IT’S JUST ONE MORE SCIENCELESS ECO-FAD: There’s little science behind ‘No Mow May.’. One more of many.
May 19, 2024
GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:
Oakland is now replacing traffic lights with stop signs due to homeless encampments stealing from Oakland's electrical boxes: pic.twitter.com/Y2lFQ8BJsM
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 19, 2024
Oakland’s last Republican mayor left office in 1977.
Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record: God Baffled That Democrats Managed To Ruin California. “‘You guys were literally given everything! How do you even do that?’ said a spokesangel for the Almighty. ‘You have perfect weather, beautiful coastline, great surfing, skiing in the mountains, fish tacos, rolling vineyards, the list goes on. How on earth did you manage to take the most beautiful stretch of land on God’s earth and turn it into a huge dump? It doesn’t make any sense.’”
MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut bacteria enhance cancer immunotherapy in mouse study.
IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR, SO ASSUME THEY’RE JUST GETTING STARTED: Anti-Israel uprisings hit dangerous new extreme in Michigan.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SPREAD PRE-ELECTION FEAR, THEN? Expert explains how pasteurization protects against avian flu.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The AI ‘concierge’ that will decide who you date.
Dating app users may soon be able to avoid awkward meet-ups with potential partners by using AI “concierges” to do the dating for them.
Users would have an AI avatar programmed with their “interests, likes, dislikes, even conversation habits”, said Glamour, and this bot would chat with other users’ bots to see if “the two real people behind the bots might be a good match”.
ANOTHER REASON TO BAN SOCIAL MEDIA, OBVIOUSLY: Social media use linked to higher risk of vaping, smoking.
HOW IT STARTED:
● Who Said It, Adolf Hitler or Taylor Swift? Can you tell the difference between a quote from one of history’s most infamous revenge-seeking megalomaniacs and Adolf Hitler? Plenty of people couldn’t.
—The Atlantic, August 30th, 2013.
● White Supremacists Call Taylor Swift An Aryan Goddess.
—NPR, May 27th, 2016.
—The Root, September 20th, 2019.
—The College Fix, July 18th, 2021.
How it’s going: Historic German Church Hosts Worship Service Features Taylor Swift Songs.
—MRC TV, Thursday.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Here’s Why We Needed ‘Judge and the Justice.’ Mark Judge, who Christine Blasey Ford claims saw Kavanaugh’s abuse, reveals all.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: Robert Kennedy Jr.: We need laws to ‘punish global warming skeptics.’
“Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exist,” Mr. Kennedy said, Climate Depot reported. “They are contemptible human beings.”
He then turned his attacks directly at the Koch Brothers, accusing them of “polluting our atmosphere,” he said, the blog reported.
“I think it’s treason. Do I think the Koch Brothers are treasonous — yes, I do,” Mr. Kennedy said, Climate Depot reported. “They are enjoying making themselves billionaire by impoverishing the rest of us. Do I think they should be in jail — I think they should be injuring three hots and a cot at the Hague with all the other war criminals. Do I think the Koch brothers should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely, that is is criminal offense and they ought to be serving time for it.”
—Cheryl Chumley, the Washington Times, September 23rd, 2014.
Chaser:
Breaking… @RobertKennedyJr rejects Biden's climate agenda:
1. While he believes climate is an "existential" threat🙄, he says has "no problems with people who don't believe that."
2. Rejects "very, very heavy top-down controls" and subsides to industry.
3. Says if we do… pic.twitter.com/E0pJXLUiNk
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) May 19, 2024
Of course Mr. Bond, Spectre does have its methods to deal with those who are uncooperative:
Voters: We would love someone to just act normal like 30% of the time.
Biden: My uncle was eaten by cannibals.
Trump: Buy the only Trump-approved Bible for $59.99!
RFK: pic.twitter.com/lkj2rpi8r0
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 17, 2024
NEO: The Ghouls of Gaza.
The article also adds this detail about Shani Louk – and perhaps it is true of the other bodies as well:
Louk’s father, Nissim Louk, said his daughter’s body had been discovered in a cool, deep tunnel and was still in excellent condition when it was brought home.
Hamas knew these people were dead but they allowed the families to believe they were still alive, the better to torment the relatives and encourage them to pressure the Israeli government to make concessions. It was also understand that a Rafah operation by the IDF would probably lead to the finding of some hostages, dead or alive. But the whole world, including Biden and company, seems to have wanted to protect Rafah.
Read the whole thing.
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DEVELOPING: Iranian President’s Helicopter Suffers ‘Accident’ or ‘Incident’ — Either Way, It Went Down.
UPDATE:
My thoughts are with the @washingtonpost obituary team in this difficult time as they fiercely debate whether to call Ebrahim Raisi an “austere religious scholar”, a “patriotic anti-Zionist leader” or a “zealous anti-corruption crusader”.
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) May 19, 2024
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN PEOPLE BEING WRONG: Planned ‘Everything You Know About Palestine is Wrong’ event at UCLA draws outrage, protest. Some of those people are in the UCLA administration.
JON GABRIEL: As unhappy as Americans are, Biden-Trump debates may actually be a welcome break.
Great news, everyone: Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to hold two debates. If you want a preview, just watch some old episodes of “The Muppet Show” where those two old guys bicker in the balcony.
To be fair, I’m surprised either candidate agreed to these no-win campaign stunts. Scheduled for June 27 and Sept. 10, the debates promise to be a minefield of gaffes that will take years off the lives of any staffers cringing in the wings.
If no one falls off the dais or starts chewing the lectern, both sides will call it a success.
Neither candidate is popular, to put it kindly. According to a recent Pew Research poll, 48% of registered voters support Biden, 49% support Trump, and 49% want both candidates kicked off the ballot.
A couple of old geezers talking smack
That last sentiment grows the younger the sample gets. Two-thirds of voters under 30 say they would replace both candidates if they had the chance.
At least I’m young at heart.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in a post on X. “Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal.”
Trump, for his part, said Biden was the “WORST debater I have ever faced – He can’t put two sentences together!” He ended his Truth Social post with, “Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!”
Oldest democracy on the planet or “Jerry Springer” promo: you be the judge.
It’s 2024, so embrace the healing power of “And.” But will the debates actually happen? Drug Testing Prior to Presidential Debates? From the comments: “You are missing the point. Trump made the ‘demand’ to propogate [sic] the narrative that POTATUS is too old and senile to be President. It doesn’t matter if Biden submits to the test, gives results, whatever. Trump just placed another Free Ad by manipulating the media. Marketing genius.”
IN A FEW MINUTES: Blue Origin launches New Shepard.
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HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
The richer you are, in general, the more conservative your life choices are. Most left wingers talk left but live right. They live in gated communities, put kids in private schools, maximize tax avoidance, have stay at home wives, pay attention to what they do not what they say.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 18, 2024
UPDATE (From Ed): As Charles Murray wrote over a decade ago, “When it comes to marriage and the work ethic, the new upper class must start preaching what it practices.”
May 18, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hope your weekend is doing well.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Here we go again — new sunspot regions emerge, strong solar flare recorded.
