Archive of entries posted on 23rd July 2021

Friday Night Open Thread — Feddie [sic] Mercury: “Out of the Beltway the Bull**** RIP…”

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I’m glad Lightfoot is calling it “Biden’s strike force,” so that he can own the disaster that’s going to happen:

On Chicago: SCC Discusses Lightfoot’s Appeals for Help, Windy City Nearing Four Homicides a Day
Chicago Contrairan | July 15, 2021 | Second City Cop

“President Joe Biden’s “strike force,” meant to help curb crime in Chicago and four other cities seeing a surge in violence, is expected to come to the Windy City “relatively soon,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said earlier this week.”

The Justice Department announced new “strike forces” in June, which are supposed to curb violent crime in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., by helping city leaders crack down on illegal gun trafficking.” “My hope and my expectation is that they’re going to be coming relatively soon. I’ve made no secret of the fact that this is a matter of incredible urgency and I think the president’s plan is to make a difference in localities like Chicago this summer,” Lightfoot told reporters Wednesday as she met with Biden outside O’Hare Airport.‍ ‍

Thank goodness someone in Washington realized Lori is in over her head, foundering, and drowning. Wait a minute ….. didn’t some other guy else offer help? A year or so ago? And wasn’t he in Washington, too? What was Lori’s reply back then?

“F— You.” ‍

But now Mayor Lightfoot couldn’t wait to rush out to meet that other guy, a guy who praised a Klan organizer at his funeral.

Golly. Same crime problem, same office in Washington offering help. Both staffed by white guys. What’s the difference? All the money and agents were still the same.

S.W.A.T. — Special Weepin’s and TikToks?

I’m not vacationing in Vegas, but I’d lay odds that crime goes up in those cities from now through the Fall — or should that be the decline and fall? — not down. Liberals have sown the racial and cultural wind-breaking; they will reap the whirlwind.

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

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TV

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We all know what’s obvious: since Walrus has been disappeared by the mob and left somewhere by the side of a road, ideas for TV shows have gone downhill.

They used to be called pilots, but stewardesses had their own ideas for pilots and put an end to that. Then they didn’t want to be called stewardesses. Women! Am I right?

So then we found ourselves in the modern era. All TV shows stank. If you opened up your TV Guide (remember those?), you’d find things like “Woke Wokety-Woke Island” or “My Twenty-Three Dads.” You wouldn’t tune in, nor would I. To put it mildly.

Now, however, some humorist from IMAO has turned out to be on your side. Rihar has proposed a guaranteed hit show premise:

Miniature schnauzers eating waffles, driving 60s muscle cars in a rodeo.

He said he’d watch it, which is 100% more viewers than Rachel Maddow can claim. And it’s showing tonight, Eastern/Central/Mountain time. I defy you not to be just a little Ricurious!

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Science: It’s Always Been Settled

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Mark Twain talking to a naturalist onboard a ship, in Following the Equator:

He told me that the first pair of rabbits imported into Australasia bred so wonderfully that within six months rabbits were so thick in the land that people had to dig trenches through them to get from town to town.

For those who may have heard Biden referred to as a “Sundowner”:

He told me a great deal about worms, and the kangaroo, and other coleoptera, and said he knew the history and ways of all such pachydermata. He said the kangaroo had pockets, and carried its young in them when it couldn’t get apples. And he said that the emu was as big as an ostrich, and looked like one, and had an amorphous appetite and would eat bricks. Also, that the dingo was not a dingo at all, but just a wild dog; and that the only difference between a dingo and a dodo was that neither of them barked; otherwise they were just the same. He said that the only game-bird in Australia was the wombat, and the only song-bird the larrikin, and that both were protected by government. The most beautiful of the native birds was the bird of Paradise. Next came the two kinds of lyres; not spelt the same. He said the one kind was dying out, the other thickening up. He explained that the “Sundowner” was not a bird it was a man; sundowner was merely the Australian equivalent of our word, tramp. He is a loafer, a hard drinker, and a sponge. He tramps across the country in the sheep-shearing season, pretending to look for work; but he always times himself to arrive at a sheep-run just at sundown, when the day’s labor ends; all he wants is whisky and supper and bed and breakfast; he gets them and then disappears.

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FFS Already With All the Scripted Game Shows

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CNN’S Lemon of a Town Hall Meeting
Townhall.com | July 23, 2021 | Tim Graham

CNN became apoplectic whenever former President Donald Trump called them “fake news,” but on July 21, they offered President Joe Biden a nationally televised boost that can accurately be described as a “fake town hall.”

A real town hall would sell tickets in a city like Cincinnati and let the locals mix it up with the president and ask him whatever was on their minds.

That’s not what CNN did. It was an “invitation only” audience, which means nobody boos or laughs at inappropriate times. CNN was talking over the video, but when Biden waved goodbye at the limited crowd, they gave him a standing ovation.

The questioners were typically tilted: eight Democrats and three Republicans, plus a mother who lost a son to opioids. Questions are clearly pre-scripted. The network knows exactly what’s going to be asked on what topic. CNN.com had a preview article telling viewers the night’s topics in advance. Airing it live doesn’t mean it’s lively.

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Then there was “moderator” Don Lemon, who could be expected to ask eight or 18 questions like a Democrat. As usual, he was more activist than journalist. After the college kid demanded we shred the filibuster, Lemon went on a rant about how his grandmother had a fifth-grade education and couldn’t read but

“would tell me stories about people asking her to count the number of jelly beans in the jar, or the soap in — so why is protecting the filibuster — is that more important than protecting voting rights, especially for people who fought and died for that?”

Wait. What?

Oh: Democrat logic.

Damned jellybeans: two-faced pony soldiers.

“She’d tell me stories about people asking her to predict the winning lottery numbers each week!

Those racists were never right!

“So why is protecting our border so important — more than people who fought and died for that?”

Somehow, Lemon was trying to claim that Republicans were going to insist Black voters in 2022 will have to count jelly beans as a “literacy test.” This is CNN, which claims to hate “gaslighting” and “misinformation.”

But Biden also made false claims that Lemon didn’t check. Early on, he insisted more people have died from COVID-19 “than in all our major wars combined.” The Department of Veterans Affairs said there are more than 650,000 “battle deaths” before you even count 300,000 other deaths in theater. As Biden was speaking, PolitiFact tweeted, “That doesn’t seem right. Our last tally of all war deaths was 1.3M.”

Even Politifact is too far right for Biden.

Guam will capsize as a result.

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