT Sen Blumenthal on info about Trump shooting after briefing by acting USSS Dir Rowe: I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the…
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 12, 2024
And this from the replies: “If this is coming from Blumenthal, I can’t imagine how bad it actually is.”
Developing…
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Who Rigged the Debate for Kamala? Her Best Friend and Her Sorority Sister.
CATCH UP FASTER. AND HOW ABOUT SOME MORE 9MM AND .223 WHILE YOU’RE AT IT? Arms Manufacturers Catching Up with World’s Insatiable Need for 155mm Rounds.
DITTO: This Focus Group Changed How I Feel About the Trump-Harris Debate.
There’s a world of difference between the perceptions of Very Online People and normal human beings.
WINNING:
BREAKING: North Carolina public universities have closed their DEI offices, eliminated 59 DEI positions, and saved $17,118,889, according to a new report today: pic.twitter.com/zovelVPgdn
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 11, 2024
POLARIS DAWN SETS ANOTHER RECORD: That’s One Small Walk for a Man (and a Woman)…
WHEN IN ROME…: John Deere executives bribed Thai officials with trips to massage parlors. “The maker of John Deere tractors has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to the US government to settle charges that it lavished Thailand government officials with extravagant trips and visits to massage parlors — bribes that netted its subsidiary more than $4 million in profit.”
The Feds going after almost anybody for shady business practices is risible at this point.
TO BE FAIR, THAT IS WHAT THEY WERE HIRED TO DO: ABC Moderators Were Lying: EIGHT ‘Aborted’ Babies Were Born Alive & Then Left to Die in Minnesota.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Report highlights severe infrastructure challenges at NASA.
“The extensive consultations, site visits, and interviews conducted in the course of the study lead the committee to conclude that NASA stands at a crossroads,” the report concluded. “The underpinnings of the unique and critical capabilities the agency provides to the United States are eroding and will be inevitably lost if certain trends are not reversed.”
The report highlighted problems in three key areas: infrastructure, workforce and technology development. They ranged from attracting and retaining a skilled workforce to aging facilities at NASA centers visited by committee members that were “some of the worst facilities many of its members have ever seen.” The report also highlighted a lack of long-term planning to guide investments in technology and infrastructure.
The report concluded that much of that had to do with budget pressures that forced the agency to prioritize spending on specific missions and projects at the expense of spending on mission support. The amount of NASA’s budget spent on mission support declined from 20% in 2013 to 14% in 2023.
That stems from having more projects on its books than funding for them, said Norm Augustine, retired chairman and chief executive of Lockheed Martin and chair of the committee, in a Sept. 10 webinar about the report. “NASA’s solution to the problem has been to underinvest in infrastructure and so on in the future. That tactic, frankly, has run out of gas.”
NASA has a budget of about $25.4 billion and requires a budget of probably no less than $30 billion to fully fund Artemis (and still get us back to the moon late) — and that doesn’t include delayed infrastructure spending.
The Biden-Harris Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (which has done little for infrastructure and less for private-sector jobs) cost more than 40 times what NASA needs.
OF COURSE THEY DO. THAT’S WHY THE LEFT IS SO FURIOUS TO SHUT ANYONE UP WHO MENTIONS THEM: Pro-Life Activist Proves That Late Term Abortions Happen ‘All the Time.’
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:
The theme of the hearing from committee leadership and industry witnesses is that Part 450, intended to streamline launch/reentry licensing, is instead hampering it, threatening US leadership in commercial launch. "The consequences are dire," says CSF's Dave Cavossa.
— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) September 10, 2024
Related: Biden Admin to SpaceX: Drop Dead!
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: J.D. Vance Keeps Knocking ‘Em Out of the Park. “Vance routinely rejects idiotic, ‘Gotcha!’ lines of questioning and highlights the failures of the media hacks. He does it with casual ease. He knows what’s coming, he handles it and shuts it down.”