STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SELF-DRIVING SYSTEM: NHTSA Investigating Waymo for Collisions With Stationary Objects and Unsafe Driving.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST CNN…: Even CNN Thinks That Michael Cohen’s Testimony Was a Gift for Trump.

THE VALUE OF EXERCISE: Consistent exercise changes how saturated fat is used by the body, study finds.

THIS IS WAS CNN:

https://x.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1791120131671707805

Something that can’t go on forever will stop.

I’M EXPECTING A SPACE-SHATTERING KABOOM: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ exploding star expected to be visible before October.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE HAS BEEN TAKEN TO AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: More Shady Biden Accounts Have Been Discovered.

WELL, GOOD: Roche’s experimental obesity drug shows promising early stage results.

NIFTY: West Point team’s computerized rifle scope adjusts itself in combat. “The cadets, David Caddigan, Aiden Looney, Ashton Gaines, Heyward Hutson, dubbed the project ‘a smart sight for the average soldier.'”

IT’S BEEN YEARS SINCE I MISSED THE NFL: Time for the Bud Light Treatment: NFL Denounces Player for Advocating Traditional Values.

THERE’LL BE A LOT OF REBRANDING GOING ON: ‘Pour Souls’ – Rebranding Bitter Clingers and Deplorables for the 2024 Election Cycle.

CANDY CROWLEY REDUX? Some of us remember the notorious DNC stenographer Candy Crowley in 2012 helping Obama though his stumbling over facts in the debate. Just the News is asking whether the equally biased Jake Tapper can control his editorialization — not journalism — in the upcoming debates between Bad Orange Man and President Puddinghead:

“CNN initially showed the footage of Trump, though Tapper told staff in the control room not to continue showing it. “The folks in the control room: I don’t need to see any more of that. He’s trying to turn this into a spectacle, into a campaign ad. That’s enough of that. We’ve seen it already,” Tapper said while on the air […] “The Gaetz-McBreitbart nonsense that Trump spews, like these little code words that make [Sean] Hannity’s pins shine at specific moments when he utters them,” Tapper said, in apparent reference to conservative news outlet Breitbart and Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz. Tapper then editorialized, saying “He is running the single most negative, sleazy campaign in American history for a major party candidate.”

We’re to expect clean and fair debate management from this guy?
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” 

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Another #Bidenomics Update: CA Wines Could Be at a ‘Breaking Point.’

An extinction-level event has not come to pass — yet. But regardless of the winery survival rate, it’s become clear in 2024 that the nature of the California wine industry has fundamentally changed. After decades of unfettered growth beginning in the 1990s, wine consumption started to flatten around 2018. Now, following what appeared to be a spike during the pandemic, it’s in dramatic decline.
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The elephant in the room is #Bidenomics – the hideous state of the economy thanks to inflationary policies. For many people, the extra funds available to indulge in life’s nicer things are no longer available, having been eaten by the cost of living and the plunging value of the dollar.

There’s the cost of CA wines compared to what’s coming out of Europe. CA produces a lot less volume than its European counterparts, for one thing, and as you can imagine, the overhead in Socialist Central is enormous.

California wines, overall, used to enjoy a value proposition over the imports but that’s changing, too.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Want Spies With That? Chinese and Iranian Moles Are Posing As DoorDash Drivers. “Chinese nationals tried to squeeze onto military bases in the U.S. roughly 100 times just in 2023, roughly once every three or four days. They sometimes pose as DoorDash drivers who have ‘wandered off course’ and ‘accidentally’ showed up at a secret nuclear site.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Kurt Schlichter scenario is looking more plausible all the time.

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#RESIST: Texas Sues Biden Administration Over EV Trucking Mandates. “Better to get this law thrown out now than to wait until food become unaffordable because there aren’t enough reliable trucks to deliver it.”

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?

UPDATE: Via a lefty friend’s Facebook page, here’s the full text of the speech, which my friend comments is much less objectionable than the press accounts. Yeah, go figure. He comments: “I don’t agree with it in its entirety, but I think that overall it’s splendid. And I think it’s a pretty good bet that of all the commencement speeches that will be given this year, this is the only one that will be remembered next year, and for quite a few years to come.”

WELL, BYE: ‘Hundreds’ of Columbia faculty to go on strike if police not removed from campus.

YOU CAN’T SPELL “CAVEAT EMPTOR” WITHOUT AN E AND A V: How About a Cheap Used Car? It’s Only Two Years Old, But There’s a Catch…

PSYCHO: Masked pro-Hamas activists show up at UMich regents’ homes in middle of the night, lay ‘fake corpses’ on lawn: Anti-Israel occupiers at the University of Michigan showed up at the homes of several regents early Wednesday morning and “staged protests,” by setting up an encampment on their lawn.

IT HAS TO DIE SOMEWHERE SO IT MIGHT AS WELL BE NOW AND IN GAZA: Nation Building’s Last Stand in Gaza.

Israel has been stuck living next door to a failed thirty year nation-building experiment gone bad. And everyone in the international community is worried that the Oct 7 war will see it taken apart.

Lately the nation building experts have taken to warning that Israel is doing it the wrong way. Former CIA Director David Petraeus who also oversaw American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been arguing that Israel needs to pivot to a “counterinsurgency” model. And then we’re back to “winning hearts and minds” instead of actually trying to win a war.

The Biden administration has never stopped insisting that Israel needs a “day after” plan for rebuilding Gaza under a PLO government and some “moderate” terrorists from Hamas. Three generations after it became the norm, fighting a war without nation building as an endgame is so impossible that warfare experts can’t even understand what they’re seeing in Israel.

But among all the other problems with nation building is that it doesn’t work. And the Israelis who have been living next to the original chernobyl of nation building know it better than anyone.

Nation building has failed in every single Muslim country it’s been tried, not just by the United States after 9/11, but by the British between WWI and WWII. The entire Middle East is one long great nation building disaster shaped by primeval nation building experiments such as the Sykes-Picot agreement, the Hashemite monarchies and finally the recession of colonialism.

Plus: “After two decades of failing to win a war (because we didn’t even try) maybe it’s time to let the Israelis give it a shot. What’s the worst that could happen? Gaza will be overrun by Islamic terrorists? Muslims will hate us and try to kill us? There will be op-eds in the New York Times?”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The ‘Biden-Hamas 2024’ Campaign Isn’t Doing So Well. “Obviously, I didn’t pay any attention to the news while I was gone. I began to catch up a little as I headed to LaGuardia on Wednesday. As I was having a beer at the airport, the television nearest me had the news on. When they got around to the Trump-Biden debate news, a young Hispanic man who worked at the bar turned to me and said, ‘I’m getting popcorn for this.’ Then he leaned over to me and said, ‘I think Trump is going to win in a landslide.'”

ANOTHER BREWING CRISIS BY DESIGN: More Chinese Nationals Illegally Entered The U.S. In Two Days This Month Than In All Of 2021. “The CCP leadership’s chemical and political warfare against the U.S. coincides with a surge in the number of Chinese illegal aliens crossing the southern border without authorization. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 10,000 Chinese unlawful aliens have been apprehended since October 2022, compared to fewer than 500 in the same period in 2021. This increase may be attributed to various factors, such as the economic and social uncertainties and the limited personal freedoms in China, the demand for cheap labor, and the effectiveness of smugglers already positioned in the U.S.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Kurt Schlichter scenario is looking more plausible, too.

WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? BECAUSE IT CHOOSES TO BE. Harvard Ignored Its In-House Anti-Semitism Panel and Failed To Address Student Harassment, Congressional Report Finds: Incidents of anti-Semitic harassment on Harvard campus were elevated to school’s top brass but left unaddressed.

FLIGHT FROM REALITY: Scottish Green Party Expels 13 Members for Saying ‘Sex Is a Biological Reality.’ Somewhere, the Gods of the Copybook Headings frown and nod. “Denial of objective truth is one of the signs of a society’s downfall.”

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