Just been one of those weeks…
Are Brennan, Clapper and Comey ratting on each other? (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
This is more than infuriating: “Kentucky Judges Pre-Signed Blank Legal Documents So That Child Services Could Take Custody of Kids on Nights and Weekends.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
No sooner did I put up my own piece on jihad in the Sahel than the BBC published this extensive piece about the same subject, including how jihadists came to Mali in the wake of Obama’s supergenius intervention in Libya.
The religious extremists imposed strict sharia law. In Timbuktu and beyond, they smashed shrines built for Sufi mystics, burned manuscripts and destroyed ancient artefacts.
The priceless texts would have all been lost had it not been for the old guardian families who protected what they could.
Tuaregs and Islamists disagreed over the way their new state of Azawad should be run and began to fight each other.
The government asked for foreign military help and the former colonial power France answered the call.
French troops arrived in January 2013 and were joined by African forces. Within a month, they had driven the violent extremists out into the desert and retaken the River Niger towns.
Plus the usual UN fecklessness. Read the whole thing.
“CONFIRMED: Google Gives Left-Wing Websites Preference Over Conservative Ones, Audit Finds.”
Denmark’s main leftwing party realizes that uncontrolled, unassimilated immigration hurts the poor. “For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.”
The New York media can’t talk about skyrocketing antisemetic attacks against Jews in New York City. Why? Because the attackers are black and Hispanic.
Idaho is ending some regulations. Which ones? All of them. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
So that botched Houston drug raid is looking even more botched, as forensic evidence shows the people in the house they wrongly targeted didn’t even fire their weapons at police, and all police gunshot wounds were inflicted by other officers. It seems like just about every aspect of the raid was a lie. At this point, it seems like some rogue HPD cops straight-up murdered Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas for reasons nobody has yet been able to identify.
Speaking of infuriating abuses of power: “San Francisco Police Go After Journalist Who Revealed Public Defender’s Affair, Overdose.”
State district judge rules Houston Proposition B unconstitutional. That was the one to give firefighters pay parity with police officers, and one Houston mayor Sylvester Turner was fighting tooth and nail.
Why people die in Houston car accidents. A whole lot of “Pedestrian failed to yield to vehicle,” failure to drive in one lane” and “failure to control speed,” plus the usual smattering of alcohol. (Hat tip: Kemberlee Kaye.)
No federal high speed rail money for California. Good.
Is Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib a terrorist sympathizer? Well, here’s evidence from five of her closest friends, so you can judge for yourself:
The Air Force brings a B-52H back from the bone yard for active service duty. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
Atheist visits places in America his fellow liberals forgot about, and finds not only a sense of place, but an abundance of faith:
When I first went to the Bronx, I expected that the people there, those most affected by the coldness and ruthlessness of the world, would share my atheism. Instead, I found a strong belief in the supernatural, and a faith that manifested in many ways, mostly as a belief in the Bible.
Everyone I met there who was living homeless or battling an addiction held a deep faith. Street walking is stunningly dangerous work, and everyone has stories of being cut, attacked, and threatened, or stories of others who were killed. Everyone has to deal with the danger. Few work without a mix of heroin, Xanax, or crack. None without faith. “You know what kept me through all that? God. Whenever I got into the car, God got into the car with me.”
There are dirty Bibles in crack houses, Qur’ans in abandoned buildings. There is a picture of the Last Supper that moves with a couple living on the streets. Rosaries, crucifixes, and religious icons are worn for protection and good luck. Pages of the Bible are torn out, folded up, and kept in pockets, to be pulled out and fingered nervously, or read over in times of stress, or held during prayers.
Latest Remainer complaint “Brexit Party logo ‘subconsciously manipulates voters into backing Farage.'”
Hot take: “Ha ha! Gene Simmons of KISS at the Pentagon! Stupid Trump!” Deeper take: As part of a military outreach program, to talk about how his mother, a concentration camp survivor who recently died at age 93, loved America and teared up watching the TV sign-off flag. “America is the promised land. For everybody.”
When I removed Creeping Sharia from the blogroll because it was no longer up, I didn’t realize that it had just been deplatformed by WordPress. (Hat tip: A comment from regular blog reader Howard.)
Supermodel appears nude in protest of not enough black babies being aborted in Alabama.
You know what Germany needs? Stricter crossbow regulation. (Hat tip: Amy Alkon.)
Haven’t seen this yet, but I want to: “The Guns and Gunplay of The Highwaymen Were Actually Accurate.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Not buying this, not even sure it will work, but buying buying your own biohacking lab is a pretty cyberpunk thing to do…
Voynich manuscript decoded?
Grumpy Cat, RIP. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
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I get the sense not enough people in the world read Stephen King’s The Stand (or saw the miniseries). I hear they’re remaking the miniseries. I hope to God they do, in time to warn people:
CRISPR may bring the apocalypse.
Seriously – look at the list of “do’s” and “don’t’s” on that biohacking lab website. Then, know that because that list is there, they realize many users likely won’t follow that advice.
… and if this is what the general public may play with, just imagine what the hidden corners of Tehran or Pyongyang are up to. Or the Pentagon.
We frankly don’t even need someone to unleash a superbug. We just need a critical mass of people screwing around with such things, and then one person makes a mistake.
That’s what set off Captain Tripps in The Stand.
The hubris on display is amazing. Michael Crichton also tried to warn us about this. As Ian Malcom said, too many people are focused on whether or not they “could” instead of worrying whether or not they “should”.
Ugh, everyone is so in awe and starry-eyed over CRISPR experimenting. I’m sure the citizens of Pompeii thought Vesuvius was a beautiful mountain, too.
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I’m embarrassed to point to my own comments elsewhere, but I really have written at length on this topic, on a different blog … https://www.cringely.com/2019/04/04/prediction-5-drones-become-pizza-to-the-neighborhood-pttn/#comment-700573
Speaking of CRISPER and buying your own biohacking lab:
“In an interview with Buzzfeed directly after the October 2017 muscle-editing stunt, Zayner told the outlet, ‘I want to live in a world where people get drunk and instead of giving themselves tattoos, they’re like, “I’m drunk, I’m going to CRISPR myself.”‘”
Spoiler: the state of California is investigating him. Except that’s probably not a spoiler, because what DOESN’T California investigate?
Lawrence will especially appreciate the last paragraph.